Ontario total wheat production last year in 2006 was 2.64 MMT of which spring wheat was 247,000 tonnes. Winter wheats are also used in milling/flour.
In 2005, it was 1.76 MMT of which spring wheat was 182,000 tonnes.
You ask good questions raise some interesting topics for research. I note total milling wheat for human consumption is about 2.7 MMT with an additional 250,000 tonnes of exported flour (wheat equivalent). The CWB share of the domestic milling market is about 2.1 MMT in 2005/05 (page 42 of the annual report). In 2005/06, that would leave about 800,000 of eastern Canadian milling wheat used domestically. Numbers here don't make sense but would have to check out the feed use/export side of the Ontario ledger. Also does not consider other eastern provinces.
A real interesting/curious is the 2004/05 year where the CWB says they sold 2.7 MMT domestically (annual report) out of total domestic human consumption wheat volume of 2.711 (Statistics Canada number).
Just curious Vader. I have never talked to an Ontario farmer who wants to go back to the old style OWPMB where pooling is the only option. The transition was also very much staged from cash contracting with the OWPMB and finally an open market with a OWPMB.
I am looking forward to announcements this spring increasing the size of the daily pricing sign up limits. This has been the easiest system in the world to advise on - licence to put an extra 25 cent to a buck a bushel in a farmers pocket. Perhaps the best advertising for why a open market will be more dollars in a farmers pocket.
In 2005, it was 1.76 MMT of which spring wheat was 182,000 tonnes.
You ask good questions raise some interesting topics for research. I note total milling wheat for human consumption is about 2.7 MMT with an additional 250,000 tonnes of exported flour (wheat equivalent). The CWB share of the domestic milling market is about 2.1 MMT in 2005/05 (page 42 of the annual report). In 2005/06, that would leave about 800,000 of eastern Canadian milling wheat used domestically. Numbers here don't make sense but would have to check out the feed use/export side of the Ontario ledger. Also does not consider other eastern provinces.
A real interesting/curious is the 2004/05 year where the CWB says they sold 2.7 MMT domestically (annual report) out of total domestic human consumption wheat volume of 2.711 (Statistics Canada number).
Just curious Vader. I have never talked to an Ontario farmer who wants to go back to the old style OWPMB where pooling is the only option. The transition was also very much staged from cash contracting with the OWPMB and finally an open market with a OWPMB.
I am looking forward to announcements this spring increasing the size of the daily pricing sign up limits. This has been the easiest system in the world to advise on - licence to put an extra 25 cent to a buck a bushel in a farmers pocket. Perhaps the best advertising for why a open market will be more dollars in a farmers pocket.
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