Milling Oats vs Milling Wheat

[silverback]

Thanks, I might just look into that. Like you say, the issue is when does it become commercial? Who decides that? Sounds like there is lots of wiggle room for a beaurocrat to decide how I make a living?

[JACKFLASH]

Vader:

So We as farmers just have to suck it up. The CWB is going to do what they are going to do.

My rotation is set for cereals this year. I'll have to grow some wheat. I have options, PPo's, basis contract,but I'll probably get beat on that,so go with low risk. I expect a #2 13.0% HRSW,Will take the low intial price offered or an EPO which costs from 3 to 9 cents to get 80% of the PRO. Then over the course of 12-16 mos. I get interms and interms on the interms and finals on the finals,till I'm paid in full. But hey I'll suck it up.
Thank god for oats,feed barley, rye. Yeah I got a life.

[JACKFLASH]

Don't get me going on the malt barley lottery.

[Vader]

Tom, thanks for answering Silverbacks questions. Too much for me.

Jackflash, you don't have to suck up anything. Do your best to change the landscape in whatever productive way you can. .....or you can do like parsley and tom and simply keep posting here.

[JACKFLASH]

Vader: I agree we are sparring on this thread like two punch drunk boxers.
We are doing all we can to stay productive.

Parsley's and Tom4CWB's views on how we need change in Western Canada, in the marketing of wheat and barley,are valid. My support lies there.

[parsley]

FYI,
For years, the CWB would only allow a farmer to have a few bags of grain milled at the local feed mill for his own use. It was recorded in his permit book. I presume the implication was if the farmer didn't grovel, his family could starve.

A farmer could not even take his feed grain and sell it into another province, as we do today.

That CWB policy when Mr. Sommerville was charged, by the CWB, for taking the feed grain he grew in Saskatchewan, across the border into Alberta, to feed to his cattle in Alberta.

The CWB gestapo charged him. The CWB fought him all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, where Sommerville won the courtcase, and his action resulted in farmers today, being able to ship feed grain into Alberta or Ontario feed lots, directly bypassing Board marketing and Board pooling.

He ffought for the open feed market we enjoy today, guys.

Today, the CWB has abandoned their feed policy, but they still enforce their "human consumption" policy that jails farmers for selling wht/bly for "human consumption" into other provinces and for export.

If you examine the Canadian Wheat Board Act AND regulations carefully, you will not find the words "human consumption" in either one. Try it.

Get the act up online, go to Edit, and then go to Find(on this page), and type in "human consumption". Scroll.

It's a phrase the CWB has invented to suit their policy, while telling farmers it's the law.

It's absent.

Meantime, the CWB's Deana Allen, in charge of Farmer Relations,using farmer dollars, will continue to preach CWB policy about human consumption,, saying it's in the CWB Act.


This kind of governance has to stop.

This kind of governance depletes farmers' pooling accounts and expands the CWB staff.

Parsley