What should be cut???

[perfecho]

DML, the native thing cannot be cut, we have contracts. Something has do be done to fix the root....a root we planted many years ago........

[cottonpicken]

Dm dont get me wrong it would nice if we could give everyone a million a year but we all know that wont work.

If you look at the numbers,the cost structures the inflation,the exponential growth you will see we are in big big big trouble. And none of those four ****ing twits has the balls to talk about it. That means there is absolutely no political will for meaningful change. We came to a fork in the road and have chosen the path of least resistance.

Austerity will come but it will be the bad kind,the one of the natural law ones like gravity.

The only thing that can get us out of this is technology.

[foragefarmer]

Blackpowder

What on earth makes you think dairy products to the consumer will got down. Your getting $5.00 a bushel for wheat has bread prices gone down? When beef prices were in the tank for 10 years did they go down in the store??? Again these guys work hard for their money, 24/7, 365 days a year.

Come on, you have to see through this one for lower prices to consumers not happening????? Google how big the cooperate barns are in California.

[tweety]

Forage, since when does the price of wheat have anything to do with the price of bread in a store?

In that 6$ bushel of wheat a pound of wheat costs 10 cents. A bushel makes 90 loaves of white bread. Or roughly 6.6 cents of wheat in a loaf of bread - to you Mr farmer.

A little math should help you understand that your value in a loaf of bread is almost nothing so farmers should stop talking like it is.

Its an embarrassingly poor example farmers post and tweet about how rough it is on the ol' farm by equating wheat off the farm magically becoming a loaf of bread and that they should somehow capture far more of that price then the rest of the value chain.

[dmlfarmer]

Thanks for the replies. Two things are obvious. Most respondents believe we need to cut spending and most respondents do not support, and want to cut, fed spending that they do not get a personal benefit from.

Yet the leaders of all parties continue to promise more spending to buy your votes. The National Post is keeping a running record of the election promises made. Check out http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/a-full-list-of-all-the-promises-made-so-far-in-the-canadian-election-campaign and see how many of the promises made you actually agree with and think we can afford. It makes you wonder where all the parties are going to find the way to pay for all these promises and still balance the budget.(except the Libs who admit they will run a 3 year deficit to pay for theirs)Is the party you support promising to spend money on programs which you do not want your tax dollars spent on?

[wakopa]

unless someone can have a better way i guess i would want the public to pay part of our crop ins which goes against what i say.my opoion the taxpayer wouldnt frown on this as much as the newspapers saying on the front page farmers getting billons in bailouts.farmers actually do some good in this country.another thing i would cut right now is debt reveiw board,apparently its busy again,have a decent crop ins ,and either make or break.

[cottonpicken]

I thought the debt cost was 27b at 10% revenues but at this point what does it matter,most existing debt has been rolled forward at rock bottom rates,just x2 to include provincial,imagine if rates moved,which they won't,what if we do a half way from the eighties say 10% on 600bish load.

All of our deficits have been interest cost payments say whhhaaaaat.......

[bucket]

Tweety

Not to argue but the last time wheat went up big time it was national news about how much more a loaf of bread would cost.

Peter mansbridge never reports on wheat going down and it's impact.

[farmaholic]

......because wheat going down impacts many times less people than bread going up!!!!!!!!!!!

Debt Review Board may well be busy for a reason not related to poor crops but poor choices. One thing crop insurance isn't designed to cover(depends if your choices affect crop production....or if neck is tightly stretched over the block).

No comment on cuts but one thing I did note...not a lot of comments on increased spending.

[blackpowder]

Forage. Wheat is to bread as copper is to wire. Liquid milk is the same from teat as in glass. Your saying store milk is more $ in US?