How much more can you take?

[Horse]

While you are trying to get ahold of your meat markets again from the US companies there is another faction of canadian agri that with the support of King Ralph is doing all it can to give them the grain business as well. I do believe that we as producers are about the stupidest lot on the face of this earth.
With the CWB gone who will enter the business cargil dryfus monsanto and so on will we never learn.

[kato]

How true!

People like to complain about the Wheat Board, but really, what else stands between Canadian grain farmers and the type of ripping off and domination that is going on in the beef industry right now?

Not much.

[cakadu]

Does it really have to go from one extreme to the other? Surely to goodness we can learn from the other sectors and apply it in grains so that we don't have the same problems?

I'll use that "c" word again - if we "cooperate" and work together instead of coming at it from a cuthroat perspective, shouldn't we be better off? Work it so that the value is kept at each level or part of the system and don't give away the value to someone else. Couldn't that work?

[kato]

It used to work in the grain business. For many decades. Remember the Pools?

Then one day, someone said, "Hey guys, if you go public, then you can raise some money and really expand and do well!"

So they went public....guess who bought the shares!

That's right...the same big corporations that are putting it to the beef producers right now.

Is there a lesson here? YES

Are our politicians learning that lesson? NO