More rain next 5 days!

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

I understand the meal value is very important... why we do not crush it in Canada is the meal market. We must export our canola meal... and the flax meal has the gm event in it. It takes time to develop new markets that accept the GM event.

Flax yeilds 20-30% less than canola... so at 80-90% of canola it is not competitive to grow.

[fjlip]

If the high pressure is parked in the Midwest like Larry says, it could rain for all of June. Won't be much crop left alive. If that forecasted Aug frost happens good Lord what a ZERO year that will be for the history books!

[checking]

I'm sure hog farmers were grateful that the free market found a home for their porkers. The fact they went for nine dollars a head didn't matter.

There will always be journalists who believe that the only important thing is having an outlet for goods.

[Fransisco]

Tom, I never said nobody lost any money. I'm just passing on what I'm seeing in the news. The movement of flax around the world has realigned, it is no longer stopped at the EU border. That's a good thing.

[TOM4CWB]

Fran,

I don't know what Morris is trying to acheive with his article. If we give something away at a 30% or more discount... yes normally someone will buy it and find new uses. The CWB markets this way all the time. In the end... it shure doesn't help our farms to be in the bust boom cycle... magnified by this kind of problem. I wouldn't wish this gm event issue on anyone... and I know flax traders and exporters have been hurt as well.

[Fransisco]

So in other words you see china taking all of the flaxseed that used to go to the EU, crushing it, and selling the oil as just making everything worse?

[dave4441]

Who is forecasting a frost for August?

[BreadWinner]

Drew Learner "World Weather" out of Kansis I believe. He forcasts using weather trends and sunspot activity. I hate to say he has been right %99 of the time.

[dave4441]

I subsribe to his service and he actually sent out an email that those are false rumours and he does not feel an early frost is predictable at this point. There was some indiaction of early frost somewhere in US, but did not reflect early frost in W Canada

[TOM4CWB]

Fransisco;

" I wouldn't wish this gm event issue on anyone." I wouldn't want to see it happen again. NEVER EVER.

Our food is too important to risk to those who think it is cute to pad their pockets.