How many have printed off and read the CWB annual report?

[charliep]

Parsley stirred me to ask a simple question.

How many of you have printed off and read the annual report cover to cover?

Only reply if you have - be honest. A non reply means you have not taken the time.

[charliep]

I haven't read cover to cover but I have gone over all the financial information several times. Very interesting from the point of understanding CWB operations and strategic direction leaving politics alone.

[Fransisco]

Read, yes.

Printed off, no.

[parsley]

Downloaded charliep, downloaded. LOL They are all tree huggers. LOL. Pars

[charliep]

Yes downloaded. I'm an old school guy, still have to read things off paper and do weird things like highlight important stuff (at least to me) and write notes in the columns.

[Fransisco]

You can do all that with the fancier pdf programs. It costs a couple of bucks vs the free version but it's darn handy, especially if you want to share your thoughts/notes in an email.

[smcgrath76]

I was just going to post this.
http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/03012.html
So we are down to two.

[per]

That gives XL over 50% of Canada's killing capacity. We lose. Our best hope was for us producers to step up to the plate and do with the help of all levels of gov what we need, to own this thing. Of course it would take all of us to pull together including our industry leaders who promote nothing but status quo and feel good windbreaks. And before anyone jumps on me for not doing my part, I have like many of you, stepped up to the plate and evaporated money on a failed packing facility. It is still what we need but until some of the roadblocks are removed I am afraid it is not going to happen. Frustrated about sums it up.

[grassfarmer]

Very disappointing especially as there has been quite a campaign in the last two or three days by some producers to prevent this - supposidly encouraged by the competition bureau who wanted more input, almost hinting they were having a tough job deciding.

On the other hand I had an interesting talk last night with someone who reckoned it didn't really matter who got the plant - Nilssons or JBS Swift. Either outfit will be sheisters and not offer much hope for producers. His argument was that there will always be this lowest cost commodity processing capacity but that is not the real future. The smart money in future will develop along the lines of Highland feeders - build a bio digester for waste at a feedlot then add an ethanol plant to run the grain through first and finally add a smaller scale custom kill plant that will kill for dedicated producer groups like your Prairie Heritage etc. The beauty of this would be that the SRM can be fed back into the bio digester.
Instead of a small kill plant making it's profit from hides like they do now these new type plants will make their money selling clean fuel (ethanol) and clean power (electric. Quite an interesting concept.

[perfecho]

I do tend to agree, we continue to lose. My fears are, as more producers exit the industry, there will eventually not be adequate numbers for even both plants to operate. When one decides to head to South America where they can increase profits, we will be left with one packer......and subsequently too much of a supply for just one major. This will then trend prices lower, again, until more producers exit the industry. And low and behold, the remaining plant also exits with the further lack of supply, except their coffers will be bulging due to the very cheap prices they paid due to the huge exit.
Could be full of it....and I hope I am....but I can also see this scenario playing out;-( In the mean time, (I will start another post) we have a plant that could be operating in less than a year, but will most likely used for file storage for Alberta Infrastructure.

[chaffmeister]

Downloaded.

Filed with all the others going back to 1995-96.

Read just the juicy parts.

[Sawbones]

Go for it Perfecho..there's still some of us who are willing to help but too bruised to take the lead...kind of like the front goose in the V

[Fransisco]

I really like the full page, full colour pictures of the directors. But they really should be fold out posters that I can hang in my shop. And there needs to be vital information added such as favourite colour, which astrological sign they are, and personal likes and dislikes.

Favourite colour: Liberal Red

Sign: Cancer

"I like taking long walks in expensive Calgary Hotels with 150 CWB fans who share my sloppy love affair with the single desk and tell me how wonderful I am.

I dislike 101 flavour ice cream shops. As far as I'm concerned their should be just one flavour " Vanilla". If need be you can add chocolate, but 101 flavours is just too much choice for any one person to have to deal with. "

[parsley]

Go to the CWB page, and try to download 07-08 CWB AnnualReport pdf. I tried three times. It says File is damaged and cannot be repaired. fran, send me a copy of your pdf so I can compare.

It's odd that "the file is damaged"

thanks, pars

[parsley]

chaff,


btw,Is there such a thing as "audit to go" updates? Maybe drive-throughs in the new building on Main Street? LOL Pars