CCA President Martin Unrau on Community Pastures, the Canadian Cow Herd & COOL

[ASRG]

I hope the Woods do well on their cows.
What are they doing with the land? Selling or breaking it up for crop?

[grassfarmer]

I know someone else who moved down into that SE
Sask country in the same timescale and set up a large
cow operation on former grain land. His cowherd is
now worth more than he paid for the land. What to
do?? It's the same old dilemma of asset rich - cash
poor.
The way everyone was talking the clever money would
be in selling the cows and turning it back to crops -
but then you read the commodity forum on here and
it seems that grain farming in that part of the world
has been pretty bad this year.

[tman]

Grain farming in many parts of MB and SK has been more than a struggle this year. Been hearing and reading more poor and really poor yields than anything else.

[kato]

It's no easy ride for the grain farmers this year around here. From what we've been hearing, the crops are weighing light. They looked real good in the field, but the heat and dry since the beginning of August took a toll. The fact that they looked so good all summer makes for a bigger disappointment now.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. Just the thought of the expenses involved in growing grain is enough to make your head spin. We're happy to ride it out with the cow herd. Let someone else spend the big bucks.