Go Alberta go

[boone]

incognito: I expect the answer to your last question is Mr. Li's upgrader/ethanol plant for cps,etc. Now go to bed, you starting to get eloquent! lol

[Incognito]

I've got a speech to write for tomorrow yet...lol

I work to deadlines real well.

[parsley]

The organic comparison is very relevant. Ontario organics simply export. Western organics cannot compete because of the buyback.

The organic industry is small, and viable, and growing, and wants to progress that way.

Small mills are just as important as big mills in organics, and sometimes more so.

The CWB remains a major impediment to the growth of organics.We are very appreciative of smaller mills that provide a milling value-added service and add jobs to our communities.

Big companies want lots of bushels. Has the trend towards more and more production provided conventional farmers with more cash even though the gain in bushels is immediately erroded by higher priced inputs?

Huge mills, or huge packing plants etc.(government subsidized), are subject to shutdown food scares, but on a massive scale, which are inevitably downloaded on all producers. . Updating these plants will be downloaded on the taxpayer via more grants.

Massive scale operations do not automatically solve economic needs, (nor did the Red Cross blood pooling system address our health needs).

Big doesn't necessarily mean good, or efficient or profitable.

Diversity is essential in our society. Diversity in small mills, small processing, local packaging etc can provide a conduit that bypasses all the problems associated with massive systems. One problem area is automatically identified and isolated from the rest. One segment of the industry remains operable.

The idea of putting all your eggs in one large government run marketing/pooling basket lacks reason and foresight.

Even those obsessed with touting 'bigger is better' in wheat have turned to smaller production crops to actually pay their bills.

boone, you seem to try to disparage a smaller mill in this thread, or perhaps you just need a bran muffin this morning. Why don't you try encouraging small companies, (we could use more of them out here), particularly when you seem to non-supportive of the large companies.

Or is single-desk government-run your single goal?

[boone]

Parsly: Negative on the bran muffin, unless you cook in some flax seed and a Saskatoon Berry. No you have read me wrong here, I would never disparage a small mill, what I was pointing out is eatmore, is in an envious position but he is less than relevant to our situation here/western draw area. Small markets take on a life of their own, I wonder if all the farms that stoically say "I don't market through the board", mostly in enviable feedlot Alberta will be Phoning to register for the EPO program before the spring is out. They don't realize it (better understanding since 2002 drought gave them a taste of the great plains) they have at least three or more things going for them that the rest of us poor Desert Rats don't 1) yield, 2) close to strong market. closer to west coast by 30-50 cents per bu. 3) other options, hay, timothy export, and or intensive pasture. We won't even get into government largesse. Mind you I've heard they pay to much for green equipment out there.Tom4 that was a dig.lol

[Incognito]

Glad to see you post, Boone. For awhile I thought you may have been in Coronach today...

[eatmorewheat]

Ten years ago we milled 40 000 tonnes of western wheat. Today we mill 5 000.

90% of what we mill today is grown in Ontario, where the wheat grows free. Kick down the CWB and a lot more western wheat is milled in Canada by all current processors and new ones who will enter.

China now protects private property, isn't it time Canada did too.

Free wheat in the west.