Luck

<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/04/14/beef-wheat.html?ref=rss">Beef is out; wheat is in: farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Financially beleaguered cattle producers in Manitoba are selling off their herds and switching to wheat, capitalizing on soaring grain prices.<br />n<br />nMartin Unrau, president of the Manitoba Cattle Producers Association, is just one of hundreds of ranchers expected to sell off their animals this year and put their fields to work raising grain.<br />n<br />n"Here we are growing grain for sale again, which is kind of hard to believe, I guess. But we're doing it," said Unrau, who has made his living raising cattle for more than 40 years.<br />n<br />n"We've torn up some hay land and we're going to put in about 400 acres of salable grain this year, something we haven't done for about 10 or 11 years," he told CBC News.<br />n<br />nUnrau's operation near MacGregor, Man., has been losing money — a common affliction in the industry, which has been struggling with soaring feed costs, low livestock prices and a high Canadian dollar.<br />n<br />nHe expects the switch to earn him about $80,000 in profits this year.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI wish them luck. I can't imagine trying to switch from cattle to wheat. The price of iron and seed and fertilizer, it would be cost prohibitive to do.