People 's grocery bill expected to go up...

[bucket]

Yesterday on the radio I heard grocery bills are expected to go up....

Looks like the Westons and other grocers are not prepared to be part of the """ we are in this together """ other than to make profit...


If bread prices are rising ...should wheat and other commodities be inline for a substantial increase as well...

10 cent increase on a loaf of bread equates to a 6 dollar increase in a bushel of wheat ...

Those Westons really know how to take advantage of a pandemic....and yet no one is monitoring these things...

[Oliver88]

Trudeau’s Liberals told us carbon taxes help poor people.

[sumdumguy]

Wait until the Americans get their carbon tax.

[bucket]

And here is some of the excuse ....

The cost of a bushel of wheat hit about $6 in November, Smyth said, up from about $4 roughly 18 months ago — a 50 per cent increase.

2 bucks a bushel increase equates to a 3 cent per loaf increase in raw material (wheat)...

But wheat has been this price before and bread was lower priced....do some indexing and there is no excuse for what is going on..... plus the manner in which they make bread makes it much more efficient ...not sure how they justify increases....

Farmers are not getting the returns....

[burnt]

Quityerbitchin.

What's a little starvation and deprivation when we're saving the world.

The poor are just collateral damage when you're saving a frog.

[bucket]

Quityerbitchin.

What's a little starvation and deprivation when we're saving the world.

The poor are just collateral damage when you're saving a frog.

Quite right sir....I apologize...should I delete the thread due to my stupidity????

[shtferbrains]

Beef farm to consumer price seems to be totaly disconnected.
Has been since Bse IMHO.

[beaverdam]

bucket,,, IT'S THE CARBON TAX !!!

A call should be done to every Newsroom that broadcasts this bullpoop.

It's this something the WCWG should be doing, or perhaps the hell hole our wheat check-off money goes to. Do they not have someone working PR! ???

[burnt]

Beef farm to consumer price seems to be totaly disconnected.
Has been since Bse IMHO.

Nothing makes that more clear than sending 1 fat steer to the market and his pen buddy to the local abattoir for filling freezer orders.

For example, the last ones we sold for freezer orders returned a gross of $2550/hd. Subtract the $500+/- processing fee leaves $2050/hd.

On the live market, those Holstein steers would have returned about $1450 -$1500/hd.

[beaverdam]

BTW bucket,,, you should know that no other company, including Westons, would expect to run a business based on 40 year old prices ! oh ya, except western Canadian farmers.