?The grain handling sector, from pulses to terminals, is overbuilt. I doubt anyone is making money, as elevators are operating at reduced capacity. Costs are up across the board, and the carbon tax is an operational slug through the whole value chain.
It's a question of viability and staring at the face of tariffs makes that question for too many: immediate.
I expect Cargill management looked at the pulse balance sheet and decided to put the plug on peas. Ingredion did the same a few weeks earlier.
Cargill & Ingredion shuttering in Saskatchewan are both canaries in the mine.
Amazon is another canary, albeit in a different sector in Canada.
The value-added sector is essential. We need domestic demand.
Maintaining markets in the world is a policy issue and they are essential.
Western Canada must seriously take ownership, as ongoing issues with our major trading partners of China and India have resulted from the management in Ottawa.
This is why I suggest our ag associations in Western Canada need to own policy directly and not just production issues.
But let's look at how we address issues, one of the major influences has been the environmental agenda! Despite us being the number 1 sustainable farmers in the world we are denied carbon credits by made-in-Canada regulations. And then the climate cult has a preference for plant-based meat and pulse protein, which is good for us. But the direction of insect protein is preferred to beef is not! They continue to denigrate beef, falsely, for its negative contribution to climate. As a person who pushes the back, I must say the response from the beef sector has been limp, to say the least. But it's even worse from the commodity groups who pompously say:
Beef has nothing to do with me, I am a grain farmer!
Case in point Bill C 293! The province of Alberta aside, they took the lead.
Indeed, the grain industry needs the feed sector for the huge demand and market dynamics they create. Where does a canola meal go after all?
We are in a wake-up call time. We need to define what makes us relevant in the rapidly expanding protectionism in the world of ag and trade. We have been here before and we always lose.
I have posted earlier about issues I see as essential: Efficiency, review of all programs, carbon credits included, leading genetics and I suggest that we all accept the fact:
We are either part of the solution or part of the problem. It's not someone else job, it's yours: Be an ambassador.
It is your industry: Own it.?
It's a question of viability and staring at the face of tariffs makes that question for too many: immediate.
I expect Cargill management looked at the pulse balance sheet and decided to put the plug on peas. Ingredion did the same a few weeks earlier.
Cargill & Ingredion shuttering in Saskatchewan are both canaries in the mine.
Amazon is another canary, albeit in a different sector in Canada.
The value-added sector is essential. We need domestic demand.
Maintaining markets in the world is a policy issue and they are essential.
Western Canada must seriously take ownership, as ongoing issues with our major trading partners of China and India have resulted from the management in Ottawa.
This is why I suggest our ag associations in Western Canada need to own policy directly and not just production issues.
But let's look at how we address issues, one of the major influences has been the environmental agenda! Despite us being the number 1 sustainable farmers in the world we are denied carbon credits by made-in-Canada regulations. And then the climate cult has a preference for plant-based meat and pulse protein, which is good for us. But the direction of insect protein is preferred to beef is not! They continue to denigrate beef, falsely, for its negative contribution to climate. As a person who pushes the back, I must say the response from the beef sector has been limp, to say the least. But it's even worse from the commodity groups who pompously say:
Beef has nothing to do with me, I am a grain farmer!
Case in point Bill C 293! The province of Alberta aside, they took the lead.
Indeed, the grain industry needs the feed sector for the huge demand and market dynamics they create. Where does a canola meal go after all?
We are in a wake-up call time. We need to define what makes us relevant in the rapidly expanding protectionism in the world of ag and trade. We have been here before and we always lose.
I have posted earlier about issues I see as essential: Efficiency, review of all programs, carbon credits included, leading genetics and I suggest that we all accept the fact:
We are either part of the solution or part of the problem. It's not someone else job, it's yours: Be an ambassador.
It is your industry: Own it.?
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