Who agrees and who disagrees! Open for discussion.

[grassfarmer]

ag-boy you never did tell us which large store was selling all the organic and grass-fed and having to throw so much out. Who was it?

Yes, some people make a poor job of organic or grassfed beef but the consumers buying this type of product would rather have it than the commodity "fix" Plenty of cow calf guys making a poor job too - then the feedlots get to fix them up with drugs and ractopamine and hormone implants and feed them to a fairly uniform level of condition. I'll give you that -the feedlot sector and commodity system produce a fairly uniform product - but it's full of #$%^ that I and many others prefer not to eat.

I have produced outstanding quality grass-fed beef over the last decade and it's all been properly inspected so don't insult us all with your biases.

[CptnObvious]

Nowhere did Allan Blakeney say that farm ownership must be capped at 1,000 acres. The evidence against the right is observation. The evidence against the left is imagination.

[LEP]

Right like the classic "All the crowns will be privatized" line used every election for the past twenty years.

All based on fact.

[CptnObvious]

Hermanson was favoured to win the 2003 election until the 'sell the crowns'part of the SP platform was debated. Technically he said he didn't plan to sell the big 4 corps, but he would 'consider offers.' That sure made us feel safe.
Wall is smart enough not to say he wants to privatize the crowns but he is trying to hobble and starve them into the history books.

[LEP]

Bill, you keep believing what you read in the commonwealth.

It is all truth.

[oneoff]

Biggest thing most farmers had against the Land Bank was that it was land that they couldn't have.

Tough shit that SF3 types think they need another half section that some beginning farmer relied on. And there are also the personal public protection entitlements that are thought to go with those acres involved.

Say what you want....but there were farmers who got their start on a half section (or so) of Land Bank Land.

And when sold by government; it may have been the highest priced (in "real" dollars) that land was selling for in the 1980's. I never saw any Land Bank land offered for sale cheap.