Nearby soy and Chi wheat

[bucket]

There are 355 primary elevators on the prairies and farmers don't have a clue exactly how much is in any of them.
There is a weekly report of stocks by province, but not by grade.
Export terminals do report stocks by grade and volume at each port, but not by individual terminal.
The Canadian system is nothing like the Australian one when it comes to transparency. Canadian farmers are flying in a fog with a dollar store compass for navigation.

And the people involved for this .....well ....one is in the hall of fame.....one is now the conservative ag critic...

Just such phucking bullshit that everyone that wanted the American system could not do the no brainer stuff like implement transparency and accountability to the industry with sales reporting....vessel reports....and a more public accounting of what is going on...

The system would operate far more efficiently.....

My two closest elevators ...one is closed during a bumper crop ....has been for years 10000 tonne concrete


The other is 40000 tonnes and has been plugged for three weeks with no train coming and it's on a mainline. ....manager can't make any commitments to his contract holders. ..nice

[farming101]

Thanks 101

Why can’t you change it for betterment of all? Dumb question I guess. Seems at times your at war with grain co’s

Different mindset than here

I do not know the history of the Aussie system and how it worked back in AWB days. I'm guessing the transition to your present system was a lot different then here post CWB.

Back in CWB days there was an accounting 6 months after the end of the crop year, but during the crop year there was always the impression that very few knew what was going on. Sometimes the yearend report would show that truly no one knew what was going on.

Now a select few know what is going on and they ain't sharing.
Now we work with graincos through customer reps who at times will hint about some marketing programs on the horizon but do not in any way help farmers to make informed and concrete plans.

Delivery contracts have very little in them that helps the producer. One beef in particular is that there are no price scales for grade changes. No guarantees of a price for any over delivery on the contract. It would be much more rewarding to ask for your over delivery tonnes back and feed it to the wildlife.

[bucket]

I do not know the history of the Aussie system and how it worked back in AWB days. I'm guessing the transition to your present system was a lot different then here post CWB.

Back in CWB days there was an accounting 6 months after the end of the crop year, but during the crop year there was always the impression that very few knew what was going on. Sometimes the yearend report would show that truly no one knew what was going on.

Now a select few know what is going on and they ain't sharing.
Now we work with graincos through customer reps who at times will hint about some marketing programs on the horizon but do not in any way help farmers to make informed and concrete plans.

Delivery contracts have very little in them that helps the producer. One beef in particular is that there are no price scales for grade changes. No guarantees of a price for any over delivery on the contract.

All they have done is downloaded the cost of storage to farmers.....where an elevator could turn their storage 10 times a year. ...farmers are building to turn once every two years....mind numbing.....and farmers are OK with it....

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mallee , all the so called "farm organizations" do here is collect diems for going to meetings and get rooms in the city
we have one on here with , does it sound like he gives a shit about farming ?
more interested in unimportant shit