RobertMac said:
Damages?????? What about the damages to USA producers at the beginning of NAFTA because of the flood of imports from Canada and Mexico???? I sold a lot of $200 calves back then!!!!!!! Was it the fault of Canadian producers? No, it was the packers using import cattle to increase USA supply which resulted in depressing cattle prices for all of us.
That brings back some sad memories- as I watched grown men cry as their farm/ranch's were being foreclosed on because of those depressed prices--while bullhauler after bullhauler and Trans X truck after Trans X truck of swinging beef whooooshed by on the highway- all headed south...
And their whole lifes worth of building a herd dispersed at $200-300 a head ...
The Packers never meant NAFTA to work the way many cattlemen were explained it should work- as they've guaranteed the rules were always for them...Screw the US producer when they could--then when the conditions changed and US opposition built they got the opportunity to screw the Canadian producers--and now they are looking for the longterm way to screw both of us...