1/4 Section Farms

[Vader]

Tom, I did not say large farms need to be done away with. Another one of your ridiculous statements. I did say that large farms are more at risk than small farms.

I would like you to expand on your inference that large farms subsidize small farms. This is something else that I did not say nor did I imply it.

[Vader]

malleefarmer,

This is off topic but I met a farmer from the mallee area of Australia. He was a speaker at our Canadian Wheat Board meeting in Saskatoon in January. He mentioned the price of wheat which I converted into Canadian Dollars. It came out to $4.14 per bushel for a good quality wheat.

I spoke to him privately afterwards and he was very optimistic about the future of farming in Australia. I did not get the sense of pessimism that I get talking to Canadian and American farmers.

I suspect that your wheat tends to grade top quality more often than not where here in Saskatchewan we are continually facing weather problems where we do not get top quality wheat. If we always got top quality and always got $4.14 per bushel we would probably be much more optimistic about our future.

I think also that your proximity to the SE Asian market allows you to be more competitive in those markets than we are. We spend 50 dollars per tonne to get our grain to the West Coast and then another 50-75 dollars in ocean freight to participate in the South East Asian marketplace.

Are you as optimistic as your fellow mallee farmer was in Saskatoon?

[onearm]

i think there are lots of 1/4 section farmers because of the tax write offs

[TOM4CWB]

Vader,

If farmers need not cross subsidise each other... then please issue no cost export licenses to those who need them; small or large.

That the CWB still does not allow a cash daily delivery/price for our grain shows how crazy this system in Canada is.

We need daily market signals. Like the DPC offered all year long... not stopped on July 23,2005 for the crop not harvested yet.

Please Vader... your CWB Directors MUST WAKE UP!

Durum is being contracted for fall 06 delivery in North Dakota @ $4.50USD... while our "designated area" durum growers drown in stored high quality durum that cannot be marketed because of the CWB "Single desk"!

We must do better... "designated area" grain growers are being destroyed... both small and large... by the CWB "Single desk"!

When do we start fixing it Vader?

[malleefarmer]

Vader what was this farmers name as i know of none gone over to canada,please inform.
Yeah im confident and optomistic even with all our oil for food scandals, my costs of production are so so much lower than you guys of i presume they are.
This is very rough guide had to convert acres, it cost me 50 to 60 dollars Aust per acre to grow a 30 bushel to acre crop, i think your inputs may be alot higher, land is astronomically expensive here though approaching $300 aust per acre

[Vader]

Ian McClelland