Calgary Herald: Wheat board doomed without monopoly

[Incognito]

Looks like i picked a bad day to go to Winnipeg and miss the discussions here; CWB initials raised and canola up another 10 cents. Life is better today.


Add another point into the round table here:

What companies can afford to add billions of dollars of credit risk to their balance sheet?

You won't see any Canadian entities on that list and that scares the daylights outta me and most Canadian banks.

[Incognito]

Comatose....lol

I went to Edmonton, not Winnipeg.

[boone]

incognito: No harm done, we were having a love in!

[rodb]

Adamsmith
The first IP producers were the certified seed growers. The good ones have made a very good living and the poor ones went back to growing commodities or out of farming altogether. The way to make a go off it is to offer a product that has higher intrinsic value, whether that is through IP or some other form. Commodity pricing is going to provide subsistence levels at best as we will never be the low cost producers.

We need to develope value chains that let us have the ability to access those premium prices with out the discounts when product does not meet spec. The other thing to look at, is the discount worse than the commodity market price? If it isn't you have still got paid a little better for the extra work it took to try and meet the quality standards of the program.

The CWB needs to think more about value chains and the producer. The old grow it and they will buy it is long gone as technology has replaced the need for all the HRS high protein that we grow. They need to work with producers and end users to build value chains not stand and say I can't compete.

[boone]

Post: just reread these strings and was greatly encouraged, I think it has reached a point of understanding. One thing I'd like to add. If the board will keep moving ahead at what must be breakneck speed for the statisticians in the group, I think we are going to make it. Now the next thing I would like to say is the term (food spook) is copyrighted from here after so since Dunn and Bradstreet took the time to call today to do a check on me, I would encourage any one that uses it to send .25 cents to my widows and orphans fund c/o Agri-ville. (just kidding) but remember if you don't hear from me I was never here. Have a great summer, if we don't cross, type again. For I feel a chill coming on!

[Incognito]

Now who am i gonna have long dissertations with if you exit?

[carebear300]

Thanks everybody for all your postings I have enjoyed this immensely and have hopefully learnt a whole bunch from all of you. I have only one thing to add, no matter how much I am digusted with the way that the wheat board has conducted our business for us, I also realize that the only way that the free market can truly operate is that if all parties that are involved in the trade have the same excess to capital and that my friends will never happen. I guess I will have to survive in this new free market system but know that will be a struggle at its best. Sure wish that the wheat board had been able to walk the talk and actually make us some extra money and we would not be in this discussion right now.

[boone]

incognito: Buy a full length mirror, hurl epithets at it like "creeps and bums"," shoot ,shovel, shutup", "I've had it with this crap, I'm out of here". and just walk away,works for some........ ma*chree. Boone

[cropduster]

And,Boone,it`s turned into the finest province that Tommy Douglas built !!!!!!