7 Silver Linings For Ag In 2016

[tweety]

Ok your just begging me to say this .....


Stop drinking their kool-aid. FFS.

Nitrogen is produced with natural gas that is currently so worthless they are flaring it off.

So any normal business would build a fertilizer plant then. But farmers are way too pig headed and independent to ever work together.

[theplowboy]

One silver lining is the Cdn dollar down around $.76 USD.

It is helping move Canadian grain into export markets.

[Horse]

Farmers are thier own worst enemeys you put on more fert and get bigger sprayers so you can try to farm the whole country and then bitch about the cost of imputs, Never in over 50 yr of farming has anyone put a gun to my head and said buy more inputs or else. If no one bought them 700K combine they wouldnt make them would they so whos fault is it , if everyone wasnt so greedy and wanted it all, life would be a lot saner.

[bucket]

Sure are moving grain with boats floating to the same number as back in 2013.

2.0 mmt space floating. But because the BDI is low and so is demurrage .... who really gives a ****?

We are in the same crisis as 2013 and most are sleeping in Ottawa.

[Hamloc]

Watched the results of a couple farm sales on Rbauctions. At first sale 2 John Deere S-680's sold for 265000, I think 14's with just over 500 hours. Second sale 2 s-680's sold for 385000 each. I think around 300 hrs. I am going by memory but the 120000 difference per combine seemed a bit fishy to me. Dealers want over 450000 for the same combine, looks like they pushed the price up to make their price on used make sense, any thoughts?

[farming101]

I think there will be some good progress made in the next while reducing the ship counts on the coast.

[bucket]

They need to move a million tonnes a week to the west coast to catch up and stay current. Not likely.

And thunder bay is starting to fire up.

Local mainline was pushing to thunder bay 2 weeks ago to stay ahead.

[farming101]

If the sales program is that big I'd say weld the doors shut.

[Klause]

Bucket where will this million tonnes a week come from????? Bins empty most grain gone. Elevators made sales they have no grain for... gonna bite them in the ass with a dough coming for most of the corn belt, southern plains and western prairies.



Lots of lentils and peas but average yields will be WAY DOWN. Too many guys who never grew any pulses growing lots this year...

[sumdumguy]

We had many acreage spikes in lentil growing, mother nature takes care of the overage. no worry! The same areas produce - the rest are chihuas chasing a greyhound bus.