Cropping Plans...

[SASKFARMER3]

40% Canola
15% Pulse Lentil or Peas
3.5% Barley
3.5% Oats
38% CWB split 1/3 Durum 2/3 HRS.
Flooded We have almost more snow in stubble than we had at the end of march last year.
Chance of Seeding looks at 20% right now but could turn dry in march and windy windy in April and dry in may to get some seeded.
Funny companies want me to pay for every thing now hm their covered and I have a bunch of useless inputs for 2012.
Oh well. theirs always 2013.

[bucket]

SF3

Just to make your blood pressure rise, I will tease you a bit.

Your 38% to cwb board grains, means you still trust the cwb? Or does the 22 percent to barley/oats/pulses mean you could swing those into cwb grains? Thus making you a board supporter?

Well, I have just figured you out - your a closet board supporter!!!

LOL

[SASKFARMER3]

Bucket to keep a proper rotation thats the lost liter on our operation. Yea Im a closet board supporter, good one.

[bucket]

Seriously, isn't that the way the cwb gauges support. Acres and potential swing acres into board grains.

If the cwb doesn't get their collective heads on pretty soon they may have less to sell next year.

There should be some competing bids for durum and cwrs from the board or the west will turn yellow.

As much as I hate the canola seed price, at the current oct 11 price and no storing, its worth taking a look at. Flax will be up there as it usually has a premium to canola. Peas and lentils are two weeks away from sorting the 2010 crop out and then you will see attractive bids.

The world is short:

1. High quality wheat and durum
2. Canola will be tight
3. Soybeans are tight see above getting tighter
4. Corn is tight and the dryness they are predicting down south, leads to lower yields than this year.
5. Flax has been exported at a higher rate than pre triffid and its a short crop for 2010.


So where is the cwb - trying to find grain for those chinese and saudi sales they were so proud of.

[SASKFARMER3]

I agree the whole west will be blue yellow and white. From the air. (Flax,Canola,Pulses).
The CWB is running out crop to sell fast and furious. They dont get the fact that next year their might not be any HRS or Durum for them to sell.

[silverback]

I guess they will just have to downsize the operation in Wpg. if there is less crop to market. I am sure they would.

[bucket]

silverback

You are letting your sons farm now, right?

Comments like that make me think you ought not be running machinery!

[stubblejumper]

bucket and sask i'm not sure if your ego's can take this but there are other farmers who don't give a shit what you think.

[Burbert]

Yup the sky is falling, the sky is falling, chicken little!!!!! Saskabush, bs, is still, bs...........

[bucket]

Hey, makes no difference to me.

But just for records sake, I can tell you I phone the cwb quite a bit.

When they made an early call on durum, I mentioned that it looks stupid considering there was no durum to be harvested for a month. I told them to either extend the current crop year or come out with an "out of the pool GDC with a price attached."

That was in early August. They did nothing and chose to pay a shipowner millions in demurrage.

Since you don't give a shit what I say, would you kindly send me a refund on the demuurage. Because I don't really think I should have to pay for something that the cwb ****ed up and was given a solution early enough to avoid the demurrage costs.

And for the record, directors agreed with me on that particular solution. They never acted on it and it cost prairie farmers millions.

But then again so did the sales to the Saudis and the chinese so early in the crop year.

But like you board supporters say "who gives a shit what I think "

Good attitude and most director's of the cwb share it with you. And they are in charge of a multi-billion corporation and not looking for solutions. Really progressive and instills confidence from farmers.