stats Canada comes to same conclusion I said back in July!

[LWeber]

Bucket: Send me an email for flax stats...

[bucket]

Weber

Done.

But I will ask the same questions here.

I am wondering what the flax production number was in the Ukraine for 3 reasons:

1. If there cereal harvest was lower due to drought, then logic tells me so was their flax harvest.

2. If the above is partly true, then does Europe finally come back to Canada for flax.

3. If 1 and 2 are true, given Canada's position what is the outlook for flax?

[bucket]

Emails from the grain companies are encouraging 12 dollar new crop canola target. No shit or the acres are going down.

But now that they played their hand my next target goes in at 12.50, I gotta recover some of that expensive seed cost.

me just big dumbshit farmer duhuh! Oh shit I might be catching burbertitis.

[furrowtickler]

errol, what were the crush margins the past couple of years? Did they not make an absolute fortune for quite a while? What are they now? Are they loosing money right now? What has been their average the past 3-4 years. I am sure they are doing just fine - don't kid yourself...
Yes we need the crushers, but they need our product more. Nobody cared from their end when we were getting only $5-6/bus - opperating at a loss. As well they could care less that alot of guys produced well below 20 bus canola crops this year - some in the red ink.
Sometime it sucks to be on the negative side of things - but we all have been there - except for wage earners who don't rely on farm income.
Is $12 canola enough? Maybe , if wheat falls below 7 it will be.

[charliep]

Just curious with all the whining and snivelling here, what you would have the market do differently today? For those who didn't answer the question, what this the difference in the oil/meal content for soybeans versus canola? Which one is hot and which is cold? Which one has more downside risk? What are crush margins and basis levels doing? From a market side, what is happening to volume and open interest? Why?

[Kodiak]

Soybeans up 8% since mid Nov. Meal up 6%. Bean oil up 7.7% Canola up 4%. Canola futures have no carry. Cash basis for canola enhances the inverse in the futures. Beans nor meal have any carry. Bean oil does.

What does that say?

[cottonpicken]

If the public ever figures out how bad vegetable oil is
for you we may end up with a demand problem,but
that will never happen.

[wd9]

Are you completely stoned cotton?

[cottonpicken]

Unsaturated fat is about the worst thing you can put
in your body.

Eggs,milk,steak,bacon,butter and all the saturated
fats have almost a completely opposite molecular
structure and to think they are unhealthily,is a level of
ignorance i can't understand.

Cockroaches eat axle grease but they don't eat
margarine.

[FarmRanger]

Sure cotton, all the nutritionists are wrong.

The "documentary" that you saw by the professor Doofenshmurtz charitable foundation tells it exactly like it is though, I'm sure.

heh

[wd9]

Geez cotton, i really don't know what to
say. Most of the people with that mindset
have unfortunately died of coronary heart
disease already so I've forgotten most of
my speaking points.

Reduce your intake in fats in general but
especially saturated fats. Live long
enough to enjoy all those riches you've
been trying so hard to gather.

[cottonpicken]

Are you guys for real?

There is a huge number of nutritionalists and
bodies of evidence that say cholesterol is not bad
for you and natural animal fats and tropical
oils,palm and coconut are far better for you than
manufactured products,I suggest you do your own
research.

While your at it look into real reason we have so
many fat bastards walking around and keeling
over-over consumption of carbs,which fuels our
bodies and excess is converted to body fat,but all
the brain dead people count calories instead of
carbs and never even heard of what a ketone
is,gee dog I followed my 150gram a day carb diet
but am still fat what gives,not sure son I never had
to take nutrition in med school so just keep at it.