Dry out there

[freewheat]

So according the government, The northeast never got several inches of rain in October, two feet of snow in the winter, and of course our soil was bone dry in the fall. Maybe thats why we were getting stuck with the combine, trucks and had a heck of a time even getting the crop out of the field due to slimy rutted dirt roads!!! LOL

Man, I'm trying not to be cynical, and i haven't had the opportunity to dig into the soil with my bare hands in other areas, but is it really that bad, or is the gov't out to lunch on other areas of the maps?

And yes, checking I agree we need to cut back production. If we all strove for 30 bushel canola, and were happy with that, we'd be getting 12 or 14 bucks for it. But no, lets go for 50, and get 8. (I sin in this regard too). But dang I seeded my first canola with 50 cent a pound excel, and grew reasonable (35) crops, and made way more money than I can with these ridiculous
Seed prices now. Don't miss the weeds and treflan though. LOL

[oneoff]

The very least we should do; is to agree with freewheats comments. There isn't any logical way to think otherwise.

[cottonpicken]

In october i remember drinking;
was i drinking because it was wet;
or wet from drinking;
i'll make the bet'
it was because we where so wet'

[SASKFARMER3]

OK that map is screwed the more I look at it. We are low moisture. Come on. Last Oct it rained every single dam day. Jeez. But for winter snow yes we have been lacking. YEAH that's great. Snow is BS for our area it just makes sloughs. And funny yesterday I was out with Quad we do have sloughs. Hopefully April will get rid of them before seeding. Yes I also agree I made way way way way more money in late 70s growing bin run canola and using treflan than I am now with this GM modified BS. How low can we go attitude. All were doing is padding the pockets of grain companies. That's it. A once profitable crop is like all the rest.

[boarderbloke]

We are geting screwed with canola seed. But it has become apparent now, that the reason there was such a large increase in seed cost, was that the chemical companies could see that glyphosate prices were going to drop dramaticly due to more choice. To maintain the bottom line, seed prices went up!

[Hopperbin]

Not sure about this growing less to get more mentality. We all know what happened in the rest of the world when they got better prices. They produced more, so would we not just be earning ourselves less market share???