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<blockquote data-quote="CattleAnnie" data-source="post: 45799" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>My sentiments exactly, CRR, Bez, and Frenchie.</p><p></p><p> Aside from that I'm just sick and tired of the fingerpointing on both sides of the border.</p><p>As the old saying goes:</p><p> ' When you point your finger at somone, there's going to be three pointing back at you. '</p><p></p><p> Nobody's perfect. We honestly never guessed BSE would happen to us. We had feed bans in place at the same time as you folks, and everything was tiptop...or so we thought. As I watched the news, I felt sorry for the farmers in Great Britian and Europe when they had outbreaks of BSE. But it was too far removed from us, too surreal for me to have ever imagined it happening here. At home.</p><p></p><p> The harsh reality is nobody's immune. Sorry to say, but not even you folks (and don't for one second imagine that I'd ever wish this disaster on you). I'm just being a realist.</p><p></p><p>Please take this advice from a concerned neighbour in the north:</p><p></p><p>1. Reduce your debt load now while the returns on cattle are good.</p><p></p><p>2. Cull your herd. Hard. You think you already cull hard? Then cull harder. </p><p></p><p>3. Try not to borrow money to buy cattle, especially while prices are high.</p><p></p><p>As bad as it's been up here in Canada since that one case of BSE, multiply it hundredfold and I'm afraid that's how damaging it would be in the US should an undisputably 'homegrown' case be diagnosed positive.</p><p></p><p>Take care of youselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleAnnie, post: 45799, member: 220"] My sentiments exactly, CRR, Bez, and Frenchie. Aside from that I'm just sick and tired of the fingerpointing on both sides of the border. As the old saying goes: ' When you point your finger at somone, there's going to be three pointing back at you. ' Nobody's perfect. We honestly never guessed BSE would happen to us. We had feed bans in place at the same time as you folks, and everything was tiptop...or so we thought. As I watched the news, I felt sorry for the farmers in Great Britian and Europe when they had outbreaks of BSE. But it was too far removed from us, too surreal for me to have ever imagined it happening here. At home. The harsh reality is nobody's immune. Sorry to say, but not even you folks (and don't for one second imagine that I'd ever wish this disaster on you). I'm just being a realist. Please take this advice from a concerned neighbour in the north: 1. Reduce your debt load now while the returns on cattle are good. 2. Cull your herd. Hard. You think you already cull hard? Then cull harder. 3. Try not to borrow money to buy cattle, especially while prices are high. As bad as it's been up here in Canada since that one case of BSE, multiply it hundredfold and I'm afraid that's how damaging it would be in the US should an undisputably 'homegrown' case be diagnosed positive. Take care of youselves. [/QUOTE]
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