CAIS

[rsomer]

In Alberta, the inventory value price lists are online at: http://www.afsc.ca/Disaster Programs/Farm Income Disaster Prog/Price Lists/2003 Price List.htm

[k-way]

CAIS is truning out to be like FIDP, there doing a good job in the media the farms are getting millions, but how much have we lost billons. It is going take years to get out of this mess and I do not think the goverment is really equiped to handle the problem at hand, we still cannot butcher an old cow. What about the price of ground cow? Politics and farming do not mix, by the time they get there act together half the farms will be broke, problem fixed.

[k-way]

Yeah, abouth those interim payments. We're supposedly eligible for nearly $25,000 total (almost $12,000 interim). But we can't access it because we weren't part of NISA prior to CAIS. They tell us we have to go through everything the long way for them to "confirm" that their estimates are correct. Apparently, our FIDP info is at high risk of having been all a bunch of lies. So we have to do more forms and keep waiting just to get the interim that a lot of people received before Christmas. I swear the plight of the young farmer (with debt) just doesn't matter. No one must want to have an agriculture industry left in this country when all the old guys "retire". We'll be out of it long before they are. Then people will b**** that food costs too much when we have to import it all from the US (which is what the US would like).