Hows life for the farmers post CWB ?

[pourfarmer]

Now that you've had a winter to market
your grain to wherever the hell you
wanted, how were the prices? Were the
elevators fighting over your wheat?
Paying premiums to keep it out of the
american elevators? Did any of you take
a load or 2 down south to get that
elusive american %15 more per bu? I
heard so much about 'market freedom'
back in august that i expected this
message board to full with posts about
how much more money they were making
now...

[riders2010]

Don t bug us right now, we are too busy trying to select our hockey draft team. Who the f cares about wheat at a time like this. Sheeesh lol

[pourfarmer]

lol Can I get in that hockey draft?

[checking]

Only if you're buying all the rounds.

Isn't that what we did with the old CWB!

[hobbyfrmr]

My unprofessional,observation is, that, no one
had to run into the USA because the wheat prices
in the old "designated Area" became transparent.
Prices went up and down reflecting the local
prices. There was a stretch of days where Sask
origin HRSW prices were higher than the USA
and Ontario.
I did not do a very good job of following CWB
prices. I hope LWeber reads this, he may be able
to make some simple, accurate comparisons
between USA, Ontario, And Prairie Provinces.
Maybe like a web link to a simple spreadsheet or
something like that would be helpful.
For real accuracy, I hope the CWB could do the
same, then we could make our own unbiased
decision. After all, it's just math. Then again, that
hockey draft is kind of important.
I am satisfied with the consequences from the
removing the monopsony. Then again, I have not
experienced a time of low prices yet.

[hobbyfrmr]

Every time I think about the phone conversations
with the CWB trying so hard to explain to me
about the ppo's, and other pricing tools they
offered, I would revert to my university days
watching Saturday Night Live. The unfrozen
caveman lawyer. "I'm just a caveman, my
primitive mind can't grasp these concepts!"

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[kryger]

I have wanted to get rid of the CWB for 35 years.
Who cares what they are paying for wheat.

[freewheat]

Sold my wheat to a hog barn for more than the milling price, because now they
have to compete for my wheat. They don't simply have to use a stupid pro put
out by the stinking cwb, they look at elevator prices, and adjust their bids
to reflect the fact they have to COMPETE to get my grain.

Life is great!

8.25 for feed wheat was a nice sale. Because they had to compete with a cash
price, something we never had before.

They did not bid the price down, like the cwb lovers said, they actually bid
it up. Who would have thought?

[wakopa]

ya and ashton made a new law against these protesters, but the law is only for white people, anyone else can shut down railways roads etc.

[ProFarmer]

Do you realize that you are a mean speculating grain farmer. The CWB would have sold that grain to the hog farm for much less and you would have to pay the shipping to port and back.YYYYYou bad farmer

[Choice2U]

Still holding 1/2 my wheat....BECAUSE I WANT TO!!!!!IT WAS MY CHOICE. Hoping the next 3 weeks gives me another opportunity to sell the rest....gotta love choice.

Here's the CWB at its best: 2011/12 CWB final net for my wheat was NET $6.08 on 32 Mt comprised of $5.07 initial, $0.64 interim & $0.37 final. I sold this little amount through the pool for comparison purposes.

For the majority of my wheat, I used CWB programs to avoid the pool. AFTER PAYING THE HUGE DISCOUNT I still beat the CWB experts as I received NET $6.35 (56Mt), $6.30 (60Mt) and $6.38 (52Mt).

If I wouldn't have been penalized by the discount, I would have been over $1.00/bu more...They held all the cards and I still beat them at their own game.

I finally threw away the file with all my permit books. The happiest day of my life but don't tell my wife that.

[wilagro]

Some day the REAL story of how the "Grain Trade" with the full co-operation of the government of Canada manipulated events in western Canada to shut down any semblance of FARMER influence or control of the marketing of wheat and barley.

Hopefully, just like the "Great Train Robbery" an expose of "The Great Grain Robbery" will tell it all...the planning and the backroom deals as well.

Perhaps some retired civil or un-civil servant privy to the whole sordid affair could take on the job.

[FarmRanger]

Give it up Wilagro.

Don't you find it more than just coincidental that the minute the single desk ended, the premium price incentive to truck grain to the US also disappeared?

Or did the loss of the single desk also end the CWB's amazing ability to drive prices up in the US "premium" market.

PS. I have completely sold and have been paid for all my 2012 wheat, durum, and barley; for good prices without the aid of the price discounting behemoth.

Long overdue competition for my grain is finally here and working great, thanks very much.

[hobbyfrmr]

FR,

"price discounting behemoth"...
.LOL... nice.

[FarmRanger]

Looks like Agriville is working again?

An interesting postscript, my Mom was digging through old papers and found my great-grandfather's 1943-44 CWB permit book. I'll keep it as a reminder of how many generations were subject to the single desk.