Kaiser - I now do my own thing.
We developed our own markets because I was tired of the following:
1. Cattle producers begging for money,
2. Cattle producers sueing corn producers in Ontario,
3. Cattle producers complaining about how bad things are,
4. Cattle producers resisting VALID changes to evolve with the times.
4. No damned organizations DOING anything about the above - other than to beg for money and take nice trips to nice places on MY dollar.
So, if our plans do come to fruition, it will be this outfit that survives and makes it - no help from the reps and orgs.
Funny thing is - even with depressed pricing, higher fuel pricing and so on - we made money last year - and probably will this year. Despite having sold down to very few animals.
We developed our market and our system with no help from anyone.
We did this because we were tired of paying accountants and lawyers to get money from the chartered accountant income supplement funds. And usually getting nothing.
We were tired of age verification that gave - to the vast majority of producers - NO return.
We were tired of Quality Starts Here - that gave - to the vast majority of producers - NO return.
We were tired of programs that were asked for by the various cattle groups - provided by the various gov orgs and then watching the money go everywhere but where it was needed.
I have yet to see how a quota system would be designed - so I refuse to call it down. Seems I may be in the minority in that one.
I have yet to see an assistance program that truly works - so we opted out.
Having lost nearly $80K in real dollars about three years ago we needed to change - so we designed our own program and we did things that were completely foreign to us - out of the box?
Nope - for me there no longer is a box!
The rest of the producers can run with the herd - we are out of it.
We may not get rich, but we have certainly started climbing out of the hole - and faster than I thought possible.
Bez
We developed our own markets because I was tired of the following:
1. Cattle producers begging for money,
2. Cattle producers sueing corn producers in Ontario,
3. Cattle producers complaining about how bad things are,
4. Cattle producers resisting VALID changes to evolve with the times.
4. No damned organizations DOING anything about the above - other than to beg for money and take nice trips to nice places on MY dollar.
So, if our plans do come to fruition, it will be this outfit that survives and makes it - no help from the reps and orgs.
Funny thing is - even with depressed pricing, higher fuel pricing and so on - we made money last year - and probably will this year. Despite having sold down to very few animals.
We developed our market and our system with no help from anyone.
We did this because we were tired of paying accountants and lawyers to get money from the chartered accountant income supplement funds. And usually getting nothing.
We were tired of age verification that gave - to the vast majority of producers - NO return.
We were tired of Quality Starts Here - that gave - to the vast majority of producers - NO return.
We were tired of programs that were asked for by the various cattle groups - provided by the various gov orgs and then watching the money go everywhere but where it was needed.
I have yet to see how a quota system would be designed - so I refuse to call it down. Seems I may be in the minority in that one.
I have yet to see an assistance program that truly works - so we opted out.
Having lost nearly $80K in real dollars about three years ago we needed to change - so we designed our own program and we did things that were completely foreign to us - out of the box?
Nope - for me there no longer is a box!
The rest of the producers can run with the herd - we are out of it.
We may not get rich, but we have certainly started climbing out of the hole - and faster than I thought possible.
Bez
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