CWB officials say they are pleased with the amount of grain committed to the early delivery pool, or EDP.
Gord Flaten, CWB’s vice-president of grain procurement, said volumes committed to the EDP are in line with the agency’s expectations.
The original deadline to commit grain to the pool was Sept. 28 but a high volume of farmer sign ups on the final day prompted CWB to extend the sign-up deadline to Oct 2.
Flaten did not say how much grain the EDP was expected to handle, but he said grain volumes were “quite good.”
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“We do have … (an EDP) figure that we use internally just to make sure that we’re managing sign-ups relative to capacity, but it’s not something that we’re releasing publicly,” he said.
The early delivery pool is the voluntary wheat board’s first effort at marketing pooled grain in a deregulated market.
Flaten said CWB’s commercial grain handling agreements limit how much grain can be signed up to the EDP.
“We need to be sure that we don’t exceed our capacity to move that volume before the end of the pool (delivery period), at the end of January,” he said.
