Farm Progress show Next week!

[sawfly]

i go once in a while ,just to see what equipment i will be buying 10 years later.
given my age , i had better go this year , won't be much point going after that.

[hobbyfrmr]

No interest in this show. Its geared for larger more efficient farms than mine. I agree the companies do make good equipment I am fortunate to buy 10 year old iron that will last a very long time. I make my living with other farmers discards!!

[SASKFARMER3]

Hey guys Its just a show. I attend to visit (notice not buy product) with friends and neighbors plus those that I either worked with or went to UofS with. Its a social outing. But have to stop at one booth and give a little information about how our drill performed.

[freewheat]

I'm going for one reason. Gotta heckle Farm Credit. They suck. If you see a young disgruntled farmer wearing a sign that says, "Don't deal with FCC, they take 8 weeks to process a loan application" That would be yours truly.

[mcfarms]

Shouldn't for 2010 it be retitled
LACK OF Farm Progress show ?

[fjlip]

How about "Sask Monsoon Show" forget the dryland farming theme. Or "Lack of Crop Show", For 2011 could be "Lack of Farmers Show"

[bucket]

When it becomes " Lack of farm manufacturers show " then the media and politicians will take notice.

Unfortantely they don't understand the GM cause and effect yet.

Had they let gm fail the canadian economy would have still been in the toilet.

Let the farmers fail and you have got the 30's all over again.

I see believe had the farmer not been as profitable when the economy was tanking this country would be in the shitter still.

[wmoebis]

I go just about every year but knowone can ever say they made a sale because of it.

I would like to see a show where things that are showen on PFR and farm show mag are displayed. Things farmers have made or improved on in their shops. Maybe even some good used machinery and affordable things for the average size farms.

For me I will never run all this big electronic stuff. Alright for younger guys but I rather marvel at inovative farmers and craftsmen, than collage educated with all the cash at their disposal.

[parsley]

H"ad they let gm fail the canadian economy would have still been in the toilet"

Hm..


Ford is still here, is it not? How did they survive? They weren't bailed out.

[hobbyfrmr]

Bucket, I know what you are saying, but I can not agree. I have been farming for 18 years and one thing that I know is absolutely for certain about Ag in Canada, is that no "real" people give a f#ck about farmers or farming in general. The food is in the store, prices are cheap, and farmers are still willing to grow more for less in the name of efficiency. I do know, that, in all the hardships caused by weather in the past have never really been decently compensated. Everybody inches by and all they get is older and more cynical. So, to think that when farming gets bad, the economy will suffer, is naive at best. I used to carry those thoughts around but not anymore. What we do in Sask should and probably does affect the economy but absolutely no one in politics, government, or society in general will acknowledge it. After so many years of trying real hard for quality and yeild or thinking that I, "grow food", or "feed the world" its a false sense of accomplishment. I have a new default answer. "Its just farming, we are not that important." Say it a few times in a public setting, and watch the heads nod in agreement. Apologies for the rant.