Ag Ministers Seal Your Doom

[wilagro]

Well they have once again planned for your future. Read it and weep.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/national/Canadian ministers sign 5year deal agriculture innovation/7245323/story.html

INNOVATION is the new buzzword for the immediate future. I don't know what this means but judging from the past it could mean more good things like elk, bison, emus, ostrich, nutria, wild boars, muskox, fallow deer, yaks, miniature horses, miniature cattle, miniature dachshunds or old world grains or perhaps for Saskatchewan...RICE for the wetter parts.

Anyway they are cutting back on your support so get busy and think of something new to do with your time and money that you have left.

[SASKFARMER3]

I read it they are giving us lip service with shit
training programs etc and cutting real farm
programs.

[agstar77]

It is called survival of the fittest, get over it. Corporate integration is the way of the future. Just look at the hog industry . If a large player can't make it, they file for bankruptcy. Grain farming will be no different. Contract all of your production to a large grain company, buy all your inputs from them , get credit from them and if you can't make it file for bankruptcy and start all over again.

[fjlip]

What a bunch of SOB's.
Does nobody get it that the massive risk we take should have a backstop for shit like weather?
Vote for none of the above! Bought and paid for by the billionaires that are raping us at both ends!

[hobbyfrmr]

Agstar,

I think you are accurate. Reading the western
producer, Wigmore Farms just sold out to Pike
management group. So really, with a solid
management and smart people , vertically
integrated with inputs and proper grain cleaning
facilities, and farmers of the year on the team....it
still does not work out?
They just sold out to more money, everyone will
walk away smiling and have a management
position for the bigger money.
Bigger money will always buys good assets.
Basically corporate farms are being bought by
bigger corporate businesses. Money talks,
sometimes that is too bad.

[Saskabush]

Look again at this move by Louis Dreyfus
to get into farming. They are the
worlds 4th largest grain company. This
is the next step in their move to
complete vertical integration. They
don't want to buy grain from farmers.
They see what you and I do as another
profit center. So just like the mergers
and acquisitions in the elevator
business and milling and processing,
farmers will slowly but surely be bought
out or squeezed out.

[SASKFARMER3]

So explain why any one would haul to them,
please explain to me this!

[charliep]

Here is the press release with the basics of the agreement.

[URL="http://www.agr.gc.ca/cb/index_e.php?s1=n&s2=2012&page=n120914"]Growing Forward 2[/URL]

[cottonpicken]

So is agstability increasing or decreasing?

Is ag invest increasing or decreasing?

[wd9]

Actually fjlip, its those backstops and
emergency funding and all the government
support that takes the real risk out of
farming and makes us not think about
going broke, raises the cost of
everything and in the end causes far
more risk.

Get rid of most of it and let good
farming decisions and practice rule the
day. Relying on the government is no way
to run a biz.

[wd9]

I challenge anyone to argue that
government support helps the situation and
actually lowers risk in any way.

[mcfarms]

Could you afford crop Ins. without the fed and provincial share? Isn't that a support program?