Limiting production

[bucket]

Then there is something drastically wrong with our trade when we have endure a harvest drop in prices then sit on the production over winter when we have product the world apparently needs. Maybe we have oversold the security of supply. Don't worry we can always get Canadian product last minute. Why even store it, the Canadian farmers are doing it for us.

if we are the supplier of last resort and we need to store this for 9 months, that should be a getting more than a little tick in the market price. Should be a premium for this supply.

Why do you think there is close to 3mmt of vessel waiting to take on Canadian grain at the west coast?

Keeping the system plugged like the graincos do.... limits price as does target pricing months out....

Their schedule is always full to the point where they can delay delivery just long enough to keep the peasants in check.....and Quorum saying everything is fine....

[fjlip]

Wow! All true but only gloom and doom with NO solution in sight. Getting farmers to agree is WORSE than herding those proverbial CATS! We are so insignificant, just as been said peasants pawns low value high volume primary producers that feed the sysem. Oh ya been that way for MY 50 years farming!

[SASKFARMER3]

Back in the Ken goudy days they tried shit like this.

I agree for every two farmers cutting back some prick would think I’ll seed wall to wall and make money.

It’s like herding cats your correct

[furrowtickler]

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[Braveheart]

If you had a store that had hardly any inventory to sell, you'd soon be out of business. Consumers would soon shop elsewhere. In today's world throttling back production to increase prices would never work. End users can find substitutes to switch to.

It would work the opposite of what your intent is on your own farm as well. If you grow less, but have the same machinery and land investment costs, then, the cost of every bushel you produce is higher so you actually need a much higher price per bushel to cover those costs..

[farmaholic]

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[farmaholic]

[jazz]

Back in the Ken goudy days they tried shit like this.

I agree for every two farmers cutting back some prick would think I’ll seed wall to wall and make money.

It’s like herding cats your correct

I don't mean idling land and doing nothing with it. I mean idling land, controlling weeds with $3 per acre chem instead of $30 per acre and then building N with a cover crop then knocking all down with pro till in the fall. So you are making money because you are cutting costs for the following production yrs. Plus 1/3 less acres to harvest. Less fuel, less fert, less chem, less carbon tax, less insurance, less wear and tear, less stress.


Just like the patch we will need to find our own solutions to our own problems and not rely on govt. They wont solve any problems.

[samhill]

Well admittedly I don’t know (shite) but there was a chance to maybe pull together, buy the Port of Churchill facility and the railroad and have our own company. No one of the deep thinkers wanted it. We need to compete in the world market, no matter what the delivery system, our own or with the bloodsuckers. So, bloodsuckers, here we come.