CWB to manage "Price risk" outside the pool?

[Herbdoctor]

It seems to me the outside factors affecting the CWB are causeing it to perform a little off target (If they didnt have to worry about getting pushed out of the game by the Freedom fighters they might have a chance to focus more on actually marketing the grain) and all of this affects how easily could you perform at your job if you knew that there were forces out there doing all they can to destroy your business? The funny thing is the same people that OWN the CWB are the ones trying to get rid of it. If the CWB operated like the grain company you'll be selling your grain to they'd be in it for a profit (thank god they're not) bottom line is right now you have the power of one (whens the last time you saw a company UN-merge?) that just doesnt make sense to me how can you justify breaking up the one to make 30,000 people try to achive anything close to what they recieved as one? all while dealing with the margins of the ever shrinking grain companies (AU and Sask wheat pool are merging... so why would we want to Un- merge? I don't understand how we gain market power by doing this...

[TOM4CWB]

Herbdoctor,

In growing grain with others... renting land or Crop Share... we are at risk of loosing our business with those people... all the time. If we don't perform well... we don't farm that land.

Same goes with our bank... and many other aspects of our business.

Please tell me why the CWB should get a free ride and not be accountable in the same way?

I don't see the results that back up the CWB's claim that they deliver a premium... WHERE IS THE MONEY?

Even more important... if the CWB isn't going to get top dollar...

then where is the additional flexibility that should be a benefit of not being so tied up with contracts on every pound of grain my farm delivers... the CWB won't play fair ball... it is a one way game... all their way. The CWB does change the rules... it does so in the name of the collective... when it clearly hurts individuals who don't want the added risk of CWB pool discount pricing.

THis is not a matter of respect for individual growers... because that respect is lost in the CWB "SIngle Desk" which the CWB has chosen to believe it cannot exist without; taking away individuallity, flexibility and integrety.

[Herbdoctor]

Say a Grain Company was costing you money...do you have any means of telling them how they should take a little less profit from you? no you don't...You happen to own the CWB just as much as any other farmer and at least through a vote on an issue a change may take place. Your sitting there right now with the power to right some of the wrongs yet the only answer you come up with is to end it all together and try to deal with the next hand in your pocket...you take you battle to the CWB because they sign your checks doesnt mean they are responsible for the lower prices... if you can remove your tunnel vision for a while and take into consideration the outside factors that affect the price of your grain you may see a dim light...but only you have the power to make it brighter... and of course everybody and theyre dog wants to make it seem like a good idea at the moment because Barley isnt really the big issue here its wheat and durum they want to get their hands on that power because the CWB is really the last thing standing in their way

[TOM4CWB]

Herbdoctor,

Wrong again.

The CWB works for the very grain co's you are so afraid of... whether they/you realise it on not.

The CWB has close to no market power in the new integrated closed chain systems.

The manipulation of the CWB is much easier... because the CWB sales dept. has no cost of sales like most growers have and must recover.

The CWB pool covers more than just a bad decision day... it covers a whole year of bad decisions. Grain growers can recover from a few decisions that are substandard... but they are soon history if they don't learn quickly. BROKE and BANKRUPT.

THe CWB can sell 100,000t in a second. Ever heard of easy come easy go?
Certainly it's not a good way to extract a premium. Malt Barley...Brazil... DURUM Discounts... even proof with a full DPC 07=08 in less than a week. THis should be proof enough for anyone that actually cares and is concerned for the next generation of grain growers in the "Designated Area".