EU grain marketing info

[cowman]

Hopefully more municipalities will get on the bandwagon to scrap the education tax on farm land. I was at a town hall meeting a couple of days ago and a farmer brought the subject up. The basic injustice of the farmer being taxed more than the town person for education is something that needs to be addressed? The only problem is, as our illustrious government likes to point out, is where will the money come from? Well if education is important for all Albertans then ALL Albertans should pay equally for it? Unfortunately our King Ralph likes to spend like a drunken sailor and throw money around so people will like him and besides he knows the rural peasants will never vote him out, so why should he make any changes? After all the King doesn't have to listen to the peasants right? The peasants duty is to the king not the other way around! Maybe we need a REVOLUTION? Do you know where we can find a good cheap used guillotine?

[bombay_43]

No, but I have heard that there is this "cowman" in southern Alberta, who is pretty handy building things! He's toying with the idea of getting out of cattle, maybe he would be willing to start building guillotins!

[moffat]

South east Sask. Little fall reserve,good snowfall but most of it blew bad. There will be a good runnoff how much goes in anybodys guess.

[cowman]

In the last few days we have been getting a slow melt under the snow and it seems to be going into the ground fairly well. I'm actually hoping we get the late"ugly" snow storm like last year even though it was tough on the calves! We basically pulled off a bumper crop from that last ugly May storm!
Do you ever get the feeling the damned weather is changing?

[ianben]

Hi Tom

Good to hear your w wheat at least yeilded well.

Prices here in UK are much better this year due to weather events in rest of europe/FSU.
Yeilds were average harvest dry and easy giving us nice return.

Not down to me in any way really though just a weather event and luck. Wish I had forseen the fall of the US dollar as prices have slipped since christmas.

CWB in my view has an impossible job.

How can a seller of anything who has no incentive to gain a premium and an obligation to sell whatever is produced of whatever quality and quantity be concidered an asset in the market place.

I am right in saying CWB employees have no incentives or guidance on price arent I?
And they must sell what Canadian farmers feel like or nature allows them to produce?

If this is true then CWB must be desablising force on world markets.

In my opinion no one should be allowed to sell anything without being reponsible for the consequences and invovled in the financial returns.