Manitoba Pork Council Chair Karl Kynoch says, when he talks to producers down south, he might as well be talking to his neighbor a mile down the road because the issues are so common on both sides of the border.
Clip-Karl Kynoch-Manitoba Pork Council
One of the big issues right now is ethanol.
The producers in the U.S. are very concerned.
Feed prices have went up fast and grains prices are getting up where they need to be but what we need to have happen is the meat price follow.
That's a huge concern down here.
Where Iowa used to be a major exporter of corn, they could actually in fact become an importer of corn.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
<a href="http://www.ewg.org/farm/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=corn">http://www.ewg.org/farm/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=corn</a><br />
"Corn Subsidies in United States totaled $51.3 billion from 1995-2005..."<br />
<a href="http://zfacts.com/p/60.html">http://zfacts.com/p/60.html</a><br />
As agricultural subsidies in the US are geared towards the major producers anyway, as witnessed by the fact that some 1,500 farmers go broke or "exit" every week in that great country:<br />
<a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib788/aib788.pdf">http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib788/aib788.pdf</a><br />
just what ARE these subsidies for, except as yet another way that public money gets put into private hands?<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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These projects are all part of the neoclassical market economy theory for the total elimination of the family farm system and its replacement with the "efficient", corporate agribiz system of chemical/GM monoculture.
Some 50 years ago US Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, told farmers: "Get big, or get out". Later another, by the name of Earl Butz said: "Adapt, or die".
These plans have been in the works for 100 years, to bring back the cartels, and Dickensian laissez faire economics,cut down by public pressure.
Ruling classes could never tolerate efficient economic systems, as they cut into their criminal activities of legalized theft.
Ed Deak.
Just a "stab in the dark"..........
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck