US cattle sector begins to tally the damage from coronavirus

[GDR]

One thing is for sure......Trudeau's government isn't looking at it because they don't understand where that steak they eat comes from...

You think Morneau , Bibeau, or Trudeau have ever had shit on their shoes????

Or if they stepped in cowshit they went " ooooh my god da ""

You think they eat steak? I bet Trudeau is more of a Tofu and alfalfa sprout eater!

[GDR]

Quick math for me if things stay where they are today it’s $500 a head loss compared to three months ago. I’d sooner take a kick in the nads than eat that loss.

Last time we took on a major herd expansion was 2001-2 (we all know what happened the following year) and now we did the same thing and history is repeating itself here.

My timing is impeccable .......... as usual.

At least we know who to blame for all this, thanks a lot Woodland!

[farmaholic]

Nothing and the sask ag minister never was , is ..or will be a farmer or understand it....

He's a talking head and a poor one at that....

As long as someone is paper bagging him ...he is happy to make announcements...

In a letter three weeks before the budget expenseS were announced in saskatchewan there was no money or commitment for large irrigation projects ...then they put 5 million into abother study....

He is just a phucking liar....and so stupid to write it...

Are you saying Marit has no merit?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

At least we know who to blame for all this, thanks a lot Woodland!

I was just thinking we could use him as a good contrarian indicator.

But then I remembered that he said they also took on more green acres.

And put up lots of extra cow feed.

That pretty much takes care of all of my potential income streams I could adjust more acres into.


Personally, I'm quite optimistic on livestock prices in the medium-term. Not many cow calf guys needing to sale today at these prices. As of today any losses are still just on paper.

And unlike grain where is the US subsidizes and encourages production at below COP, Then dumps it on the world market for us to compete with, It takes years for those policies to have much effect on cattle numbers. Which were already tight.

[Guest]

Unless the malt barley company you have it contracted to is months and months behind on their deliveries and is telling you it will be at least 4 months or so into next year's crop before they will be getting it all in and that's not for sure. And you get all the cash flow issues and extra storage costs past a certain date as storage is only going to go so far before it stops.
Then in a persons mind it can get quite loud.

piss on malt barley
been out of that one sided scam a few years now
feed yields too good to mess with those shysters

[Guest]

One thing is for sure......Trudeau's government isn't looking at it because they don't understand where that steak they eat comes from...

You think Morneau , Bibeau, or Trudeau have ever had shit on their shoes????

Or if they stepped in cowshit they went " ooooh my god da ""

i doubt he eats meat

[bucket]

i doubt he eats meat

Pretty sure they are sausage eaters...

[fjlip]

piss on malt barley
been out of that one sided scam a few years now
feed yields too good to mess with those shysters

Well neighbors all around here get malt every year, 100+ yields, best paying crop. Malt Europe been great for them.

[farmaholic]

piss on malt barley
been out of that one sided scam a few years now
feed yields too good to mess with those shysters

Other than quality brewers, some have been using malted "feed" for a while now.
Remember when a GrainCo put out bids for feed barley with minimum germination?

The dumbing down to the lowest common denominator is happening now to #3 wheat with low falling number into the feed class and high grades of durum into the mid range grades.