I have to applaud you guys who are getting out and trying to do something to get things happening. It always takes some real workers, not just talkers, to get results.
One thing that concerns me is when we say we need to sell to others like Japan because the Americans don’t want our beef. We forget Japan doesn’t buy beef, individuals do. Same goes for the USA. American consumers are buying our beef right now .The packers we have are shipping them all they can. American producers don’t want our beef .Never did. They aren’t our customers.
We have to take care of our customers as they have supported us in the past and are supporting us now {individuals, not governments}.
Japan is a different story. They never did buy large quantities from us. Not that some weren’t trying to sell to them. Thompson Meats at Melfort geared their whole business plan to Asia and neglected their well established domestic market and went broke doing it.
We always feared we were to dependant on the US consumer, but never seemed to be able to do anything about it.Cargill/Tyson may have indeed been relableling our beef and trans-shipping it. But they weren’t selling to” Japan” ,they were selling to people.
I expect whoever they were selling to wanted it that way.
Please don’t take this post as discouragement. Keep up the good work. I want markets to return to “pre BSE” levels, and said from the start politicians won’t save us, hard work by individuals will. But remember the first rule of buisnessis; Take care of your current customers first, then go looking for new ones.
One thing that concerns me is when we say we need to sell to others like Japan because the Americans don’t want our beef. We forget Japan doesn’t buy beef, individuals do. Same goes for the USA. American consumers are buying our beef right now .The packers we have are shipping them all they can. American producers don’t want our beef .Never did. They aren’t our customers.
We have to take care of our customers as they have supported us in the past and are supporting us now {individuals, not governments}.
Japan is a different story. They never did buy large quantities from us. Not that some weren’t trying to sell to them. Thompson Meats at Melfort geared their whole business plan to Asia and neglected their well established domestic market and went broke doing it.
We always feared we were to dependant on the US consumer, but never seemed to be able to do anything about it.Cargill/Tyson may have indeed been relableling our beef and trans-shipping it. But they weren’t selling to” Japan” ,they were selling to people.
I expect whoever they were selling to wanted it that way.
Please don’t take this post as discouragement. Keep up the good work. I want markets to return to “pre BSE” levels, and said from the start politicians won’t save us, hard work by individuals will. But remember the first rule of buisnessis; Take care of your current customers first, then go looking for new ones.
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