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beef prices below cost of production

Tex

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We are just repeating the same mistakes over and over again. We have the Packers and Stockyards Act in the U.S. but it isn't being enforced.

Our main enforcement agency, the Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration bureaucrats took 2 and a half years for the last rule change that should have been accomplished in 30 days. The packers control the agency putting enough loopholes in like no penalties for them to keep doing their market concentration games at the expense of producers.

Crony capitalism will end our democracy if we don't hold people accountable for the rule of law.

Our judges are about the best that money can buy so they never hold corporations accountable for economic damages.

This results in a deflationary cycle at the expense of producers.

These judges and politicians are SO STUPID that they have ruined our economy only to let the taxpayer bail it out. We still have an economy that was once the envy of the free world leading it to economic disaster.

Thank you Senator Ben Nelson for repealing the Glass Steagall Act and helping usher in the financial crisis. He supported the Packer's version of mandatory price reporting over a producer version.

Engler from Cactus said: "But he's not sure that grids or group marketing are the answers. “We'll continue looking at new ways of producing and marketing cattle,” he says, but he scoffs at the mention of more government regulation.

“We need only to look at mandatory price reporting to see the futility of inviting the government into our business,” he says."

http://beefmagazine.com/mag/beef_packer_summit/


We can't have the rule of law when we have the whole political and judicial system so backward that price reporting laws can not be enforced. Enforcement of laws is futile if they do not do their jobs properly in governing the country.



Ben Nelson, you are either on the take or incompetent to govern.

Politicians who can not form good policy for the United States that cause the taxpayer to bail out whole industries need to be FIRED!

Tex

P.S. -----Sandhusker, I would like your take on this one.
 

beethoven

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with all due respect tex, you do realize this is a candian story in a major cdn media source.

article comments were interesting.

change is hard to take. we on both sides of the border have good old days to lament.

i acknowledge you are not happy with your american leadership.

we cdn cattle producers are suffering terribly under present situation. present policy is designed for killing us off, and is redefining what is left of our future.
 

hillsdown

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Canadian slaughter houses are telling so many conflicting stories right now that it is ridiculous. Can they or cannot they fill capacity . They say one minute they cannot that is why they shut plants down and the next they say that they are over capacity so they pay the what the market demands for cull prices. Nothing....

They also have asked the Canadian government for a new ``bail out`` because they cannot even break even withe new SRM rules. :roll: :? :???:
 

Tex

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beethoven said:
with all due respect tex, you do realize this is a candian story in a major cdn media source.

article comments were interesting.

change is hard to take. we on both sides of the border have good old days to lament.

i acknowledge you are not happy with your american leadership.

we cdn cattle producers are suffering terribly under present situation. present policy is designed for killing us off, and is redefining what is left of our future.

Yes, I do know this is a Canadian news story. The problem with the globalists is that they want to avoid the costly part of globalization ie paying Canadians what they pay Americans for beef, but at the same time want to sell their meat as if there is no difference. The U.S. packers (Tyson) was able to buy up cattle cheap and sell the meat in the U.S. as if it were U.S. meat at U.S. prices. They have fought defining meat from Canada or anywhere other than an assumed domestic plant. They will continue to play these games that are deflationary until they wring all the profits out of the U.S., sent them to some other country where standards in everything is lower, like China, but keep the markets here. I am sorry to see Canada as a stepping stone.

We have sorry politicians here in the U.S. who can do nothing but jump to the corporate puppet strings. It is no way to run a country unless you want to run it in the ground. It is happening in the U.S. as well as Canada.

Tex
 

loomixguy

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beethoven said:
nothing new here

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/12/10/consumer-beef-prices.html

(This is NOT mean spirited, and with all due respect, I am not trying to demean or belittle ANYBODY....I just had a thought go through my head, so now I'm gonna open my big mouth and just spit it out.)

Beethoven.....with regard to this article...did you tell Tchaikovsky the news?? (Apologies to Chuck Berry) :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry....the Devil made me do it.
 

PORKER

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Founding Farmers and sister restaurant, Farmers & Fishers, is looking into new beef supplier to replace the one mentioned in Black’s article: “Meyer Natural Angus, a privately held Colorado company that processes about 10,000 head of cattle per month from 450 ranches…”

The back-and-forth, as you can imagine, can get rather detailed and rather tedious to those without a horse in this race. (Then again, when it comes to sustainable farming and ranching, however you define it, you could argue we all have a horse in this race.)

Link to the Whole Story;
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/12/10/founding-farmers-responds-to-wapos-investigation/
 

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