Isn't this great????

[bucket]

Between the 40 bucks an acre for 5 years and not having to pay for any capital infrastructure. ....it's pretty hard to say there is economic benefit when taxpayers are subsidizing these ventures....

You think dairy is subsidized. ....irrigation within the the 3 large districts is the highest subsidized farming in Canada. ...

Private irrigators receive SFA....nor do smaller districts. ..

[jethro456]

I’m not saying the government hasn’t supported the southern Alberta irrigation districts. They have and it definitely has benefitted some more than others.
But without irrigation, southern Alberta wouldn’t have major spud processing plants, sugar beet processing, hybrid canola production facilities, cattle packing plants, ect. There is major economic benefit there

[bucket]

I’m not saying the government hasn’t supported the southern Alberta irrigation districts. They have and it definitely has benefitted some more than others.
But without irrigation, southern Alberta wouldn’t have major spud processing plants, sugar beet processing, hybrid canola production facilities, cattle packing plants, ect. There is major economic benefit there

You have it wrong


without government money propping up irrigation and every industry associated with it.... southern Alberta wouldn’t have major spud processing plants, sugar beet processing, hybrid canola production facilities, cattle packing plants, ect. There is major economic benefit there...

Look at this objectively the whole thing is a welfare scam...


....meanwhile dryland farmers receive SFA.....

[bucket]

Just one other note....

Why do private irrigators not receive the same 40 dollars an acre?

I know of guys that have spent their own money to develop their systems....they receive nothing....and there would be real economic benefits from those projects because the capital outlay came from real risk takers not socialists disguised as "so called capitalists" on these bigger projects.

[poorboy]

You have it wrong


without government money propping up irrigation and every industry associated with it.... southern Alberta wouldn’t have major spud processing plants, sugar beet processing, hybrid canola production facilities, cattle packing plants, ect. There is major economic benefit there...

Look at this objectively the whole thing is a welfare scam...


....meanwhile dryland farmers receive SFA.....

So using your logic the railways should not have been built, because originally only a few used them and the government paid to get them in place. Highways should not have been built and surely not paved, because only a few used them and government paid again. Power to everyone the same thing. High speed internet to rural areas also the same thing.

All these things are either helping or contributing to diversification, industry and more jobs.

You bitch and complain that no one is doing anything to diversify western Canada and when they try with the irrigation, you bitch and complain about that also. A lot things that happen have long term potential and no, not everything works out.

[bucket]

Is the railways , highways only helping 30 or 40 people in an area?

[bucket]

So using your logic the railways should not have been built, because originally only a few used them and the government paid to get them in place. Highways should not have been built and surely not paved, because only a few used them and government paid again. Power to everyone the same thing. High speed internet to rural areas also the same thing.

All these things are either helping or contributing to diversification, industry and more jobs.

You bitch and complain that no one is doing anything to diversify western Canada and when they try with the irrigation, you bitch and complain about that also. A lot things that happen have long term potential and no, not everything works out.

I bitch when the so called capitalists live on the government tit. . It's not diversification when they put lentils under a pivot and get 40 dollars an acre to do it....is it? ??....shouldn't all lentil growers get 40 dollars an acre?

Then we are all capitalists or socialists or at least on the same playing field.

The last irrigation meeting I attended the basic message was ....they all want irrigation as long as someone else is paying for it....

I would like a new sprayer if someone else is paying for it as well...does that help clear it up...