cargill high river beef packing workers test positive

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Here is another example of excess government regulation that drove all of the small packing plants out of business and left just a few giant packing plants. Bigger is not always better.

I've made references in the past to the superhuman efforts made during WWII by all sides in comparison. Look at Germany's manufacturing towards the end of the war, went from massive factories which were easily bombed and all aspects taken out of production, to dispersing manufacturing to small, local, in home type manufacturing to protect their supply chains, losing a few % of production at a time was much better than 100%. Less efficiency, but much less vulnerable. Same is true here, but I don't know how we turn back time, unless we are willing to also turn back all the regulations which only favoured those big enough to afford to implement them. Plus, all the small town butchers mysteriously burned down in recent years.

[Sheepwheat]

Since you have the ability to bypass the bottleneck that is now the packing plants, you will win on both ends. There will be shortages in the stores, leading to more hoarding and higher prices. And lower farmgate prices for commodity livestock. Your system gets to actually take advantage of those higher prices and demand, without being affected by lower farmgate prices. Until of course all of your fellow Agriviller's decide to do the same. How many sheep can SF3 run on 10,000 acres of prime dirt?

Lol. It is a pile of work that’s for sure, and it is a slow market. You don’t sell a hundred lambs at once and get the cash all up front, you carry expensive inventory; the end goal is a more stable monthly income. It is a whole lot of fun. It is challenging, and it fits our family right now. Above all I love the darn sheep. They are just a funny, funny animal! I don’t have the fortitude for grain farming anymore. Kudos to those who do. I respect those folks a lot, because it takes a lot of gut power to do it. I lost that gut power!

Sf3 with his 10 000 acres. In that blessed country where it seems you could graze 11 months of the year, with proper grazing, I would think he could run 20 to 60 000 ewes. Lol.

[farmaholic]

Until of course all of your fellow Agriviller's decide to do the same. How many sheep can SF3 run on 10,000 acres of prime dirt?

The only sheep SF3 will be counting are the ones when he's having trouble falling asleep.

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[burnt]

Here is another example of excess government regulation that drove all of the small packing plants out of business and left just a few giant packing plants. Bigger is not always better.

That is exactly the problem.

The local stores here are having trouble keeping meat on the shelves. The big packers are slowing/shutting down. The pork producers may have to start euthanizing fat hogs.

And the couple of small abattoirs that remain in this part of the province cannot keep enough fresh cuts on their shelves for the huge demand spike their are seeing from walk-in customers. As of today, Tuesday, one of them is taking orders for pork chops for next week!.

There is a movement beginning here to prod the governments to enable economic revitalization projects to keep our economy functioning and stimulate new ventures.

I am talking to our MLA and MP to help enable projects that will address both the empty shelves and the marketing bottleneck in this part of the province, one of the most productive agricultural counties in Ontario.

The plan that several of us are pushing is to eliminate and reduce the absolute bullshit regulations that have hamstrung the meat packing business in Ontario. Allow small abattoirs to restart or start up without the million layers of bureaucratic intervention that has killed it.

For example of needless extremity, we don't need some jackass federal inspector at the slaughter plant door checking to see if there is enough straw in the trailer.

Had a big fat steer badly break a horn a while ago, happened to be kill day, can't haul him in if it's bleeding. Got it stopped and called ahead to get clearance to take it in. Had to call the freakin CFIA to get the go ahead and was told that if the animal appears to be in distress in transit, well stop and make sure it's okay. Ya like I'm gonna stop on the side of the road to go see if he's crying.

Like what the hell was I supposed to do - sit beside it and hold its hoof?

This is just an example of the complete jackassery that our system has turned into. And this is a minor interference compared to the annual audits and updates that cost these guys in the 100's of thousands.

And this is why it now costs about $600 to get a market hog processed and $8 -900 for a beef.

Complete disincentives that have now resulted in a near-paralysis of what was one of the best food production systems in the world.

And food safety improvement isn't the issue - how many thousands of tonnes of meat have been recalled by the big licensed packers in the past couple of years?

Now we have almost no small butcher shops as a result.

So sit down, brainstorm how to cut the bullshit government out of teh loop and let the people get the project done.

You know what will drive the push back from Big Gov? Too many useless pricks of government workers will be shown for what they are - useless bloodsuckers getting fat on the backs of the working people.

Complete jackasses like the County warden who said ON AIR that "our staff still needs to be paid".

Listen to yourself, you jackass!! You are talking about protecting the obscene incomes of a whole boatlaod of useless pricks making well over $100,000 a year and all they are doing is holding down economic development with their insane regulatory schemes.

And I'm telling you - when the shit really hits the fan, those feckless fools who sit in their cozy offices dreaming up more shit in a day than a 100 good workers can handle can expect to see an angry mob coing for them...

So, cut the red tape, let the people work and then all of our community can benefit fronm more jobs and a steady supply of food.

What's so hard about that?

Damn, I about busted the keyboard in the production of this public service message.

[Guest]

Hell of a post burnt
Made my day !
Most of those rules were make work projects for govt friends anyways

[Jay-mo]

You wonder how much money is being made trucking market hogs from southern Ontario to Brandon, Mb.....

[burnt]

You wonder how much money is being made trucking market hogs from southern Ontario to Brandon, Mb.....

5,000 head weaner barn nearby that gets filled from a farrowing barn in Manitoba. 60 pounders leave and go to the Dakotas to finish and slaughter.

The pork could end up in China.

And they pay us with the flu.

[malleefarmer]

Believe me or not and I guess you guys will think, well just backward hillbilly Australians, but my local butcher in small town still has about 3 inches of saw dust in his cut up room in his shop.

Quite possible he ain’t been inspected for a while but old fashioned small town butcher, probably washes his cut up areas with ammonia

[biglentil]

Michelle McMullen, communications manager at the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, said:*"This single facility represents just over one-third of Canada’s total processing capability, so the impacts to the Canadian beef industry are expected to be immediate and drastic."

[furrowtickler]

Michelle McMullen, communications manager at the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, said:*"This single facility represents just over one-third of Canada’s total processing capability, so the impacts to the Canadian beef industry are expected to be immediate and drastic."

I guess “consolidation” and vertical integration has hit a wall with this virus .