needham, while posting something to get lots of replies is entertaining, you gotta realize the old days of fear mongering equating wheat to smuggling cocaine are quickly disappearing. At least for most.
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Needham, we're just back from Mesa, AZ. Talked to a couple of ND farmers from Minot while flying back. They didn't have any problem with Canadian wheat coming down if it had to. They did think though that prices north of the line would be close to equal that of theirs.
They were happy to see that the CWB monopoly was gone. They had always believed that the board had undercut U.S. hard wheat offerings.
Also, I farm real close to ND and know lots of farmers down there. Not one has mentioned the stuff you're talking about. Your story sounds like the NFU is ready to don white hoods and ride again in North Dakota.
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Just wait until the conditions are right and it looks
like CDN grain is being hauled into the US while
their prices are under pressure. The same country
and people that spawned R-CALF in the beef sector
will soon show you what they they think of an open
border and free trade.
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Western canada exports approx. 7% of our exported
wheat to the U.S., your making a big deal over a little
deal. If you constantly think something negative will
happen, well it will to some extent. I for one am
looking forward to more value-added processing on
the prairies, aren't you grassfarmer?
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Wheat has always moved into the US only as it suited them, the "american farmer", not when there processing plants needed it. This grain was always protected by the CWB and Canadian Farmers got paid. Now we have not protection from there millers at all or people like R-calf, and believe it they are there and waiting. I live in the southern states since my boys are farming and I see and hear first hand of thats in store.
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Canola has moved both ways across the border for
years and i'm sure wheat will too.The private
companies are far more innovative than the mandatory
cwb ever was.
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What is that supposed to mean and how did you
come by that conclusion based on me recounting the
R-CALF experience as a beef producer?
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Most mainsteam grain farmers were only upset by Can deliveries into the elevator when the domestic price was supported by US tax dollars. Back in the 90's when the US had a domestic program and export price supports, it was understandable that farmers hauling to the US ruffled some feathers. Those programs are gone now. Mandated bio fuels eating up supply isn't viewed by US farmers as a use of the tax dollars.
Grassfarmer, I'm a beef producer too. The ranchers that support RCALF, and not all do, are once again those pouty, entitlement minded, NFU types. They would blast the confidence out of an industry as long as their precious polit views get noise.
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Rather ironic when talking to many of my american farmer friends and those in the ag industry that they view the NFU as the Canadian version of R-Calf. The sky will fall and were all doomed is what Stewie and company are preaching. Fear mongering seems to be what they do best. Perhaps its time for a new approach.
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And up pops the smartest person in the world again. What did Canada ever do before you moved here grassy? Thank you for trying to bring us the European model of good business sense.
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Well Silverback you used to say you had cattle - do
you think an R-CALF like effect can't happen to cross
border grain trade?
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