Grassroots have admirably led protests and rallies in Ottawa. Now is the time that the "unified voice" leaders carried the ball. But the "unified voice" isn't working because there is not one voice. Farmers are divided into self-interest groups. There are plenty of well functioning commodity organizations and general farm organization who respond well to like-minded producers with the same economic interests. 

The feedlot operators in the west opposed to corn countervail in the east because they want cheap grain. Pork producers, stung by low prices, see cheap grain as their salvation, at least in the short run.

The food industry itself has developed into a dog-eat-dog environment with the bigger dogs swallowing up the smaller ones. Packing houses exploit the feedlot operator who in turn is happy to see grain come into the country at a cost lower than our own farmers can produce it.

Farmers will always be looking for a safety net to sustain agriculture and will never quite achieve their goal of a long-term support program as long as there is not an integrated and sustained effort by its federal government. And that government effort had to be inspired by Canadian farmer, by their willingness to go forward together and sacrifice a little for a lot, for the good of agriculture.