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| So as per the reference farmer, they forced him to haul Navigator to Viterra to make room in his bins so he could put his own pile of Navigator into safe storage? Sounds like they were helping him get the grain into safe storage out of the elements. If a farmer is short on storage and forced to place grain in piles, then he assumes the risk of having that grain in a pile. Did he not think that there might be some extra work involved when creating the pile aside from just cleaning it up? This farmer has more of an issue with his local Viterra, then the actual Navigator IP program.
Viterra cannot force you to move grain around on your farm. They can't tell you when or where plant it or when to harvest it, what gives them any more privledge to control it while it is being stored on your farm? I have yet to read that stipulation in my IP contract agreements. As a farmer, you should take precautions as to not let the grain go out of condition, hence puting piles in safe storage bins out of the elements, that should be of more interest to you the farmer then to Viterra. As for the other elevator agreement to take the pile, it is just BS, they can't take it anyways it is IP durum. So its moot, you cannot argue that, this farmer should have realized the terms when he signed his agreement to grow Navigator. It is Viterra and Viterra only. Viterra does have an issue with keeping a steady demand of IP products, like you said, its all just random, and they can call for it at the worst of time. That is just one of the problems, the system has it's flaws. I CHOOSE to deal with it for the sake of getting into the IP programs advantages.
I am glad to see that you have made yourself a cereal production program that works for yourself. All the best to you in your future endeavours. I choose Navigator because the program works for me. There are farmers near me who grow wheat types/grades exempt from the CWB also, that is there choice to do so. There are also guys who grow generic durum. To each his own. It is hard to listen to people bad mouth the IP programs from Viterra when I, among many other of my fellow local farmers, have had such good succcess with them in our region. Which make these horror stories from the south seem unrealistic. As I said before, I think you guys have an issue with your local Viterra, I would be taking that up with the Viterra's management. What do the Viterra's workers care if you take your business elsewhere. They still get their paychecks at the end of the day. It is management who cares, not the guys sweeping the floor that you see every day.
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PEA and LENTIL growers.............
