Ritche Bros, Farm dispersal sale..... interesting?

[blackpowder]

How refreshing. A really good post about farming that didn't get derailed.
Hard to fly like an eagle when you work with turkeys.
I try hard not to be a turkey and succeed most days. Others, I look back on and humble myself.
Farming will look quite different in 100 years. And familiar. I don't sweat things I can't change anymore.
The next few years before I pull the pin will be the hardest; to have the energy.
And the easiest; with good people and equipment.
Good on everyone who knows that farming can be a rut. And those who figure out in time that there's not much difference between a rut and a grave.
Happy trails Sheldon..

[farmaholic]

Maybe JDGreen can chime in and verify there's life after farming!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Maybe JDGreen can chime in and verify there's life after farming!

Now there is a guy who knows a thing or two about helping out an underdog.

[Sheepwheat]

Bucket - yep probably the case - but I bet it’s the 80/20 rule... more people than not offered genuine condolences to you and your family. Best to remember those actions than the other.

To be honest. In my situation you could reverse the 80 and the 20. At least. Maybe 90 10 even? It is too bad, but the truth. Land comes available and farmers get licking their lips. Not saying they are necessarily evil intentions, just that for many, the "sympathy" is not very real or deep.

[Sheepwheat]

I have heard the direct marketing drum beat for 30 years now but success stories on a stand alone basis are few and very far between if the calculator is used. Our climate is not suitable for market gardening. We have a small garden for our own purposes but late year a lot of stuff didn't mature due to the sun not shining and rained every day. I used to help a guy hay and we got a deal on beef but he has retired now. Last year the stupid weather was so awful the haying work interfered with my off farm job and so I could not put in as much as I would have liked. Normally the hay would be mostly done before the peak off farm work comes. Market for livestock is pretty much saturated which is why the price is low. As well, nobody really wants an abottoir job for good reason. Reality in canuckistan is that most people have become wealthy because of the asset inflation that comes from government money printing 24/7. Once that goes away, which is happening right now, this is the third world.

You aren't going the read success stories of garlic farmers in mainstream farm mags. You will never hear about the goat cheesemakers who farm 30 acres and make a great living there either. The yak farmers, the small town abbatoir, the cricket producer, the shitake mushroom farm, the quail farmer, the sheep dairy, the greenhouse supplying restaurants.

There are MANY success stories in the field of diversity, in the realm of different thinking out there. It has been an incredible journey to be on. You aren't going to find them in papers that glorify acres, iron, and high tech farming. Your local banks, fcc, elevator coffee row, are going to be clueless we exist. We're too busy working, making contacts, marketing our products. Actual marketing not putting in gpo's or calling elevators. That is not really marketing, it is begging for the best price someone is willing to pay.

Lots of folks farming differently creating wealth that most will never even hear about, because it isn't on enough acres, or on a scale in the mainstream to be cool.

Just saying.....
You have to go to "shop local" stores to find them.

[bucket]

You aren't going the read success stories of garlic farmers in mainstream farm mags. You will never hear about the goat cheesemakers who farm 30 acres and make a great living there either. The yak farmers, the small town abbatoir, the cricket producer, the shitake mushroom farm, the quail farmer, the sheep dairy, the greenhouse supplying restaurants.

There are MANY success stories in the field of diversity, in the realm of different thinking out there. It has been an incredible journey to be on. You aren't going to find them in papers that glorify acres, iron, and high tech farming. Your local banks, fcc, elevator coffee row, are going to be clueless we exist. We're too busy working, making contacts, marketing our products. Actual marketing not putting in gpo's or calling elevators. That is not really marketing, it is begging for the best price someone is willing to pay.

Lots of folks farming differently creating wealth that most will never even hear about, because it isn't on enough acres, or on a scale in the mainstream to be cool.

Just saying.....
You have to go to "shop local" stores to find them.

Why???? is my question....government just announced 4 billion dollar project to compete against any of the people that do it without government help....pretty tough to compete against that.

[Blaithin]

Why what?

Why try and niche out to serve a more select market to support your farm?

Because we can’t all live within an area blessed by government illumination.

[bucket]

Why what?

Why try and niche out to serve a more select market to support your farm?

Because we can’t all live within an area blessed by government illumination.

The west side irrigation project had 40 years to get the group of farmers to build it....they didn't. ...why .....because they would have lost every nickel they had trying to .....and now they can use the money they should have spent on their irrigation dream to other uses....probably to buy out a few neighbors.....and consolidate their community....


That's what will happen. ...

[the big wheel]

So wonder are the benefactors heavy sask party supporters?

[bucket]

So wonder are the benefactors heavy sask party supporters?

Is their a rural NDP MLA?

Of course they are saskparty supporters.....they had 40 years to build the westside project but couldn't....they chose to blame the NDP....just like that moron Stewart did the other day....

Shovel ready for 40 years and the only thing stopping them was waiting for the taxpayer to build it for them......not one would risk their money...


Phuck sakes Bill Boyd used his landlord to get money from the government to build his project....