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NCBA, R-CALF, COOL, USDA (No Politics!)
Packer ownership of livestock
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<blockquote data-quote="Alberta farmer" data-source="post: 606665" data-attributes="member: 8978"><p>Oldtimer: Unfortunately our cattle organizations up here are all for packer ownership? They seem to think it is just peachy! Well I should say the Alberta Beef Producers and the Canadian Cattle Mans Association...I don't think the Western Stock Growers or Beef Initiation group support that position.</p><p>However WSG and BIG are voluntary groups while ABP and CCA are supported by a mandatory checkoff...$3/head. Very few cattle producers have much use for ABP.</p><p>Cargill not only feeds its own cattle but has contracts with feeders that are not open to scrutiny. It works on a grid system and I guess some guys can make it work. Most people don't know that one large private feedlot is actually owned/controlled by Cargill.</p><p>Nothing will happen in Canada unless the USA changes the system of packer ownership? Basically the federal government we have up here is a "branch plant" of the USA government! Hopefully this new guy Obama will change this system, as he said he was going to do? If he does, suddenly our wizards in Ottawa might see the light!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alberta farmer, post: 606665, member: 8978"] Oldtimer: Unfortunately our cattle organizations up here are all for packer ownership? They seem to think it is just peachy! Well I should say the Alberta Beef Producers and the Canadian Cattle Mans Association...I don't think the Western Stock Growers or Beef Initiation group support that position. However WSG and BIG are voluntary groups while ABP and CCA are supported by a mandatory checkoff...$3/head. Very few cattle producers have much use for ABP. Cargill not only feeds its own cattle but has contracts with feeders that are not open to scrutiny. It works on a grid system and I guess some guys can make it work. Most people don't know that one large private feedlot is actually owned/controlled by Cargill. Nothing will happen in Canada unless the USA changes the system of packer ownership? Basically the federal government we have up here is a "branch plant" of the USA government! Hopefully this new guy Obama will change this system, as he said he was going to do? If he does, suddenly our wizards in Ottawa might see the light! [/QUOTE]
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