Urban perspective

**farmaholic** · Mar 20, 2018, 20:38

Tell them to buy a farm......its a free country, have at it!

**furrowtickler** · Mar 20, 2018, 20:39

So where does this restaurant owner get his food from ? And how is it generated ?

**Horse** · Mar 20, 2018, 21:20

Originally posted by farmaholic View Post

Tell them to buy a farm......its a free country, have at it!

That's such a lame statement I just have to comment,, buy a railroad, farm machinery dealer, build your own terminal, how about building your own roads its a free country why whine if things don't suit you, buy/build your own.

**farmaholic** · Mar 20, 2018, 21:47

Horse, that's a poor comparison. Now if you told me to buy a small independant ag fert/chem supplier or some other business of comparable size(assets and income) that would be a fair statement. Sounds like the tycoon still might be multiple times bigger than the larger "welfare" farms. If I knew which restaurants he owned/operated I would possibly just boycott them and encourage others to do so as well.

**Blaithin** · Mar 20, 2018, 22:11

Originally posted by Ache4Acres View Post

I was at an event on the weekend attended primarily by high level sask Govt officials, professionals and business owners. Discussion fell to farmers and there was one restauranteur/real estate mogul who was flat out angry with the way farmers donâ€™t pay pst on ag equipment. He was absolutely certain that restaurants are more important to the economy than agriculture.

I think the lack of appreciation for the contribution of agriculture to the economy is real.

Our deputy minister of finance was in the heat of the discussion and he was bang on in defending agriculture in the province and in his arguments against carbon tax.

Urban people don't have the ability to connect many agricultural dots.

I've been doing my volunteering in Calgary lately and the teachers have the option of two presentations: Cattle or Grains. I'm not a butcher so the Cattle presentation focuses on animal husbandry mostly - breeds, purpose, feed, health, etc, not meat and cuts. The grains are focused on just the main 6 grown around here - Wheat, Durum, Barley, Canola, Peas and Lentils. How they're graded and a bit on quality control and uses in our food.

Multiple teachers have said, because so many children are vegetarians for religious reasons, the grains may be a better fit. Plus then they'd learn more about Alberta vegetation. I can sit back and roll my eyes at that concept but they really don't have any idea. To them, there isn't much to know about cattle beyond they're meat and because grains are plants, obviously a presentation about grains is going to teach about a lot of different vegetation.

Of course, I get a bit of the last laugh because I can go in and teach them. When people, like your restauranteur, are set in their opinion, it's hard to actually teach them reality.

**furrowtickler** · Mar 20, 2018, 22:19

Originally posted by farmaholic View Post

Tell them to buy a farm......its a free country, have at it!

Agreed , tell him to grow his own food supplies.

**furrowtickler** · Mar 20, 2018, 22:41

And then show him this graph , courtesy of hems ....

Yup , nothin but good times ...

**Oliver88** · Mar 20, 2018, 22:44

It would be good to know which restauranteur/real estate mogul this was so that a guy can keep the $ saved from not paying PST away from their businesses.

**woodland** · Mar 20, 2018, 23:35

Crazy question from Alberta here. The GST is charged on equipment and supplies but you submit and get it back later. Is PST following different rules than its federal version? Weâ€™ve bought stuff out of Saskatchewan and as long as itâ€™s getting shipped here it was PST exempt.

Hope we donâ€™t ever have to deal with such a thing here but Iâ€™m not holding my breath with how fast the debt is racking up.......

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