Why would a farmer store there canola this winter.

[furrowtickler]

All canola should have been sold 3 weeks ago, that was the high we may not see again till next summer IMO. The size of the canola crop is meaningless on the world stage. Anyone notice the huge silver melt down - cotton did. That and other global financial issues could slam crops prices down and make some producers piss their pants - remember '08??

[rkaiser]

Collaboration,focus on strategy,value chain? What are these words doing in an article about the commodity called Canadian Beef? LOL

This is typical of the kool aid poured at an ABP meeting. Yes those same ABP/CCA folks who I fully expect to jump to the defense of the XL boys and maybe even try to get them some federal assistance. While Cargill jumps for joy at the price drop for fed and non fed butcher cattle. Whoopee. Insurance will pay for the recalled shit dumped in the ditch and even the NIL bros will now have to pay less for non owned cattle. Have not noticed a huge discount for trim in Calgary yet... Typical commodity game.

Beef is food people and not a commodity the way it is treated by most everyone in this industry. Until we all take a little more responsibility for supplying the consumer with a healthy nutritious meal rather than simply going through the motions to "make some money", we will never see any change.

Yes real beef chains are needed and participation is key from grassroots to retail. Including a plant gaucho (poke)Almost impossible in the current system.

Time to "care" about what we are doing. The consumer likes the word and the feeling, and will even "pay" for it.

"We" are allowing it. "We" are feeding this screwed up system as long as "we" grow cattle and sell them to any buyer who feeds this commodity bull shit chain.

I have to say "we" cause I chose to sell a few cull bulls to Lakeside this summer as well. Got a price from the buyer and collected 20 cents a pound less when the cheque came... Just because. LOL I keep swearing I will never deal with this system again and had to do it "one more time" to prove to myself what a fool I can be,,, LOL

Someone is gonna wake up and see the merit in our executive summary and business plan soon and all of this will be healed...LOL Okay - the first part of that statement is real, the healing is gonna take years.

By the way - to all the NB sympathisers out there. I would never have wished for something this horrible to happen, especially since we all know who will pay the ultimate price in the end anyway... All except maybe those damn insurance premium increases..LOL

[buzz]

I am agreeing with furrow on his point.
Large South American soybean crops are going in. Sounds like higher us soy yields as well. Bearish news and now Europe economic worries and panic.

[ASRG]

Seems to me the same old story we've been hearing for about 20 years?
Value chain, info up and down the chain, collaboration, etc. etc.
Nothing concrete. No real action.
I guess we'll just keep going down the same path?
You boys who are doing the alternative thing might be the only guys left in the future.

[wilagro]

I read about twenty pages of that 108 page pdf file and decided that it was all gobbledegook bullshit and stopped as it was giving me a headache.

When they talk about stakeholders co-operating on strategy, I lose interest rather quickly. I guess we know that THAT will never happen don't we?

If there is ANY co-operation you can be damned well sure it is not in the interest of the primary producer...the men/women who are the first step in this so-called "value chain".

[hobbyfrmr]

I agree with furrow as well. I have priced every
bushel in the yard, bins will be empty by end of
January. Of course half the bins in yard did not
get filled this year! I saw black ink and chose to
accept those values.
If the price rises, good for the others who are
speculating. If price drops like a stone, better luck
next time.