'Designated area' Wheat Quality and Transportation

[TOM4CWB]

Dear Charlie,

THe CWB had the audacity to write this...;

"Failure to account for the CWB’s ability to assure customers of long-term and consistent-quality supply, which is a valuable competitive market advantage, attributable to the single-desk structure.
Failure to acknowledge the dramatic differences in U.S. and Canadian rail capacity. The study also fails to account for the important role played by the CWB in keeping regulated rail freight rates in Western Canada lower than American rates."

1. The CWB is responsible for wheat quality....?
WHAT... do they own a weather machine...? THis is what determines the quality of our crop in the 'designated area"... and our ability to steal the crop away from the elements as quickly as possible!

Nice one... we all should send the CWB the bill for the extra harvesting capacity we need.... to obtain the best quality board grains!

2. How does the CWB 'keeping regulated rail freight rates in Western Canada lower than American rates..." have anything to do with determining our freight rates?

If the CWB Act were dissolved tomorrow... would the rail freight rates change one cent? OF COURSE NOT!

Who wrote this garbage?

IF we were given a loonie for every person... the CWB told a 'mistruth' to... and pooled it each year... we truly would obtain a premium for our 'board grain's!

How stupid do the CWB managers think we are?

[Fransisco]

In a word, " VERY".

[Jay-mo]

Every time the CWB defends itself from criticism it could really be translated like this:
Farmer=stupid, CWB=smart

[chaffmeister]

This is the one I find interesting:

“Failure to acknowledge the dramatic differences in U.S. and Canadian rail capacity.”

This sounds more like an excuse than anything else. “We can’t do as well as you might think because……”

[TOM4CWB]

Chaff;

In fact on this one... the CWB is sucking and blowing at the same time!

They 'take credit' for forcing lower costs in Canadian rail movement than in the US... then are in essence complaining they can't get more capacity when CWB grain movement is needed to obtain a premium!

At the same time... US growers exporting the majority of their DNS... still recieve a premium to what the CWB acheives.

Page 12,

The US used 6.1mmt of HRS domestically... while exporting 8.8mmt in 07-08.

THis blows away the CWB claim the US uses domestically the majority of wheat they market (HRS/CWRS/CPS) in competition with the CWB. As always... US grain co's grade and pay CPS with HRS pay scales. Proof of more CWB price discounting.

Clearly the CWB admits it blows out our high quality wheat CWRS/CPS/HRW... to compete with lower value SRW and HRW... discounting our CDN prices... and actually is foolish enough to bring this to our attention... if we hadn't figured it out already!!!

#1 Variety of HRW in the PNW = CDC Falcon. Falcon isn't even good enough for the CWB 'select' varieties. Yet over the last couple of years... US PNW HRW, at times, brought par or more... than CWRS of the same px.

http://www.uswheat.org/supplyDemand/doc/6EF2EC5119EA4CB1852574880054C407?OpenDocument#

[silverback]

"...assure customers of long term and consistent quality supply..."

In other words, "We force our farmers to invest millions in on farm storage so that we can slowly suck it out over time to everyone but the farmers advantage. Then we can have farmers hold grain over by not allowing them to deliver when they would need the money.

Screw the CWB.

We will not charge anything extra to our buyers for this benefit either!"

[makar]

Will killing the cwb give us the same grading and shipping options as the us or will the system keep screwing us.

[makar]

Will killing the cwb give us the same grading and shipping options as the us or will the system keep screwing us.