b-s-e [beef save eating]

[nakodo]

Heard one today

"Price of 82-0-0 so high farmers breaking into crack dens and stealing tanks"

[jensend]

probably the only way you can make fertilizer co.'s realize you really don't like being gouged is to cut purchases enough to hurt them. they own enough politicians that legislation ain't likely and so if you don't want to be screwed you have to refuse to play the game. so what's plan b?

[kamichel]

Jensend I think you are wrong. The competition for producing fertilizer in western Canada has been lost. We are now priced at import prices, not domestic production prices.

[jensend]

i know there is no competition for producing fertilizer which is why the gouging can easily happen. i'm just saying that as long as farming is done the way it is, the gouging will continue because for the time being, at least, you have many buyers and few sellers which isn't conducive to economics 100 style price discovery. the fertilizer isn't priced by any model than as much as an oligopolistic market can extract from farmers.