Something to be proud of

[bucket]

With the recent changes in regulations (at least in AB), there is nothing stopping anyone from capturing a piece of that value added market, and farmer owned breweries are popping up all over.

Can you post a similar chart for raw aluminum vs a finished Boeing dreamliner, or copper/lithium in an iphone.

We are in the bulk commodity production business, where the business model is that long term prices will revert to the cost of production. Our COP is completely disconnected from the cost of a finished product.

Except every one of the costs are accounted for in selling the Boeing dreamliner or an iPhone plus a healthy profit....

And the people supplying or making the aluminum for the planes have been given a healthy subsidy just recently...

I don't know how people forget or ignore these announcements......

[bucket]

Also explain how the Saskatchewan government has 40 dollars an acre for farmers in an irrigation district but nothing for drylands farmers impacted by poor trade policies....or the impacts of black swan events that are unrelated to agriculture...for example how is it that I get caught up in the arresting of a Huawei executive when it has nothing to do with agriculture and I barely get cell phone service at the best of times....

[chuckChuck]

Yes, it's working well....
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/nutrien-layoffs-sites-shut-down-1.5280327 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/nutrien-layoffs-sites-shut-down-1.5280327

So the solution to world oversupply and low prices is to produce more at a loss? Sounds like the way many farmers try to solve the problem.

[farming101]

So the solution to world oversupply and low prices is to produce more at a loss? Sounds like the way many farmers try to solve the problem.

No, we don't produce too much around here. Barley likely will make 40-50? Taking care of the carry out one field at a time.
And if we produce a great crop of barley which can be worthless if left out in the weather we should lock the gate and lay off all the hired help?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Furthermore, in a global economy, the price does not revert to YOUR cost of production, but to the LOWEST cost of production anywhere.

Yes, thanks, that is where I was headed, but ran out of time to finish. Unless we wish to limit ourselves to the domestic market, and severely cut the number of acres/producers, any notion of supply management in grains is impossible. We would be priced out of every export market instantly. And Chuck, with his intimate understanding of all things socialist, came just on schedule to suggest this very thing...

[bucket]

So the solution to world oversupply and low prices is to produce more at a loss? Sounds like the way many farmers try to solve the problem.

FFS ..there is plenty of people starving in the world to use up the volume of grain....

World leaders have no interest in feeding the hungry....but they like giving it lip service. ....