Ok, Here's another idea.

[perfecho]

Good post Sage.....forward to your MLA and opposition.

[perfecho]

Just a quick note with some after thought.....there seems to be "favorites" of the AB gov, I won't mention names, that will continue to do well. They seem to have a direct line to AG $, programs and available money. These people will survive and survive well. Is it because they are "forward thinking", in with the right crowd? Lobbying on their own behalf....where as the ordinary cowpoke has no voice?
Maybe it is meant to be?

[sagewood]

Perfecho, I do agree that some of that 'favouritism' does happen and will continue to happen, I doubt there is anything we can do about it besides change the government--but alas, the bureaucrats will continue on regardless of the change in tone of the government. I just listened with interest the interview with Shane Haney and Ryan Kasko after Kasko's trip to Brazil. He notes at the end of the interview that the 'big' operations who are managed from the cities and have investors seem to do well, but that there are thousands of subsistence people who barely eek out a living and hang on by a thread. This, remember, is in Brazil where the land is fertile and the seasons allow for many, many croppings and most of their cattle are grass finished. I suspect that if the truth were know from our government types that they will let the Canadian beef industry keep struggling until the weak die off and the 'progressive' or 'investor driven' businesses continue on while they controlling masses of acres of land either by purchase or by rental and those who wish to be in the cattle industry will work for a wage for these investors. At least that is the way I see the industry going. I hear a few rumours of 'quota-driven' type cattle operations. Whether this will come to fruition is anybody's guess--whether it will work for the beef industry as it has worked for the chicken and dairy people is also a good guess--it did not seem to work so well for the hog folks. I guess if the government finally throws their hands in the air and offers a buy out package for the beef industry, similar to what they did for the hog industry, it might be a way for the government and bureaucrats to get us out of their hair so they can concentrate on doing good deeds abroad. We are a dying breed and we have no clout with anyone anymore--sad fact of life in our industry and in Canada...

[kato]

Good posts! I can't add a thing to them.

I'm really looking forward to seeing that cattle inventory report, to see if it reflects what we all see out here in the real world. Maybe it will be bad enough to be a wake up call. Or a give up call??