Should have topped up too wet insurance!!

[fjlip]

22mm in gauge but most of the snow is not counted. Up to 12" in yard, fields blew off 6" or so. Ditches full, roads a wreck.
If you have a window that evil white stuff kills any relaxing.
Grassfarmer, most are exiting cattle in this area. Young guys not interested. The lure is Canola and huge new machinery, as well as the oil patch all winter.

[riders2010]

You guys obviously haven't experienced the wet years as we have. It's no joke any more. Yeah with a may rain or 2 will be filling the airseeder alright hopefully not the end of june.

Same old same old, we'll be gettin the rejection from instability and more guys from the so called drought that ends in one day will bring their margins in and drive up rent again, only to collect on their program.

Wow let's jump for joy!

[freewheat]

No doubt riders, no doubt. I have two
years of crops in the last 6 years to
base my 5 year margins on. Guys
shouldn't wonder why we are nervous
again, when they have coverage for a
drop, and we have diddly. And speaking
of angrystability, I got a letter from
them the other day. They needed more
information for my 2010 claim year. Two
years later, and still not done. I don't
even know if I'll see a red cent.

It is not like it is complicated, it is
simple mathematics. I entered the year
with a fair grain inventory from my 2009
crop, and ended it with 0 inventory, due
to no seeding occuring.

Yet I sit and wait. LOL two years later.

[hobbyfrmr]

In feb 2007 I bought 480 acres that I combined all
of it in oct 2006. Big runoff and massive rains, an
rm cut open a road flooded 240 acres. I have yet
to physically see those 240 acres. 20% of my
farm. I don't like it, it took the wind out of my sails I
was bound for glory goddammit! In conclusion,
relax sometimes you can't change things. Do not
run against the wind. Do the best you can. The
crop will go in and the crop will come off. That's
what we do.
Consider selling to these big investors and
relocating. Arbitrage.
It's just farming in Canada, in my 21 years farming
I have noticed one thing, we are not that ****ing
important. Its just food and fuel. We can chase
around with expensive fancy rigs and hired men
talk real loud in the pub and AV about risk and
play boss. Just remember, It's not oil, or gold, or
potash or diamonds. If you want to feel important
get a job in these sectors, and make buckets of
cash. There is no shame in that. Canadian
citizens don't give a **** about farming. The end.

Oh, yeah, happy Easter I hope we have sense
enough to spend time with our families. They will
remember that.

[hobbyfrmr]

Freewheat you are right. It isn't that complicated and you should know what you are supposed to get or not get when you send it in.

If someone is preparing it for you they better be providing that as part of the package or fire them!

[parsley]

A few non-worrisome soft spots on the grade.
Cold near Kenosee Lake! . A bit of rain, maybe a
tenth, but negligible. Clear blue sky. It feels like
it's going to freeze like a bitch tonight. A bit of
snappy wind. No clouds. It's 6:30 and sunlight is
streaming through the west window. Ducks in the
slough are nesting-noisy. An oil baroness brought
me a batch of fresh flowers this morning for
Easter and they sit happy on the table. Got invited
out for a roast turkey/mashed potato-gravey
dinner this afternoon, "and I said to myself, what a
wonderful day.". Pars

[fjlip]

"It's just farming in Canada, in my 21 years farming I have noticed one thing, we are not that ****ing important."
You are correct hobbyfrmr.
Been doing this for 40 years and regularly I hear AG is SFA of GDP in Canada and Sk.
Happy Easter Parsley, I envy your calm demeanor and your weather.

[gregpet]

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[Klause]

I feel for ya freewheat!

Not as bad here... nothing in MB... I'm
counting us as very lucky.

You'll probably be later with seeding...
but if you need a hand, I'll help you
out on my days off. We should grab a
beer or rum'n coke one of these days...
introduce the girls too. LOL.

It's early. Have faith! I think it'll be
a good year for the Prairies!!!

[grassfarmer]

Your weather pattern changing from a perceived
norm to something different is certainly unsettling
freewheat. Still I'd rather be wet than dry with that
in mind. Don't know about where you are at but in
much of Alberta tree ring evidence indicates the 20
century was an anomaly - way wetter than most
previous centuries which were often punctuated
with 30 year severe droughts. How would
agriculture adapt to that? With the rate Alberta is
screwing up it's water resources through oilfield
activity and fracking you guys that still have water
may have the last laugh.

Someone commented "The lure is Canola and huge
new machinery, as well as the oil patch all winter."
... are these wise ambitions though? seems to me
there are lots and lots failing doing just that every
time another auction sale catalog comes in packed
with the big JD agriculture. And then there is this
risk:
https://www.agriville.com/cgi-
bin/forums/viewThread.cgi?1333506904

I feel way safer in animal agriculture and the future
has never been brighter if you are prepared to
adapt. A friend near Ottawa retails his grass-fed
beef direct to consumers in small packages at
$9.50/lb. He can't keep up with demand.
I have a few sows now to provide pasture pork to
retail to my beef customers. Spending $300 for a
bred sow that will net me close to $2000 for one
litter of her offspring by fall and they only occupy
some corral space in the summer that I'm not using
otherwise. The opportunities are endless growing
the healthier meats people are demanding.