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[blackpowder]

What WE all need to talk about is the health of OUR Industry. Discuss giving the CGC some ICC like teeth if you feel it's necessary. Discuss unified aggressive lobby force.
All that I hear is 'we must all stay in this time capsule/bomb shelter together or we will all die'
Still waiting.

[chuckChuck]

Where have you guys been? 1000s of farmers have left the business because of poor economics and they told their kids not to go into farming for the same reason. Do you not realize that a large percentage of farm families have significant off farm income just to survive. What happened to all your neighbors? How many acres does it now take to make a respectable living without working off the farm? If farming is so successful in this country why are we not seeing an increase in the number of farmers?

[blackpowder]

You've been in your bomb shelter so long you think you're immortal. If you think your part of an ageless dynasty think again. No system in the universe lasts forever.
1 generation ago 9 families with my surname lived Solely off their farms. My gen. has 1. Local multigens. are the largest farmers. Their common denominator is a patriarch that did a good job of training all children properly.
PLEASE give a clearer description of 'family farm'.
Even the Hutterite system can't last forever.
Your speaking of a quality of life or 'lifestyle'. Again, our small population cannot afford to carry a European style farmer, Hell even they can't afford it anymore!
Perhaps your speaking of everyone operating a small local market garden farm. Oddly enuf there is a trend in major urban centers for urbanites to do this very thing.
Clarify your ideals so we can keep them in our industry.
I admire your passion doublechuck but you may tire of immortality by watching everything around you eventually die.

[furrowtickler]

I know what happened to my neighbors, they loved the CWB and laughed at us that grew canola-peas-lentils-canary seed, basicaly anything but board grains.
Those that jump from the nest learn to fly, the odd one crashes and burns but all those who don't leave the nest die eventualy...

[mbratrud]

John, is that Young Depape suited up for Winnipeg in Penticton any relation?

[Hopperbin]

land near my place is now selling for 1000 dollars per acre. I would call that success, of course it is not easy to buy that land without being well established, could always pay the high rents, farms have gotten larger and I did it myself to make my farm more competitive. As you know I am not into buying more land or taking on more rental acres. Some day I will retire and let a larger most likely larger acreage farmer take over. Perhaps a future daughter's husband would like to farm or one of my daughters. With this big new machinery there is not room for everyone. Never thought I would ever own a combine with 480 hp. When we have that machine working at 100 percent load it is easy to see that more hp is on the way. Chuck chuck some farmers did not want their kids farming cause they wanted to retire with all the procedes from selling to another farmer, thinking the kids cannot pay up. When I look around there is plenty of success around.

[jdepape]

Chuck:
You say 1,000s of farmers are leaving because
farming is financially unsustainable.

And yet, you don't blame the CWB and think you
should defend it to keep it.

Can you explain that?

[jdepape]

Mbratrud:

Yes.
Distant cousin.

[malta]

The logic of the monopoly. Chuck says thousands of farmers leave the business and young people don't enter farming but lets keep the marketing structure that caused this.

[blackpowder]

50-55 bushel wheat land here is $18-2300/ac and not going down.
Increasing demand