USDA broke the rules AGAIN

[Willowcreek]

Facts suck, don't they Oldtimer!!!

Hahaha!!!

Joe-2 --How true.. And the fact is that Canada has a very small beef industry on its own that doesn't require riding on the shirtails of the US- which in the past has been at the expense of the US producer......

[rkaiser]

All that a chicken$hit protectionist Rcalf follower like yourself can come up with is some sort of Flag waving "save the American producer" crap.

WE HAVE NO PLAN TO BREAK THE BEEF PRODUCERS OF AMERICA!

Get with the program Oldtimer. The ploys that Rcalf pulls are useless and only serve to entertain the real power players of the beef industry.

Spout your country vs. country b.s. somewhere else. If you had any guts you would be attempting to market your beef yourself instead of hiding behind the USDA one minute, and calling them down the next.

[WoolyBear]

Good golly gee aready...... Doesn't anyone that supports R-calf not recognize the similarity to Mob protection/extortion? R-calf is basically telling all the American cattle producers that the neighbors (Canadians) are thugs, and that to protect their interests, you pay their goon/lawyers/Bullards a small fee and you keep your neighborhood/markets safe from the bullies to the north.

Who's trying to muscle who? Think about it Oldtimer....... its not the Canadians that want to hurt the American producer, its all the "special interest groups" that R-calf has allied/aligned themselves with.

[Joe-2]

Ya OK Oldtimer, whatever you want to believe. Montana State University says that the "riding on shirt tails"(COMPETITION) amounted to $4.02 per head. That's less than what a salebarn charges in commission.
Or isn't good old MSU a credible source?

[oxbow]

This isn't that complicated. If we resume Canadian crossings in the spring, like we should hsve last year, any decline in price will be met by eager grilling and BBQ demand. We can choke doen a hell of alot of beef with minimal price erosion. Furthermore, if the Canadian beed is price depressing, we can limit the heavy carcasses we get later in the year to more than offset the increase in imported beef.

The Canadian beef exists, and only a resumption to orderly market signals will maximize US and Canadian prosperity. Some don't realize that if Canadian beef can't find its way here, pretty soon it will displace its amount of American export beef abroad, and the same amount of beef will be here.

[rkaiser]

Thank you Brad!