producer cars

[perfecho]

Notice which system has the highest percentage....although it is also the less "changed" (porcessed) of all.
What does that tell us?

[fjlip]

If most of the Dairy producers are in Quebec they will in Federal law force the rest of Canada to pay cost plus a profit. Therefore either inherit a dairy with quota, or beg to get laws passed for other farm products consumed in Canada! Simple, but not a snowball's chance in hell in our lifetime.

[Gerald_sk]

If I remember product of Canada regulations. All listed except
milk could be called product of Canada. Whether the grain or beef
was growth in Canada doesn't count, as it is less than 50% of retail
value.
Years ago I read a British "think tank" report on all the government
money going into agriculture. Basic conclusion was British
food product should be shut down and imported from the lower
cost areas. There was more money to be made by moving things
in multi-step production than doing all the work on a small
scale in one area. This was most like 15-20 years ago and it
has really come true.
Canada and the world doesn't need any grains from Western
Canada. Viterra can now source their malt barley requirement out
of Australia. Wonder how long before the first boat load of Australian
barley show up at a Sask. malt plant. CN and CP may give them some
very good rates for backhaul.

[makar]

Some 12 years ago i was on the way to vegas on my only holiday of my life and half way in montana paul harvey came on the radio. He said the wheaties company had made a deal with tiger woods to put his face on the box for 10 cents. He also said the value of the wheat was 2 cents. So much for the price of grain having anything to do with the cost of food.

[bucket]

cn and cp do give very good rates for backhaul. They have been moving grain from the prairies to montreal and back to Vancouver for years. They also send grain to churchill and then back to Vancouver. Its how they calculate the rate cap. AND it costs farmers millions. But it creates jobs.blah blah blah.

[furrowtickler]

Good point bucket, as we sit and take it on the chin year after year.

[bucket]

I wouldn't say western canadian farmers are taking on the chin. These bastards and the one organizing this party(cwb) are not even kind enough to buy vaseline for the screwing we are taking.

The cwb is out buying bins for some organic (sorry pars) bakery in Winnipeg because some lazy ass is too lazy to carry a few bags of wheat.

[parsley]

Nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. I agree.

Canada cannot afford to have our public institutions created so we are foced to deal with them, and then charge fees or taxes, or tarrifs to spend whatever they like. Uninhibited.

Bins. Scholarships. Checkoffs.

It all ends up being a slushfund built with my money to support some slob who whines he's finacially crippled.

Don't get me started.lol

[classicalliberal]

Just remember that grain companies don't blend grain for free because it is a huge hastle to blend and it increases their risk.

[NISAcase]

Where were the farm organizations when the NISA claim was going on and a estimated billion dollars was shifted from the west to the east by alleged breaches of the laws no less. Since 1935 really. How about running for the Federal Liberals in Manitoba similar to the lawyer May provincially in Calgary West in Alberta and then not. I do track these things. So Lewis is giving the land grab speech in Saskatoon today which was put in the court file this past April 2009. I Donata (Dohna) know about these farm organizations and what purpose they actually serve when they disregard a billion dollars or trillions if punitive.