Condo developer to ship canola oil to China, Canada says

[Braveheart]

Farmaholic, I doubt you are naive, or dishonest. Your smiley icon betrays.

Usually though, distrust or suspicion belies a lack of confidence. It's easier for many to blame someone else, than to do research, due diligence, or just actively manage, thusly leading to being unsure of your position.

In this case, a trade deal, it's beyond our control. There's no use wringing hands about who's behind what and how the deal smells.

What's in our control is what do when the trade wants to buy the seed needed for the oil. What price we'll take to open our bins is in our control as well.

I want to celebrate any deal that increases demand for canola.

[bucket]

Keep celebrating as the product waits to move from your bin to the crusher that is backed up or short of railcar movement.

I seriously think until the problems within our domestic transportation are solved none of this means shit.

And it should have started a long time ago.

Vision, and there is an incredible lack of it in canada, is what is needed.

No sense in having goals like 25mmt of canola by 2025 if the transportation industry doesn't start stepping up.

[sawfly]

good points bucket

i know nothing of this deal or it's end result.

but it is pretty apparent (esp after this last winter) that when it comes to having the ear of the govt.

farmers are so far down the list
below railways ,seed and chem co.s
that it really does not matter
what is fair or right
or even what we think.

the only way farmers will get anything on their wish list is if some one higher up can make a buck on it.

sure you might get an agrinvest
check for 8-10,000. and help with crop insurance.

but at the same time they will take away 100,000 with the (rules, patents regulations , duty's,) written for agribusiness benefit.

their subsidies are ten times as big and the taxpayer never sees them.
smart

[wmoebis]

I wonder if the Condo guys would build us some down town Calgary condo's in trade for some canola.
We could move canola at set price then collect rent on increasing market for years.

[sumdumguy]

As long as the condo doesn't have bars on the windows. LOL

[sumdumguy]

Bucket, you are dead on the money. Their gig is up!

[bucket]

We are export reliant country and products to export grow every year.

And not one ****ing thought is put into transportation issues.

The highway from north portal to regina should be twinned. Nope.

The highway from moose jaw to chamberlain where a new potash mine is being built should be twinned. Nope.

They wait until 20 lives will be lost.

Moose jaw at 9th Avenue and number 1 highway - the solution is photo radar cameras. Idiotic.

No mp from saskatchewan can correlate simple data by adding up all their ribbon cutting to make a pitch for better infrastructure. Not maintenance but new development. It's really disappointing how ****ing stupid the mps from saskatchewan are. 150000 tax free and they can't think.

The OIC was just a photo op and barely a public service announcement. It was do badly written they can't issue fines. The only option is to rescind it.

The minister can't issue a fine until the cta reviews the data. The same data the railways provide to get a rubber stamped CTA increase in freight rates every year.

The data from the railways should be provided the following Monday and fines issued Tuesday. If the OIC meant more than ass wipe.

Pissed, you bet. It's pure incompetence. And considering what happened in 1997 and acknowledged by the same group that is now in power, it's inexcusable.

Why am I bitching about it here?

Because all these trade deals that the mps bang their chest about can't happen until infrastructure gets an upgrade. It's like building a house without a good foundation. It goes to shit pretty fast.

[wmoebis]

Sumdum You maybe onto something. Trade built condo's, including bars on windows in Calgary for High valued canola. Then rent them out to Gov at high rate to house some of the gang type criminals they could arrest now that they would now have a place to put them.

[farmaholic]

They could name the ddevelopment "CONfinement" Towers. Kind of a Club Med Prison for corporate criminals and government members who place corporate interests miles ahead of citizen's interests.

How many units do we need?

[wmoebis]

Kinda like, $1 billion oil trade we don't know the price they will give farmers for CNL or crushers for crushing it. Could be anywhere from 1 tonne to 1 billion tonnes.