Building a Sound Foundation for Agriculture

[parsley]

I'm still a young thing at heart, charliep,lol

1. Level playing field.(Subsidy levels to only Quebec are plain offensive)

2. Equality of Opportunity (Pretty hard to sell homemade butter from the twenty milk cows you just bought because they were a good buy)

3. Consistency.

4. Knowing the market environmnet in place (Di I plan for production in a capitalist environment or a communist environment? Ask yourself about land availability in 2019)

5. One voice to protect at least some of your your interests. Pars

[parsley]

Tommorow morning I will be there to bury my childhood best friend. A farm girl. I'm hoping just a speck of her unconditional kindness, and gentleness, and extraordinary patience will rub off on me, charliep.

We'll need in it in this "New World Order of Me", won't we. Pars

[charliep]

Sorry to hear of your loss. Rememberance is a time of reflection.

Likely shouldn't put here (and perhaps Shaun wouldn't want me to) but here is an interesting editorial from realfarm.com. The world agriculture lives in is changing.

[URL="http://realagriculture.com/2010/08/20/what-alberta-will-learn-from-ontario-eventually/"]rural versus urban vote[/URL]

[charliep]

real agriculture.com not real farm. Sorry about that.

[wd9]

Nothing much wrong with the system we have, just eliminate government support and crop insurance. It will self regulate.