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  • bigzee
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1113

    #11
    This will show us who the heavy hitters are, and who the hungry ones are that still want more.
    It’s tough farming in the easy spots, couldn’t imagine that place.

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    • bucket
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2008
      • 17021

      #12
      Originally posted by bigzee View Post
      This will show us who the heavy hitters are, and who the hungry ones are that still want more.
      It’s tough farming in the easy spots, couldn’t imagine that place.

      See if the Hutterites take it....its the only way it can work....

      If they are not renting it out and keeping the asset ..there is something else at play...

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      • sumdumguy
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 11967

        #13
        Big hemp farm, that’ll pay it off in one season. 🧨

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        • FarmJunkie
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2018
          • 915

          #14
          Good years are hard to come by up there. If u could get the eighties weather back u might have a chance there. Tracks are not optional

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          • AlbertaFarmer5
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2010
            • 12481

            #15
            I never even realized there was farming up there before. On google maps, it looks like mostly flat, full quarters and bigger.

            Can anyone explain why most of it is in grids on a 45 degree angle to the rest of western Canada, then seems to randomly switch back to NS grid? With portions of each within each?

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            • FarmJunkie
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2018
              • 915

              #16
              River. Drainage

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              • Guest

                #17
                Originally posted by AlbertaFarmer5 View Post
                I never even realized there was farming up there before. On google maps, it looks like mostly flat, full quarters and bigger.

                Can anyone explain why most of it is in grids on a 45 degree angle to the rest of western Canada, then seems to randomly switch back to NS grid? With portions of each within each?

                [ATTACH]5050[/ATTACH]
                Thats only a 120 miles from us

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                • Misterjade9
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2016
                  • 440

                  #18
                  The Cumberland flats, probably some of the best farmland in Manitoba and weather wise, just might be the hardest to farm. Although you have to remember, there is a least two or three more hours of daylight there during the growing season. No delivery points, Viterra shut the elavator down years ago, all grain goes to Swan River, Tisdale or Nipawin.

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                  • AlbertaFarmer5
                    Senior Member
                    • Oct 2010
                    • 12481

                    #19
                    Originally posted by FarmJunkie View Post
                    River. Drainage
                    That is what it looks like, makes sense.

                    So why the Heck didn't someone tell the surveyors that they could rotate their grid to fit the predominant lay of the land when they were surveying my area?

                    Could have rotated the EW lines 30 degrees clockwise to line up almost perfectly with the scars that run perpendicular from the mountains. We have large long narrow (usually less than 1/2 mile) stretches of high well drained land alternating with low to muskeg in similar strips, and almost arrow straight for miles. Can see it clear as day on google maps.

                    Instead almost every field is a triangle or diamond, with roads and fencelines cutting off the natural drainage every half mile making even more wetlands. Small triangles of good land cut off from the rest, sometimes with no access.

                    Is it too late to start over?

                    I literally farm on an island, with an unpassable muskeg to the north, a creek to the south, river to the west and the muskeg and creek come together to the east. Could have surveyed this island at the right angle and not even affected the rest of the grid roads. The main roads are forced to follow the lay of the land anyways, either a curve every half mile, or else just followed the HBC trail and went diagonal. The rest are mostly no exit roads.

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                    • FarmJunkie
                      Senior Member
                      • Feb 2018
                      • 915

                      #20
                      They don’t care one bit. Just look forward to the commission. Phuckin ambulance chasers!

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