A thankyou to my fellow canadians

[notyoueither]

Many of them choose to grow other crops, even if they may not be as suitable as wheat, just to get out from under the thumb of the Wheat Board.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Well, I would assume the people the farmers were driving their wheat to were offering better terms than the Wheat Board, or why would they have wanted to truck their grain?

Because the wheat board has quotas.

[KrazyHorse]

That's the whole point of a production cartel.

It restricts production to increase prices. When members of the cartel violate their quotas the cartel becomes ineffectual.

[KrazyHorse]

The Wheat Board serves as both a stabiliser and a production cartel in the grain market. It both increases prices and takes away some of the short term risk to producers.

[notyoueither]

You really don;t have a clue, do you?

Tell me how the Wheat Board restricts production?

Where are the quotas?

[KrazyHorse]

Also, as far as stabilisation goes, if farmers can sell at a stabilised price, but also can sell outside the Board, then the Board simply becomes a giant charity. It pays higher-than-market prices when prices are low and doesn't receive any wheat when prices are high.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I think Westerners got alienated because they're *******s.

Does that translate to "they have different ideas from me" or does it actually have some substance to it?

[notyoueither]

And how the **** do they increase the price of wheat that they sell to China when there are any number of other sources who are just as willing to sell?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by notyoueither
You really don;t have a clue, do you?

Tell me how the Wheat Board restricts production?

Where are the quotas?

I was under the impression that the wheat board assigned production quotas to farmers (that were usually above the actual production, but in some years fell below).

This might have been phased out some years ago, but I thought it was still operating as a cartel.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Does that translate to "they have different ideas from me" or does it actually have some substance to it?

It should read as "I enjoy bugging them because it makes things interesting"

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Also, as far as stabilisation goes, if farmers can sell at a stabilised price, but also can sell outside the Board, then the Board simply becomes a giant charity. It pays higher-than-market prices when prices are low and doesn't receive any wheat when prices are high.

They don't get to sell at a stabalised price!

The ****ing stuff is sold on the world market for the going rate!

What, you think that Canadians are eating all that wheat?

Do you have any idea what you are banging on about?

[Asher]

Solution to our problems:

Stop subsidizing farms, give everyone $400 more!

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


I was under the impression that the wheat board assigned production quotas to farmers (that were usually above the actual production, but in some years fell below).

This might have been phased out some years ago, but I thought it was still operating as a cartel.

WTF good would quotas do in a world market of subsidised agriculture?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by notyoueither


They don't get to sell at a stabalised price!

The ****ing stuff is sold on the world market for the going rate!

I'm talking about the ****ing grain farmers, not the Board.

If they get to choose to sell either to the Board at stabilised prices or to an outside party then the Board loses at both ends, and the shortfall will be made up by the average taxpayer.

What sort of Wheat Board do you envision, NYE? What would its role be?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by notyoueither


WTF good would quotas do in a world market of subsidised agriculture?

It raises domestic prices due to trade barriers we have in place.