Beef prices

[ashleymr93]

Taylor Rattray recently wrote an article about beef prices for InkOnline. Please click on the attached link to read the article.
http://jschool.ca/news/national/1277...r-record-highs

[ProFarmer]

Beef prices are at their highest level yet but at this level cattle farmers are finally getting paid what their cattle are finally worth. Any less and we are being taken advantage of again. With the average wage of over 20 dollars an hour, a new truck at 50000 dollars and a loader tractor at 200,000 dollars we are still not getting any more than enough. Hell average house in Regina nets 4 to 500,000 dollars.

[grassfarmer]

Maybe time to look at lower cost systems involving less of the $200,000 tractors?

[ProFarmer]

What do run an old Belerus

[ProFarmer]

Why should a cattle farmer have to lower himself to using old third world equipment in order to make a living. Why do we have to think that or cows or ourselves have to suffer so the consumer can have a high standard of living by paying the least for food. Canadians pay the least percentage of their disposable income on food in the world even though most of it is hauled thousands of miles by truckers that also work for next to nothing. I know we all live in the great white north and do not have access to a warm climate for our fresh vegges 10 months of the year but yes I as a cattle farmer want to work from a warm tractor to make a living!!!! end of Rant

[grassfarmer]

Because we are supposed to be in business in a free market situation? An attitude of entitlement is a rather poor fit and usually financially unsustainable in such an environment.

[kato]

We live in a world of entitlement. Just ask a city relative to give up that winter vacation.

I for one do not feel guilty about high beef prices. In the big picture, they are not high. They are just catching up to where they should be. While we have been struggling on through years of poor prices, the world has moved on without us. It's time for some catch up.

[SCS]

Here, here, to what Kato said!

[grassfarmer]

Oh, I don't feel guilty about high beef prices. I'd feel rather dumb if I was spending $200,000 on a tractor to feed cows though.

[kato]

We would never spend that either. Our mission is to keep as much of what we are now earning as we can. I think you will find amongst today's cattle producers, a lot of people with tight purse strings. We've been there done that, and learned a lot from it.