Ok Stephen Replace Ritz he's a Idiot!!

[bucket]

tandem007

Who do you thinks sells the grain at the west coast for 10 bucks a bushel every day.

Even when they were paying 6 bucks a bushel on the prairies the graincos had a 4 dollars per bushel spread they were gaining.

Prices off the west coast are moving up and prairie prices are half of west coast prices.

That is who is making the money.

Not to defend the railways but the costfor a car on 112 car unit train it about 3700 bucks moose jaw to vancouver.

We pay the freight and elevation.

[OneOfMany]

Don't want to sound like a broken record... Perhaps this is one of the reasons we keep hearing " land is so much cheaper here than the rest of the world"

[agstar77]

Grant Devine on the house this morning, praising Ritz as a farmer who understands the problem. He also repeats how the government is loathe to intervene. Gee, he was ready to intervene in the Potash sale.

[bucket]

More important question is - who do you replace Ritz with?????

I think too many farmer politicians are on another file now and have been to far removed from the reality of farming.

[SASKFARMER3]

Im thinking!
Isnt it funny how guys like Dave and MB cant come back with what he is doing so great.
Just cut down.
His attitude is wrong, Their is pain in Rural Canada yet he cant grasp the situation. And then when it gets close to breaking point he creates another problem. Wait in 14 days the delay with FCC is due and guess what very little movement since he announced that FCC would be doing that.
One frying pan to the other.
HOP HOP HOP!!!!

[mbdog]

Sask...was curling....and not wasting time on this thread.

[SASKFARMER3]

Great to see your getting out of the house to curl. Cant haul grain so may as well curl.

[seabass]

No curling in Florida

[SASKFARMER3]

Rocks we skip here on water. Instead of skips on
ice telling you how to throw the rock.

[Braveheart]

Once again I ask, why is the heat only on Ritz?
Light up transport Minister Lisa Rait. Transport
has jurisdiction in the end.

[bucket]

That is one minister hard to get on the
phone.

Just send everything to the PMO.

[Braveheart]

PMO should be copied on everything.

[MBgrower]

Tandem0007 what grain co do you work for?

[MBgrower]

SK3, u summed it perfectly in your post i attached
below. This is exactly how the graincos have been
buying grain since December, slow and steady at $3
to $4 bu net margins.

Tandem007 may get a nice bonus from his
employer this year.


Every day at the Local Cargill or Pioneer farmers are
coming in asking price of canola and selling a little
and they are taking that. Little by little fill boats with
under nine canola and wheat below 5 and presto
when finally get it to coast sell for 12 and 10 and
who makes the profit here. Follow the money.

[Braveheart]

I think both SK3 and Tandem are right. Weak
basis is the signal they don't want or need more
grain.

But farmers need cash flow. So they spot sell to
convert some grain to cash. Grain cos trade the
basis. They make a bundle shipping the grain
they spot bought to a customer trading the very
weak basis for port basis. This unfortunately
keeps the elevators more full and less able to
receive already earlier contracted grain.

I admit to not knowing this for sure but it is my
best theory.