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What we had is called a 'leveraged bubble'.
Forget the idiots who speak of a law that banks had to make bad loans. There is no such law. There IS a law that if an African American comes in with a 20% down payment and a salary of $30,000 and a WASP comes in with a 20% down payment and a salary of $30,000, and both want to buy a $60,000 flat, the bank cannot approve the WASP and reject the African American.
But the banks went to people who owned homes but had incomes of $12,000 and said, 'If you try to buy a flat-screen TV, your monthly payment would be $1,500 because they charge high interest to people without collateral. If you put your home up as collateral, your monthly payment would only be $300 for that same TV.
So they signed the note, and paid $300 per month the first year, after which the payment rose to $3,000 and they lost their home.
The lies were verbal, the contract was written (I believe, in Sumerian). So it's all the borrowers' fault for listening to the grafter? And the government must guarantee the grafter's commissions? And the borrowers must go to jail for fraud because they had their names signed promising to pay $3,000 per month when their income was only $1,000 per month? And the people who are out protesting are trying to steal money from honest people who worked hard to convince suckers to sign over their homes for a flat-screen TV?
There are a lot of individual needs, individually expressed, most make sense, which means; nothing like the TEA party.
*——IMO an excellent article detailing the roots and sources and players in the Wall Street demonstrations….by some PAID by the hour….and the GOALS of the "occupiers"…
article by author and website "EllisWashingtonReport.com"…
10/14/11 "Lenin's 'useful idiots' in Manhattan"…
Fox Saturday a.m. financial analysts revealed today that the college students participating have a goal….FOR TAXPAYERS TO PAY 100% OF THEIR PERSONAL COLLEGE LOANS….! True communism/socialism/fascism.
Not Wall Streets but the goverments.
World Net Daily? Lost me already. I prefer not to get info from a site that leans farther right then a man with a missing right leg.
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Third quarter update
|04.20.09 at 9:11 pm ET
What we have here at the Garden is 12 minutes that could potentially decide a season. The Celtics have an 88-87 lead and to demonstrate the urgency of the situation, Doc Rivers did not go to his bench until there ere 40 seconds left in the third quarter.
Rajon Rondo returned to the lineup after spraining his right ankle in the first half and he already has a triple-double with 15 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, but the big story has been Ray Allen who erupted for 16 points in the third quarter. Every Celtics starter is in double figures, but the bench has been non-existent.
The other issue was the staredown between Kendrick Perkins and Joakim Noah. There have been a lot of hard fouls in this game and Noah has emerged as Public Enemy No. 1 in the Garden. At one point he wandered toward the Celtics bench and got an earful from Kevin Garnett, who has been giving a lot of people an earful. Tyrus Thomas also had a few choice words for the C's bench.
As we head into the final 12 minutes, the Celtics season is on the line.
Rondo records triple double
|04.20.09 at 8:51 pm ET
Rajon Rondo recorded a triple-double in the third quarter: 15 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists. The last time he posted a triple-double was February 12 against the Dallas Mavericks (19 points, 14 assists, 15 rebounds).
Second quarter update
|04.20.09 at 8:18 pm ET
At the half … Bulls 61, Celtics 58
The Celtics kicked off the game looking strong. Then they started dropping in the second quarter.
Leon Powe left the game with a minor left knee sprain. (He was already wearing a brace for a sprained right knee.) Five minutes later, Rajon Rondo hit the ground hard after a fast break attempt. He suffered a minor right ankle sprain and was helped off the court by Celtics trainer Ed Lacerte. Both Powe and Rondo are expected to return.
In the meantime, Brad Miller has been causing problems for the Celtics. The big man with the mid-range jumper has posted 14 points (7/8 FT) and six rebounds in the first half. With Powe out of the game and Davis and Perkins sidelined with three fouls apiece, hehas been able to take advantage of his match up against Mikki Moore.
Keeping an eye on the hot/cold players from Game 1, Derrick Rose has been limited to just six points in 14 minutes. He was benched for most of the first quarter with foul trouble. After shooting 1-for-12 on Saturday, Ray Allen is shooting 1-for-4 from the field.
Rondo limps out of game
|04.20.09 at 8:03 pm ET
After barreling down the court on a fast break, Rajon Rondo went up for the basket. It was moments before he was able to get up with the aid of team doctors. Rondo headed to the bench limping with 5:03 left in the first half. He suffered a minor right ankle sprain and is expected to return to the game.
Powe leaves the game
|04.20.09 at 7:47 pm ET
Leon Powe walked back toward the locker room with 10:13 left in the second quarter. Powe, who has been wearing a heavy-duty brace after spraining his right knee in March against the Bulls, has not been moving that well tonight. In seven minutes he posted two points, one rebound, and was called for one foul.
Update: Powe suffered a minor left knee sprain. He is expected to return.
First quarter update
|04.20.09 at 7:41 pm ET
What's best strategy against a team that presses? You press them back. Similarly, it was clear from the opening seconds that the Celtics wanted to run against a team that runs. Rajon Rondo was sensational in the first quarter with nine points, four rebounds, six assists and a combined five fouls against Derrick Rose and Kirk Hinrich. The Bulls blocked seven shots in the first quarter, but that's a fine trade-off for taking the ball to the basket aggressively as the Celtics have done time and again.
The biggest beneficiary has been Big Baby Davis who scored 12 points on 6-of-10 shooting, with most of them coming on kickout jumpers off dribble penetration. The C's also wanted to be tougher defensively and Kendrick Perkins set the tone with a hard foul on John Salmons three minutes into the game.
The only downside for the C's is that Ray Allen is 0-for-2 and appears tentative early. After one, it's 35-29 Celtics.
Big start for the Celtics
|04.20.09 at 7:19 pm ET
Scratch slow starts off the check list for the Celtics. They came out ready to play tonight. Rajon Rondo has been pushing the tempo at every opportunity and taking it hard at the Bulls big men. Even though he is 1-for-3, the strategy has worked because Chicago is paying so much attention to Rondo that the C's are getting weakside offensive boards.
Another benefit? Derrick Rose got two quick fouls and is out of the game. Something else to watch: Brad Miller was not happy with Kendrick Perkin's hard foul on John Salmons. Miller, who is one of the toughest dudes in the league, came flying off the bench and had to be mildly restrained by a Bulls assistant.
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The MtGox Bitcoin exchange, which last week sought bankruptcy protection in Japan, opened a helpline for anxious customers on Monday after unveiling a massive loss in a possible theft.
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A shop selling the virtual Bitcoin currency opened in Hong Kong on Friday, as fresh concerns grew in Asia over the currency's viability and security.
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Grasslands matter too
Last year I wrote that most urban people have little conception of the vandalism of basic agricultural resources Ottawa is responsible for.
These resources have been paid for by all Canadians and include things like 2.5 million acres of grassland preserved by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act. These community pasture grasslands are an important part of the overall prairie ecology. A diverse ecology is more stable and resilient to change, and that is also good for grain farming as well.
Ottawa wants to give these fragile grassland areas, home to a wondrous diversity of prairie plants and wildlife, to the Province of Saskatchewan and the Province has indicated it would like to break up this land and sell it to private owners. It is not too late to object. Go to the PFRA Grasslands web site for further information and how to register your objection to selling off an irreplaceable public asset of value to all Canadians.
These great grasslands are still home to many native wildlife species. This grassland ecology is dependent on grazing animals. For millennia bison were the major grazing species. After their decline, largely due to unregulated slaughter south of the medicine line, much of this fragile grassland was damaged by being broken up for grain production.
However, since 1935 careful management by a partnership of cattle ranchers and Agriculture Canada scientists has restored, preserved, and enhanced this grass land ecology for its native species of plants and animals with cattle doing the ecological work the bison once did. Help preserve this legacy for future generations of Canadians by adding your voice.
Trade deals no impediment
The March 5, 2015 Saskatoon Star Phoenix published an article titled "Trade deals no impediment to restoring CWB" which made the simple point that national interests always trump international trade deals.
Why is restoring the single-desk CWB essential for western Canadian grain farmers? The great infrastructure of the international grain trade has not changed at all since 1900. There are still four giant companies that buy and sell what amounts to all the marketable grain in the world market. There are still thousands of individual farmers in western Canada isolated from that world market by great distances, mountains, and oceans. This is why the single-desk Wheat Board was created in the first place and why restoring it is essential for western farmers
In the grain industry economies of scale are crucial, which is really why there are only four giant grain companies. A single-desk working for western farmers is a way for western farmers to have some counter-balancing market power by gaining economies of scale through orderly marketing.
Given the robbery from farmers' grain cheques documented by this organization and others since the single desk was killed there is no credible argument to be made against reinstating a single-desk Wheat Board if the interests of western farmers are important.
However, some people feel that the restrictions created by the single-desk were philosophically unacceptable which is fair enough. However is the small and arguably illusionary freedom they gained worth the costs to western Canadian farmers and our economy we now see?
You can read the article on trade deals in the Star Phoenix by clicking here, or read it on this web site by clicking here.
To quote Alberta farmer Bernie von Tettenborn in last week's Western Producer:
"We are told we can't get the old CWB back because of agreements. What are we, a colony of another country? We have our own country and our own government and we should be able to legislate what is best for our own economy."
The answer to Mr. von Tettenborn's question is we are still a democracy and we can democratically choose how the economy is managed and for whose benefit. All it takes, as has been said, is a little backbone.
More fairy dust and false hope
When things go badly wrong for a politician a favorite tactic is to create a diversion and hope people focus there instead of on the mess in front of them. The people pulling Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz's strings are masters at this. Farmers' grain cheques cut in half and grain companies pulling off the greatest grain robbery in Canadian history? Blame the railways, everybody hates them anyway. Dealing with this nonsense is like playing "whack a mole" but a good deal less fun.
Now that the blame the railways game has worn thin the latest theme, conveniently provided by the Canada West Foundation, should be titled "don't worry there is pie in the sky for you in the future." They are doing so by hosting a propaganda exercise, grandiosely billed as a "symposium" at the end of April with the breathless title in all caps in case you missed it:
"THREE BILLION new consumers will need what the West has to offer. … Are we ready?
Feeding The New Global Middle Class. A Conversation That's Never Happened Before About An Opportunity That's Never Existed Before."
This is pure twaddle. The single desk Canadian Wheat Board specialized in feeding the middle and upper classes of the world for decades before Ottawa's Agriculture Minister killed it. The idea this is an opportunity that has never existed before is even more ridiculous. This same idea was fashionable in the 1970s. Been there, done that, and the results were a lot of my neighbours going bankrupt because they actually believed this sort of nonsense.
There is a long tradition in popular academia of claiming "if present trends continue" then disaster or prosperity is just around the corner. Luckily, present trends seldom continue. If they did everyone who gained a couple of pounds over Christmas would weigh several tonnes by Easter.
Usually these arguments come from the pessimists of the world. The Calvinist minister Thomas Malthus is one of the more famous. In 1798 he predicted that war and starvation were inevitable because population would always outstrip food production. Mechanization, birth control, and improved plant breeding fixed that for several centuries. Later the Club of Rome and Dr. Paul Erhlich talked of Limits to Growth and the Population Bomb respectively. In 1972 they claimed we were ten years away from global industrial collapse because of energy and materials shortages, population growth, and other calamities. Conservation, recycling, incremental technological improvements, and women's empowerment put paid to that. Adjusted for inflation we have seen almost forty years of declining real prices for commodities – much to the consternation of farmers and other primary producers.
Some other examples are worth looking at. Instead of running out of ore for aluminum, bauxite mines are in fact closing around the world as the recycling of aluminum cans has reduced their life-cycle to a few days from use to re-use. Very modest fuel efficiency standards introduced in the United States in 1979 collapsed the price of oil for the next twenty years. Now, in spite of the effective removal of production from two of the three great oil producing regions of the planet (Iran and Iraq), crude oil prices are hardly looking very robust.
So before western farmers go for broke and repeat the 1970s it might be worth asking a few questions. China's one child policy and a cultural preference for boys over girls have already limited the growth potential of China's population. Given the severe gender imbalance, how many of those "2.5 Chinas" the Canada West Foundation symposium highlights will be middle class households driving new demand and how many will be grumpy bachelors? Given the depth and sophistication of Chinese culture, will they really adopt the more wasteful and improvident practices of the west or will they continue to follow their own culture?
The last British governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten said of China that for 18 of the previous 20 centuries it has been an inward looking and self-sufficient world power. So it is useful to ask with peace between China and Russia, how long will it be before northern China is developed for agricultural production? It is an area of grass-land ecology larger than western Canada and at the same latitude.
As ideas of women's empowerment, education and local development spread, how big will the population bomb really be? India has already emerged as a major wheat producer and occasionally has significant volumes to export as well. What happens if the average Indian wheat farm follows the same productivity track western Canada has achieved for the last 30 years with public interest plant breeding?
Looking at the Canada West Foundation program of speakers what do we really have to learn from this bunch? The speakers so far are from private sector consulting and processing companies, or ideologically sympathetic governments. Will the New Zealand high commissioner tell us how to bypass the mountain ranges between us and the world market so we can export dairy products, or will he announce the end of their single-desk kiwi marketing board?
To quote their brochure, the keynote speaker is:
"The Hon. Gerry Ritz, Federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's leading agricultural policy maker, Minister Ritz has industry knowledge acquired from running his own farming operation in Saskatchewan."
Wasn't he part of the generation that bought into the notions of fence line to fence line production, diversification, and value adding that precipitated the 1980s farm debt crisis in the west?
Western farmers would be well advised to take this new hype about getting rich because of global population growth with a large grain of salt. The only people certain to become rich out of all of this are the new middlemen Ottawa has inserted between western Canadian farmers and their former grain customers. The giant grain handlers, processors, agro-chemical companies, and bankers who all hope a new generation of western farmers swallows this optimistic fluff and borrow money for new land and equipment from them are all looking to make money off farmers.
I normally have a bit of time for the Canada West Foundation. Among the various western Canadian think tanks it at least tries for impartiality and some academic rigor in its publications and these are usually worth reading.
However, the Canada West Foundation has now strayed deeply into academic fantasy land. Western farmers facing the theft of the seed genetics they have paid for with the passage of the UPOV 91 legislation or the ongoing grain robbery showing up in their grain cheques have a more serious reality to deal with in the here and now.
Argentina moves to protect its wheat farmers
Readers may know that only four countries consistently produce grain for sale in international markets: the US, Canada, Australia, and Argentina. Yesterday Reuters reported that Argentina will be denying export permits to the international grain oligopoly (the so-called ABCD group) because they are not paying Argentinean grain producers a fair share of the world price.
Argentina's Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, responding to complaints from wheat farmers said "We will only give export permits when the price that these exporters pay the producer is near to the international price." According to the Minister the giant international grain companies are withholding more than 30% of the international grain price, short-changing farmers.
Western Canadian farmers should be so lucky. We have seen our share of the international wheat price decline from 90% with the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board to around 40%.
So to recap, the Argentinean Economics Minister is punishing the international grain trade because they are taking 30% of the world price for themselves; while the Canadian Agriculture Minister is blathering on about how good western Canadian farmers have it when the international grain trade is taking better than 60% of the world price away from them. New projections that western Canadian farmers could see as little as 20% of the world price as the smaller Canadian grain handling firms are swallowed up by the international oligarchs means more trouble ahead.
So the news from Argentina shows that western Canadian farmers without the Wheat Board are actually worse off than Argentina's wheat producers. Perhaps we should export Minister Ritz along with the boat load of fairy dust he has been peddling to cover up the consequences of Ottawa's killing of the farmer-owned and controlled single-desk Canadian Wheat Board.
Private sector cheerleader lands Ottawa funding
Ritz buys more fairy dust for grain farmers
Since the killing of the farmer-controlled Canadian Wheat Board, farmers have lost billions of dollars that have been siphoned into the pockets of the private grain companies – the same companies who have totally bungled organizing quality-assured shipments of wheat and barley to port. There are more and more reports of high-end customers abandoning Canada as a supplier of premium wheat and barley. Facing spring seeding with bins full of grain worth half what it should be even the most trusting western farmers are starting to ask uncomfortable questions.
So what is Ottawa's response? Minister Ritz announced he was effectively giving three quarters of a million dollars to provide John DePape, one of the most persistent critics of the Wheat Board, with a megaphone to proclaim the virtues of the private trade. Readers might remember how Mr. DePape could be relied upon to claim the Board was not transparent enough compared to the private trade, and soon after the Wheat Board was killed he started to complain that his beloved private trade was not being transparent either. Apparently Mr. DePape now intends to correct this using government money.
This exercise in fantasy will be carried out with much fanfare through a web site called PDQ run by Mr. DePape's company Farmco and paid for by Ottawa and the Alberta Wheat Commission. It is supposed to "improve farmers' ability to make well-informed marketing decisions and maximize the value of their crops." But is such a thing even possible?
Transparency stops at the elevator doorway
The short answer is not really. In fact the grain trade is now entirely private and Mr. DePape has no more privileged access to the grain sales prices of the five giant companies that handle the world's grain than anyone else does. An astute observer pointed out "transparency stops at the elevator doorway." These giant companies make most, if not all, their sales directly to their customers behind closed doors.
So how will Mr. DePape undertake to make the opaque transparent? Listening at the trading room doors of the Cargills, Viterras, and Dreyfuses of this world is not much of an option. Perhaps Mr. DePape will employ the same extra-sensory perception he apparently used to determine that whatever the annual audited statements of the farmer-controlled CWB showed, they weren't showing true numbers?
No matter how much money Ottawa and the trusting Alberta Wheat Commission pour into this web site farmers can be sure the actual sales prices will remain the grain industry's most closely guarded secret. At least until we have a single-desk Canadian Wheat Board again which is prepared to resume opening its sales books to its farmer-elected Directors and its costs and results in yearly audited statements to producers.
The private grain trade will always exercise its right to remain private. All the efforts of Mr. DePape and others to reinforce the illusion that such a private market can be made open and transparent are pointless – they simply give some farmers the illusion they are marketing their crops, rather than simply taking a price from big grain. No matter what happens an individual farmer can never have the market power to extract anything more from the market place than what the private trade allows them to have.
Instead of calling their web site PDQ, they should really call it CDF "The Office for the Preservation of the Faith" except that the Roman Catholic Church got there first, back in 1542.
Robert Burns Day
I was reminded today is Robbie Burns day when we celebrate Scotland, its most renowned poet, and what he stood for. In western Canada we owe much to the Scottish traders and settlers. The Canadian Wheat Board was an institution largely created by astute Scots who knew more than a thing or two about business and built an institution that served us very well for over 75 years and was effectively killed in 2011 by Ottawa over the objections of most western grain farmers.
I was also reminded that the most expensive single malt 'scotch' in the world now comes from Japan – $6000.00 per bottle single malt distilled from Canadian malt barley. Japan used to be a premium market for our barley and no doubt still is, except now that premium goes to the same class of oligarchs which Robbie Burns so despised instead of to the farmers who actually grow the barley.
So raise a glass of the sacred liquor to J. R. Murray, John McFarland, and George H. Mclvor the founding commissioners of the CWB who built such a strong institution for the benefit of western farmers and the many others of their heritage who served and continue to serve western Canada's farmers with such ability and integrity.
Looking forward to 2015
Aphorisms contain wisdom about the future of grain
While I was wondering what to put in this space about looking forward to 2015, I received a letter from a long-time friend. Prominent on the envelope's upper right-hand corner was a postage stamp commemorating the 1942 Massey Harris #21 self-propelled combine. That obsolete machine brought to mind an aphorism often attributed to the 19th century British satirist Oscar Wilde that is particularly applicable to grain farmers – "there is nothing as old-fashioned as the desire to appear modern."
Perhaps grain farmers are especially inclined to opt for what we see as modern because we are so aware of technological change – our backyards and shelterbelts are often littered with obsolete farm machinery. By the time of the wide-spread adoption of that 1942 combine harvester, Canadian farmers produced nearly 40% of the world's wheat and had solidified their position of influence in the international grain trade by using freight rate and grain inspection legislation, cooperatives, and the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board to overcome their natural disadvantages of long distances to deep water ports and a globalized oligopoly of grain companies and their agents on the prairies.
"The more things change the more they stay the same"
Yet in spite of all the technological change since 1942, the structure of the world's grain trade has hardly changed since the development of the telegraph in the 1850s. The same giant grain companies, many of them still owned by the same families, continue to dominate the international grain trade. Today we know them as the ABCD group (Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus) plus a fifth commodity trader out of Switzerland known as Glencore that has most of the Canadian grain facilities originally owned by the Wheat Pool Cooperatives built by western farmers and sabotaged by successive Ottawa governments.
One of the more disappointing things about dealing with the small but very vocal anti-Canadian Wheat Board crowd was their determination to ignore the history of their occupation and its implications. Many had swallowed a line that globalization was something new and now that every farmer had a telephone/fax/computer/satellite dish/internet/smart phone, or whatever the latest communications technology of the day was, the world had changed.
Of course the basic economic structure of the grain trade has not changed at all since the 1850s when the ABCD group developed. In consequence those farmers who fell prey to the old aphorism about appearing modern often developed the hubris to think they could actually market their grain better than the collective bargaining of the CWB – a notion grain brokers, the private grain trade, and others with interests in cheap grain, like the Government of Alberta, were all too pleased to cultivate even as these farmers got deeper and deeper into debt.
"Nothing is ever so bad it cannot get worse"
- traditional Norwegian aphorism
For those who did not understand the aphorism about the folly of wanting to appear modern and threw away our market power, western Canadian history offers an illustration of the above Norwegian folk wisdom.
With the single-desk CWB gone, the reality is that western farmers are simply price takers with none of the collective market power we once had. Some farmers still delude themselves that begging for favour from one of the three or so grain companies that have facilities on the prairies amounts to marketing. But the reality is where we once got better than 90% of the world grain price, the private trade is now the middle man and has reduced farmers' share to around 40%. With further consolidation some economists are predicting western farmers will soon be reduced to receiving about 20% of the world grain price.
History shows that even this prediction may be optimistic. When Ottawa took away the 1921 single-desk wheat board, the west saw the rise of larger and larger prairie farms as individuals and investors sought to achieve economies of scale in response to falling grain prices.
Although these Canadian bonanza farms ranged in size from 10,000 acres to the 30,000 acre spread of Charles Nobel near Vulcan and had the benefit of the Canadian Grain Commission, Wheat Pool grain handling cooperatives, and some protection from exploitive rail freight rates, they could not overcome their lack of market power and none of them lasted longer than five years.
Fast forward to today and we have already seen several contemporary bonanza farms fail – one 70,000 acre Saskatchewan based operation leaving creditors holding $46 million in loans. It is no coincidence that without the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board, Canadian wheat is now the cheapest in the world. This brings to mind American comedian Woody Allen's aphorism that "history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
So here are my fearless predictions for 2015
- Western Canada will continue to grow the best astro-turf groups in Canada. Readers may recall that astro-turf groups are defined as groups financed by private interests pretending to represent citizens.
- Astro-turf groups like Cereals Canada, having only three actual western farmers sprinkled on its industry-controlled Board of Directors, will continue to lobby for turning cereal grain genomes over to the agro-chemical companies. They have already succeeded in getting grain marketing turned over to the private sector. Your Alberta check-off dollars at work.
- Speaking of astro-turf groups, the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commissions, along with the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Commission will continue with their counterfeit of democratic representation by making sure farmers never get to vote on their members, unless they are willing to travel hours and hours to attend a public meeting. Their theme song will be "why can't we all just get along" which translates into "why can't our corporate patrons just get along to the bank with farmers' money and resources."
- Saskatchewan's government will continue to regret allowing Saskatchewan farmers to actually vote for their Wheat and Barley Commission members through a mail-in ballot and will do their best to undermine the democratic representatives of Saskatchewan wheat and barley producers on the Saskatchewan Wheat and Barley Commissions.
- The falling Canadian dollar will increase the price of commodities, since most of them are priced in US dollars. Look for major contortions from astro-turf groups and their private trade masters to explain why Canadian farm gate prices have not jumped in proportion to the decline in the value of the Canadian dollar.
- Almost nobody will ask what exactly the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to Western Canadian Wheat Growers and the Western Canadian Barley Growers Associations by Agriculture Minister Ritz's department have been used for.
- Look for a major effort to have the so-called rail freight rate cap removed even though it actually gives an incentive to railways to treat grain shippers fairly and allows the railways to make more money, the more grain they move.
- Look for the ruling on the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board class action law suit. The Friends already have the go-ahead to make the case for recovering what they see as misallocated Pool Account funds, but will the courts allow them to recover the full value of the Wheat Board farmers built and paid for?
- Don't expect an audited statement with numbers anytime soon from Ottawa's CWB.
Canada Post's stamp commemorating an obsolete combine is something for collectors but unlike that antique Massey Harris combine, the need for a single-desk Canadian Wheat Board never goes out of style in a system that has stayed the same for over 140 years. One hopes that the west's independent grain farms will not end up being commemorated on a similar postage stamp thanks to the Ottawa empowered anti-Wheat Board crowd peddling an even more obsolete world view.
Looking back on 2014
2014 has to rank as the year where everything has gone wrong for Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his followers. They promised an era of transparency, freedom, competition, profitability, and efficiency for western Canada's grain farms hitherto never seen.
What Ritz and his cohorts regarded as stuffy bastions of red tape like the Canadian Wheat Board, the Canadian Grain Commission and many other institutions involved in quality assurance, customer relations, and plant breeding were either swept away or changed beyond recognition. Those who understood these organizations had evolved over the decades to protect farmers and asked for evidence and intelligent analyses of these revolutionary changes were ignored.
The 2013/14 crop year was supposed to be when the unregulated marketplace showed its mettle and western farmers prospered. However, the result has been a catastrophe for western grain farmers. Our wheat prices fell by half while the world market stayed steady. From the beginning of the crop year the private railways ran at about 98% capacity moving massive volumes of grain to port yet unprecedented numbers of grain ships waited and customers complained because the private elevator companies were not inclined to get the right grain to the right place at the right time. As many of us warned, the private trade's only interest is flipping the grain for their profit and the devil takes the rest. Which is just what has happened and now Canadian wheat has gone from premium quality grain to being the cheapest in the world.
There was also the extraordinary phenomena of a Minister of the Crown characterizing those who questioned him and warned of this mess as "part of the tin foil hat crowd."
The year has also seen the determination of Ottawa to ignore the implications of this great grain debacle. The numbers are plain that in the first half of the crop year, on number two CWRS wheat alone the grain companies took an extra $1.6 billion out of western farmers' pockets. The percentage change is even more startling. Based on the audited numbers from the previous Wheat Board compared to the actual numbers of the private trade as reported by Minister Ritz's own Wheat Board, the farmers' share of the international price of grain has fallen from just over 90% to around 40%. The prediction is that as smaller Canadian grain handling companies are swallowed up, the western farmers' share will drop to 20%. Little wonder then that Minister Ritz has refused to table an audited statement for his crippled Wheat Board with any numbers in it.
Given this astounding change of fortune for wheat growers, it can be extrapolated the numbers for canola are equally as unfair. Certainly this gives further credibility to those who pointed out the systematic rip off of canola farmers by the unregulated private system and attempted a few years ago to get the industry captured Canola Commissions to address the problem.
2014 also saw the playing out of another phenomenon that is cyclical on the prairies – the rise and fall of the mega-farm. Each time the system is either not regulated, as in the 1880s, or deregulated, as in the 1920s and now, some come to the conclusion that if they can only achieve large enough economies of scale, they can prosper growing wheat on the Canadian prairies. 2014 saw the collapse of several of these optimistic operations. As is historically typical, they lasted just long enough for investors to realize that there are as many dis-economies of scale in farming as there are economies.
If Minister Ritz and his followers had not done so much damage and created so much long term misery, I could almost feel sorry for them. However, seeing so many of his followers on various farmer-funded but industry captured Astroturf groups sitting with the industry representatives who have so recently been freed by Ottawa to take all they can from farmers makes his followers look gullible at best. Minister Ritz's accolades on these Astroturf groups may think the lamb can lay down with the lion, but as one wag observed "the lamb will not get much sleep."
Next time, looking forward to 2015 – sort of
CTA ruling gives the lie to Ritz grain narrative
Most farmers will remember the wide-eyed assertions of the grain companies and Agriculture Minister Ritz that a bumper crop and incompetent railways were the reason grain ships were piling up on the west coast and farmers could not deliver their grain. They claimed grain prices cut by half were no fault of the grain companies. "Blame the railways – nothing too see here – move on" was the mantra. A mantra dutifully repeated by the stenographers pretending to be commentators and reporters in too much of the media.
That line of reasoning was discredited on a quiet Thursday just before Christmas when the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) released its determination of the Western Grain Maximum Revenue Entitlements (MRE) for the 2013-14 bumper crop year. The CTA is an independent, quasi-judicial tribunal with all the powers of a Federal Court to subpoena witnesses, documents, and records. They can and do put people under oath and for those who have participated in one of these processes it is a sobering and very stressful experience.
Each year the CTA examines and audits the railway's documentation on the amount of grain hauled, where it went and over how many miles. This is all used to determine how much the railways will be allowed to charge western grain shippers for moving grain. For a detailed explanation of the MRE click here
The Transportation Agency ruling found that the tonnage of grain the two railways hauled in 2013-14 was "18.8 percent higher than the western grain volume for the previous crop year." [Emphasis added] In other words a bumper crop was hauled by bumper railway performance.
Given that 18.8% increase in tonnage hauled, it means the grain companies served themselves very well indeed by taking literally billions of dollars from western farmers while using poor rail service as an excuse to confuse farmers and the media with bogus claims about high basis costs being caused by the railways. The CTA ruling shows the grain company claims were so much cow flop.
As was reported here some months ago, ships waiting, customers complaining, and the terrible damage to our reputation for providing quality assured grain is entirely the fault of the incompetence and greed of the private grain trade. The CTA ruling shows grain was moving and being sold but without the single-desk Wheat Board, the grain companies were taking all the cream and most of the milk. As the smallest players in the system farmer Producer Car shippers were squeezed by both sides.
The CTA ruling also demonstrates that Minister Ritz's Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act was more of an attempt to divert attention from the fact the grain companies were ripping off farmers for billions of dollars than to do anything for farmers.
Another part of the CTA's Ruling found that CN rail had overcharged grain shippers by $4.98 million dollars and gave them 30 days to pay this amount to the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF). This follows on penalties in other years of tens of millions paid to the WGRF. All showing that the argument there is no money for public interest plant breeding and research is simply not true. It should be noted this is the argument which is being used by Minister Ritz as an excuse to give away cereal grain genetics to the private sector through a disingenuous process his department announced a few weeks ago.
Lastly, this ruling shows that now is the time for the Canadian Canola Growers Association and the other check-off organizations to stop wasting farmers' money on overseas junkets, very expensive regulatory stunts, endless media propaganda, along with supporting the industry-captured Cereals Canada in Ottawa – all to provide their Conservative masters with political cover. Instead they should start donating the check-off money they take from farmers to the Western Grains Research Foundation as well. Then farmers' money could be put to a good use which will directly benefit them.
The December 18, 2014 CTA ruling is certainly a gift to farmers but will the truth contained in its pages catch up to the misinformation spread so thickly in the press over this past crop year?
Giving away our future
Just a day after the passage of the so-called Agricultural Growth Act allowing the privatization of the wheat genome, among many other things, Ottawa has put out a request for proposals to transfer to the private sector the future of the wheat genome. On offer are some of the most promising fusarium head blight resistant wheat genomes in its possession.
These wheat varieties are located at the recently scaled down Agriculture Canada Soils and Crops Research and Development Centre near Quebec City. As every farmer has known since time immemorial, head blight is a nightmare plant disease that can reduce a bumper crop to inedible junk status in a few weeks. There is essentially no cure or treatment – the best line of defense is plant breeding for resistance, and the Quebec experimental farm not only had some of the most promising genetics under development but was one of Agriculture Canada's primary research centers on this problem. A little context shows how Ottawa's request for proposals strikes at the essence of Canada's role in feeding the world.
109 years ago the modern wheat trade was launched with the distribution to western Canadian farmers of just enough Marquis Wheat for each to seed one-tenth of an acre. This allowed Canadian farmers to grow seed stock for the following year. Marquis was developed by Canadian Government plant breeder Charles Saunders from seeds with pedigrees reaching back to ancient grains derived from spelt and cross bred with wheat varieties from India and the Ukraine. By 1920 Marquis Wheat was grown on over 90% of the 20 million acres of hard red spring wheat planted across western Canada and in much of the northern US Great Plains as well.
It is no exaggeration to say this wheat and its offspring, all created in Canada through a partnership between western farmers and the Cereals Division of the Canadian Department of Agriculture has fed the world. Whatever challenges Mother Nature presented, whether drought, weak straw strength, or insect and fungal predators, this formidable combination of government researchers working on experimental farms and western grain farmers proved invincible.
Until now. On December 2, 2014, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz's department announced it was giving some of those foundation wheat lines away. Stored at the Agriculture Canada research station (formerly Sainte-Foys) near Quebec City these seed lines have been developed from some of the most ancient grain samples available in the world and are being offered for tender to the private sector.
The Conservative government in Ottawa is offering to give those wheat genetics to private non-government organizations with the formidable resources already in place to carry on wheat breeding. It does not take a genius to see that only the giant multi-national agro-chemical seed companies have the necessary resources. Or to see that Minister Ritz is doing an end-run around the newly created farmer-funded wheat and barley commissions which, given time, could have developed the resources to carry on this work. Ritz is also shutting out the long standing and very experienced farmer-funded Western Grains Research Foundation.
Controlling the wheat seed genome means controlling the future of food. Aside from being immensely profitable, giving this genome to the private sector bakes in a conflict of interest since the giant agro-chemical-seed companies are only concerned with enhancing the sales of their own products. We can expect the canola model to prevail where the companies involved genetically modified seed lines for resistance to chemicals they already had on the shelf rather than focusing on natural disease resistance and vigor as the partnership of farmers and government has done for the past 109 years for other grains.
Much like the farmer-owned and controlled Wheat Board, Ottawa is giving away another essential component of Canadian-owned agricultural production that has taken generations to build.
Editor's note: readers may find this quote from the Ag Canada tender document especially troubling:
"The quantities of seeds offered vary according to generation and the approach used; there are lines for which 5 kernels are offered and others for which 500 grams are offered….
Because this germplasm is the property of AAFC and a duplicate will not exist in another location, the recipient is required to not empty the envelopes and always keep a small amount of each genotype; this request is valid until December 2019. This may require the registrant to reproduce the genotype for conservation purposes." [Emphasis added]


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In 2011 I had peroneal tendon repair. It was partially torn across but torn way up my leg. since then my big toe has hurt &doesn't bend very well help?
May or may not : Be related. The peroneal longus tendon inserts on the base of the first metatarsal and this may have something to do with the function of the great toe. Xrays to rule out hallux limitus/rigidus and clinical exam are warranted. ...Read moreGet help now ›
Tendon (Definition)
Tendons are made up of collagen and are the functional tissue that interfaces between muscles and bone. Muscles generate force that is transmitted through its tendon that inserts on a specific bone that is moved in the plane of the connecting joint made ...Read more
What the best course of treatment for a broken toe and torn tendon?
Medical intervention: An evaluation and treatment by an orthopedic surgeon or a podiatrist. ...Read moreGet help now ›
I had torn my perineal tendon and had it repaired and my big toe joint feels jammed. It has felt this way since the surgery.I feel it's going to snap?
Cast problems?: Was your cast properly changed 1-2 weeks for several weeks after repair? Sometimes the casting after a procedure can limit rom and the disuse can lead to weakness, or the cast could have been improperly modeled around your great toe joint (your toe should have been allowed to move). It's unlikely anything during surgery could have affected the joint or the tendon to the toe. ...Read moreGet help now ›
I have pain on the side of my big toe. I feel pain while walking. It feels like a tendon is hurting. I got this injury after completing some sprints.
See a podiatrist now: Jack: your pain could be anything from bad footwear rubbing against your toe to a tendon injury or fracture. It's important that you get a thorough evaluation from a podiatrist as soon as possible to make sure you don't have a serious injury. ...Read moreGet help now ›
What can be done about pain in my big toe 6 years after tendon repair?
See your doctor: This problem can only be solved by seeing your doctor and being evaluated face-to-face. After a thorough examination, your doctor should be able to tell you what's wrong and what to do about it. ...Read moreGet help now ›
What do you advise if I'm having a cheilectomy and possibly tendon repair in my big toe and I have some questions. help please?
Cheilectomy: I suggest you ask the questions to your surgeon. You should always feel free to ask questions to your surgeon. He/she is the very best person to answer any and all questions that you may have. ...Read moreGet help now ›
Will a ruptured tendon in big toe heal itself?
Depends: On how much is ruptured. If partial rupture with immobilization you have a much better chance. Complete rupture likely will require surgery. ...Read moreGet help now ›
How's critical of not going through 2nd surgery to reattach my big toe tendon? Tendon was not messy injured but straight cut. 1st repair no success.
I would be curious: As to the failure of the first surgery as the surgery is straight forward. There are possible sequela of not repairing. It all depends on your activity and life style. Big toe joint function is important in walking. The decision is yours speak your surgeon, maybe seek 2nd opinoin. ...Read moreGet help now ›
Foot problems - fractured big toe - tendon cut?
Mri: If you are asking how one would know if a tendon was cut i would say the definitive test is an mri. The rule for fractures is to immobilize them. Cut tendons do heal but sometimes need surgery. I recommend followup with a board certified podiatrist. ...Read moreGet help now ›
What effect would posterior tendon release in big toe have on gait? Ii have claw toe due to nerve damage from laminectomy
Improvement: The posterior tibial tendon causes the foot and ankle to turn in (inversion). Release of the posterior tibial tendon allows the arch of the foot to flatten, decreases ankle/foot inversion (turning in), and allows turning out (eversion). It would improve the rocker motion of the foot during gait. It may not effect a claw toe deformity unless the toe (flexor hallucis) tendons are also released. ...Read moreGet help now ›
Tendon Rupture (Definition)
Tendon rupture is when a tendon breaks. Tendon is the tissue that connects muscle to bone. If this breaks, then the muscle can no longer function since it is no longer ...Read more
Toes (Definition)
Toes are the digits at the ends of the feet, most people have 10 and they normally ...Read more
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I'm looking for somewhere in the high desert (AV, Hesp., Victorville area) to purchase fruitless mulberry trees (Morus sp.) as well as native trees and plants (such as mesquite, etc.)
Someone must sell them, I see them growing everywhere...but can't seem to find what I am looking for. Home Depot and Lowe's just doesn't carry what I'm looking for...nor are their plants acclimatized to our unique climate. I've been to a couple of local smaller nurseries as well, but they haven't got what I'm looking for either.
I need shade badly for a house I just moved into, I want to start these mulberry trees this year. I know I'm running out of time.
On the rest of my property I want to plant desert natives only. (I'm great with cactus...no need to steer me in that direction.)
"I need shade badly for a house I just moved into"
Fruitless mulberries will not give you shade any faster than a well-watered mesquite will. They are suceptible to sooty canker, are water-hogs, and make weak trees that break easily in high winds.
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Trellises and fast-growing vines are another option.
Lazygardens. . . about this shadescreen stuff you are talking about. Are you talking about a special window screen? I have a very hot & sunny back yard on the west side of my house. I have planted a fruitless mulbery and a mimosa--both about 10 feet tall but just planted a week ago. That will work in a couple of years but in the mean time tell me how this screen shade works?
Perhaps the two nurseries in Yucca Valley (about 60 miles from Victorville) have the mulberries. I visited these businesses about a year ago, and was amazed at the shrubs and tree stock at both establishments. And very helpful customer service, too.
Best wishes!
I never seen problems with Mulberries breaking in the wind and disease problems you mention develope mostly with poor pruning management or "topping" .... they are big sturdy fast growing handsome trees when planted right and taken care of ... give them plenty of room above and below ground ... not for small landscapes ...... there biggest problem roots ... and you will have plenty of mess to clean up indeed fruitless or not ...
It is not unheard of to see Mesquites falling over frequently ... but improper use of drip irrigation methods are often a malor culprit ....
Mulberries will have different watering requirements then xeriphytes so you will have to plan your landscape and irrigation design accordingly.
Good Day .....
I am a long time resident of Hesperia and a landscape designer. Seems most everyone plants mulberries, when they first come to the desert. While these trees have their uses, they are regularly mis-planted. By this I mean they are planted in the wrong location. These trees when mature reach 50ftx50ft spread. When the tree has over grown its place people then result to pollarding. This pruning practice weakens the tree and causes most of the problems mentioned. A good source in the area for mulberries is Cal's nursery in Hesperia, also you might find them at H&E and HomeDepot. No interest in any of the places mentioned.
I have lived in the high desert(Apple Valley) 67 years (Native of Victorville). I would agree with quercus1 in his synopsis of mulberry trees. My father-in-law planted two fruitless mulberries in his backyard in Victorville over 40 years ago and they have been a pain to maintain.
Infact at 87 years old he finally decided to have them taken out, but found the cost was outrageous.
Recently sold the house. I would not recommend planting these trees, unless you want tons of compost from the leaves they shed every year. LOL!!!!


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NEW DELHI: Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has promised to convene a meeting of Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Goa, probably in the first week of February in Delhi, to resolve the dispute between them on sharing the Malaprabha waters.
He would also write to the Inter-State Water Disputes Tribunal, for which the Union Cabinet has already given its nod, to exempt from its purview projects for diversion of 7.56 tmcft of water from the river under the Kalasa Banduri nala project, as planned by Karnataka, as it related to supply of drinking water to the twin cities of Hubli- Dharwad.
Mr. Bansal gave this assurance to Karnataka Water Resources Minister Basvaraj Bommai and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadish Shettar when they called on him seeking to restore the "in principle" approval granted to the drinking water project.
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Besides, Mr. Bansal was asked to revoke the letter of September 19, 2002 wherein the in-principle clearance given for the project had been kept in abeyance.
Though an all-party delegation from Karnataka, led by Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, wanted to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the issue, the Prime Minister's Office said it was not able to accede to the request and instead asked the Karnataka delegation to meet Mr. Bansal. Mr. Yeddyurappa also wrote letters to Dr. Singh and Mr. Bansal, which were handed over to the latter by Mr. Bommai.
The memorandum said that at present the channel under the Kalasa Banduri project for diverting 3.56 tmcft of water was being built.
Karnataka had proposed to take up Kalasa-Banduri project for diverting another 4 tmcft of water.
In view of the acute scarcity of drinking water, the diversion of 7.56 tmcft of water was necessary. The construction of the projects was taken up in non-forest areas, as the Centre had not accorded forest and environmental clearance.
Mr. Bommai told Mr. Bansal that the Kalasa-Banduri project would in no way affect the interests of Goa or cause environmental damage. Further, the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, had prepared the Environment Impact Assessment report for the project.
It indicated that there was no adverse impact on the environment and ecology of the basin and it had been endorsed by the National Institute of Oceanography.
The drinking water project, utilising only 7.56 tmcft of water out of the about 200 tmcft available, would neither cause any submersion of areas in Goa nor affect any downstream projects in that State.
It could be treated outside the purview of the tribunal, the memorandum said.


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