Just wondering?

[blackjack]

grassfarmer I was basing my price of breds at the same as 750 lb heifers last fall. There were a lot of cheaper bred older ( not OLD ) cows at dispersals over the past couple of months. I agree that it will be the big city taxpayers that really start to make noise about tax dollars helping the ag industry. Even with the programs in place at this time we are not a heavily subsidized industry in Canada.

[cswilson]

Good cattle are still bringing decent money-some pairs in our neck of the woods traded at 1200 just recently-these are with fresh dropped calves at side.

[cowman]

grassfarmer: The corporations are conducting "acceptable business" as defined by our government...which is us? The government makes the laws these guys operate under?
I believe the government has decided that the packers were operating within that system and have done nothing wrong?
We supposedly live in a democracy and the majority obviously thinks the rules are okay or they would turf the present crowd and put someone else in?
The reality of the situation is this is the system we have and about our only option is to live with it? Or we can bang our head against the wall and scream for a change... how is that working?
Lets not forget that our grainfarmers have their own little "commie organization(the CWB)" and look how much good they do? They are supposedly not at the mercy of the big bad corporations but have their bonafide good old government agency looking after their interests! I guess that is why they are all rich and so many farmers are chomping at the bit to get into growing grain?
Yes there are lots of hungry people in the world, but the fact remains that they don't have any money to pay for the food you and I grow? Are we going to donate it? Are we going to lose money to grow something to give away?
You can't run any business that way. If you try soon you will be the one needing some charity.
The NFU has some good ideas. They are a necessary evil to counteract international corporations. However they also pretty well turned everyone off a long time ago with some of their more blatant leftist actions. Like their lobbying to keep the west coast strikes going back in the seventies, while farmers sat on a mountain of grain on the prairies and lost untold millions! I think they showed their true colors that day....RED?

[grassfarmer]

Pleased to see that you still believe that Ag Corporations are honest citizens - and you even think our Government is a fair and honest body when it comes to governing the AG sector. Kind of makes a mockery of your usual anti-Government stance on these threads - still if it helps to prop up a weak argument....