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[parsley]

Thanks for adding Bill, you are so very good at analyzing, with your nimble mind. And experienced. I believe wearing the other person's shoes for a day helps us understand what China is doing.

China pushed up the price of soybeans, by trashing Canadian canola, and the traders chirped in glory. Better than a subsidy. LOL

China is very manipulative when they can be, ...because they have had to be.

Only when they open up, when they abandon central planning, will they realize some standard of living we can relate to.

Governments have to trust their people. Not the reverse.

When you really look at China's farmer, you will see he is increadibly poor compared to us. A peasant. Feel for him.

They do grow canola en masse and they are also expanding, and adding technology for industrial use. But it appears they are remaining genetically cautious about their food.

I am tenacious to a fault. But I look upon our farmers as such good people, it's worth sharing information.

This is grunt work commodity associations should be doing. Farmers pay well for the gathering of information but bureaucratic grunts hoard it, harboring central planning tendencies. Protecting info is like the flu, a malady.

[bduke]

Haveapulse... The problem is that many Prairie
farmers have a crop in the field in which we are
responsible to cover our costs.

Crop insurance... agristability... don't/wouldn't do
it.

Even hail/fire insurance isn't covered in October...lol. BTW.. how do you start a hail storm?

So we farmers carry the risks and thereby the
losses .... only we need to pay our bills if we choose
to farm again next year.

Perhaps we need some frost tolerant ... short
season soybeans...

If we can't/won't fight them... join them!

More pulses would settle your heartbeat.... wouldn't
they?

I appreciate the work and thinking you do.... Bill

[haveapulse]

Create our own demand, every farm should run on bio diesel.

[haveapulse]

Translation: We need to create our own demand.

Build bio diesel plants and support internal trade, every farm should run on bio diesel.

[parsley]

Need our farmer association to negotiate with GM to order X n, say 27,000, farm trucks on discount, each one with indiv farmer's designer specs.

Keeps GM alive.
Delivery through dealership allowing a very small delivery fee.
We get cheaper trucks.

[haveapulse]

Perhaps the lesson in dealing with China will be the need for Canada to develope an "industry" front for internal policy and industry development and world trade.

The lesson will be repeated until it is learned: Selenium in peas, Blackleg in canola.