Marketing Challenges with Western Canada's Low Protein Soybeans.

[farmaholic]

So under those circustances if you had grain ranging from 13 to 15.5 px you would definitely be better off having a weighted average than selling each load on it's own protien reading. I sold wheat with discounts for px under a certain point and NO PREMIUM above another point. Nice!

[iceman]

This sounds like a make work project to get some check off dollars for "research"


The games continue


Iceman out

[Braveheart]

Who does defend farmers interests? I used to have connections with the Alberta Barley Commission. Listening to how they (Commission) was lobbying hard to have foreign material specs tightened down. I used to wonder who these guys were working for? Exporters? End users? Not farmers for sure.

Same with KAP. KAP looks at the political landscape and wonders how to please gov't by handing over farmers to adapt to new, expensive, unrealistic policies like carbon taxes. With KAP it's more like, elect a President, kiss govt ass, springboard president into cushy govt job, a la Earl Geddes, Doug Chorney, etc.

[bgmb]

So under those circustances if you had grain ranging from 13 to 15.5 px you would definitely be better off having a weighted average than selling each load on it's own protien reading. I sold wheat with discounts for px under a certain point and NO PREMIUM above another point. Nice!

yes and most guys would push for an average. But if one farmer averages 13.0 and another averages 14 you can see where the money is made.

[bgmb]

Who does defend farmers interests? I used to have connections with the Alberta Barley Commission. Listening to how they (Commission) was lobbying hard to have foreign material specs tightened down. I used to wonder who these guys were working for? Exporters? End users? Not farmers for sure.

Same with KAP. KAP looks at the political landscape and wonders how to please gov't by handing over farmers to adapt to new, expensive, unrealistic policies like carbon taxes. With KAP it's more like, elect a President, kiss govt ass, springboard president into cushy govt job, a la Earl Geddes, Doug Chorney, etc.

I am not sure, there are some farmers on these commodity group boards that are there for self importance/image. And there are others who are there for the right reasons. But really its tough to attract ppl to these boards for the right reasons its a pretty thankless job I think.

I personally think we need to forget commodity groups. There are two things I would like to see checkoff spent on #1 is unbiased 3rd party research #2 is lobbying government. So lets forget recipes, promoting canola oil, travelling to mexico and just hire some lobbyists and professional research nerds.

[MBgrower]

Just think of how many leaders of various commoditg groups end up in govt, hoback, menzies, mayer, maguire, many kap members in mb, etc. I think the groups should have to sign an oath before being elected that they cannot run for provincial or federal govt nor accept govt positions for a set period of time once they leave, lets say at least 5 years. Local govt positions would be ok.