FarmWatch - Vol. V Issue 10 of  by SiemensSays.Com

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  • "There's More at Stake than you Think....." - This is another topic audiences have appreciated this year at various meetings in the USA and Canada. Here I address the real vitality and challenges of our farmers and the agriculture industry hi-lighting the importance of producing the safest, healthiest and cheapest food anywhere in the world.  

Siemens Says - A Little Bit Goes No Where!
 

  
Siemens Says - How many times can you invest the same money ????? And besides, the unions and car execs get how many billion? This wouldn’t even buy the peanuts for those guys. I know I know, be grateful Harry and I also know we can’t bail out the entire livestock industry, but it is time someone recognizes there’s an entire industry going down the tubes and the Feds and Manitoba NDP government seem to be fiddling as Rome burns. Use that $50 million to negotiate with the American packers.
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News Roundup

International Hog Producer Minimum Loss Program
Designed by Producers for Producers but it’s only the beginning the group needs input and responses.
*** Sign up and help take 500,000 pigs off the market in the next five months
By Harry Siemens - Canadian and American hog producers and exporter Boyd Penner of South East Marketing of Steinbach, MB are uniting to rescue or save their dying industry by asking producers to participate in a newly designed program called Hog Producer Minimum Loss Program without government or any organization involvement. The Swine Industry in Canada and the Untied States is all but done. [more....]

U.S. Trade
Les Routledge - Here they go again On  -- Tuesday, I had an opportunity to be a witness in front of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food. In the presentation, I made reference to the need to hold our trading partners accountable for commitments that they have made under existing trade agreements. Situations like M-Cool, BSE, forestry and now buy USA clearly indicate that the USA is not complying with the letter of trade agreements, let alone their spirit. I was asked but not given an opportunity as to what Canada should be doing that it is already not doing? Should other sectors be brought onto the table. [ more... ]

NPPC Concerned Over Canadian Calls for Government Subsidies
Farmscape - The U.S. based National Pork Producers Council is expressing concern over calls from Canadian pork producers for government assistance to cope with a series of challenges facing the North American pork industry. [ more...]

Cattle producers not any better off
Much of the focus in recent days has been on the struggling hog complex but the situation is not any better for US cattle producers. Feeder cattle have been especially battered by prospects of higher corn prices in the coming months. As feed prices escalate, feedlot purchases of feeder cattle tend to decline, especially when beef demand has yet to gain its footing. [ more...]

 Gerrard Calls For Action Plan To Help Hog Industry and gets a BBQ
 SiemensSays – Jon Gerrard, Manitoba’s Liberal leader asked for the provincially -sponsored BBQ at my suggestion in the Question Period the week before the barbecue and received severe criticism and maybe even some heckling from the NDP members.
However, the next morning Ag Minister Rosann Wowchuk announced a BBQ for the Manitoba Legislature grounds for Monday, May 11. How coincidental was you may ask?
Quote: “AT the very least we need a summer of pork BBQ’s in support of industry.
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Saving Money Flying Pigs to Russia
Harry Siemens  - The Boeing 777air plane left the Winnipeg International airport at 12:30 am on a Wednesday morning in May, not with the normal passenger load of happy campers, but with a load of hogs destined for Frankfurt, Germany.
These weren’t just any kind of hogs, but 660 purebred registered gilts, boars, and F1’s, belonging to Genesus Genetics of Oakville, Manitoba. [ more... ]

Rolf takes a Snapshot of June Hog Futures
Rolf Penner- This is brutal!! The hog market is in free fall. It was tough enough trying to make a buck with $4 corn before all this happened.  [ more...]

Glyphosate should get cheaper
Kevin Hursh - The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had an interesting story on Glyphosate prices in a recent edition. The story by Jeffry Tomich says a flood of inexpensive Chinese-made herbicide and deep price cuts by rivals are leading Monsanto to cut profit expectations for Roundup. According to the story, renewed competition from China is coming faster than Monsanto anticipated. Monsanto expects to sell about 200 million gallons of Glyphosate-based herbicide this year - 22 per cent less than last year.
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RealAgriculture.com - The Two F’s: Frost and Flea Beetles
By Garth Donald, CCA, Western Canadian Manager of Agronomy, Dynagra
I can honestly say that it has been a while since I have been on my hands and knees trying to see if there is any life left in a canola plant but this last week it has occurred more than I would like it to. When the temperature drops overnight my phone is ringing like crazy trying to figure out if there is damage to the canola seedlings. [ more... ]

 Strategy Devised to Protect Use of Bisphenol A and Block U.S. Ban
HS: Ban, divide and conquer - For What?? To bring the once mighty USA to its knees from within. All these moves have little to do with safety and health, but far more to do with making the US economy unstable so King Obama can divide and conquer and take over what he deems necessary to take over for the best of the common good. In this case, its for the good of King Obama and his radical lefties. The scary part is why are so few people getting it, why are so few people not realizing that the United States of America will forever not be the same. [ more... ]
 
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From the Publisher, Harry Siemens -  It's a Wild and Whacky Time
*** From rain, wet soils in southeast Manitoba to dry and record cold temperatures in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and only 70 percent of the heat units of average so far this year, the crop at best is off to a slow start. Grain markets are good, and input costs are at record high. The stress level for farmers climbs higher and higher, and my feelings go out to them.
*** The hog and cattle producers keep fighting to keep from drowning in a sea of bad news, lack luster demand in some cases, and government-interventions that throw everything off.
*** My one point this time around is the fact that grain and livestock producers must realize now more than ever, they need each other. Far too much finger pointing in the past has done nothing to build the synergies we need to get through yet another difficult time. Producers in Canada, the United States, and even Mexico must keep reaching across the borders because our numbers keep shrinking and assault on production agriculture keeps growing. More people need to realize, especially in Canada and the USA where food prices continue to be cheaper than anywhere else in the world, that destroying the hands that feed you by climbing on the PETA and those who oppose farming at every point band wagons will only drive your food prices higher. Producers and those in the related farming support industries keep the faith, even this shall pass.  

*** Somewhere, Somehow, Sometime, I will see you again. It may well be sooner than you think!

Sincerely,
Harry Siemens
harry@siemenssays.com
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