Back in the 1980’s, prairie agriculture was in serious trouble, and so the greatest minds in government got together and launched initiatives in agricultural diversification.
And that’s the story of how the beef industry was replaced by ostrich farming.
They can learn to export to China instead.
ostrich farming.
aaaaaaaaaaaaand along comes the farce see ’em pee and machine guns all the birds.
welcome to CanaDUH.
and realize its ALLLLLLL deliberate at some secretive high place. m’kay?
startling how well they have perfected propaganda.
turning it all into a political version of pro wrestling.
“ostrich farming” is the act of farming with your head up your ass.
At least sticking your head in the sand …
My last job before retirement was doing book-keeping for an organic farming co-operative (LLC) in Regina. I learned so very much about organic farming and logistics. As with every organization there were the good farmers who were good businessmen (I will never forget the directions to the pick-up trucks to turn Left at the swimming pool!), good farmers, but not business men and finally the poor farmers who were poor businessmen (they were ALWAYS asking for advances on their contracts and then would deliver poor quality which had to be discounted heavily).
I am commenting because I would estimate that over 95% of their exports went to the United States (we did sell mustard to Switzerland and Japan) and we did sell our oats to Grain Millers in Yorkton with some retail sales to the lower mainland of British Columbia.
I often wonder how the co-op is doing now.
You sell to those who need/want your stuff. If someone really needs what your have they’ll come to you. Alternatively they are already getting what they need and the only reason they will change from their current supplier to you is if you can offer them a better deal. It’s not that easy to “just sell to someone else.”
There are NO Ostrich burgers, or ostrich steaks in my local grocery stores. Not even in Trader Joe’s! Nor has there ever been.
We. Don’t. Want. It.
Please make a note of it.
OTOH … we need LOTS more beef. Please produce MORE beef and lower the price to make beef affordable again. It’s a shame to see those $105.00 COSTCO packages of steaks rotting on the shelf.
Probably doesn’t help any that the government for the last decade has been attacking Beef, and people can’t connect that to why it’s so expensive now.
I feel like it’s been longer than that. A lot longer. Mostly at the bureaucratic level underneath.
The attacks accelerated under Trudeau the lesser, and yes, it’s largely bureaucratic.
The retards attacking beef are the same retards who insist the decimation of the Plains Bison was a travesty.
“greatest minds in government” is the definition of an oxymoron.
the great famines of The End Times will not be from weather, or pestilence, it will be bureaucratic bungling, constraints on transportation incl mandated EVs, contradictory regulations a la EU.
the likewise world wide hyperinflation wont help either.
nom nom nom !!!
“…contradictory regulations a la EU…”
I heard via YouTube that recently Germany borrowed a ton of money and put up construction barriers all over the country to get busy fixing all the stuff they let break and wear out the last 20 years. The barriers went up last year, but the construction hasn’t started yet.
Because the government can’t get permission from the government for demolition or construction. They have yet to stick a shovel in the ground.
They have yet to stick a shovel in the ground.
What is it about middling powers and shovels?
“The people who pay the price are not the people who make the rules”.
Ostrich ranching.
Elk antler velvet.
Wild boar hunting.
Gigantic cucumber greenhouses (the houses, not the cucumbers).
Just some of the greatest hits in market diversification. When government goes all in on a business it is best to run fast in the other direction (EV batteries, Bricklin Motors, Mag-Can, Sprung Greenhouses)