This will drive you nuts

[cottonpicken]

If i was there i would jam both there heads into that cows backside.

http://watch.bnn.ca/commodities/november-2009/commodities-november-13-2009/#clip234887

[Choice2U]

With crap like this being spewed through BNN...why would one watch it regarding investment decisions?

I never knew Syngenta was big into fertilizer.....

I guess 60 Mln buffalo in western Canada 200 years ago didn't fart like today's cow heard which is 1/15th the size.....

I guess if we all grow more lentils and raise less cows, people will eat more lentils. Build it and they will come....riiiiggggghhhht...

If I burn diesel for food or diesel for ethanol production, isn't the carbon impact on growing fuel vs food the difference between the two? The way they calculate ethanol carbon costs assumes the carbon impact would be zero with the alternative uses of that land.

BNN should be ashamed of themselves.....

Besides....it's been cooling for the last 10 years!!!!! I remember the mini ice age concerns in the early 70's. To borrow a rememberance term...."lest we forget".

I apologize to anyone who took this as demeaning to those that died for our freedom.

[Choice2U]

Whoops....should be "today's cow herd"....not heard.

[Kodiak]

It’s truly depressing when you see our "institutes of higher learning" spreading such ignorance. I gotta think this good professor has never been outside of his condo or the campus.

Reminder to self…..do not send any of my children to the University of Toronto.

[parsley]

Western Canada has scrumptious T bone steak. And Western Canada has great quantities of oil in the ground ready to pump. And Western Canada has lots of land. And Western Canada has the best gulldamned skilled farmers in the world.

And we don't need futuristic grubs telling us we should be eating lentils, or telling us to sow the land down to GM crops developed from checkoff funded scientists, and we don't need to supply cheap grains for fuel for the mini-Cooper crowd, ripe for taxing.

We have it all, boys. We just need to hang onto it. Pars

[blackjack]

Amen pars.

[vagabonddreamer]

now now pars...you know better than that...you dont really "have" it...you are merely HOLDING if for tyson and carghill at YOUR cost..until THEY decide they want it...then they cleverly pull the strings on the marrionettes that dance for them (another long list of the effluential...lol)...et voila...c'est bon...et aurevoir....vs

[parsley]

You sound as if you have been captured and tied to a chair.

As long as you can produce, and as long as you have a choice to sell to whom you please, you have tonnes of options.
You can team up. Form like minded groups. Manufacture. Combine. Buy out.Amalgamate.

I see the world as a prize. Don't you? Or do you need untying? Pars

[brian99]

Why are the most highly educated sometimes the most ignorant? What garbage. 20-30% of the applied fertilizer goes into crops, the rest into water sources? We'd all be broke.

I watched the Tim Ball Webinar the other day and he had a great point. Extremists exist to set the limits for the rest of us. They give society a chance to say " no, that's too far". Society should say no, this guys is an idiot, I won't buy his book. By the way, where do I pick up my fertilizer subsidy cheque?

[vagabonddreamer]

ahh..parsley...but that is just it...you DONT have a choice...you have the other markets that you list...you have what is left available to you once you decide you ARENT going to or CANT sell to the puppeteers...economies of scale dictate...that the multinationals can be ASSURED that the big producers are held captive...ergo...the big producers are a "holding" sub organization by sheer fact...you as a smaller producer go after the market that is left...is that a choice?? vs

[parsley]

vagabond,

I just translated November newspapaer in Germany:

Stuttgart - It was the first time that flaxseed has been tested for contamination - and immediately found themselves unauthorized admixtures.
A tip from experts had let the food guards suspicious.
The Chemical and Veterinary Investigation of Freiburg had since 20 August total of 41 samples of packaged flaxseed scrutinized.

In 16 samples have been found traces of genetically modified linseed.

14 samples from organic farms showed no traces.

Which market puts more money in a farmers pocket?

Not referring to organic, but being a TRUSTED grower/farmer, and selling under the umbrella of, and protecting that reputation, (probably in like-minded groups for volume,) predict, will be the most valuable asset on a farmers' assett sheet, and it's a'comin on faster than I thought.

We had a buyer here from Japan one time. He purchased 10,000 sides of beef in Tokyo every few days. He sat in our back yard, and sighed, and said we have everything here in Canada and make sure we don't change a thing. Air water. Soil. Stars.
Pars

[wilagro]

Parsley...you grow those lentils...so you can bloody well eat them too. We'll eat the steak and you can munch on those DEElicious lentils.

That professor of geography has an awful lot to learn about agriculture...jeez, his info on fertilizer is pathetic.

No wonder the Canadian public is so ill-informed with pundits who are so brainwashed with the current philosphy of believing that the freaking farmer is 'causing' the problems of GW and ruining the environment.

Have a nice day and enjoy your lentil stew.