CWB 'Grain Waves'

[bucket]

Its failing because the ****heads like gord flaten haven't got a ****ing muscle in their brain to come up with a marketing strategy.

Here is one just to start.

Take the Japanese premium market and pool that to interested sellers of grain. Put in a high quality grain requirement and keep their premium market and the quality producers. Could be like the warburton contract as an example only better. The cwb knows how much the Japanese market requires and could offer a special pool with better prices to maintain quality.

Here is another. Use the rail cars to negotiate a better basis so that you can compete with the local prices.

And surely there is a premium to not having to use rail cars and sell mill direct with premium price. The prairie mills are never going to use rail cars if they can have it trucked in from a 100 mile radius. That alone gives the cwb a $35 per tonne spread they can play with.


Oh wait, maybe all this is already happening at places like P&H, since they have their own mills and can offer better prices since they can do the logistics themselves without the previous middleman (cwb) ****ing it up with a call system.

[ColevilleH2S]

What crop year was that mustardman?

[bucket]

Nope mustardman, wrong again. I grow durum. And I remember that big price year. The cwb didn't accept 100 percent that year either. They forced farmers to sell into lower priced crop years.

You must work for the cwb, because they couldn't understand the math back then either.

I will try again. If the cwb only accepts 40 percent of the durum at 12 bucks and sends 60 percent into the next crop year and you only recieve 8 the next year at an 80 percent acceptance and then finally takes 100 percent at 7 bucks. What is the final return on the durum you physically grew in the 12 dollar year? Lets leave the storage costs out to make it easier to figure out. You can play with the percentages but I think you might get the jest of it. Maybe.

I can guarantee you, you did not recieve 12.37 a bushel for the durum you grew that year.

All I can say is, **** are you stupid, along with every peeon I talked to at the cwb that couldn't understand the law of diminishing returns.

[farmaholic]

bucket: ever think of a name change, maybe ****et.

[bucket]

I must apologize for my rudeness and swearing. No need for that. My apologies mustardman.

It just makes my blood boil when I think back to holding durum because a contract/call system. When I finally delivered my durum it was over 20 bucks a bushel and I couldn't haul what I was forced to store to a market that was obviously begging for it at those high prices.

[bucket]

farmaholic

Yes, well, as a matter of fact since I am using a nickname from my younger days, I have heard that many a times. Not quite in these terms related to my swearing but, how you say, my extra curricular activities.

Its all good, my blood pressure is down. The open market is here. Serenity now. Serenity now.

[farmaholic]

Bucket: get any MVP awards for your extra curricular activities?? Go hard,(no pun intented).

Now I have to apologize, sorry.

[ajl]

First of all I am happy with the new wheat
marketing changes. However, in the
interest of accuracy: the $12 durum year
did have 100% acceptance. That was 07-08.
The following year 08-09 had 80%
acceptance and an $8 durum price. 09-10
was the 52% acceptance year with a $4
price. 10-11 was finally a year with 100%
acceptance and a $6 price. Do I have any
factual errors?

[bucket]

ajl

You are probably right. We got good money for our durum one year, just seems that it didn't all get accepted. I guess it was the next year.

Once again I apologize for the inacuracy and rudeness to mustardman.

He and you are probably right.

[blackpowder]

Forgive me, but I have posted this next in the past before. As recently as a week ago.
It seems to effectively kill an entire thread instantly as the people preferential to Kool Aid don't answer the questions.




You are saying that it fails now only because of govt. management..
Are you saying the ag ministry is forcing it to pool only. Forcing it to have meaningless basis? Did they not have the resources to buy a tonne in July for Nov delivery?
What does the govt do? There are a number of brokers trading physical grain that had far less resources. Why do their programs still resemble the past gibberish??
AND when, ever, was the CWB; of the farmer, by the farmer, for the farmer??

WELL?????