i think whether or not the cwb did a good job is a whole other issue but in a time when in every sector of the economy, market power is more the primary objective than service or quality, the concept of having a larger entity doing the marketing is not a bad idea. what burbert is saying is now you're competing against each other more than ever and there will be times when this will be a race to the bottom. i got out of grain farming not because of the cwb, although i was no fan, but because i was essentially risking all my assets for the benefit of somebody lse, i.e. grain co's., fert. cos., etc. i was a price taker on both ends and had no control over costs. i am surprised that anybody was surprised there was no fertilizer shortage this spring or that fertilizer prices are lower in the us. you're the junkies and you're at the mercy of the pushers as long as you have to buy your crop before you seed it.
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"at the very best you'll hit the average if you market right and guess what?? The CWB does that already!"
WRONG
Not when you sell for $30 bucks under the current value.
Not when your basis is over $20 bucks higher than the private trade.
Not when you have to spend millions to propogate the lie and defend your ability to expropriate grain and control the market within the confines of three prairie provinces only.
Not when newer higher (much higher) yielding varieties with better disease resistance and agronomic properties are not developed because of KVD and the addiction of the cwb to it.
The cwb has cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that's hundreds of thousands below average!
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How comfortable will you be in the future if the prices isnt where you want it and you are forced to sell some grain cheaper than ever before? just knowing in the back of my mind that that cushion from last year will not be there to dampen the blow of next years inputs is enough to scare me away
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Chaffmeister
What about all of the studies out of the U of S with Gray, Fulton et al what do their numbers show? How about the NFU and their study that shows a 80 million premium.
You just have to believe
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Herbdoctor, or is it herbsmoker?
Not only do you show your pathetic inability to make a point, you also show you ignorance about the current state of grain based agriculture and the new opportunities that are just emerging!
You claim to be concerned about having to sell grain cheaply, yet you defend the cwb giving away a dollar a bushel on a wheat sale, Your concerned about high costs of inputs, yet all you want is the cwb average (even though it would have to go up a buck just to achieve the status of average).
The open market prices are on a march upwards because of the ethanol phenomenon, and we have the lowest wheat stocks in over thirty years and your concern is selling grain for prices that are cheaper than ever before?
Maybe it's getting lost in translation, because I'll freely admit, I'm not fluent schizophrenic gibberish.
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Adam,
Herbdoctor is going to look like a goldfish after 1:30CT... the CWB going after the feds!
I talked to WCWGA about the DPC... guess what!
CWB is going after the Government of Canada itself... the rumours are...
Wonder what this will do to the Western Barley Contract on the WCE!
ANyone bet what the Fruit Peddlers will do?
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Herb, Apparently the prices can only get better! Grain can't or won't go down in price. We won't let it, now that we have freedom of choice. Apparently, if the price isn't right we hold, it, sell it or smell it is a thing of the past. Buy more storage, we become grain companies ourselves, dealing locally. We are all going to help one another, no more throat cutting, oneupsmanship, or petty fighting, arguing or bickering, my neighbours are all my friends. We are our brothers keeper. The Golden rule, rules from hereon, now that the nasty CWB and its corrupt directors are just like the rest of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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