TAKE YOUR CWB AND PUT IT WHERE THE SUN DOESNT SHINE

**SASKFARMER3** · Dec 18, 2006, 22:57

In the new Year I think its time to take a Load south and get paid in real dollars for a product that has real value and if one has to sit in jail throughout the winter of 07, who cares.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**SASKFARMER3** · Dec 18, 2006, 23:02

Just a note I pay my broker .05 cents to get me a decent price for edible peas etc but the CWB takes a commission off every sale and then an extra .45 cents at the end of the year to cover there extra costs. My broker has to eat his mistakes.
OH BUT THE CWB IS WORKING FOR FARMERS. HA HA!

**TOM4CWB** · Dec 19, 2006, 00:39

Saskfarmer,

Will barley growers vote to keep the CWB in barley... when they sold our human consumption barley at 60% of Fair Market Value... without growers giving permission?

Does anyone even care?

**SASKFARMER3** · Dec 19, 2006, 07:50

Farmers have to be smart enough to see that the CWB is a hindrance to their farm and is not getting a premium for their product. Simple the brother in law a CWB supporter just shipped three cars of malt barley, I just delivered three cars of feed and guess what Iam 1.00 ahead of him already and he has to wait till next Christmas to be disappointed by the CWB, It just makes me laugh.

**northfarmer** · Dec 19, 2006, 09:54

I agess skfarmer....this is a crock of #$%^, good thing last year and now this year I will leave not one bushel in pool....all DPC and BPC/FPC...look at the spreads now on the DPC.....if only they were giving me all my money instead of filling the contingency fund.....when will the rest of the wheat growers wake, i cannot beleive that they voted for these monopsony clowns!!!!!!

**melvill** · Dec 19, 2006, 10:52

I know people are disappointed with their 50-06 wheat prices. Yesterday I had a number of calls from farmers tell me that in no uncertain terms. When I asked them if they had used a Fixed Price Contract to lock in a better price on at least some of their wheat, the answer from three out of four of the callers was "no". So I asked why. The answers were 'didn't understand it' or 'didn't have time to learn about it' or 'I just want to be able to deliver to the U.S. spot market'. One had price over 45% of his production. Hooray for him.

Now, I'm the first to admit, four callers is like taking four handfuls from a 3000 bushel steel bin. It doesn't even come close to being a representative sample but I have to confess I went home very grumpy and very frustrated.

**HFL** · Dec 19, 2006, 11:19

Cheer up Lee! Some people don't or won't use the contracts again just cause of the CWB propaganda. Contract use is up in 06-07. So the CWB issues a press release " contract use up 600%, ain't we great". Kinda makes me ill. We are gonna vote with our drill in 2007. Man, if it wasn't for the 800 million in preiums the Ritter and Measner extract from the market place we wouldn't get nothing for our grain.

**Cattleman** · Dec 19, 2006, 14:45

Thats interesting Melvill, these guys in hindsight see all the opportunities and high prices they missed, just like regular marketing. But took no time to improve their knowledge to improve marketing opportunities. They say its the CWB's fault things are complicated, but let these guys out in the open market and they are going to be so much better than the CWB? I think that is a common theme, but looking at their track record, they don't seem very prepared. When things get tight again, are they going to have any risk management strategies in place to limit losses?

**Ron** · Dec 19, 2006, 15:25

I use FPC's, DPC's have used EPO's and they are all a pain in the ass compared to canola or feed grain marketing. confusing website, rules changing slightly each year, still limited by delivery timeframe. I use the CWB but I freaking hate it, when I have a real choice I will embrace it.
Over the last 10 years I have been consistently profitable with non-board crops, I sure cant say that about the board crops I have grown

TAKE YOUR CWB AND PUT IT WHERE THE SUN DOESNT SHINE