Mr. Speaker, it is common knowledge that a farmer receives less than 8 cents for the wheat in a loaf of bread.
Last night I calculated that farmers receive about $1.20 for all components of a first class roast beef dinner. Middlemen take the rest, but they are pikers compared to government.
After freight and handling deductions, a Saskatchewan farmer receives $3.15 for a bushel of malting barley from which about 300 bottles of beer can be produced.
Federal and provincial taxes including GST on that beer would be about $165 or 52 times what farmer receives. Yet the government does not realize that its great milch cow known as the farming industry has to be fed from time to time. Farmers need emergency assistance and they need it now.