Kato
Well-known member
But isn't a time of poor buying power and lower demand a poor time to add extra costs to your product? The money still has to come from somewhere to pay for it, and we all know where it won't be coming from........
Extra costs added to your product without an extra return to pay for them are not good, no matter what shape the economy is in. There is a cumulative effect, and if it adds up enough, like it is doing for us, that one extra kick can be what decides if you survive or not.
The Canadian cattle producers are in a position where all we need is that little bit of extra to put us all over the edge. Lots of us have already hit the wall, and gotten out, but pile some more bad economics on and even the die hards will be gone. It's just plain stubbornness that's keeping most of us here now. And it's just plain stubbornness that's giving us the will to keep on banging our heads up against the COOL wall. We've got nothing to lose.
So we just keep on plugging away. :roll: :roll:
If the cattle prices in the U.S. suffer long enough and go low enough during this recession, producers in your country will lose the appetite for slapping extra costs on that don't produce a return either. You'll be no different from us if it gets bad enough. We're just farther down that road than you are at the moment.
Extra costs added to your product without an extra return to pay for them are not good, no matter what shape the economy is in. There is a cumulative effect, and if it adds up enough, like it is doing for us, that one extra kick can be what decides if you survive or not.
The Canadian cattle producers are in a position where all we need is that little bit of extra to put us all over the edge. Lots of us have already hit the wall, and gotten out, but pile some more bad economics on and even the die hards will be gone. It's just plain stubbornness that's keeping most of us here now. And it's just plain stubbornness that's giving us the will to keep on banging our heads up against the COOL wall. We've got nothing to lose.
So we just keep on plugging away. :roll: :roll:
If the cattle prices in the U.S. suffer long enough and go low enough during this recession, producers in your country will lose the appetite for slapping extra costs on that don't produce a return either. You'll be no different from us if it gets bad enough. We're just farther down that road than you are at the moment.