conservative victory & the CWB

[sawfly]

Sawfly I agree with you, people are starting to lose faith, mabye most of has to do with the corrupt Liberals and its getting passed to the CWB. The malt barley I could be wrong also I guess thats why I read these threads to see what other guys are thinking.

[lakenheath]

My problem with Malt Barley and CWB is that in southern Saskatchewan we may not get the yield of the northern boys buy our qualtiy is second to none.

The CWB mixes our top notch malt with lower quality from the north and that is what the maltsers are stuck with. So we can't get a premium for our quality and maltsters can't pick and choose which farmers they want to pay a premium to. Both sides are screwed by the CWB.

[Pulseman]

About Malt. Who sells the malt direct to the CWB? Go to the malster of your choice first, once he accepts your malt, deal the terms, bonus above CWB, paid to you direct, not the board. Freight paid to you, not the CWB, it works, try it. If he does not accepts, then your malt is not good enough and between feed and spec. select and you go the the CWB. (at this time and don't get your hopes up with the torries to make any fast changes)

[Pulseman]

Lakenheath what would you call top quality malt?? We grow pretty good malt here in the north. Pulseman have you done this yourself? I don't understand how this can work by avoiding the CWB. I tried it some years back and was not allowed to deal direct with the maltsters.

[wd9]

Funny how 90% of the posts rarely deal with the original question and are so quickly sidetracked.

[TOM4CWB]

WD9;

Grains are 90% politics, didn't you know?

[TOM4CWB]

Wd9,50 posts and counting is hardly quickly, thats why its interesting. I agree with you though I laugh when someone starts a new thread and the first reply has nothing to do with the question. LOL

[Jman]

Toughgoofit & Pulseman..
This kind of arguement between farmers is how buyers are assured contiued cheap & reliable supply....divide and conquer.
Yes, some years southern barley is better than that grown in the north. But many years the northern regions produce a nice high test wt low protein sample.

Now, about payment:
There is nothing from stopping a malster from paying you premiums outside of the CWB normal payment stream. Years like this the malsters may pay you an extra premium due to the shortage of select barley. It's up to you to ask for it.
Grain companies were paying upwards of $15.00 per tonne premiums above CWB feed barley contracts last year [ just goes to show you how much gravy there is just to handle a bulk commodity ].

[Pulseman]

Jman, for me the CWB prices are the bare bottom level, any $ I can negociate above while having to use the CWB is my gain, or not?

[Jman]

Some years it's a gain, in other years, it isnt? I guess it depends on how you time the spot market, much like your non board sales.
I dont think the CWB will ever return you the highest price every year via pooling, because the pool is a mixtures of both high priced sales (to the domestics) and low priced sales (offshore, competitive markets such as China?)

[parsley]

entitled entitled entitled entitled

Entitlement will be a key reason for a Conservative victory if there is one.

The word entitled has become ingrained in Liberal 'speak and think' .

It pops out every time! Look for "entitled" in this thread.


Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Jman;

The $15/t premium on feed barley, could likely be MUCH larger... if it all didn't have to go through the CWB pool accounts!

Hedged grain, can pay a large premium!

[Jman]

Hedged grain can only pay a premium if your price is higher than the spot market. Over time, a hedged price will be less But can you ever consider a hedged price "a loss" if the spot is higher? I dont think so, because nobody hedges at a loss.

[Jman]

Hedged grain can only pay a premium if your price is higher than the spot market. Over time, a hedged price will be less But can you ever consider a hedged price "a loss" if the spot is higher? I dont think so, because nobody hedges at a loss.

[Jman]

Hedged grain can only pay a premium if your price is higher than the spot market. Over time, a hedged price will be less But can you ever consider a hedged price "a loss" if the spot is higher? I dont think so, because nobody hedges at a loss.