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[TOM4CWB]

Jackflash;

Have you ever checked quality specs on Eastern Canadian grades, and seen the premiums for protien etc.?

Check it out.

Canadian Eastern grades of wheat bear no quality resemblence to CWRS, so we ARE NOT compareing apples to apples.

Looks to me that Ontario prices are at a big PREMIUM to CWB prices offered us today, $.50/bu or more when quality is comparable... plus there is no CWB buyback to do for Ontario farmers to pay to the pool accounts to sell direct to Ontario Mills.

STRANGE, I wonder where the CWB act says Western Canadian farmers must pay the CWB a sum of money, where Ontario farmers don't need to... to sell to the USA and Ontario Millers?

Could anyone find EXACTLY where in the CWB ACT, that, this is a LEGAL discriminatory policy that is in reality the LAW here in Canada?

[JACKFLASH]

TOM4CWB

I have heard Ontario wheat has quality issues,from what we are accustomed to, but my ignorance has opened another can of worms.
It certainly is unfair that the wheat board has two sets of rule books,and we have to the thick one.
I wish I was a fly on the wall in a gov't boardroom when they were written way back in the 1940's. To try and understand their logic...

[JACKFLASH]

TOM4CWB

I have heard Ontario wheat has quality issues,from what we are accustomed to, but my ignorance has opened another can of worms.
It certainly is unfair that the wheat board has two sets of rule books,and we have to the thick one.
I wish I was a fly on the wall in a gov't boardroom when they were written way back in the 1940's. To try and understand their logic...

[TOM4CWB]

Jackflash;

I wonder if you understand that there is CWRS west of Thunderbay, and CERS East of Thunderbay.

THAT IS RIGHT, two totally different grading systems, with very different standards in these grades.

I am not saying that Ontario Wheat is substandard, just like a DNS 14% US graded wheat is not substandard, just that many years neither of these wheat products could be graded as a 1CWRS.

[JACKFLASH]

TOM4CWB

Thank-you for the information. I guess in the end the wheat, mills into a adequate flour. The baker's can produce products which meet the expectations of the consumer.
I took a tour of the Monsanto bi-tech factory in 99 in St.Louis. One of the sidelines was a trip to Budweiser brewery. The barley sample the maltsers showed us, that they were using, I wouldn't feed my cows.
We all know the specs that have to be met to obtain the selection of malt barley in Western Canada. Huge variation....

[axiom]

From everything I've been reading, tom4cwb, the Board aren't supposed be playing by different rules. From what I understand, there's one rulebook called the CWB Act, and the Wheat Board's been playing out rules from the bottom of the deck. What do you think?

[axiom]

I guess it was Jackflash talking about rules. Sorry.

[JACKFLASH]

Axiom

You bet they are dealing from the bottom. Sure there is the CWB act in place, but by reading the threads over the past two years nobody seems to have the complete handle on the act.The CWB seems to be one step ahead all the time, making amendments.
Funny using our money to making tougher to grow and market wheat thru the board, and heaven forbid elsewhere.

[JACKFLASH]

Axiom

You bet they are dealing from the bottom. Sure there is the CWB act in place, but by reading the threads over the past two years nobody seems to have the complete handle on the act.The CWB seems to be one step ahead all the time, making amendments.
Funny using our money to making tougher to grow and market wheat thru the board, and heaven forbid elsewhere.

[JACKFLASH]

Axiom

You bet they are dealing from the bottom. Sure there is the CWB act in place, but by reading the threads over the past two years nobody seems to have the complete handle on the act.The CWB seems to be one step ahead all the time, making amendments.
Funny using our money to making tougher to grow and market wheat thru the board, and heaven forbid elsewhere.