CWB costing me $$$'s again

[Fransisco]

Still waiting for that on Canola as well.

http://www.canola-council.org/facts_export.aspx

[chaffmeister]

cchurch:

You're not paying attention.

Fran said "If the CWB were voluntary the price would come to me I wouldn't have to truck it to North Dakota."

Name one commodity that the Americans countervail. Oh yeah - wheat, you say? What makes wheat different than all the other commodities we sell down there?

The CWB.

It's the CWB that the Americans don't like. Take a look at every challenge they've thrown up - each and every one is aimed squarely at the CWB.

Like Fran said - stop listening to the CWB propaganda machine and start doing your own homework.

[GrainBeetle]

pigs,beef=cool

[SASKFARMER3]

And why pigs beef cool because our stupid livestock industry has been build on cheap feed grain thanks to the CWB. So we went to feeding Americans with our livestock and forgetting that the rest of the world could use our pork chickens and beef. Prices for Oats are higher in Canada than the USA wounder why the CWB got out of Oats and look what happened their.
Barley malt is higher way higher in USA but Us malt is going to Canadian companies HM.
Church we wouldn't need to care what the Americans are doing because without the CWB the price would be the same on both sides of the border. And when the US elevator company in Canada needs HRS for their mills in USA guess what by train it will go their and we would have got a premium this year for $1 15.5 HRS and our Durum instead were getting scraps.
CChurch just open your eyes and see what the heck is going on around you. Pennies in In-terms never ever equal what you lost this year because of our beloved CWB.

[FarmRanger]

"It's the CWB that the Americans don't like"

And what's not to like about an entity that has an ability to undercut any competitors price? /sarc off

A government mandated privilege to source grain at whatever price they want, with an ability to mask daily price comparisons behind a pooled average.

[parsley]

SASK3 has it right:

" And why pigs beef cool because our stupid livestock industry has been build on cheap feed grain thanks to the CWB."


That's where the system really got whacked.

The CWB GAVE/GIVES the feed mills export licenses.


(Backroom in CWB building,smokey,three from marketing department present.Four mulinationals' marketers present. Takeout Chinese food on the table. One accredited agent lurking in the shadows. One princess present.)


Wheat Borg:
"Okay, okay, uncle. I give up. Here's your export license. Haul out whatever you want, feedboys"

Feed Mills:
(high fives)
(silence and then horrified glances)
" Oh, oh. What if the farmers won't sell their feed wheat and feed barley to us?"

Wheat Borg:
(hee hee hee)
"We wondered when you'd get around to asking that. We had a study done on a gray-colored folder."

(wheat borgers hands the study to feed mills)

Wheat Borg:
"We just won't issue the farmer the export license he needs ...so you feedboys gotst captive domestic feedgrain. A bird in the hand, so to speak"


(high fives)

FeedMills:
"Jeeeez, thanks. This is like Christmas. Whadda we owe ya for the perpetual export licenses?

Wheat Borg:
"Nothing"

FeedMills:
"But doesn't it cost something to issue them? Can we at least buy you a new fax machine?

Wheat Borg:
"Nahhh. We just send the bill to Western farmers! They're used to it."


Wheat Borg:
(dialing)
" Ya. It's done. Bring up the champagne."
(pause)
"No, for #$&*'s sake, bring the good stuff in that cooled room."
(pause)
"Tell the whole Marketing Department to get their asses in her, we're gonna have a party."
(pause)
"Yah, ok. Tell CBC they can come"

(click)


Parsley

[Fransisco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nalhkio_vGs

[furrowtickler]

Pars, never such a true statement!