Parsley;
My buddy and I were golfing down to Dodge City... and stopped for a pit stop at the 7:00am Kansas Wheat meeting on Mar. 15/06.
I have never seen such an embarassed flour miller... he didn't know how to deal with us! He welcomed us... by saying even the CDN's were down to find out what was going on with Hard White Wheat...
THis was even before we even met him... in the first couple of sentences... red faces glowing everywhere!
His enthusiasm for WHite Wheat was clear to all in attendance... and when I asked why we wouldn't all just grow Hard White as a North American supplier of premium wheat... he avoided answering my question... again with a face yet redder.
THe General has it's own problems as the main leader on Hard white... Cargill and ADM are following from the sidelines... with other smaller specialty IP Hard White programs that are paying up to $.20/bu premiums.
Everyone in the milling industry expects a discount to switch to a new product... otherwise why change... THERE MUST BE A REASON TO CHANGE.
Segregation is the key problem.... and cost of the Hard white program. Critical mass of volume, velocity, and quality for blending are the near term limitations. Millers want a 15%px blending wheat... to pay the big premiums.
Hard Red Winter already has a leg up on CWRS in flour yeild... the CDN Hard White just another incremental step foreward... only half the CWRS CWHWS 4% difference.
ANd when the CWB saves the good clean product for AWB type blends/specialty Asia Pacific markets... we don't have a chance in the US premium markets.
Besides the US grows over 50mmt of wheat... why would they care!
US white growers are going it on there own, bypassing the majors.
The big mills are HOGS. They need unit train after of unit train of consistant velocity, quality, the "second" it is needed at the mill unload pit. No delays allowed...
The mill must go on...
Efficiency is volume...
Volume is profit... profit is quality and consistancy.
US millers will pay more than anyone else on the planet to keep these "Hogs" grinding wheat effectively.
If we CDN's are more a problem... than a solution... we are not in the picture.
And the Oil for Food thing... the AWB CWB team approach... certainly makes us CDN's much more a problem... than part of the solution!
Don't kid ourselves Every American Miller knows exactly what the AWB and CWB are guilty of... why they did it, and that our arrogance and greed are resulting in dead US Military on a daily basis.
My buddy and I were golfing down to Dodge City... and stopped for a pit stop at the 7:00am Kansas Wheat meeting on Mar. 15/06.
I have never seen such an embarassed flour miller... he didn't know how to deal with us! He welcomed us... by saying even the CDN's were down to find out what was going on with Hard White Wheat...
THis was even before we even met him... in the first couple of sentences... red faces glowing everywhere!
His enthusiasm for WHite Wheat was clear to all in attendance... and when I asked why we wouldn't all just grow Hard White as a North American supplier of premium wheat... he avoided answering my question... again with a face yet redder.
THe General has it's own problems as the main leader on Hard white... Cargill and ADM are following from the sidelines... with other smaller specialty IP Hard White programs that are paying up to $.20/bu premiums.
Everyone in the milling industry expects a discount to switch to a new product... otherwise why change... THERE MUST BE A REASON TO CHANGE.
Segregation is the key problem.... and cost of the Hard white program. Critical mass of volume, velocity, and quality for blending are the near term limitations. Millers want a 15%px blending wheat... to pay the big premiums.
Hard Red Winter already has a leg up on CWRS in flour yeild... the CDN Hard White just another incremental step foreward... only half the CWRS CWHWS 4% difference.
ANd when the CWB saves the good clean product for AWB type blends/specialty Asia Pacific markets... we don't have a chance in the US premium markets.
Besides the US grows over 50mmt of wheat... why would they care!
US white growers are going it on there own, bypassing the majors.
The big mills are HOGS. They need unit train after of unit train of consistant velocity, quality, the "second" it is needed at the mill unload pit. No delays allowed...
The mill must go on...
Efficiency is volume...
Volume is profit... profit is quality and consistancy.
US millers will pay more than anyone else on the planet to keep these "Hogs" grinding wheat effectively.
If we CDN's are more a problem... than a solution... we are not in the picture.
And the Oil for Food thing... the AWB CWB team approach... certainly makes us CDN's much more a problem... than part of the solution!
Don't kid ourselves Every American Miller knows exactly what the AWB and CWB are guilty of... why they did it, and that our arrogance and greed are resulting in dead US Military on a daily basis.
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