Tough times for cowboys
source: http://communities.canada.com/VANCOUVERSUN/blogs/greenman/archive/2010/01/20/lean-years-in-c...
The woes of the B.C. cattle industry can be summed up in two words: climate change. Real or imagined, the shopping list of impacts related to climate change is a long one. Droughty grasslands. Sage and shrub encroachment. Pine encroachment. Pine beetle. Reforestation. Carbon tax. Biofuels. Spiralling feed grain prices.
And that list doesn't even include mad cow disease, the export-killing super-heated Canadian dollar and the labour shortage created when the ranchhands leave for the oil patch or construction work.
And that list doesn't even include mad cow disease, the export-killing super-heated Canadian dollar and the labour shortage created when the ranchhands leave for the oil patch or construction work.
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