Time to Get into Bed with the Chinese? Just thinking out loud!

[pourfarmer]

Find some organic guys in your area, they've likely been doing this like this for the last 20 years. It can work.

[Oliver88]

Samhill- Suncor owns Petro Canada.

I believe they bought it out 4 years ago approximately.

[Hopperbin]

Suncor

Revenue $39.3 billion CAN (2011)Net income $4.3 billion CAN (2011)Total assets$74.777 billion (2011)[1]Total equity$38.6 billion (2011)[1]Number of employees13,026 (2011)[1]

Gross income is 3 million per employee
Net income is 330,109 per employee

[cottonpicken]

Love the idea,they could send us back seed also.

That would wipe the ****in smirk off some faces,get all our inputs and ship it ourselves with containers.

[Guest]

cotton, I think that's exactly what we should do .china is buying the majority of our canola anyways , why the hell shouldn't we support them ?

[samhill]

Oliver, thanks for the come back, but I know who owns Petrocan. Just trying to make a point that offshore ownership of Canadian enterprises is usually unsatisfactory. Petrocan was supposed to be Canadian competition in the oil industry, but alas, there's no such thing. It's the reason grain farmers need to be involved in the business of processing products made from our production. Otherwise just accept the status quo and operate within those parameters.
Would I be a farmer if I couldn't own my land - not a chance.

[macdon02]

I asked around on this, turns out ND soy association put feet on the ground in China trying to make this fly about 4 years ago. Was nip and tuck whether it would fly. I'm gonna ask some questions at Rayglen, they got some Chinese buyers and are getting into the input side of things