Peas? Suck? Price in the Tank! Trudeau takes a personal.

[the big wheel]

Do you need a reward for being stupid enough to grow peas amid no demand?

Thank God people are still growing peas what would you like everyone to grow all canola?

At 6 bucks with the fertilizer it puts back and the good of rotation still better than summerfallow or everyone growing canola. Could you imagine???

[farming101]

According to trade database some peas still going into India. Not many though....

[jazz]

SF3, peas were about $3.50 one year back in the mid-2000s. $6 bucks aint half bad. A few years ago I sold some for like $11 bucks when I was the only person in the country who grew them.

Whats a shame is durum. Top quality, 13% protein, $6.97. Spoiled bug invested wet crap grain that I didnt check got sold at Terra Fuels for $5.80. $1 dollar difference for best human consumption product on the planet vs ethanol and some pig feed.

[binthere]

There is still plenty of room for the price of peas to slip further. Hopefully not. There was a time we were only getting 3.50 to 4.00 a bushel.

[blackpowder]

Wish my peas looked like that.
They've never gone to India or gone bulk. But ya, peas suck, please dont grow them anymore, I dont want the competition.
Too many growers leads to the Malt game currently. Sorry I grew it this year. My last.

[Oliver88]

India Tariffs getting no attention anymore by the invisible Ag Minister or PM Groper since his Mr Dressup/hired assassin trip.

Hopefully they are removed before seeding 2019 or else canola acres will be crazy.

[helmsdale]

Yeah it's not like this was a surprise. Newsflash: the good times are gone. Prices are sliding, interest rates and inputs are climbing.

[errolanderson]

Don't give up . . . yellow peas could be a 'sleeping bull market' last half 2018-19

[Guest]

Do you need a reward for being stupid enough to grow peas amid no demand?

there are many reasons to grow peas ;
good for the land
$85/ac to grow
we don't grow canola on canola
high protien wheat guaranteed next year
can lock in $6.50 for nov
50-60 bpa fairly normal here
it's all about what's left after bills are paid

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Ad hoc payments would/could trigger trade action and more tariffs.

Ad Hoc payments would also completely disguise the message that the market is trying to send, leading to an even bigger glut of a product with no market. Leading to even bigger Ad-Hoc payments ad-infinitum. More government is never the answer, in fact it is the problem.