U.S. Wheat Associates

[rkaiser]

And from a realist view - Americans are not bastards. American multinational companies are something worse. All about control farmers_son. Read the book.

[kato]

I heard on the news last week that Canada provides the U.S. with 50% of it's energy.

I guess it's not appreciated eh? I bet it's not even known.

According to the Energy Information Administration, Canada and Mexico, the other pieces of the Free Trade Agreement, are a little more important than some would have us think.

"EIA forecasts that the United States will have total net oil imports (crude and products) of 12.2 million bbl/d during 2005, representing around 58 percent of total U.S. oil demand. Overall, the top suppliers of crude oil to the United States during January-August 2005 were Canada (1.6 million bbl/d), Mexico (1.6 million bbl/d), Saudi Arabia (1.5 million bbl/d), Venezuela (1.3 million bbl/d), and Nigeria (1.0 million bbl/d)."

note: bbl/d means barrels per day. That's a lot of oil.

[kato]

I didn't include the electric power, coal, or other forms of energy.

[winwin]

However,the state DOES have a place in the GRANARIES of the nation.It is there that Rosie,Agstar etc can really live out there BONDAGE fantasies.

Imagine;the chains,the whips,leather.I've seen farmers coming into courtrooms all chains top to bottom.I'll bet cotten is a DOMINATRIX like me,oral abuse and all.

Be still your heart,Vader,thinking about Andy Mcmechan going through 57 cavity searches.I know where you power types are really (coming) from.

[Willowcreek]

Thanks to USDA's lack of concern for US consumers and the safety/longterm economic vitality of the US cattle herd, Canada is riding on the shirttails of the industry the US cattleman built...

I can see why Canadians oppose M-COOL when you have to ship 85% of your export beef to the US and get the USDA label so it can be passed off as US beef in order to sell it....

If Rule 2 goes into effect, how much of Canadas export beef will have to go to the US, be relabeled with a USDA inspected stamp and passed off as US product, in order to get someone to buy it? 99.9%???????????

Sad day when Canadian cattlemen have come to the point they have to support the multinationals use of fraud and deceit to market their product- just so they can stick a few more illicit bucks in their pocket!!!!!!

[agstar77]

All the information on the Algeria file has been sent to Obermeister Strahl's office. Let's see if he can come clean and stop spouting the line of our U.S. buddies.

[agstar77]

Oh bring it on WW!!!

[FarmRanger]

When this whole controversy started, I remember reading that original article in the online version of Liberte from Algeria. The google translation of the article quoted Mr. Kacem as saying that the CWB was giving them “tens of dollars per tonne savings” from the world price.

The CWB said in it’s defense “A review of the original press article in French clearly shows that at no point does Mr. Kacem say that they enjoy "very low prices".

Quite true, Mr. Kacem wasn’t quoted as saying “they enjoy very low prices” anywhere in that article, it was “tens of dollars per tonne savings”.

Tomato, tomato

[winwin]

F.RANGER;No,tens of dollars per tonne are not" very low prices".Hell, we can cut prices WAY more than that!

Whatever our friends need by way of favor,we can do.But it is only possible with; 1. low down payment compulsory pooling to create a massive slush fund AND 2.absolutely NO public scrutiny of ANY transaction.

[farmers_son]

If there are any concerns about the USDA and the longterm vitality of the U.S. cattle herd it would have more to do with the USDA subsidizing ethanol production and the resulting increases in grain prices.

I am sure the multinationals do use fraud and deceit. Come to think of it, R-Calf does too. There is a lot of that going around.

I really do not care what arguments/lies the R-Calf people come up with. Any more R-Calf is just a bad memory. The blockade of Canadian live cattle never had anything to do with food safety. It had a bit to do with the economic vitality of the U.S cattle herd and a whole lot to do with the U.S. pressuring Canada to support some rather unfortunate U.S. foreign policies. What has changed however is the price of oil which was about $25 a barrel prior to BSE and since BSE it has risen to about $80 a barrel and today is above $60 a barrel. There is no way on gods green earth that the U.S. (which has BSE too by the way) is going to put in place any kind of trade restrictions on Alberta beef and live cattle when Alberta has the world’s largest oil reserves and our new Premier is a farmer.

Whether we are in Canada or the U.S., agriculture from here on in is going to be all about energy. The next ten years are going to be defined by energy. And we got it. No one is stopping Alberta’s cattle at the border any more.

Rule 2 is published, it is just a matter of weeks until we see those girls heading south. Willowcreek if you listen carefully on a quiet night you can hear them coming...mooo!!