Interesting information

[cowman]

Western Feedlots had no problem finding barley. The hog farms had no problem?
There was no problem with the calf market? A good lot of them went south to the US?
The point was barley was undercut by a subsidized product that was dumped into Alberta. How would the feedlots squawk if American steers were dumped into Alberta at half the cost? It just was not fair.

[BFW]

We only fed barley in our yard as well. Point is, if that corn had not come in feeder prices would have been much lower to account for the higher feed costs or the cattle would have left the country resulting in lower demand yet for local feed grains. The only thing unfair about the whole affair is that Western Canadian growers do not have the ability to take advantage of market opportuniies in a similar fashion because of the Canadian Wheat Board.

[cowman]

No argument here about the CWB! We really need to see the end of this organization. However I doubt I'll ever see it.

[cowman]

If I recall correctly the corn was brought in due to drought conditions here and the fear that here would not be ample supplies of barley to feed the industry.