Minister Ritz COOL Dispute Announcement

[Happytrails]

GF...if you didn't want to be a good neighbor the the U.S. then you shouldn't have moved next to it. We are the 51st state whether we like it or not. Our destinies are one.

RK...the more slaughter plants the better. I just don't see anything replacing the 8000 hd/day kill that the much maligned big 2 are doing.

[grassfarmer]

HT, you are delusional. How can you possibly claim
we are like the 51st state in all this? Are states #7 and
#48 subjected to MCOOL? were they subject to an
export ban on their cattle post BSE?
Maybe you suffer from Stockholm syndrome? Now run
along, get your KY jelly, bend over and start humming
the star spangled banner.

[littledoggie]

kato - thanks for posting that list. I am pleased to see cattle/beef at the top of the list. Retaliatory tariffs should always go on the product that the dispute is about, shouldn't it?

[grassfarmer]

Good to see important food products like maple
syrup up there at the top of the list, lol. Google some
facts on maple syrup and it appears Canada produces
around 80% of the world production and of that
around 80% is exported to the US. Figures vary but it
looks like Canada maybe imports $6-7 million dollars
worth from the US and exports them around twenty
times that much. Yep, tariffs are going to work real
well in this situation. This Ritz chap sure looks like a
genius

[rkaiser]

Should we have a distinctly Canadian company producing a distinctly Canadian beef product distinctly different than the corn fed, HGP laced, ractopamine and antibiotic fed cattle that we follow due to our distinctly multinational processing industry........ we too could sell maple sugar. Americans might be patriotic, but they are not all followers. Natural and Organic production in the USA is closing in on 20% of the market while it falls short of 10% here in Canada.

Fighting for our right to ship the same beef to the states that they already produce and export is silly.

You ABP / CCA boys want something to do?

Talk to your packer buddies about marketing some distinct Canadian beef rather than trying to back door American producers.

[Horse]

We had good ALTA barley fed beef!!!! Then barley got to high compared to US corn so the feeders brought in corn , so much for our distinct beef. Corn that was laced with furisum and now we have to pay for a furisium test as well as a germ test to seed our own grain.
A little off topic but this morning I heard on the radio (and they never lie) they are still spouting we need keystone but on the other side of thier face we need to get out of our 1 trading partner idea,. We cant have it both ways.

[perfecho]

I agree Randy...proudly label Canadian, get rid of the ractomine and label as such, make it a distinct brand and get out of the gutters......
Larry

[grassfarmer]

http://www.heritageangus.ca

[perfecho]

Right idea....great stuff...wrong breed...:-)
Canadian Heritage Beef I am game for!

[grassfarmer]

That is just another piece of petty nonsense that
needs to be set aside in our efforts to market BEEF
perfeco. Especially when the meaning of "breed"
counts for nothing to almost any of the major breeds
anymore. I thought a Gelbvieh guy would be all for it?
First you crossed your breed with Angus to take of
the horns and make them dark red and black. Now it
seems many "Gelbvieh" breeders are selling "Balancer"
bulls which are an Angus x Gelbvieh cross. So these
cattle will be more Angus that Gelbvieh wont they?