Cost Benefit - RancHERs

[smcgrath76]

US trade law is funny. The last countervail was raised specifically for that point. The hog guys are also in danger of rasing the ire of a countervail for the same reason.
The cases would be raised and conducted in a US court, so the issue becomes a pretty serious one that is incredibly difficult to manage. Think softwood lumber, same scenario.

[smcgrath76]

Sorry to hear that Lori. Hope everyone is OK.

SM

[farmers_son]

Grassfarmer: It is my impression that the Rancher’s Beef bankruptcy was in large part due to too much debt. Rancher's did focus attention on the Europe hormone free market but it would appear that it was not lucrative enough to keep them alive. Their hormone free protocol was not easy for the producer to meet and would have cost quite a bit of money in vet fees. I did leave that lot of calves with no implants even if they never were contracted with Ranchers Beef but it really showed, implants make a real difference.

I can’t believe that all the small processors that are members of CBEF would continue to pay their membership dues if the situation was as you describe.

As long as we can ship live cattle to the U.S. I do not see where the 2.5 Canadian packers have a captive supply. COOL does threaten that however which is a real concern for me.