Oberg... IS FISHING!!!

[charliep]

Will also note that futures and option strategies can fit
with current producer payment options. You can even
do EFP (exchange for physicals) in the PPO system.
What has changed is more competition and market
based spreads/basis. Regardless of where you are on
the awareness scale of marketing alternatives, this will
be a change. Whether big or small for you individually
is a open question. I don't think the change will be
that big for most farmers but a change none the less.

[Burbert]

Alberta Gag marketeering course, total
waist of time. Beauros confusin
framers, tellin them how ta get rich.
Get a broker buy futures, don't even
bother growin the stuff, sell the
futures buy some CORN, make all kinds a
money, even in a bare market. Oh and
when ya's get the broker, yas gotta
deposit a buncha money, cousin if yas
fu@#sup er goes the way of the doo, doo
bird, the brokers gonna keep yer stash,
hence its an industry win/win fer them.
Butt after all thats the way business is
done, nowaddays!!!!!!!!! There yaf just
taken Alberties Gag course, any
question?

[TOM4CWB]

"any
question?"

When will you see a doctor for medication to end this depression you continually share with us?

[wilagro]

Burbert: That has to be one of the best reviews of the AB Marketing Course that I have read yet. Covered most of the bases and didn't cost $500 either.

[FarmRanger]

Mr. Burbert, Mr. Wilagro....

[wilagro]

FarmRanger: THAT was not particularly complimentary.

[charliep]

I suspect both of you are right. Taking a Futursim course (run by Alberta Canola Producers
Commission) would be a waste of your time/money and that of the instructor. Many farmers
have found value in the courses even if they never traded a futures or options contract after. A
good way to understand how the grain marketing system works (including CWB pool accounts).

Not to toot my horn (nothing special other than staying alert) but this Alberta gag guy put a
suggestion out that would have put a $1,000/"B" train (40 tonnes) in some Agriville participants
pockets by signing a fixed price contract ahead of last Friday on existing deliveries. Potentiall a
12.5 % better price.

But I guess when you are a millionaire and can afford to participate in long drawn discussions
about nothing, a $1,000/"B" train is chicken feed - not even worth talking. Similar comments
with doing a better job of marketing and putting a $1,000 in your pocket from a hedging
strategy or maybe a better basis. Lets see, 5 "B" trains is $5,000. Still chicken feed for a
millionaire.

[URL="https://www.agriville.com/cgi-bin/forums/viewThread.cgi?1327276479"]Spreads[/URL]

[charliep]

By the way, the extra money is an anomoly of the
fixed price contracts and nothing to do with the
market. Won't see for a long time but I suspect will
impact the 2011/12 pooling system/contingency
fund.

As supporters with good knowledge of the pooling
system and the contingency, maybe Burbert and
Wilagro can help me understand why the CWB has
used initial payment spreads for 12 years versus
market based ones. They did use market based
spreads for the short lived daily price contracts.

[wilagro]

charliep: Perhaps you could save up those questions about how the CWB works and direct them to the CWB...after all we DON'T own the CWB. Right now nobody seems to know if they are going to slink off into the sunset or come alive and get on with their job (although its not known what that is exactly). Seems like they are idling and maybe waiting for commands from the old string puller Ritz but he's busy packing his bags for a trip to China with El Supremo Harper.

[charliep]

An old question that you didn't have an answer for in
the past so wouldn't expect one now. Not about the
money. If it was, this arguement would have settled a
long time ago. Back to the political debate about
fishing.