pork production

[blackpowder]

So then what does this have to do with a holistic calf producer?

[TOM4CWB]

Grassfarmer,

Base beef prices that you benchmark sales from are...based on... bingo.

You can fool some of the people some of the time...

Why would you have spent all this time telling and denying our farm the freedom to market our wheat and barley... when you have the freedom yourself to market your beef in an innovative manner;
You insist on denying our farm this same opportunity?

Why does none of this add up grassfarmer???

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie answered that... by the way... when was the last time feedlots imported corn... as if this concerns you anyway... since you don't feed!

If grain is more profitable... your grass land is worth more too grassy. You still win either way.

Cheers!

[grassfarmer]

"Why does none of this add up grassfarmer???"

Because you can't count TOM?

"by the way... when was the last time feedlots imported corn..."

Last winter.

[charliep]

Check your facts. May have been some stuff done in Alberta fall of 2010 based on forward booked stuff but high corn prices put a stop to that quickly last winter.

Some DDG' but limited given availability of cheaper Alberta feed wheat and barley.

I've attached a weekly corn futures chart. Take futures and add 75 cents plus for basis. Imported corn was close to $300/tonne most of last winter.

Manitoba was a different story - better corn basis and tighter feed grain supplies.

[URL="http://www.farms.com/FarmsPages/Markets/tabid/214/Default.aspx?page=chart&sym=ZCH12&domain=farms&stu dies=Volume;&cancelstudy=&a=W"]Nearby Corn Futures[/URL]

Actually not about whether feed grains are too expensive or too cheap. What it is about is the ability for western Canadian feed grains to price arbitrage with other markets.

Realize this doesn't matter to you grassfarmer. You business model it different. A matter of ideology I guess on your part.