Big Muddy rancher
Well-known member
In the last western Producer paper, Canada's largest farm paper their were some charts showing the compairison of farmgate prices to food prices. The farmgate prices had been quite flat for the last number of years but food prices had risen dramaticly.
If we were to beleive what we are told on this board is that the multi nationals are raking in all the money but do the people that propose this take into consideration all the costs that get passed along by these margin operators. Fuel, wages ,ect. We all know what the cost of fuel has done lately and wages 10 times high then 20 years ago in some fields.
By the way the US was losest with 6.5% of disposable income used to buy food. Canada was at 9.5% and sweden was the next at 12.5% , the rest went up from there.
If we were to beleive what we are told on this board is that the multi nationals are raking in all the money but do the people that propose this take into consideration all the costs that get passed along by these margin operators. Fuel, wages ,ect. We all know what the cost of fuel has done lately and wages 10 times high then 20 years ago in some fields.
By the way the US was losest with 6.5% of disposable income used to buy food. Canada was at 9.5% and sweden was the next at 12.5% , the rest went up from there.