The madness continues from what I saw on TV of the CCA meeting in Calgary today. Is the latest plan by Laycroft the end result of lots of months of thinking and planning? Basically appeal to Government to pay producers hundreds of millions of dollars to feed cattle and keep them off the market until extra packing plant capacity comes on line. As the capacity is coming from the existing packer cartel this will mean that they can make even more money a year or eighteen months from now. Lakeside will be able to steal and process 5000 a day instead of 4000 a day. How can the "leaders" of our industry not see that without doing something to ensure competition prices paid to producers will not increase.
If they set about legally establishing a fair price for the cattle being currently being slaughtered we could be in a lot better shape by Christmas.
If they set about legally establishing a fair price for the cattle being currently being slaughtered we could be in a lot better shape by Christmas.
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