Would the CWB expropriate your grain???

[bucket]

With the current prices of other non board crops and a bit of luck all farmers end up with bins full of grain.

How would the cwb force farmers into delivering grain to them. Farmers have learned recently that by holding the price goes up. Where does that leave the cwb?

Lets say another quality crop comes off and feed wheat goes to $8 - what will the cwb do? They just undercut the US on a sale to Iraq and are forward selling without offering up some incentives to ensure supply. They could be in a heap of trouble. Raising prices in June or July of this year won't grow more wheat and the current prices with the expected initials won't cashflow most farms.What says a farmer has to sign a contract with them???

Will the cwb expropriate grain to satisfy their needs???

By the way expropriate is defined in some dictionaries as "legal theft"

[Raven]

A more accurate question is - will the CWB stop expropriating our grain?

answer: not without a fight to the death!

How do they do it? Actually two ways

1. By not allowing grain buyers to buy from producers.

2. by refusing export licences to producers.

The first is authorized by the Act, but second isn't. The Act does not authorize the CWB to just arbitrarily grant or deny licences. They just have always done it. Have you ever heard that if a lie is repeated enough, it becomes accepted as a fact?

[boarderbloke]

What if farmers didn't contract their wheat on the A series, and instead chose to sell other commodities which have or can be priced for fall delivery at attractive prices. Or, why are we even concerned about growing wheat at all, with the excellent plant breeding and development in other crops and the prices that are being offered for them, why even bother with wheat, if there wasn't enough planted to fill their contracts for a couple years, and the government had to bail them out once or twice that might be their quickest demise! The only challenge would be for growers to have the balls not to plant wheat when prices went up and to maintain their pride in finding ways to stick with their plan, for the long run. We might not make out so bad, if in the spring instead of planting wheat, a long position was taken, then over time, as the market was to discover that farmers didn't plant wheat(even though in the minds of wheat traders, prices would seem attractive) and/or didn't contract on the A series a substantial run up might prove quite profitable. After all, those that chose "choice", control considerably more acres than those that chose the "status quo" making the idea of not growing wheat, and causing chaos, a real possibility!

[bucket]

boarderbloke

Exactly. They stung us this year and vader can keep dribbling away BUT he has not looked past his nose and neither have the other 500 employees.

How do you get the best quality grain from farmers in the coming year without doing something different.

Finally its going to be "show me the money" when I talk to the cwb about contracts.

And maybe the had better wake up to the fact its dry in the south.

[stubblejumper]

please don't grow wheat and tell all your farmers for just me friends not to grow wheat. all the better for the rest of us.

[amun]

hey SJ if the market choice people didn't grow any wheat, you bd supporters would have to borrow wheat to fill a panamax ship for export!

[FarmRanger]

Hi stubblejumper, Not sure what the significance of your “farmers for just me” thing is.
I have to ask how one farmer could be considered “for just me’ when he wants control of his own grain, and another is somehow not “for just me” when he requires another farmers grain to mix with his own in the CWB? Who is being forced into a business arrangement and who is benefiting?

Even if that grain is given more value (a debatable position), is it right for some farmers to be able to confiscate other farmers grain against their will to protect a minority’s favoured marketing agency? Which side are really the “farmers just for me”, because to me its not so obvious?

[bucket]

stubblejumper

Yep you are right I am a farmer for just me and I'll tell you why.

I don't remember you or any of your socialistic friends paying my input bills.

So yeah I am going to want to take care of myself. And when you can't make a boat load of grain I will be happy to sell for the world price.

[parsley]

Let's settle this once and for all.



UFC Fight Night

This Saturday Night

Video-Teleconferencing 8:00 PM


Farmers for just Eric

vs

Hands in Your pockets Agstar


Both contestants will wrestle 3 minutes on a tarp of wheat, followed by 3 min on a tarp of barley.

Because of the customary light-fingered nature of the singley-deskers, attendees are advised to NOT enter credit card numbers online.

Virtual Refreshments by Big Rockery Brewery.

Bets taken by Cropduster

No Buybacks on bets

Call Snappy to hedge.

Parsley

[stubblejumper]

in the end the majority will prevail and the CWB will continue.

[highwayman]

Stubblepumper

[highwayman]

Stubblepumper
Your half right on that statement. The real majority will prevail. The writing is on the wall. Freedom is on its way wether you like it or not.