Strahl to Resign?

[Lifer]

This doesn't only land on government politicians. Your wheat board politicians have had years to deal with it.

They haven't been listening to farmers. Listening is an important part of marketing. At least Strahl was listening.

[Lifer]

Wilagro scoreboard check. Yesterday feed barley prices at my local elevator $3.45/bus, this morning on the news of courts decision barley prices bidding $2.90/bus.

Yeah I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that Chuck and the boys should've went about it differently, but it's going to happen indefintley.

So if the CWB has are best intrest at heart, why would they want things changed if they know it was going to crash prices???

After all aren't they just there to try to get the farmer best bang for his buck??

It's a f****ng hose job that's what it is!!!!!

And like usual a die hard supporter would just as soon sit on his ass again like yourself, and take a $2.50/bus board feed price and do nothing, then have to market is own grain and do the work for $3.50/bus!!!!

[jensend]

harper knew he couldn't get this through parliament with a minority so he tried to run it through this way. if they are so committed they should challenge on the basis of designated area not being in line with charter of rights. business interests are against this so the courts will end up being the route to go anyway. strahl is an underachiever and should be out anyway. now that this has fallen through i don't think he's accomplished anything.

[plowjockey]

Yes he should resign! This has gone on long enough. Some boys have bought into this wonderful fake world that the Corps have painted for them and now they spew out the same garbage.. Maybe they should all load on trucks and keep going south to stay! Take Strahl with them.

[carebear300]

Whether it is Strahl or either one of the ministers of agriculture for sask or manitoba or the heirarcy at the wheat board they are all acting like a bunch of spoiled little brats. If any of your kids acted like these supposedly learned individuals that have been entrusted with responsibility for the grian marketing system, you would kick their little butts super hard to catch their attention but what do you do with this bunch? I am fed up with the whole works of them, not one of them suffers but the rest of us that have to market grain to make a living pay the bills in the end. Someone tell me a logical way out of this collosal screw up!!!!!

[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.