[Berger_4_]

Ooooh booohoooo,the poor hard working farmers. Salt of the earth, dusk to dawn working and heroes in overalls.

We feed the world, so yeah I'd say we kind of are heroes

I'll be glad when they truly allow agriculture to be free market. Instead of having our country and all other western nations subsidize their lifestyles.

You can market your grain freely. You don't need to apply to CAIS or NISA or have insurance. But if you want help in times of crisis, it's nice to have.

Must be nice to be in an industry that whenever there is a disaster, you get bailed out by the government.

Are you in an industry where you have half a million dollar inputs before you see a cent yourself? Where you borrow that half a million dollars, then see all your crops fail. Do you potenially lose all of your earnings and possessions because of a season at work?

I'd love that kind of security.

As I said...it's not secure at all. Markets fluctate every day. The weather fluctuates every day. The only thing your secure in is that you put in the work, and hope something comes of it

I hope the government and the CWB get out of the whole agricultural industry,

Farmers are given the option of not dealing with the government and CWB. Hell, they just about disbanded it.

then the farmers can earn their dollars like I do.

How do you earn your dollars? Sitting at a desk all day? Do you put up a small fortune every year in order to make a tenth of what you put up? Are you the one taking all of the risks in your job to make things work?

Unfortunately, they'll have to compete against all the third and fourth world country farmers who won't have to compete against governments to provide grains for cheaper.

Does your industry (in which you apparently work so hard) compete directly with the third and fourth world? And besides, their grain would be utter junk. They don't know how to properly farm.

Farmers always want the free market, then the BSE or something else will hit, and then they'll cry for intervention. Can't have it both ways. Let's free market this like any other good and commpodity in the world. About time.

You have unemployment insurance. That's your intervention. It doesn't matter how well you did your job, if you lose it, you've still got a paycheck coming. A farmer can do the best job in the world, then "the BSE or something else will hit" and there he'll be, broken and out of money.