Oh boy... We really should stop growing beans up here...

[bgmb]

Bmg I never jump in our rotation has been similar since we started direct seeding. Peas or lentils canola and hrs durum or barley oats.

Tried soy for 8years it’s just not ready yet but might make it one day.
Tried corn years ago just did once not big area.
Did try chick peas before they became big then died.

So I always will try but stick with what I can grow.

But you can’t compete against South America with our costs.

when i said sask farmer i didnt mean you. Kind of a broad generalization definately doesnt apply to all farms.

[SASKFARMER3]

Got it.

Yes the crop jump mentality.

[Nudge]

SF3 seems the only thing you can really do is sell out before it crashes. If you can't compete get out. I'm sure there are a couple BTO's round there willing to take on an impressive operation like yours!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Tried soy for 8years it’s just not ready yet but might make it one day.

This statement scares me, do you really think Canadians will take an entire 8 years( 2 election cycles) to figure out that our current amateur is just not ready? Or will we learn faster than that?


Sorry, couldn't resist.

[blackpowder]

Tryed beans here this year.
Wont bother again.

[grassfarmer]

This statement scares me, do you really think Canadians will take an entire 8 years( 2 election cycles) to figure out that our current amateur is just not ready? Or will we learn faster than that?


Sorry, couldn't resist.

Yep, some are slow learners, LOL.

[Klause]

A lot of people don't understand that part...


Some places in the world grow crop after crop... plant one, harvest the next... Other places like the black earth region grow long and short season crops, harvest for 3 months and seed for 2 or 3.

We're paying the same for land growing 1 crop a year, and struggling to get that off (I realize MB has a longer season... but there isn't that much land south of the #16 in MB compared to the rest of the prairies).


And MB beans are still low in protein which makes them less desirable compared to US/Brazil/Argentina/ or Eastern Canada beans...

[fjlip]

SF3 seems the only thing you can really do is sell out before it crashes. If you can't compete get out. I'm sure there are a couple BTO's round there willing to take on an impressive operation like yours!

BTO's and young guys here will take on ANY LAND at all. Good plan, thinking hard about freedom 65.

[bgmb]

I don't know... To me farming is pretty good in Canada overall. But yes long term competitiveness is a concern if governments keep regulating and taxing us more and more. Best thing that could happen would be for the grain seed and chem oligopolies to be torn apart but we are going the other way right now.

I understand in Brazil and Argentina they dont pay tua on rr seed traits and Russia well its Russia we were dumb enough to send our university researchers over there to give them the varieties and show them how to grow them lol.

[farming101]

Argentina has exported more soy meal than any other country on an annual basis ever since 2000.
Canada imports zero soy meal from Argentina.
The prairie provinces imported about 350,000 tonnes of soy meal from the US in 2016.
Talk of a crush plant in Manitoba. Looks like the domestic market would really have to grow to make it a success.
Interesting that Argentina exports about twice as many soybeans as Canada but produces about 7 times as much.