CWB: Discount Pricing For Prairie Farms

“In the case of a few rich farmers who can sit on all of their grain while the raging masses sell out early perhaps Saskfarmer has a legitimate argument. Perhaps we did cost him $5.00 per bushel on his durum. Perhaps it ran 50 bushels per acre and perhaps he had a thousand acres. And perhaps he could have earned an additional quarter of a million dollars.” – CWB director Rod Flaman

Via Larry Weber;

“Two days after the last CWB PRO – the difference in cash prices in Ontario and the U.S. is over $5.00 AGAIN. 2008 Crop Hard Red Spring wheat with 12.5 protein or better can be booked in Ontario at $10.02 a bushel. How many of you would lock in $10.00 new crop wheat values off the combine if you had the chance?

But wait, folks – that’s not all!
Today’s “independant farmer” spotting, courtesy the Canadian Press:

“Marketing choice or a dual market is there really to end the wheat board,” Butch Harder, a Manitoba farmer, told a news conference.
Ending the board’s control will turn Prairie agriculture over to businesses, he said.
He said a majority of producers support the board, although a government-sponsored plebiscite last year seemed to support the optional-marketing plan.
Harder and others say the plebiscite was a rigged election worthy of “a banana republic.”

Butch Harder is a former CWB director for District 10.
It’s reporting like that which reminds us of the vast gap between professional journalists and “wanna-be” amateurs like ourselves!