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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
They might, but does Canada grow enough in the quantities it consumes? Given the planting season do growers know enough about increased demand to displace US produce? It's going to take more than a few months to sort this all out.
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Canadian farmers have historically focused on export economies. This is largely because the domestic market was far smaller than the amount farmers are able to produce.
I do think that there is a shift coming with younger farmers who know margins in staple grains and beef are small. As a young farmer myself the advice I hear from older farmers is that the best money is in direct to consumer strategies. Making your farm a store front so to speak. A few smaller operations have turned that into a successful business, but in the end, its business for people with time and money to seek out locally produced goods.
I'd love to be an onion farmer. But I just don't have the know how to operate and fix the machines and the specifics of planting harvesting consumer crops and I especially don't have the stomach to take on 2M+ in debt learning.
The risk to reward is just to small. I know with Hay, Goats, Cattle and grain I have a ready made market that is predictable. With Onions and carrots I don't even know who I could sell a couple thousand tons to?
