Life on the farm … Is it worth it?

[tweety]

Aren’t you a farmer? Or just saying too stupid to do it collectively?

Both!

Imagine if EVERY farmer in the world next year didn't use fertilizer. But every asshole would use it just to "get ahead".

[Guest]

Both!

Imagine if EVERY farmer in the world next year didn't use fertilizer. But every asshole would use it just to "get ahead".

Yep
Many many years ago there was a tractor rally here to protest something , think it had something to do with otto lang , not sure though?
Anyways lineups were terrible at elevators so while 95 % of the farmers were blocking the highways and driving their tractors on them , the 5% of the assholes hauled their grain to the elevators and bragged that their were no lineups

[jazz]

Both!

Imagine if EVERY farmer in the world next year didn't use fertilizer. But every asshole would use it just to "get ahead".

Which farmers? In Canada? The weather just gave the crop the same shtkicking that would have resulted from cutting yield on purpose and the price hasn't moved.

The better option is to starve the trade. I see too many people rushing it off the combine to the terminal just to get rid of it.

[tweety]

Which farmers? In Canada? The weather just gave the crop the same shtkicking that would have resulted from cutting yield on purpose and the price hasn't moved.

The better option is to starve the trade. I see too many people rushing it off the combine to the terminal just to get rid of it.

Grain production and average yield is very good this year overall. Production was higher even with 10 to 15% still left out.

[bucket]

Grain production and average yield is very good this year overall. Production was higher even with 10 to 15% still left out.

Feed grain production was definitely higher ....but I am not sure that is what guys were aiming for...

And is there a breakdown on the tough grain in bins currently...

Everyone will say they are done but that doesn't mean it was a terrific year when no one is buying tough grain because there isn't enough dry to blend it off...

[jazz]

The govts will never let food prices spike like that because it would be anarchy. Even if we affected a small increase in prices by restricting yeild, some other region would pick up the slack the next yr.

The better option would be to go back to idling land on purpose because that number would catch some eyes and its part of the reason crops are oversupplied.

[bucket]

The govts will never let food prices spike like that because it would be anarchy.

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Really ....the Westons got away with price fixing for years and they traded their admission of guilt so not be brought into other scams....

[fjlip]

The govts will never let food prices spike like that because it would be anarchy. Even if we affected a small increase in prices by restricting yeild, some other region would pick up the slack the next yr.

The better option would be to go back to idling land on purpose because that number would catch some eyes and its part of the reason crops are oversupplied.

Focus on Sabbatical.… umm no, farmers could NEVER get together on ANY topic, so non compliers will go full bore and cancel the ones who try. FORGET it. Come on GLOBAL COOLING ,is your only hope.

[tweety]

Focus on Sabbatical.… umm no, farmers could NEVER get together on ANY topic, so non compliers will go full bore and cancel the ones who try. FORGET it. Come on GLOBAL COOLING ,is your only hope.

When you sit back and think how well planned all this is, the constant prodding of doing better and growing more at any cost, and guilt if you don't, and if anyone says anything to the contrary they are poor business people without a clue.

But the root issue, we produce way too much food. And no it isn't a distribution problem, that is a myth.

[jazz]

The same principle would apply to other products to an extent too. Not saying my numbers are accurate but the principle applies. Primary ag producers need to get a bigger share of retail dollar that's the problem.

An international export business cannot be dictated by supply management. Milk isn't being exported to Saudi Arabia. The best option is to leverage your storage and tools the govt does provide like cash advances. I sell almost nothing until the next crop is going in.

But if you want a better share of the retail market, that model has already been set here in western Canada. Sunterra Farms

But let me tell you if the weather gets your dander up or fertilizer costs or machine dealers, then serving the picky public across the counter is going to send you to the white room in no time. Do a little experiment. Go stand near a checkout and watch the carts full of junk, pop chips, juice processed foods. Then go stand in the fruit and vegetable section. Well people looking over produce with a magnifying glass. And you thought getting graded a #2 at the terminal was hard to take.

Instead of that, go buy stocks in these companies. Go get an 80% line of credit off your land base and sink it into dividend stocks, write off the interest costs.