2009 Barrie at $14.9/bu

[Caveo]

Fancy a contract for Barrie wheat probably of fairly low protein picked up in your yard at $547/tonne. One problem, its in the UK.
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2009/04/02/114961/barometer-farms-hard-going-up-north-after-last-years-deluge.html
So if this picked up from the farm, it has to the same price at the UK port,right! So here is the tricky question, how much does it cost for elevator and transport charges from my farm in Manitoba to Liverpool, and who keeps the change?
Oh, for those who say that the UK wheat price has a subsidy on it,hence the inflated price, all I can say is they are of an age that they are obviously reading this from the comfort of the CWB home for the simple. Grain has not been subsidised on the farm in the UK for decades.

[jensend]

if grain hasn't been subsidized in the uk for decades then you have to wonder why they would be offering that sort of price because it seems out of line with what they could buy out of north america.

[Caveo]

'Cos high quality bread wheat is not easily grown in the UK, nearly 100% of the area grown is a soft winter wheat. Their winter wheat for 2009 is being offered at $4.20/bu to UK farmers
'Cos the market dictates that to compete with Canadian imports then this is the contract price.
In the early 80's the subsidies paid to EEC farmers were removed from crops and changed to an area payment known as IAACS, to remove an distortion in the Free Market. Some export subsidies unfortunately were retained to remove certain products that were in surplus from EEC and dumped into other (our)markets. Hopefully this practice has gone forever and we can get rid other barriers into their markets for beef (hormones)and gm canola.
The point I'm trying to make is we grow the best wheat in the world which commands a premium which we are not getting.

[wmoebis]

Ya!! AC Barrie. Researched and developed by AG Canada at Swift Current, on our BUCK.

This is what our check offs get us. Competition growing our quality products.

By the way, he is growing 100 acres likely as certified seed, that would not be hard to get that kind of money here in canada if you were one of the only few growing and selling it for seed.

Makes you wonder did Mr. Ritz donate the seed on one of his "AG trade" missions?

[SASKFARMER3]

Remember warburtons deal in Canada through the CWB. buy seed sell only to certain elevators and farmers profit .14 Cents above pro. Wounder where the $7.00 plus went.
We get screwed ever day and farmers just take it.

[Hopperbin]

Add another 10 percent to the 547 Canadian per ton for the British Ton of 2000lbs. Also seems the fixed price contract was 100 percent guaranteed price in case of lower quality. 97 percent of grain made spec. over the 6 year period.

http://www.premiumcrops.com/redwheat/default.htm

Now did the CWB ever come up with such good contracts?

[Hopperbin]

If the CWB was doing their job there would be no need for UK farmers to grow hard red Barrie wheat. It yields only half of soft wheat they grow, but in the UK they have been pricing it at double. There should be no reason why we could not keep supplying this high value market by Canadian farmers. Damm CWB.

[Hopperbin]

It seems that because of the way subsidies work around the world that it has created demand for Canada to produce HRSW. Yet the CWB sure knows how to dock us farmers whenever there is a frost etc.

[Hopperbin]

Perhaps the Brits are getting tired of our guaranteed fusarium content.

[classicalliberal]

If that is the price, I'm sure the Toepfer Internationals, Glencores, Cargills, Louis Dreyfuses...etc, etc, etc would arbitrage that price down to normal. The baltic freight index is at all time lows meaning that with the significant reduction in trade that is happening that ocrean freight is cheap.

Saskfarmer, I don't think we should take it anymore, let's protest. Have you ever noticed how the Indians get so much from the government but yet their population as a percentage of Canada is low? One of the reasons is that they are the loudest of all groups. We need to get louder ourselves and not just let our constitutional right to private property be taken by the CWB if we don't want them to.