HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2005-03-17, Page 37PAGE A12. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2005.
A day at the sales barn
Auctioneers
These two men were kept busy taking bids for the various
lots of cattle for sale during the March 4 Stocker sale at the
Brussels Livestock. (Jim Brown photo)
Bidders
The seats at the Brussels Livestock were filled on March 4 as buyers and sellers were waiting
to see what was available and the prices they were going to receive. (Jim Brown photo)
Citizen reporter, Jim Brown, spent
the morning of Mareh 4 at the
Brussels Livestock.
He talked to livestock owner Len
Gamble, as well as some farmers
and truckers who were there for the
Friday sale.
The past few weeks have been
filled with optimism as Canadian
beef producers waited for the United
States border to open for live cattle.
However, with the R-CALF group
of American western cattlemen —
mostly Montana -- successful
getting an injunction to keep the
border closed, no one is quite sure
what will happen next and if and
when the border will open.
United States President George W.
Bush can override the decision.
Gamble understood that Bush
would veto any legislation keeping
the border closed, if it made it
through the Senate.
The American Secretary of
Agriculture said he had no problem
eating a steak from a Canadian cow.
and would even come to Canada to
do it.
Gamble indicated if the border
stays closed any longer, the Ontario
and Canadian governments are
going to have to assist Canadian
cattleman or else get more meat
packing plants up and operating.
“These are troubled times for
product.
“Our biggest market is the United
States," he said.
Gamble said the Canadian beet
industry has shown itself to be very
strong during the past 22 months.
“No one is asking for money," he
said. “We have to try and work
through the present situation in order
to make sure there is still a light at
the end of the tunnel.”
“We'll never know until the border
is open."
Gamble said as far as he knows,
all the paperwork for getting the"
border open is in place, but the
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Gamble said there has been an
improvement in the price of cattle
since September 2004, even though
it wasn’t announced until December
that the border would open March 7.
He said the prices were very low
in 2003. The prices now are quite
high for fatted and fed cattle.
With the R-CALF group getting
the injunction. Gamble said
Canadian producers are hoping
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are not going to bend.”
He added that everything will help
in getting the border open, as long as
it has good intentions.
“The main thing is that we have to
get the United States on our side,”
said Gamble.
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