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Gandhi for AMI/NCBA/USDA

Sandhusker

Well-known member
A customer is the most important visitor on our premisis. He is not dependent on us; we are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work; he is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business; he is a part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him; he is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.

Compare this logic to how the Packer Trinity is handling Japan and Korea.
 

mrj

Well-known member
It is at the least possible that you are confusing CUSTOMER relations with standing up to POLITICAL maneuvering in trade negotiations.

Neither of us really knows what is going on. Neither of us knows the accuracy and agenda of the writers making the claims. Nor the reasons the forbidden products got shipped to Korea.

It is much easier to point fingers of blame than it is to support our trade negotiators and agencies and businesses trying to solve the problems, though maybe not so much fun, for some people.

mrj
 

Mike

Well-known member
Mrj wrote: It is much easier to point fingers of blame than it is to support our trade negotiators

You're damned right it is!

If you can't see the arm twisting going on here you are blind.

Remember J.B. Penn insulting the Japs during the beef negotiations?

He didn't stay around very long did he?
 

mrj

Well-known member
Are you another one who "knows" everything about the negotiations? Not to mention the political posturing in Japan and SK re. trade.

We have long been told they are extremely tough and even devious in the negotiations and that it is very difficult to understand what is for their own peoples' media and what is for 'real'.

Hopefully, our negotiators are standing tough for our own interests. And before you berate me, that is not saying those who included the contraband products are innocent in this problem.

Solutions take time, and seem to produce way too much rhetoric and blame in the media in the USA, which does nothing to improve the situation, IMO

mj
 
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Anonymous

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I'm now beginning to understand why NCBA is such a screwed up- misdirected organization . :roll: :wink: :lol:
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
When you're trying your best to please your customer (to make a sale today and tomorrow), there is little "negotiation". Did Gandhi mention "negotiate"? "Negotiations" have cost us over 5 billion - and counting. Just what the hell is it going to take before you folks figure it out?
 
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Anonymous

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Sandhusker said:
Just what the hell is it going to take before you folks figure it out?

Sandy-- Most folks figured it out long ago-- anyway those I know have-- its just a few of the Maxines that believe anything told to them by an NCBA handler--an NCBA that most cattlemen recognize sold out long ago to the AMI/Texas Feeders/Tyson/Cargill/etal....... :( :(
 

mrj

Well-known member
OT, it really irritates you that there are over 27,000 (and growing!) cattle producers and feeders who are understand the cattle business and that NCBA is the best trade organization for us, doesn't it. Might as well get over it. We aren't folding anytime soon.

mrj
 
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