Durum PRO's 07-08, not even up a $1.oo/bus

[boarderbloke]

has anybody seen this today, where's all the $20.00 & $30.00 per bus durum ???

[furrowtickler]

It is in feiry tale land, as in gone with the wind. D/A farmers will never see this historical price for any grains under the CWB. But we will/have with canola, peas, canary, oats, mustard....
Oh yes but the average, yes the average!

[LWeber]

Durum:

Check here:

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[Flintoft]

This bashing the CWB really gets me! There were farmers in my area who wanted to take their grain south in Aug for $9.00 and would have dumped all of it for that price. What good would that have done? These farmers who know "how to market grain" will be screaming their heads off if they miss highs and then ask for gov't assistance. Can't have it both ways!!!

[Flintoft]

This bashing the CWB really gets me! There were farmers in my area who wanted to take their grain south in Aug for $9.00 and would have dumped all of it for that price. What good would that have done? These farmers who know "how to market grain" will be screaming their heads off if they miss highs and then ask for gov't assistance. Can't have it both ways!!!

[silverback]

Yes, how terrible it would be to allow your neighbor to decide what price is ok for him eh flint?

What a ridiculous comment.

Maybe they needed the money for something like food, or university, or debt. Are those things that guys like you don't have to worry about?

Did daddy give you the farm so there would be nothing to worry about? Don't need food? Government gonna take care of your grandkids education? Still seeding with a 50 year old set of diskers on your 40 acres? Is the envy of your neighbor who has taken on some debt to expand or upgrade his equipment what makes you think that the decision making process should be done by somebody in Winnipeg (that can never be questioned?)

"What good would that have done?" That comment just sticks in the head. It might have been good for him is what it would have done.

It just confounds me how people like you cannot see any other way for selling wheat or malt barley, but don't say word one about putting other crops into the cwb.

You sask and manitoba cwb lovers who grow maybe 10 - 20 % of your acres to a cwb crop every year, seem to be it's biggest backers. That is not only ridiculous it is utterly unfair to every other farmer - in western canada. It is pretty clear by now that you guys don't really give a @%#$% about your neighbors anymore anyway.

If you guys love the cwb so much, put up or shut up. I challenge you to go out next week and lobby to put your chickpeas, lentils, corn, sunflowers, canola, canaryseed, and peas into the cwb's control.

It is beyond comprehension how people like flint can truly believe that the amount of grain we grow in western canada can set the price for the whole world.

Just a note - We are not that big! No matter how much rutter tells you that we are setting the prices and people are lining up to buy our high quality, it just isn't true.

Wake up and smell 2008!


( New CWB motto - What good would that have done? )

[Flintoft]

Funny you didn't comment on having it both!! These "expert marketers" who miss the highs are the biggest criers for help to the gov't! "we need help" cause we sold all our product for $9 and now its way higher!!! "Poor Me"

[Flintoft]

You said: it might have been good for him is what it would have done' I agree but then keep your mouth shut after and don't cry! Take the low open market price and run with it. Actually, Daddy didn't give me the farm! I earned my way just like "maybe" you did!

[silverback]

The only people I know who cry for government support when prices are low, are the members of our socialist farm groups who consider it the governments job to run our economy. They also seem to think that everyone else's production belongs to them. (I wonder what you would say if the cwb decided that not only do we need to pool everyones wheat together, we might as well pool everyones land together also? Would that be acceptable to you?)

If you can't even recognize that the cwb is unable to obtain an average price similar to our US neighbors then you surely do live under the cwb rock.

What does "earn your way" mean? Do you mean you were entitled to it so when he gave it to you you "earned" it? Ever had to work off the farm to support a family when prices were low like thousands of the rest of us?

[Flintoft]

What do you mean by "average price" of our southern neighbours? Open market has average price?You sure make a lot of assumptions Goldback!Even the odd "socialist"makes it on their own.I even know a few "socialists" who work for a living!You closet capitalists love taking shots but can't take them.

[silverback]

I'm not a closet capitalist, I am pretty upfront about being one.

To me that means enjoying the freedom to do business with whomever I choose with the products that I produce on MY OWN PROPERTY!

Please provide examples of socialists that have made it on their own. I think that would be an oxymoron in my dictionary.