Walk with Crowd or Turn other way!

[charliep]

Will also add the perspectives of expanding land base or holding the line. Similar comments on equipment. Borrowing more money or paying debt.

[parsley]

What you've highlighted charliep, is the important thing....that each operation needs different things..."Borrowing more money or paying debt." ..."investment side versus operations."

FARMERS HAVE A DIVERSITY OF NEEDS AND OPINIONS.

And perhaps better than anything else, Agri-ville will help to highlight that all farmers in Western Canada have different wants, and different challenges and different dreams.

One shoe does not fit all. That has always been my contention. And one size does not fit all because a dog remains a dog. Some want and need affirmation from others. It's not good or bad. It just is.

Accept the dog instead of trying to make him into a cat. I like SK exactly how he is. He posts on this website as if he was sitting in the halfton beside you, and good on him. Good grief, I cannot imagine remaking cotton into MY idea of better, can you? It would be a flop. LOL

When you accept, you can begin to enjoy each other.

Parsley

[parsley]

I guess I made it sound like everything will work out in the end. It won't.

I should have added that there are always some folks who will never like you or your thoughts, or accept who you are. They will totally reject you.

It is what it is.

Parsley

[dalek]

I always go back to Grandpa's advice on how to survive a land-buying frenzy when one hits.... be the one that started it, then sit back and watch your neighbours. It's pretty much been the way it's worked here for at least 3 generations now, every time we buy a farm, the neighbours all run around panicking thinking they need to expand too and the ones that do end up paying 50% more than we did while we've already moved on to making it pay.

[furrowtickler]

We walk in our own path, not turn the other way or walk with the crowd. I find it amusing to grow better than average crops with an investment in equipment 1/3 less than the crowd walkers. "They" say it can't be done but we are doing it with results that matter. It is nice not to have a 1/2 mill tied up in seeding equipment/tractor that will not make you one more dollar per acre. Just one example of walking our path.