CWB OUTPERFORMS WITH 8.50 FLEXPRO

[Happytrails]

Guess we can see who wants a CCB (substitute cattle for wheat.) Don't know why you don't just go into wheat farming GF. Miss those painful market lessons; gain that important monopoly seller advantage. Won't be joining you tho. HT

[Fransisco]

Hey grassie it works for all the other grains. No reason to think wheat would be any different.

Cattle unfortunately work more on a North American or domestic basis than a global one. Things are a little more difficult when you've got live animals that you have to convert into nice neat little packages before it can be shipped around the world. There is also unfortunately even more political interference in livestock trade and the packing industry than there is in grain.

[TOM4CWB]

Glassyeyedfarmer,

Interesting how you say that you get premium prices for your beef... while other beef growers get less?

Shouldn't you owe beef the 'pool' (the other poor folks) the difference since it costs you less to grow than them?

Aren't you cherrypicking and under cutting your neighbours Grassfarmer?

[grassfarmer]

"There is also unfortunately even more political interference in livestock trade and the packing industry than there is in grain." - Francisco.

Nonsense - beef is traded in a "free market" system the kind you grain folks are demanding whereas you are always telling us grain trading is all about the politics. Lots of interference by Government in the CWB issue too isn't there? Truth is what holds back the Canadian live cattle trade is the competition eliminating domination of two or three transnational corporations - the same thing that will always screw up your dreams of an open, profitable, free marketplace for grain. The players are even the same as 1935 so I don't know how you can't see it.

Do the commenting beef guys not know there already is a successfully operating model of a fed cattle marketing board in Alberta? Care to comment on how well it has worked?

[highwayman]

Try this word on for size Grassy, CANOLA! Should we not look at this amazing success story to lead us in our quest for freedom to market all our own commodities? Or do you really beleive all open market grains should mirror the livestock industry in North America?

[timm]

8.41 flex pro with trucking premium 10$mt.Sun
Prairie Grain 7.73 13.5 pro.No trucking
premiums offered from what I understand.FPC
7.82 with 45 ded. New crop 7.68 with flat basis
on a Basis contract.......SPG 6.99 13.5 protein

[silverback]

So today after I eat a big roasted, supply managed bird ( which smells good ), I want to go upstairs for a minute and book some hard red wheat sales for delivery (yes -DELIVERY AND SALE - THAT DAY !) to the cwb in December 2011.

What would my net dollars per bushel on December 15, 2011 be for that wheat?

[malleefarmer]

today silverback here in Australia the reply to your question would be $307 port,$292 my local elevator or $281 on farm price. Doesnt help i know but that what it is here in Aust dollars.

Think you would like similar options.

[timm]

You have from Feb 28-Nov 25 to lock
In a basis...as much upside as downside....surely
u can handle that much risk!

[Fransisco]

Grassfarmer, "Nonsense - beef is traded in a "free market" system"

Please explain to us how COOL- Country of Origin Labeling fits in with free markets.