CWB "Killing Extra Strong!"

[TOM4CWB]

THalpenny,

You have stated that only 10% of CWES gets a premium price in the premium price US market.

Now we go to cherry picking.

You say that if I am given a no-cost export license I will gain an unfair advantage, and steal this special premium market away from the CWB that no-one else can get to.

My question is then this:

If there is a special premium market that is worth significantly more than ordinary wheat, then why are growers along the US border on the US side picking up this market and taking it away from the CWB?

We freely export the high quality genetics that allow US wheat growers access to grow our special products, and even give no-cost export licenses for the seed growers in the "designated area" who could supply this seed market!

Now please tell me how the CWB has a monopoly, and how I am any different than a US grower in the capability of disrupting your program!

I am sure if there was extra money to be made the US grain companies and growers would have picked up and filled this demand, are you just accusing them of stupidity?

[TOM4CWB]

I'm not sure what your point is, Tom. On one hand you say you can get DNS values for CWES in the US. Then you acknowledge that most of the markets for CWES other than the US aren't interested in the strong gluten qualities of this class of wheat. Then you indicate the problem rests with US producers who are producing Cdn varieties?

Tom

[TOM4CWB]

thalpenny,

I remember 5 years ago selling CWES to Agricore(AWP then) and getting special authorization and early delivery calls for our CWES wheat.

This CWES wheat was loaded and directly sent to the USA.

WE had High Protein CWES, and AWP got a good profitable sale into the US, because this wheat was worth par with Dark northern spring, which is what it is worth today.

For equal quality Dark Northern, and CWES, with equal protein, they have the same value, because they are essentially the same thing!

But the CWB in world markets sells this high quality at discount prices, because it is different. Of course people will take a Rolls Royce at a Lada price!

The point of the US producers is that if CWES was worth more than Dark Northern Spring Wheat, they would grow it! Obviously in the US market it IS NOT WORTH MORE.

If the CWB would stop giving the protein away, and admit if a premium in the US is there, it is not the "single desk" that creates this value, but the inherent intrinsic value of the specific lot of wheat, then we could get along with our lives and start fixing our outdated system.

The way we are headed, the CWB wants to turn CWES and CPS into CWRS and have only one product to sell.

I know this would be easy for the CWB, but do you really think this will do anything but lose us mareket share and make wheat unprofitable to grow?

[TOM4CWB]

To Tom Halpenny, and the CWB.

I have had a long standing problem with the CWB's Glenlea preference over Wildcat, as the CWB and Conagra claim that Glenlea has higher gluten strength, therefore Wildcat is not good enough quality to be used in the dough specialty flour market in the US.

If this is in fact the case, then Wildcat should NOT be charged the high buy-back charge, because it does not meet the quality standards needed for the US market!

How can I cherry pick a market that I cannot supply?

Why is the CWB doing everything possible to kill extra strong, rather than allowing innovation and market forces to be the judge and jury to whether or not we should be growing this specialty wheat?