dying cwb

[mustardman]

Parsley and Chaff

You'd best explain your theories to our esteemed lentil exporters.

We have 80 % of green lentil market- yet we are selling at a 50% discount to our so called competition.

It seem it is way easier to discount prices to lentil producers and simply ship loads and loads of Volume rather than ask for a higher selling Price.

When asked one exporter who our competiton was - the reply was a blank stare-

[mustardman]

P.S in case you didn't get it , the blank stare meant there really was no competition.

If you think working in the private sector means lean and mean then you"D best come on out to the gas patch.
Employees put in 4 hours but get paid for 10. Goes on all the time .

Wastefull spending practices does not only happen in public institution.
Waste

[parsley]

You have me there, I missed that there is only one lentil buyer in Canada, a legislated one.

What was I thinking?

Is that one lentil dealer in Ontario or in BC?

Wow. Legislation I missed. I did say
I am getting too old and that confirms my suspicions.

When was the single desk lentil legislation passed? Got a link for me?

Parsley

[cropduster]

Parsley......legislated gonads??????That got me !! Does that mean we`ll have a serious "prairie oyster" roast when choice marketing happens.Ritter and Co. should be particularly nervous.Just thinking of the body language cracks me up!!!

[chaffmeister]

Mustardman:
You have just now, very clearly, explained the fundamental problem with the CWB. No competition when it comes to procuring grain. If you don’t need to sharpen your pencil, why would you bother? You end up with industry-high expenses.

When I first heard about the marketing problems with green lentils I thought to myself that I should get involved as a merchandiser. Obviously, there’s a lot of money being left on the table and if there was more competition, that would disappear pretty quickly.

It would work like this.
Current traders don’t care about the price buyers are willing to pay. They focus on what the farmer is willing to sell at and just “margin up” from there.
New traders (good ones) would go into the consumptive markets, get realistic bids, and then turn around and out bid the current guys.
The current guys would then be forced to pay up to compete – which would mean they would have to do their homework on the consumptive markets.

Market efficiency, brought to you by competition.

FWIW – if this ever happened where I used to work, the lentil trader would be looking for a new job.

[kamichel]

Mustardman you stated that your lentil traders where trading your lentils at a 50% discount to the competition, then you state there is no competition. I do not grow lentils on my farm because I am not in the correct zone for producing good qualitly lentils. But seems to me there must be a supply and demand situation working on the market.

[kamichel]

Sometimes I think we too easily blame things on large multinational companies. How about rail transportation problem and all what is involved with transfering containers to ships.

[cottonpicken]

I am INFINITLY more pissed at the lentil market than wheat market.

We are getting f@cked by somebody!!

[TOM4CWB]

CP and Mustardman, please see Lentil topic above.

[Burbert]

mustardman, Don't waste your time on the guys on this forum, they are all lackeys, working with the grain companies, AB gov't or railroads. Trying to divide and conquer, destroy farming as we know it. They have been successful in turning it into Angribusiness!! The CWB is a bastion of Canadian Ag, they want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Kill the Crow, kill the Crow, then we can growwww! Remember that chant a while ago. Woww was that a success story that should amaze all concerned. Tear down the old, in with the new, then screw, screw, screw.....