interesting http://71-32-92-211.tukw.qwest.net/727b.htm

How are you going to hold back your production when you need to feed your children?"

We are talking about farmers. right? If they cannot grow enough to feed the family and are in a position that they "have" to sell to survive, they should get in a different business. You talking about a guy with 2 cows and a pig. I am talking about someone with a feed lot and 1500 head. This is the guy (and his customers) who run the market, not some slope headed mafia wannabe.


apples and oranges

Don't just think about the transportation costs, the cost of establishing connections, legal costs, etc.
There are also regulations and import/export quotas that can screw you, as you see here with the disease regulations.

"Most people would just take their product to a different market if the price(s) are too low or even hold back the product."

This is why economic policies don't work. Economists don't understand their own theories.
You've been fed the usual bs in some economics course.
You need to review the assumptions behind what you deduce, and believe me, those are indeed fairy tail assumptions.

Where are these people going to take their production? How are you going to hold back your production when you need to feed your children and it's rotting?

The theories can explain this, you just need to interpret them properly. The key is in the elasticity I think.

Must be our background or where we are from but I still cannot understand your "This is indeed supply and demand to some extent, but the agents in the market are determined by a few people."
Most people would just take their product to a different market if the price(s) are too low or even hold back the product.


Not a "fairy tale" but this is how it works in most of the world.

Theoretically you are right though. When I say "to some extent" I really mean that purely competitive market forces operate "to some extent".

I think your version of supply and demand is a fairy tail.
The EUSSR or the Bulgarian government can tell you you when to kill your animal and it can also tell you at what price you will be compensated.
The EUSSR can even tell you that you can't produce something at all. Which they do all the time under the precedent of "efficiency", "environment" or "stability" and others.

Moreover, if you've ever been to the local markets where the livestock and grain get sold, you'll realize prices are usually carefully controlled by the local mafia. This is indeed supply and demand to some extent, but the agents in the market are determined by a few people.

Mhail,

"buy and raise animals that someone will take from you at whatever price they want." ???
That does not make any sense. How can someone "take" from you? It is supply and demand that drives the price a person gets for what they produce.
Nothing more.

Don

That's what I thought, obvious attempt to destroy yet another local industry.

Even if those people get compensated, that will probably have major effects in the future. It's hard to invest time and savings, buy and raise animals that someone will take from you at whatever price they want. If they can get away with it once, then this will mess up the region.

There is also the possibility that some organized crime is responsible. There are many "entrepreneurs" trying to "establish" themselves in the remaining industries Bulgaria has.

Not dangerous disease(except for cows, goats, pigs etc)

7000 needs to be 700 i think. EU loves to slaughter animals who are not sick.
I hope the people get compensated like it should or this could be the end of the entire region which is struggling to keep people in the villages.

What does this disease do? Is it dangerous?

If 7 000 had to be slaughtered, these farmers have probably been 'overlooking' the problem for some time?