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How Will Corona affect Farmers

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  • agstar77
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2001
    • 6170

    How Will Corona affect Farmers

    Rumor that China may invoke "Force Majeure" in regards to U.S. trade deal. This trade deal supposed to help U.S. farmers.
  • bucket
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 17021

    #2
    Masters at marketing those chinese people are....can a farmer claim force majeure because of rail blockades and other issues out of their control?????

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    • bucket
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2008
      • 17021

      #3
      My guess is lower grain prices and higher input costs....but guys can make it up on volume...

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      • sk_wheatking
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2011
        • 898

        #4
        Originally posted by bucket View Post
        My guess is lower grain prices and higher input costs....but guys can make it up on volume...
        So no change, normal operation's then.

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        • ajl
          Senior Member
          • May 2008
          • 3243

          #5
          Need a MFP program here in canuckistan.

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          • SASKFARMER
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2005
            • 6943

            #6
            2020 will not be good on the farm.

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            • sofa.king
              Senior Member
              • Apr 2026
              • 562

              #7
              I think farmers will become sick with corona virus just like everyone else.😁

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              • AlbertaFarmer5
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2010
                • 12481

                #8
                If China invokes force majeure on the US trade deal, they will still need to source the products elsewhere, and in the meanwhile, the CAD continues to slide vs the USD, it may make our ag exports more competitive into China, and buy back some market share for Canadian products.

                Pigs and people still need to eat, so far there doesn't seem to be any realistic scenario whereby the death rate is significant enough to make any dent in demand.

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                • AlbertaFarmer5
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2010
                  • 12481

                  #9
                  Taking a longer term view.

                  How many reluctant city dwellers see this event as the straw that broke the camels back, being crammed into that toxic mass of humanity in the midst of (yet another?) deadly pandemic, quarantined under quasi military lockdown, with empty store shelves and no way to grow their own? And see the obvious solution being to get out of the city as far as possible, especially in the era of instant communication from anywhere, when many jobs can be performed from anywhere.

                  How many of those folks want to own a piece of the countryside, and does that have any effect on land prices in the middle of nowhere?
                  Last edited by AlbertaFarmer5; Feb 28, 2020, 09:11.

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                  • sumdumguy
                    Senior Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 11966

                    #10
                    I think the Ottawa virus is a bigger threat.

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