Market Choice

[rain]

A feed mill in Alberta can buy any type of wheat. You can sell any type of wheat to a feed mill in Alberta. all you will get is the price you agrred upon. Traditionally it does not make sence to sell a #1 14.5% wheat to make livestock feed.

[ValueChainFX]

charliep:

Thank you for your questions, it is good to think outside the box more of that is needed these days. Most interested in any project that works toward the new global marketing we all face.

Keep us up to date charliep!

[charliep]

As of today with CWB diretor election results, thinking outside the box just got tougher. Marketing choice is as much about regulatory change for the grain industry in total versus the CWB mandate/single desk status. Status quo seems to be the message.

Having said that, a significant number of farm managers did vote for market choice candidates. A breakdown of farm size, age, etc would be interesting as well.

The question comes as to how you modify the current system to allow market choice. Or is it as black and white as CWB one day and completely open market the next?

Continued interesting times ahead.

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie;

I believe that Dec 15th was the beginning of the total dismantling of the CWB.

The likes of A Macklin and A Oberg are extreme left wing... and the ability for the CWB to make the needed adjustments will be more difficult than ever.

Further the appointment of A. Measner is not a positive move for fresh ideas and innovative changes that will be required to adjust the CWB to Agriculture in the 21st century.

Market choice without real AB Gov. force... is basically dead.

So the farmers who produce 35% of the wheat and barley... continue the slavery of those who produce 65%... not a good sign for the concrete terminals...

The voter turn out in Districts 1,and 5, shows the CWB is becoming more irrelevant every day...

District 7 proves that a good community leader running for choice in a district that isn't 600 miles from one end to the other... an area that is actually one reasonable climatic/production unit... can overcome CWB propaganda (of which unprecidented amounts was bestowed upon us)and work towards positive reformation of the CWB.

THe Permit Book/Ballot system is totally unfair... Multi ballots/producer and farm... farms vote in two districts in this election... and so on and so on...


WHAT A MESS.