marketing barley

[Burbert]

charliep, Sounds like, you and a group of Alberta, politicos, should take a fact finding trip to China, and find out what is really going on, relative to the malt barley market. GREAT OPP for the almighty
AB Commiss to get on board and straighten things out, once and for all. Take some barley muffin and cookie mix with you and get them to eat that stuff. Win, win situation no doubt about it. Nothing better than gov't fact finding missions, money well spent!!!! At the same time you could instruct them, in how to grow & market their own quality malt barley. Course they'll have to set up a Chineese Barley Commiss, at the same time. Only way to go, lets lead by example, after all, we have a PLAN, don't we?

[nakodo]

actually the province of Alberta is shutting down their malt research program so we will not have to worry about malt in the future.

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie,

It is obvious that the CWB Monopoly in 06-07 Malt barley did not work. The CWB sells barley at prices far below fair market value, then expects growers to fill substandard contract prices they did not agree to in the first place.

To have the CWB sell 07-08 barley in the same substandard manner... and expect growers who actually must use this system... to be satisfied... is an unreasonable and offensive attitude.

IMHO CWB Monopoly supporters have a death wish for the CWB... if they see nothing wrong with the actions of present CWB managers.

[charliep]

Burbent

I take it you are okay with the CWB spending your money to do market development work? How would you measure the CWB performance in this area?

[mb_rancher]

As for malting barley there is a malting company that has opened a closed AU elevator not too far from us and they are buying up lots of malt barley for a damn good price.

[Burbert]

charliep, This whole thing about barley, has actually in reality, been about COW FOOD (value added), boy am I ever becoming modern. Will this be the first successful coupe that the Alberta government has ever pulled, or ultimately it will be another disaster? Nobody gives a f*** anyway, just as long as the price of beer and cheerios doesn't go up to much. City people consider farmers to be bumkins and yokels. Recent developments indicate that we are, tearing down our own marketing organizations, how stupid can we bee!!

[sawfly]

burbert

i tend to agree, whatever problems with the cwb we have or had.

also we were all getting rich off open market feed wheat and barley 2 years ago . Yeah Right.

it is still nuts to walk away from whatever marketing power you have.

chem and fert,rail co.s band together to screw us every day. Now we can add grain co.s to the list.

our fuedel masters all get together so one dosen't treat us better than the other.

We tend the lands to make their fortunes .

We figure kissimg their butts will get us ahead. for a few token ones it does eg. canola growers ass., Wheat growers assoc. alberta barley.

Good little peasents

the more value our labour the more they take, if we produce too much ,were expendible, just a burden .

St.Peter don't you call me cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to Mon san to

[charliep]

Just a note that 80 % of the barley produced in western Canada is sold to the domestic livestock industry in an open market. Neither domestic livestock feeding or barley are likely to go away in the future - even without a CWB. If barley is not a profitable crop to grow, farmers will switch acres to other crops.