On the news today

[sk_wheatking]

Meat and poultry shortages on the way with big price increases for consumer's! What next.

[Austrian Economics]

If the meat plants wind up going bankrupt, it will get even worse. It takes a lot of capital to restart these facilities and ramp them up once they shut down. Right now capital is getting in short supply as the government diverts it to for the purpose of paying people not to work.

[fjlip]

Milk dumped but price goes up? Potatoes in farm storage not being used due to shut down of restaurants and fast food!
Are EGGS the only bright spot? Oh ya, flour demand up, heard the mill in Saskatoon working double shifts, baking at home?

[malleefarmer]

Some items were restricted here toilet paper pasta bread flour milk all getting lifted as ofmay1

[15444]

If the meat plants wind up going bankrupt, it will get even worse. It takes a lot of capital to restart these facilities and ramp them up once they shut down. Right now capital is getting in short supply as the government diverts it to for the purpose of paying people not to work.

Packers certainly not going bankrupt when they are making $1k per carcass. Bigger plants in US are grossing over 1/2 mil US$ every day they run.

[farmboy1]

Cheap food policy means that they got it wrong. Processor consolidation worked until lately. No matter the commodity, we have lost our local processing processing capacity and now we have nothing to fall back on. What does the future hold? A certain amount depends on the consumer to support local industry.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Cheap food policy means that they got it wrong. Processor consolidation worked until lately. No matter the commodity, we have lost our local processing processing capacity and now we have nothing to fall back on. What does the future hold? A certain amount depends on the consumer to support local industry.

I am optimistic that the pendulum of excess regulation that pushes the smaller operators out of business, or off shore, has finally swung too far, and will now start to come back thanks to COVID showing the weaknesses in our system.

[agstar77]

TP rush is over must mean pandemic easing up.

[sk_wheatking]

TP rush is over must mean pandemic easing up.

Can they keep it in stock now? I haven't been to the store much in the last while but any one you go to the shelves were empty. Pretty much any paper product for that matter.

[agstar77]

Can they keep it in stock now? I haven't been to the store much in the last while but any one you go to the shelves were empty. Pretty much any paper product for that matter.

Costco has lots.

[WiltonRanch]

Tp shortage eased here. Yeast was the big one but looks to being supplied. Took time for manufacturers to reallocate from restaurants to grocery stores but now they’re on track. When restaurants open I would surmise there’ll be an adjustment again.