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<blockquote data-quote="Alberta farmer" data-source="post: 611672" data-attributes="member: 8978"><p>Now I'm not all that up on Mexico but I suspect the problem is COOL has restricted their ability to ship feeder cattle into the USA? People say Mexican cattle are inferior. Occasionally I catch Superiors sale on TV and those Mexican feeders look pretty much like anything else to me?</p><p>When the Canadian/USA free trade announcement came into being the USA insisted we scrap the Crow freight rate. This Crow rate was designed to assist Canadian grain farmers to ship grain to the ports over the railroads. Basically no Crow rate...no export market for prairie barley...as the freight cost was about one half the price of barley. OK...so what do we do with millions of acres of grain land that don't make any sense anymore? Well free trade gave us ASSURED access for our livestock/meat sales and we expanded the cowherd and the hog barns. We had ready and willing buyers in the USA in the form of feeders and packers.</p><p>If anyone thinks Canada has an advantage somehow I'd sure like to know how? We pay so much more for everything up here from fuel, fertilizer, equipment etc. you would not believe it!</p><p>NAFTA clearly states when a product enters the other country and is processed in a meaningful way then it becomes a product of that country. Take a five month old Alberta feeder calf? Ship him to a Nebraska feedlot. Slaughter him in a US packing house a couple of hundred days later. Under NAFTA he is a product of the USA. Now you might not agree with that...but it is in the NAFTA rules.</p><p>President elect Obama says he wants to renegotiate NAFTA, which is probably a good thing? I think Canada would sure like to renegotiate some things too! Canada really does need to quit relying on USA markets. Oil/gas, uranium, iron ore, nickel all come to mind(probably water in the future). We need to cut our own side deals with the emerging asian markets for all our commodities. Maybe cut a few deals with the Europeans?</p><p>Canada is the USA's biggest trading partner and that goes both ways. If we both think the other guy is screwing us then we should dissolve NAFTA and trade more with the world? Personally I think NAFTA makes sense. After all the USA has products we want and we have products the US wants? But the deal doesn't allow either of us to cherry pick...its either you buy the whole package...or nothing. Just my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alberta farmer, post: 611672, member: 8978"] Now I'm not all that up on Mexico but I suspect the problem is COOL has restricted their ability to ship feeder cattle into the USA? People say Mexican cattle are inferior. Occasionally I catch Superiors sale on TV and those Mexican feeders look pretty much like anything else to me? When the Canadian/USA free trade announcement came into being the USA insisted we scrap the Crow freight rate. This Crow rate was designed to assist Canadian grain farmers to ship grain to the ports over the railroads. Basically no Crow rate...no export market for prairie barley...as the freight cost was about one half the price of barley. OK...so what do we do with millions of acres of grain land that don't make any sense anymore? Well free trade gave us ASSURED access for our livestock/meat sales and we expanded the cowherd and the hog barns. We had ready and willing buyers in the USA in the form of feeders and packers. If anyone thinks Canada has an advantage somehow I'd sure like to know how? We pay so much more for everything up here from fuel, fertilizer, equipment etc. you would not believe it! NAFTA clearly states when a product enters the other country and is processed in a meaningful way then it becomes a product of that country. Take a five month old Alberta feeder calf? Ship him to a Nebraska feedlot. Slaughter him in a US packing house a couple of hundred days later. Under NAFTA he is a product of the USA. Now you might not agree with that...but it is in the NAFTA rules. President elect Obama says he wants to renegotiate NAFTA, which is probably a good thing? I think Canada would sure like to renegotiate some things too! Canada really does need to quit relying on USA markets. Oil/gas, uranium, iron ore, nickel all come to mind(probably water in the future). We need to cut our own side deals with the emerging asian markets for all our commodities. Maybe cut a few deals with the Europeans? Canada is the USA's biggest trading partner and that goes both ways. If we both think the other guy is screwing us then we should dissolve NAFTA and trade more with the world? Personally I think NAFTA makes sense. After all the USA has products we want and we have products the US wants? But the deal doesn't allow either of us to cherry pick...its either you buy the whole package...or nothing. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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