On Agri-ville's information sheet that came this week there was reference to an anti-dumping tariff imposed on NW U.S. potatoes coming into B.C.
It was an article from an Idaho newspaper.
Does anyone know where it's to be found, here on Agri-ville?
Thinking that I was sending a message here, I thanked Agri-ville for bringing the message.
Said that, when recently I saw clerk in local supermarket unoading a pile of boxes of Wash apples to their shelf, asked him why he was selling Wash apples when quite a few local apple growers were uprooting trees, as they couldn't make any money.
He shrugged his shoulders, said that was no concern of his.
Later thought I should have asked him how he'd feel if, lacking decent income, apple growers shopped less in supermarket, the manager, due to reduced business, laid off recent hires - including him.
Have recently thought that, with all the fuss and screaming I've been hearing about softwood lumber, I've also heard that the U.S. had made nary a peep about softwood logs or squared timber going into the U.S. - wasn't that an equally large problem?
Lacking that, one feels that their real goal is to force local sawmills to close - they'll saw the logs in the U.S., thank you very much.
Their efficiency and productivity less than ours, it seems.
I then called local apple growers, asking if they'd gone to the govt to see whether, if Wash apples were being sold for less in neighbouring states than here (Ontario), whether they could get our govt. to impose an anti-dumping tariff on apples.
After message sent - I realized that I'd sent it to Idaho newspaper, not Agri-ville.
Oh, well - we do make mistakes, sometimes.
Does anyone here know how to spell, "free trade"?
They don't call them "Yankee traders" for nothing - they've been traders for centuries.
"Level Playing Field" is not a circumstance that they like to deal with - if they can avoid it.
I spent ten years in Korea, just after the Korean War, helping clean up the mess and refugees get back on their feet.
The Koreans, bordering Russia for a short space, and Manchuria/China for some space, as well as Japan a few miles across the sea, have persevered for over 4,000 years. They can teach us some important lessons about how to maintain one's identity when living near large neighburs.
Good wishes to all,
Ed Baker
It was an article from an Idaho newspaper.
Does anyone know where it's to be found, here on Agri-ville?
Thinking that I was sending a message here, I thanked Agri-ville for bringing the message.
Said that, when recently I saw clerk in local supermarket unoading a pile of boxes of Wash apples to their shelf, asked him why he was selling Wash apples when quite a few local apple growers were uprooting trees, as they couldn't make any money.
He shrugged his shoulders, said that was no concern of his.
Later thought I should have asked him how he'd feel if, lacking decent income, apple growers shopped less in supermarket, the manager, due to reduced business, laid off recent hires - including him.
Have recently thought that, with all the fuss and screaming I've been hearing about softwood lumber, I've also heard that the U.S. had made nary a peep about softwood logs or squared timber going into the U.S. - wasn't that an equally large problem?
Lacking that, one feels that their real goal is to force local sawmills to close - they'll saw the logs in the U.S., thank you very much.
Their efficiency and productivity less than ours, it seems.
I then called local apple growers, asking if they'd gone to the govt to see whether, if Wash apples were being sold for less in neighbouring states than here (Ontario), whether they could get our govt. to impose an anti-dumping tariff on apples.
After message sent - I realized that I'd sent it to Idaho newspaper, not Agri-ville.
Oh, well - we do make mistakes, sometimes.
Does anyone here know how to spell, "free trade"?
They don't call them "Yankee traders" for nothing - they've been traders for centuries.
"Level Playing Field" is not a circumstance that they like to deal with - if they can avoid it.
I spent ten years in Korea, just after the Korean War, helping clean up the mess and refugees get back on their feet.
The Koreans, bordering Russia for a short space, and Manchuria/China for some space, as well as Japan a few miles across the sea, have persevered for over 4,000 years. They can teach us some important lessons about how to maintain one's identity when living near large neighburs.
Good wishes to all,
Ed Baker
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