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“up to $20B in combined subsidies going to US farmers, 30-40% of their takehome pay could now come from government programs. Subsidized agriculture created flat prices for 25 years in the 1980’s and 1990’s, flooding the world with cheap grain, and the US is going down the same path again. Meanwhile Canadian farmers are expected to compete with next to no subsidies in this system with 30-40% less return than US counterparts. Governments, please stop!! Cut our taxes, stop distributing our tax dollars, and let a free market solve this problem.”
https://www.drovers.com/article/usda-not-track-hit-16-billion-cfap-payments
Here is the Liberal government’s view on livestock production, sorry cattle producers.
Winnipeg plant gets $100M in federal financing to pull protein from peas, canola
Wow, thanks Karla and Ducks Unlimited! Ranchers are feeling pretty danged unappreciated right now!
Conservation organization calls for support for beef producers during pandemic
Time to top up your WLPIP, we need exports to get these backlogs dealt with in Canada, let’s hope cooler heads prevail.
Trump floats halt to U.S. cattle imports as pandemic hurts ranchers
Alberta Meat Plant Workers Speak
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/05/02/Alberta-Meat-Plant-Workers-Speak/
COVID-19 Puts an Exclamation Point on Risk Management
COVID-19 puts an exclamation point on risk management
Feeling a little beat up these days? Back in the doldrums of a flat commodity cycle…
End of commodity boom real reason for national anger
JBS Sell Five Rivers Cattle Feeding
https://www.drovers.com/article/jbs-sell-five-rivers-cattle-feeding-200-million
Careful folks, things are looking heated in land prices. We don’t have a catalyst for prices to drop just yet but be on guard.
90 years of Saskatchewan farmland prices