The Beginning of Grain Marketing Freedom in Western Canada.

[LWeber]

The mindset still exists, I believe.

I just send the doubters this paragraph - don't usually get a reply...

Only a single seller of the product can price differentiate to extract a greater portion of a
customer’s willingness to pay which was the case for wheat, durum and barley with the
operation of the CWB prior to the regulatory changes enacted in 2012. In that era, many
customers were paying premiums for Canadian wheat and durum relative to what they would
have had to pay for similar quality U.S. spring wheats and durums. That said, many customers
were not willing to pay premiums as the market for high quality spring wheat and durum is
limited. As a result, in order to clear the market, a significant volume of grain would be traded at values at a discount to U.S. values as that is what it took to sell the grain that was offered for
sale by farmers to the CWB at the time.

Authour: Ward Weisensel for SK Wheat in 2020

[furrowtickler]

And remember who wants the CWB back , including all grains and canola and has the ear of the Liberals…. Yup the NFU, chucks “we” buddies

[TOM4CWB]

The mindset still exists, I believe.

After strong up days like today… that are instantly reflected in our farm gate prices… it is heartwarming to grow wheat on our farm… with both net and gross income beating Canola!!!

The CWB was the King of the state owned deception… that claimed absolute pricing power over wheat and barley…. Their price power was over the farmers they confiscated from… stealing from the western Canadian farmers and giving the benefit to grain companies and end users of this grain. Livestock producers benefited significantly as the CWB assured the domestic livestock industry a supply of cheap feed grain …

Jim Chatenay, Rick Strankman, Ron Duffy….

Ken Dillan…



Andy McMechan



Art Manail and yes o yes… we can’t ever forget Rod Flaman… the Judas for the Monopoly…Ken Ritter wasn’t far behind…



What deception… what corruption… astounding what communism will do to the minds of those who believe the King of the State of Deception…

So many… gave unselfishly… God Bless each one for their sacrifices…

[sumdumguy]

The elevators had a hay-day. They just raked off storage and elevation charges and farmers got the crumbs. Worse for us as special crops processors, the Wheat Board controlled the cars and you can imagine what it was like for small on-farm processors. Kiss rear end or else👎

[seldomseen]

What a dark ugly stain on the history of Western Canadian Ag.
Will always be grateful for Prime Minister Stephen Harper for killing the ugly beast.

Any farmer that could support that madness would have to have a really warped mentality!

[shtferbrains]

If I remember the CWB customer list in the final years it was mostly countries like Iraq and the FSU where any trade was assumed to involve kickbacks.

Of course those were the high priced markets...

[wheatking16]

What a dark ugly stain on the history of Western Canadian Ag.
Will always be grateful for Prime Minister Stephen Harper for killing the ugly beast.

Any farmer that could support that madness would have to have a really warped mentality!

The crazy thing was most farmers did support the CWB.


Until at least 2007, the anti-CWB monopoly farmer was the minority and the ones who were vocal were even fewer yet.


People think they know what they want,

But,

Don't know what they need.

[TOM4CWB]

The crazy thing was most farmers did support the CWB.


Until at least 2007, the anti-CWB monopoly farmer was the minority and the ones who were vocal were even fewer yet.


People think they know what they want,

But,

Don't know what they need.

It was some how comforting to them know that their neighbor was getting the same price as they were…. No need to watch markets…

Then complain the government wasn’t giving enough subsidies…CWB kept land prices down…

The great equalizer… buy a lottery ticket if you wanted to win big on the farm… no cheating by managing grain sales…

[AlbertaFarmer5]

that's an impressive list of likes for this post and thread.

I can't help but notice the conspicuous absence of some very prolific posters. Apparently some are still bitter and resentful.

[Landdownunder]

Like to every comment.

Even the die hard supporters here in oz don't want it back.

Just the hard core 1% still in support.

All the towns will vanish, even people will suoicide with AWB god the rhetoric was unreal.