Farm accident

[tweety]

the practical useful limit of equipment design has long already been reached. The last decade has have shown just how much money farmers actually have.

4 computers, touch screens, servo hydraulic motors, control systems and a mile of potentially faulty wiring and connectors to replace a chain and sprocket. Yup, that's progress.

[Hopalong]

Kind of straying from topic but think change and innovation may come faster than ever.
Could be robots for equipment and different management and ownership structure for farms, not that I would look forward to it.

[bucket]

It's a bad experiment when you look at other countries that can sell for less than us and still put in a crop.

No one is paying us for the use of technology. And it's price tag is making us uncompetitive or our bins would be empty.

[bucket]

Klause

Super Bs are so ****ing expensive to the taxpayer it's not even funny anymore.

Thinking that trucking is the answer you might as well seed saskatchewan back to grass and raise buffalo.

It's not sustainable.

But then maybe you don't drive the same shit highways I do that have been wrecked by elevator transfers.

[sumdumguy]

we need more rail movement of heavy commodities to take the pressure off roads.

[Klause]

I never said it was a good thing. I'm saying it is what is happening.


I'd much rather do local hauls than 1600km ringers hauling canola both ways.



We are arguing in circles.


You want subsidies for farmers to upgrade iron and tech then say that we aren't getting paid for our tech investment and can't sell what we produce... so what's the point.


You say doepker laid off people and blame it on ag... I point out its their oilfield subsidiary that's laying people off and the grain side is chugging along, you complain trucking grain is costing us millions...


If everything sucks and everyone is out to get you and the life we lead is so miserable why not call Ritchie Bros and buy a nice house in Phoenix?

[blackpowder]

Amen brother Klause.

[tweety]

Phoenix is really nice. Very nice roads unlike these sask ones driven daily.

[grower99]

The "socialist" country of Norway...get along with corporations. Not here?