Logging on land???

[saskcanfarmer]

Not in crop insurance. Just needed done clarification.

[Braveheart]

Just curious. Have you or will you withdraw any Agri Invest funds?

[dalek]

Poplar and spruce here is worth more left standing, no market. I'd think it would be worth less there.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes looks like we will have to will decide after harvest.

[Braveheart]

Good thing it's there for everyone affected.

Re crop insurance and deductibles, etc. while levels of coverage and deductibles don't match up with farmer expectations, usually the specifics of these programs are dictated by trade constraints as much as available financing by Treasury.

We all feel for the affected area. It's so large. Hopefully everyone will have enough Agri Invest saved or left to help until some (diminished) Ag Stabilty advance arrives.

[vvalk]

Sorry saskfarmer but deducting 5% seems very reasonable to me. Government isn't there to guarantee you revenue on absolutely every acre. any insurance has deductibles like this. As for hail I can't and won't feel sorry for anyone when you can make a quick phone call and mitigate that risk. I have had hail on over 7000 acres so far this year and I havnt said a word on here. Hail is one risk any farm can easily insure for. On top of the hail after seeding we had approx 10% of our land flood out as well. Now to be fair the other 70% is looking great and isn't struggling from being too wet at least before the hail.

[SASKFARMER3]

That's not every acre it's 5 % off what I normally seed. So I lose 450 acres right off the gun. It's a bs program.

[SASKFARMER3]

And on hail we take hail insurance out every year this year we got hit first time in three years. But this defer till harvest bullshit is pissing me off.

[Klause]

We used to cut Q bout 100 ac a year for LP for aspen.



They used to pay about 4 bucks a tonne or 8 a cord.

The spruce is worth about 10.

I'd be interested in cutting thr spruce out... to saw on our mill for timber framing. ..

[15444]

Poplar is one of the few that still has some value. With prairie scrub poplar, probably couldn't get it up to 20 a cord, that would be pretty well max price. A lot depends on how far it has to be hauled. 10-20 miles, can be worth a fair bit, but if we are talking hundreds of miles, then your only looking at a few bucks.

It will be clear cut with the stumps left. They will rot down to nothing in 10 years. Summer cut, it won't sucker very badly, so if you pasture hard, you should be able to keep it mostly open for years to come.