And Jim, 90% of those AG imports to the US are subsidized by the exporting
government to keep their Farmers and AG industries alive and well, clearly
aware that our greedy, monopolistic food processors here have 'purchased'
enough of our congressional Reps to eliminate both quality standards and any
concern for the health of their own country's agricultural life. Jim, how
would you get us 'independent' folks to organize, and fight this economic
obscenity? Dick Conklin
----- Original Message -----
From: "JAMES B CROPPER" <jbc9@psu.edu>
To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Graze-l] Dairy farmers to slaughter cows
> REPLY: This also part of the reason why for the first time in umpteen
years our
> agricultural imports will exceed our agricultural exports in value. So
much
> for our ag. exports helping with our balance of trade. Wall Street seems
not
> to care because they still think we just owe our deficits to ourselves,
not to
> foreigners. Or, if they are aware that foreigners do own a lot of our
debt,
> Wall Street thinks that they will never foreclose on it. Better to get a
few
> cents on the dollar than nothing at all or own the property, especially
owning
> the property. Banks rarely lose on bad debts when it comes being backed
up
> with property. Perhaps it is time we get off our notion that we are the
> richest nation in the world. We just owe the most money. Some how I do
think
> of that as being rich.
>
> Jim Cropper
>
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:47:54 +0000, Gneisers wrote:
>
> > > From Canadian Animal Net
> > >
> > >Dairy farmers to slaughter more cows
> > >December 11, 2004
> > >Associated Press
> > >WASHINGTON -- The U.S. National Milk Producers Federation will,
> > >according to this story, pay farmers to send nearly 52,000 cows to
> > >slaughter over the next few months, removing 931 million pounds of
> > >milk, or 0.55 percent, from the nation's supply, in an effort to keep
> > >milk prices up.
> >
> > >
> > >Vaughan Jones
> > >Hamilton
> > >New Zealand
> >
> >
> > And this is being done because:
> >
> > >From Jan. thru Sept. 2004, the in-quota imports of butter into the US
> > reached 5,758 metric tons (that's tariff - free) compared to 4,802
metric
> > tons for the first three-quarters in 2003. The over-quota butter
imports
> > zoomed from 86 metric tons in 2003 to 8,130 metric tons in 2004.
> >
> > Hmmmm, 86 metric tons vs. 8,130 metric tons......I just repeat that so
the
> > huge increase in tons is duly noted.
> >
> > Cheddar cheese imports in the in-quota (tarrif - free) category
increased
> > by 4% to 11,965 metric tons. The over-quota cheddar imports increased
from
> > 222 to 564 metric tons.
> >
> > Among the commodities for which THERE ARE NO QUOTAS, imports of butter
> > substitutes with less than 45% butter fat ballooned by 56% to a total of
> > 13,633 metric tons. There was a slight increase of casein imports to
> > 77,567 metric tons while chocolate block imports rose by 7% to 77,284
> > metric tons.
> >
> > All of the above facts and figures represent activity during 3/4 of the
year.
> >
> > Dave Gneiser
> > former dairyman, now beef grazer
> > WisCOWsin.
> >
> >
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