Meanwhile in Canada

[blackpowder]

Our beef industry has always been merely a provincial arm of the US industry.

[foragefarmer]

Forage, do you see any scenario under which supply management will be permitted to survive?
We forsake the US and try to join the EU or britain instead, do you think supply management won't be the first thing on the chopping block?

Not everything is about what we want to happen. Most things are about reality.

Nothing will happen to SM in Canada, they are strong and unified. Just like nothing is going to happen to Canada with regards to becoming the 51st state.

Ab5, you were obviously talking to the mirror on this one:

"Not everything is about what we ( substitute "I" for we in your case) want to happen. Most things are about reality"

It's to bad your posts seem to always fall within the first sentence, and not the second.

[blackpowder]

So the reality is dairy will never modernize it's structure. The consumers pay for it.
And eventually it implodes from inability to adapt.
60 cow Quebec herds instead of 1000 cow herds remaining in Canada?
Do you cut wheat with a binder?

[TSIPP]

My ESP says you better learn the American national anthem….

[fjlip]

That's pretty STONEAGE thinking on SM part...everybody pay to keep me on the TIT?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Nothing will happen to SM in Canada, they are strong and unified. Just like nothing is going to happen to Canada with regards to becoming the 51st state.

No one can accuse you of being a fence sitter on these issues.
I will bookmark these confidently bold predictions and add them to the collection of your predictions such as the outcome of the war in Ukraine. We can revisit in the future.

Hopefully your future forecasting is as successful as your perfect record of hindsight forecasting of markets.

[rumrocks]

Three years ago today the PM gave the command to saddle up and deputy PM was busy on the phone with financial institutions.

[furrowtickler]

Gee bow revealing the liberals true inentions
//youtu.be/3t4ulPeulMU

[foragefarmer]

So the reality is dairy will never modernize it's structure. The consumers pay for it.
And eventually it implodes from inability to adapt.
60 cow Quebec herds instead of 1000 cow herds remaining in Canada?
Do you cut wheat with a binder?

How many times has it been posted on Agriville, "Let's all shut it down for a year and let the consumers feel the pain" Now all of a sudden there is concern for what the consumer is paying for dairy products.

BP, have you noticed what consumers fill their shopping carts up with now? Coke and chips seem to be in a lot of those carts. Maybe replace a couple of Cokes with a jug of milk as Coke sure isn't cheap.

What breaks have consumers ever recieved at the grocery stores reagarding any agriculture product or by-product.

Western Canadian farmers modernized and increase dramatically in size, did grocery prices go down as a result.

The only thing that did go down was the rural population, the amount of schools, kids at the rinks, bars, restaurants, and for some strange reason grocery stores.

Be interesting to hear from the poster from Quebec who was once on Agriville.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Forage, do you think dairy price is being artificially high have anything to do with the fact that consumers are choosing cheap pops and chips over expensive dairy?

As much as I don't want the government involved in our private lives. One place I think government should be involved is in making healthy food choices easier and more affordable. The equivalent of a carbon tax on unhealthy foods, with the proceeds going to make healthy foods more affordable.
As long as we pretend to have a socialized healthcare system. Where no one is responsible for their own health outcomes and poor choices. We can't afford to have a no-fault healthcare system.

[furrowtickler]

Actually you both made excellent points and very good posts

[blackpowder]

Why can't Canadians separate business from feelings?
Or does the Internet create our own personal echo chamber? Instantly we go to extremes.

Access to a standard of health care should be like lady justice, blind to lifestyle, as it would be race. But can't we all afford different lawyers?
Any dairy discussion is wrapped solely in Quebec. Modernizing becomes like birth control to the Catholics. Any defense of status quo is debunked simply by the price of milk elsewhere. Tying in rural consolidation makes the discussion nonsensical.
Doesn't affect my life but how does a 60 cow herd work only in one province? If you want to be like Europe then give all provinces the same sovereignty. And don't forget to keep a strong gdp to pay for it.