Strahl to Resign?

[Lifer]

good point carebear there does seem to be a lot of "but he said" and "they started it" going on.

One step is for the CWB to allow the contracts made by growers and the trade to stand with minimal or no cost administration. (I understand deals were made though Benny writes of no sales)

This is one step of building trust in the people in the system.

[TOM4CWB]

CareBear300.

Logical?

How about the CWB start issuing no-cost export licenses for feed barley... like they were told to do in 1996 by the Western Grain Marketing Panel Report?

How about listeneing to the 10 years of surveys that told the CWB to allow growers a choice on marketing our Board grains?

How about a daily cash barley & wheat market that facilitates an arbitage to international markets and maximises barley/wheat/durum growers returns for once since 1943?

JUST think for a second... just a second... how just a little feed barley escaped and brought our whole feed market up $20/t and forced the CWB to require more for Milling wheat and DURUM from grain consumers!

I congratulate Minister Strahl for proving the Single Desk as we knew it... was a scam, sham, and fraud.

[carebear300]

Makes sense Tom ty. Still don't like the way Strahl operates tho, even tho I agree with what he is trying to do. I learned the hard way, that even with my limited patience with due process, that the rules are the rules till they are changed.

[BennyHin]

Strahl would not have been in this trouble if he would have started this process much sooner thereby providing the CWB with a full crop year to exit the market.

Plus he never did officially provide solutions on how he was going to maintain a "strong and viable CWB" in the open market.

I dont think he, Anderson, and his staff have a clue about agriculture and trade.

Back to logging and praying.

[BennyHin]

Chaff:
regarding your comment about the "trade" selling 600,000 tonnes of export barley. As it was pointed out by Charlie, it sounds like these contracts were sold with origination options. I imagne the trade will source it from offshore sources if it makes more econonic sense for them. Just like importing USA corn into W. Canada.

[chaffmeister]

I talked to one player in the trade who actually sold some of this export barley. He told me there was no optional origin clause.

Also - just heard that the CWB has announced that any sale made outside of the CWB is "null and void" and any exporters who have these sales need to contact the CWB to "cover" the sale (farmers need to do a buy-back).

So Ritter says that the PRO's will have suffered from missing sales. If they "take" these feed barley sales at the price they want, the CWB has missed no sales (they were simply made by others). (Remember - the CWB sells very little export malt barley until its in the bin, so in a "normal" year, the CWB wouldn't have sold any malt barley yet.)

Remember this when the PROs come out.