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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 101569" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>Cattle Rack, you have explained alot of things that make alot of sense to me. I still am wondering about the retail price of beef in stores and restaraunts in Canada. Has there been or is there any way for the cattlepeople to put pressure on to pull the retail price of beef down to a reasonable level considering what the farmer is receiving? If beef is cheaper than pork or chicken, many more people would choose beef and the consumption would go up. It still seems to me that there are people making a fortune selling the beef that the farmer gets a pittance for. Also, with the low slaughter capacity of Canadian plants, has there been any effort to try for a situation so that Canadian cattle could be transported across the border to the US plants and processed and then transported back to Canada for domestic consumption or for Canadian export? It seems like the reason for the border closing was because the Canadian cattle were being slaughtered here and sold in the US or exported as a US product. That would seem to be a help in the situation with limited slaughter capacity. Having a situation where the cattle would come in and get processed and all product return to Canada would keep the processing plants open and give you the opportunity to market the beef.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 101569, member: 1150"] Cattle Rack, you have explained alot of things that make alot of sense to me. I still am wondering about the retail price of beef in stores and restaraunts in Canada. Has there been or is there any way for the cattlepeople to put pressure on to pull the retail price of beef down to a reasonable level considering what the farmer is receiving? If beef is cheaper than pork or chicken, many more people would choose beef and the consumption would go up. It still seems to me that there are people making a fortune selling the beef that the farmer gets a pittance for. Also, with the low slaughter capacity of Canadian plants, has there been any effort to try for a situation so that Canadian cattle could be transported across the border to the US plants and processed and then transported back to Canada for domestic consumption or for Canadian export? It seems like the reason for the border closing was because the Canadian cattle were being slaughtered here and sold in the US or exported as a US product. That would seem to be a help in the situation with limited slaughter capacity. Having a situation where the cattle would come in and get processed and all product return to Canada would keep the processing plants open and give you the opportunity to market the beef. [/QUOTE]
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