What does the CWB allow Ontario to do with it's wheat?
Ontario’s dual wheat market
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“One of the initiatives that came out of Alberta's Ag Summit 2000 process was to “introduce a direct marketing option similar to the Ontario Wheat Board”.”
“Ontario wheat farmers have several choices: cash price upon delivery, forward price contracts, minimum price contracts, basis pricing contracts, pooling and direct marketing.”
“In 1999 the OWPMB received permission from the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission to have a limited size dual (or voluntary) market. Up to 150,000 t/year of wheat may be sold by producers directly to domestic and US buyers (about 16 percent of what the OWPMB handles).”
As a “designated area” grain producer I am very happy Ontario has successfully created a Wheat Board that actually competes for their grain producer’s grain, and operates as a dual market!
I am encouraged that the OWPMB did not have to get permission from the CWB to enter into this dual market, which proves Western Canadians legally have the right to direct market outside the elevator system.
You ask why?
Part IV of the CWB Act, and Section 14 of the CWB Regulations, which are authorized by Part IV, equally apply to Alberta, Ontario, and all of Canada.
The CWB has admitted to the Organic Growers that neither grain volume nor grain prices are restricting factors when the CWB issues Export Licenses. The Ontario dual marketing program backs this legal interpretation up and sets persistent that this is correct.
The Ontario CWB Licenses further confirm that the prices inside and outside Canada are the same.
Why?
The CWB would be obligated to charge fees on Ontario wheat producer’s direct marketing program, in order for these grain producers to get their Export Licenses from the CWB. No fees are ever charged pursuant to Section 14 of the CWB Regulations. NAFTA also makes charging these fees for an export license illegal.
If a “designated area” grain producer chooses not to use the Canadian Grain handling or Grading system, then just like Ontario grain, this grain from inside the CWB “designated area” will not directly compete or interfere with CWB sales.
WHY?
The more western Canadian grain is marketed outside the Canadian system, the less supply the CWB has to sell, and therefore the more money the CWB can extract for the remaining grain going through single desk! The CWB can concentrate on the high price high return markets it so adamantly claims it extracts premiums from.
Now all aspects of Section 14 of the CWB Regulations have been covered off.
The only way a “designated area” grain producer can access the CWB marketing system is to “offer” his wheat or barley pursuant to Section 32 of the CWB Act at an elevator or other place specified by the CWB. This offering is the only way the CWB legally can buy wheat or barley in Canada from grain producers.
Now, what right does the CWB have to refuse a “direct marketing export license” to the grain producer from inside the CWB “designated area”, who chooses not to offer his grain to the CWB, but instead chooses to market outside the Canadian system and the CWB?
Ontario wheat producers can sell Grandin Wheat direct to the USA, in direct competition with the CWB Single Desk Monopoly. Why?
Why do Western Canadian grain farmers get refused no-cost export licenses on Grandin, when the CWB cannot even market this milling wheat?
Ontario’s dual wheat market
http://www.agri-ville.com/cgi-bin/content/view.pl?ID=979059008
“One of the initiatives that came out of Alberta's Ag Summit 2000 process was to “introduce a direct marketing option similar to the Ontario Wheat Board”.”
“Ontario wheat farmers have several choices: cash price upon delivery, forward price contracts, minimum price contracts, basis pricing contracts, pooling and direct marketing.”
“In 1999 the OWPMB received permission from the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission to have a limited size dual (or voluntary) market. Up to 150,000 t/year of wheat may be sold by producers directly to domestic and US buyers (about 16 percent of what the OWPMB handles).”
As a “designated area” grain producer I am very happy Ontario has successfully created a Wheat Board that actually competes for their grain producer’s grain, and operates as a dual market!
I am encouraged that the OWPMB did not have to get permission from the CWB to enter into this dual market, which proves Western Canadians legally have the right to direct market outside the elevator system.
You ask why?
Part IV of the CWB Act, and Section 14 of the CWB Regulations, which are authorized by Part IV, equally apply to Alberta, Ontario, and all of Canada.
The CWB has admitted to the Organic Growers that neither grain volume nor grain prices are restricting factors when the CWB issues Export Licenses. The Ontario dual marketing program backs this legal interpretation up and sets persistent that this is correct.
The Ontario CWB Licenses further confirm that the prices inside and outside Canada are the same.
Why?
The CWB would be obligated to charge fees on Ontario wheat producer’s direct marketing program, in order for these grain producers to get their Export Licenses from the CWB. No fees are ever charged pursuant to Section 14 of the CWB Regulations. NAFTA also makes charging these fees for an export license illegal.
If a “designated area” grain producer chooses not to use the Canadian Grain handling or Grading system, then just like Ontario grain, this grain from inside the CWB “designated area” will not directly compete or interfere with CWB sales.
WHY?
The more western Canadian grain is marketed outside the Canadian system, the less supply the CWB has to sell, and therefore the more money the CWB can extract for the remaining grain going through single desk! The CWB can concentrate on the high price high return markets it so adamantly claims it extracts premiums from.
Now all aspects of Section 14 of the CWB Regulations have been covered off.
The only way a “designated area” grain producer can access the CWB marketing system is to “offer” his wheat or barley pursuant to Section 32 of the CWB Act at an elevator or other place specified by the CWB. This offering is the only way the CWB legally can buy wheat or barley in Canada from grain producers.
Now, what right does the CWB have to refuse a “direct marketing export license” to the grain producer from inside the CWB “designated area”, who chooses not to offer his grain to the CWB, but instead chooses to market outside the Canadian system and the CWB?
Ontario wheat producers can sell Grandin Wheat direct to the USA, in direct competition with the CWB Single Desk Monopoly. Why?
Why do Western Canadian grain farmers get refused no-cost export licenses on Grandin, when the CWB cannot even market this milling wheat?
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