Oops

[grassfarmer]

I guess some guys are admitting in a roundabout way
that they got it wrong on the CWB issue.

http://www.agcanada.com/manitobacooperator/201
2/11/29/regulations-farmer-voice-needed-in-post-
cwb-monopoly-world/

[JDGreen]

Grassie much like the CWB your link doesn't work either..

[wilagro]

JDGreen: Just copy the link and paste to your browser. It will then work okay. Don't use the open in a new tab option. GF has an Apple computer and it doesn't "wrap" like our peon type computers do under Windows.

[vvalk]

Still doesn't work.

[wilagro]

Worked for me and I've only worked with computers for thirty years.

[agstar77]

Irony, Western prairies were more in favour of an open market while Eastern Prairies were more CWB orientated. The Irony prices are higher post CWB for Eastern prairies than Western. Be careful for what you wish for , you might get it!

[malleefarmer]

opened ag canadas page but not the link

[grassfarmer]

Alternatively paste "regulations, farmer voice needed
in post CWB monopoly world" into google and search.

[malleefarmer]

did a search and found it

[vvalk]

What are you talking about Agstar. Manitoba
only produce 9% of what the CWB sold and
mixed it with higher quality grain from sask
and ab. How do you figure prices are higher
in manitoba? Its all about where the sales
are and transportation costs.

[agstar77]

Last two years Mb wheat has been better than Sask or al. With the CWB removed those market and transport issues have shown favour to MB without alta and sask dilution. Very similar to Ont receiving higher prices closer to market. Of couse when you build all those flour and pasta plants your cheap grain will be an asset.

[wilagro]

Haven't seen or heard of too many flour mills or pasta plants being built since the demise of the old CWB. Even that plant in Regina that Harper used as a photo-op a year or so ago has been put on the back burner and may never be revived. All that hype was PROPAGANDA used by the ANTI-CBW gang. Our market base here is just too damned small.

[MBgrower]

vvalk: I think the board used to ship lots of Manitoba's high protein to Vancouver to blend up the usual low protein from SK. That's what one of their people told me a couple of years ago at meeting. Now in the open market, MB's wheat is going straight to Chicago and the eastern US markets. MB's wheat freight cost has gone down in the open market. Looks like SK will have the lowest valued wheat in the open market now, especially if cattle and hog numbers continue to decline.

[stonepicker]

Ah yes! The mb. co-operator. Now there's a paper with
a great reputation for being un-biased. they've towed
the CWB line since their inception and nothing else. Do
you believe everything you read? Do you look at both
sides to see if it has any merit? Are you a leftwing
thinker that doesn't think? Because that's what another
socialist told you to think? Gosh!

[grassfarmer]

Never mind running down the paper - do you think
De Pape and the other guy didn't make these
comments? Talk about bias.