Alan Blakeney's Vision......

[lakenheath]

Yes, socialist ideology but nobody like SK3 would be bitching about the corporate takeover of the farming industry today.

1,000 acre farms would likely have been diversified and may have embraced sustainable farming practice like the pioneers of zero tilllage invisioned.

Today's capitalist model has one direction to go and that isn't too far off SK3's exaggerated prediction.

[food4u]

To me it makes no difference whether it is CPP or" Land Bank" that owns the land. It is off the market and not available to potential buyers. Around here some of the land that got "sold" to the land bank is still being farmed by the seller.The land bank was used as taxpayer money source to keep their operations going.

[wmoebis]

Don't see much dif between land bank and FCC in the 80's when they foreclosed on farms then rented it back to same farmers eventually lending them money to buy it back for half price.

I know lots of farmers that were only able to farm because of the land bank.

Right or wrong I don't know.

[SASKFARMER3]

Lest see Under Allen's vision. Both my self and my father would have had to liquidate land down to 1000 acres each.
Ah like that was a great plan. USSR.
But the Canada pension plan is Our money buying farmland. It is the same as the land bank.
Sad sad sad.

[bucket]

Land bank or not alot of the issues were caused by one big bitch - MOTHER NATURE.

[CptnObvious]

Nowhere did Allan Blakeney say that farm ownership must be capped at 1,000 acres. The evidence against the right is observation. The evidence against the left is imagination.

[LEP]

Right like the classic "All the crowns will be privatized" line used every election for the past twenty years.

All based on fact.

[CptnObvious]

Hermanson was favoured to win the 2003 election until the 'sell the crowns'part of the SP platform was debated. Technically he said he didn't plan to sell the big 4 corps, but he would 'consider offers.' That sure made us feel safe.
Wall is smart enough not to say he wants to privatize the crowns but he is trying to hobble and starve them into the history books.

[LEP]

Bill, you keep believing what you read in the commonwealth.

It is all truth.

[oneoff]

Biggest thing most farmers had against the Land Bank was that it was land that they couldn't have.

Tough shit that SF3 types think they need another half section that some beginning farmer relied on. And there are also the personal public protection entitlements that are thought to go with those acres involved.

Say what you want....but there were farmers who got their start on a half section (or so) of Land Bank Land.

And when sold by government; it may have been the highest priced (in "real" dollars) that land was selling for in the 1980's. I never saw any Land Bank land offered for sale cheap.