A fair price....

[carebear300]

Fishing is a good choice!!!!!I have come to almost the same solution as you life is way to short. I took today off never would have thought of that ten years ago. Society isn't paying me to work that hard seven days a week. What I don't get done today will be there tomorrow, and if it isn't it won't really matter. Did you notice that our old friend(HAHa) in Ottawa, Goodale is recomending that we all produce livestock, so past experience tells me that, that should be enough to screw up the cattle business for at least ten years.

[oldboy]

To all who responded, Alberta does'nt seem to recognize the plight of rural people, but there is a farm stress line in Sask., complete with a toll free number. If you're on the web, just fo to farmstress.com. I haven't used it, but got a flyer in the mail last summer, and checked it out on the web. Looks like some folks could use a little objective and outside advice. This has got to stop. God bless those poor souls who thought there was no other way.

[cowman]

On the local news last night they gave out a farmer stress line for Alberta.
1-877-303-2642.
I have a friend who works for Alberta Ag and she says the suicides have caused quite a stir in Edmonton. They got the ministers attention.
I suspect we will soon see some sort of action even if it is just smoke and mirrors!
How come the doctors, nurses, teachers and other various govt. workers can get the message across that if they don't get a double digit raise it is the end of the world, but farmers have to shoot themselves to get some action? To hear the teachers and govt. workers talk the 5% cut in pay they took back in the early nineties was the greatest hardship since the great depression!!! Well how would they like to take a 100% pay cut(or maybe more!) like a lot of people in the drought areas? The government seems to think it is okay...afterall farmers can live on all that money they saved up in the last few years while they were gouging the consumer! I guess they don't realize it was good old Safeway and Superstore who were doing the gouging? Now I don't follow the meat prices in the supermarket but I suspect prices won't have dropped that much, even though the price for fat cattle has dropped quite a bit. They always have some sort of explanation why they just can't do it.