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[agstar77]

Last two years Mb wheat has been better than Sask or al. With the CWB removed those market and transport issues have shown favour to MB without alta and sask dilution. Very similar to Ont receiving higher prices closer to market. Of couse when you build all those flour and pasta plants your cheap grain will be an asset.

[wilagro]

Haven't seen or heard of too many flour mills or pasta plants being built since the demise of the old CWB. Even that plant in Regina that Harper used as a photo-op a year or so ago has been put on the back burner and may never be revived. All that hype was PROPAGANDA used by the ANTI-CBW gang. Our market base here is just too damned small.

[MBgrower]

vvalk: I think the board used to ship lots of Manitoba's high protein to Vancouver to blend up the usual low protein from SK. That's what one of their people told me a couple of years ago at meeting. Now in the open market, MB's wheat is going straight to Chicago and the eastern US markets. MB's wheat freight cost has gone down in the open market. Looks like SK will have the lowest valued wheat in the open market now, especially if cattle and hog numbers continue to decline.

[stonepicker]

Ah yes! The mb. co-operator. Now there's a paper with
a great reputation for being un-biased. they've towed
the CWB line since their inception and nothing else. Do
you believe everything you read? Do you look at both
sides to see if it has any merit? Are you a leftwing
thinker that doesn't think? Because that's what another
socialist told you to think? Gosh!

[grassfarmer]

Never mind running down the paper - do you think
De Pape and the other guy didn't make these
comments? Talk about bias.

[caseman]

cwb,good riddance!!!

wilagro, u farm what 80 acres????

or retired?? quit complaining, let the cwb go ,its history.

its 2012 not 1935 anymore.

[highwayman]

Grassy feel free to refute anything that Mr.
Depape has said since your such an expert on
grain farming in western Canada. I'd love to hear
it.

[grassfarmer]

I'm not refuting anything he said in that article -
maybe get him to explain why it contradicts the BS
they were both spouting to get rid of the CWB.

[Kodiak]

Last time I checked the CWB was still around. www.cwb.ca
The compulsory part and the lack of choice is gone. So are the intrusions into everything from transportation to my account with them. But the CWB is still there.

[highwayman]

Grassy please illuminate these contradictions you
so colourfully speak of. You seem to hear what
you want to hear. You foolishly believe that a
single desk monopsony and a strong farmer voice
are one in the same. As a western Canadian
farmer for 31 years with a real skin in this game, I
can assure you they are not. The newly opened
market for western Canadian wheat and barley is
not yet 5 months old and will need time to develop
the tools to reach its full potential. Grain farmers
from across the praries are briskly utilizing cash
contracts for both nearby and deferred delivery
while the pools in many locations haven't been
able to attract even 10 % of offered grain. Doesn't
sound to me like the sky is about to fall anytime
soon.