Arason Says........US Wheat Associate Says

[chaffmeister]

If dolin's link doesn't work (didn't work for me), try this:

http://www.lepointeco.com/lepointeco/lire.php?ida=759&idc=46

There were actually a few publications in Algeria that picked up the story....

[dolin]

http://www.liberte-algerie.com/edit.php?id=69167 now i think you will get it

[mustardman]

Parsley you like to assume too much.

The USW interprets "preferential prices" as being "low low prices"

There is a difference.

I get preferential prices when I buy my inputs. Are they "low low prices" ?

No.
I do buy in quantity so yes there is a discount, as it is less trouble to sell to one farmer than 6.

Why didn't USW or its Canadian sattelite group ,WBG use the term "preferential prices" ? in its press release?

Algeria has been our most important durum customer for years, the reason we still have durum supplies on farm for the last few years is due to better crops in that region.

Albeit some of our high protein quality durum was shipped directly to US mills.


The US recently came up with a bilateral agreement with Morocco, in order to "buy" market share on durum.

You know Parsley during WWII the french people who sided with the
Nazis were executed for treason.

I sometime wonder if the WBG and the WCWG are in the same situation.
They often go to wheat grower meetings in North Dakota and give misinformation That fuels the fire from South of the border. The next thing you know another trade action is started .
Maybe if there was a threat of a treason charge they would think before they speak. { tongue planted firmly in cheek }

[charliep]

Wouldn't wreck the canola thread on carryover but have to comment here.

Canola - discussion whether the carryover will be closer to 1 or 1.5 MMT. Issue - will canola prices be closer to $9/bu or $10/bu. Full payment at time of delivery. Farmer makes their delivery decision directly with a grain company. Free movement both ways across the border.

Durum - Discussion about treason and whether people should be dealt with appropriately.

[mustardman]

Parsley - one more question, if you do farm and I presume you do, how do you find so much time to spend on this website??

[parsley]

1.The important point is:

How come the US told us, why didn't the CWB tell us?

You ignored it.

2.Call up the CWB and tear a strip out of them for translating so poorly.

Their own translation says, "our country receives preferential prices, which save Algeria tens of dollars per tonne purchased."

Read it again and weep.

3. Here's the money pot for the Algerians, right out of DA farmers' pockets:

(Translation by CWB):
Quoting
However, the benefits of doing business with Canada do not end there: according to Kacem, Canada also provides technical assistance in the form of training for executives from the OAIC and the agricultural sector.

In addition, the Canadian supplier pays the loading costs, and facilitations are offered with regard to the method of payment.
End of quote.


4. If you are having problems with time management, either take a management course, or call up the CWB Marketing Department. They aren't doing any marketing these days it seems. Ask for Donna Youndahl. She's headed up an Organic Marketing Department for over 5 years, and they hasn't sold a bushel. She'll have time to do your posting.

Parsley

[mustardman]

So Parsley what are you telling me ?

You haven't sold a bushel of grain thru the wheat board in 5 years ?

[parsley]

mustardman,

=You haven't sold a bushel of grain thru the wheat board in 5 years=

is your question.

=thru the wheat Board=

ok

If any exported wheat/barley is food grade.....it MUST at the very least:

BE LICENSED BY THE CWB.

That's the basic!

So every bushel must be subject to the CWB's NATIONAL licensing department.

Some farmers probably don't even have to bother to get an export license at all! Maybe if you live in Lac St Jean, you can slide through without a permit, unless of course, a $500.00 a day CWB Director needs to make a weekend inspection at a Quebec border, and delivers the export licenese personally, just to remind the locals that a national permit MAY be required.

Two areas you're maybe referring to are:

1. Farmers selling to the Board:

a) Take it to the elevator. Sell to the CWB. Wait for the cheque.

b) Sell it to the Board. Wait until the Board via a phone call, markets that grain to "preferred" customers.

Ask what price the CWB are asking for that same Board grain. Take a CWB director out to dinner to see if there is a one-day-sale on for that Board grain, and if it's cheap that day, buy that same Board grain. It's never left your bin anyhow. Never hurts to ask.

2. DA Farmers that don't sell to the Board at all but get the export permit anyhow. Piles of them. For example:

Every seed grower on the Prairies. They bypass the Board. They bypass marketing. They bypass pooling. Some haven't sold to the Board for 50 years.

BUT they go through the Board. They are licensed by the Board.

You'd do well to continue snoozing and relishing your marketing plan, not someone else's, mustardman. You are happy with it. You are more than satisfied with Board cheques. You want more Government workers at the Board. You are nobly training Algerian civil servants. You love paying for organic marketing departments that don't sell a bushel. You and winwin. Enjoy!

And yes, we market boardgrains and yes they are CWB licensed, as the CWB Act requires.

Parsley

[dolin]

parsley,how you know lac st-jean it is ma place i do farm

[dolin]

oups my area