CWB's little black book

[parsley]

Yes, some will argue that proving to a person or a group that a specific system will get them more money is inspiring enough to ccurr change.

Those same folks will email the citizens of Cuba, a list of comparative world yearly incomes, to inspire them.

The problem is most Cuban farmers don't have computers, and can't read English/Bureaucratic lingo, and are told the information is a lie/propoganda, not unlike any farmers grouped in regions.


Many who enlisted in WWII fought for an ideal. They were idealogues. As am I. They actually wanted a free country. They wanted to MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES, and not have the state make it for them.

Such an old fashioned idea.

But a critical one.


The CWB puts forward the position they will get more money for farmers, no matter who's pooling account they rob,what farmers they financially protect ahead of others, what company they doublecross, what ship they leave waiting, in other words, their basic principle is a quest for cash for itself, for the Board as a government entitiy, but not necessarity for farmers.


Wouldn't it be better if the choice side is be based upon the principle of freedom of choice....not just chasing Farmer Joe's cash, or some other poor bastard's cash, but the ideology of freedom of choice?

Because in the final analysis, extra cash is tempting, for a few, but choice, for free people, for slaves, for well looked after 1929 women, is the inevitable choice.


One that is neve, ever second-guessed.

Parsley

[cropduster]

I like your simplistic arguement the best Parsnip!! Way back(3days on this thread)Wilagro admitted he/she asserted her/his rights to `the` boss and achieved freedom,at least within the job description.Funny,haven`t seen or heard of him/her since he/she came `out of the closet` on marketing choice!Freedom in that case only worked for 10 or 12 years tho`!Poor socialist can`t deal with oneself after the assertion??? Ooohhh,forgot again,grain marketing here in western Canada is `different`!!Seems even Vader and Aggie are still afraid to let the `big bad marketplace` prove their TRUE performance!!!!

[wilagro]

cropduster: May I suggest a good dose of castor oil is sometimes good medicine for problems like yours.

Now that is polite.

[Fransisco]

Did some digging today into these USDA average weighted prices. This is what I found out.

They use a different crop year, starting July 1.

For '07, it's a moving target at this point, just like the PRO, we won't know the final number for a few month's.

The USDA data covers all premiums discounts and contracts across all quality levels, as I suspected.

Sooo...first off you would have to get the crop years to line up. Which is the least of the problems.

How anyone would be able to do a proper dollar adjustment on this mess is beyond me.

And you would have to use all of the boards sales on all grade's of hard red spring and throw in the sale of all non-board wheat as well to get close to a proper comparison. Just taking the Vancouver price for number 1 14.5 HRSW as it appears Rod did doesn't come anywhere close to be realistic.

And at the end of all this you would still be talking about an average, a mathematical construct that isn't real. There is no such thing as an average farmer in the US you can point to who would fit that description. Some would be better some would be worse, the main point being that they would all be different and because of this make different choices throughout the year for different reasons none of which can be considered wrong for that individual farmer.

The board keeps trying to shoehorn us all into the exact same box that doesn't fit anyone perfectly. Which is why at the end of the day it costs us all money. For some the right thing to do might have been sell the whole crop at harvest. For others it would have been to sell incrementally throughout the year. Others might try to pick off two or three highs. And there are many, many other scenarios all of which are valid.

The only one that isn't is the monopoly CWB one because it takes that choice away from the person it matters most. The farmer.

[cropduster]

You`re dating yourself there Willie............isn`t the newer technology "prune juice"?????Just what I expected for a factual rebuttal !!