NFU Still Undermining Agriculture

[Guest]

In CBC article this morning, Glenn Wright from Vanscoy, (just out of Saskatoon) is interviewed because he wrote a letter for intervener status in Carbon Tax Supreme Court Challenge. He stands in front of his 1960 faded out International white cab telling all of Canada that he is more open-minded and he thinks the carbon tax is actually an opportunity not a cost. He drys his grain with an electric heater supplemented with solar panels. This got my day off to a great start now that my perspective has been corrected. 😝 This country is so screwed up.

something about the name "glen" ?????

[Guest]

[QUOTE=Oliver88;466311]Is this a former NDP politicians partner? Theses NFU/NDP characters and their families sure seem to get interviewed lots by CBC and presented as a “typical” farmer.

In other words he does drying using coal powered electricity to run aeration fans. Any heat added to fans would involve diesel, propane or NG.

LOL.....solar panels drying grain.

absolutely amazing how stupid they are ? and they regurgitate this puke shit

[Guest]

Great idea if you already have a grain cleaner set up 👍
If not add $300,000 to $500,000 to set up a decent cleaner to handle the crop on an average size farm .
Easy to say , not so easy to pay for and justify for most average farms with no multimillion dollar side business helping out farm expenses

Custom grain cleaners are $.75/bus now
That needs to be factored in

well shit furrow , most farmers need a tax write off right about now , with this huge, huge canola crop and all*

[furrowtickler]

well shit furrow , most farmers need a tax write off right about now , with this huge, huge canola crop and all*

Lol yup , everyone has 60/70 bus canola , 80 bus wheat , 180 bus oats ....... nothing but money floating around everywhere lol

[Misterjade9]

Where is it? I want some.

[Oliver88]

So it appears CBC simply ran the story to support the Trudeau carbon tax and found a useful group of idiots with the NFU. The agriculture sector and most sane provincial governments and groups are appealing the carbon tax at the Supreme Court currently.

Nothing like the NFU stabbing all farmers in the back.

[bucket]

And where are the conservatives MPs that get the majority of their support from farmers.....just thumbing themselves it looks like....

There is close to 3 million tonnes of floating space out west and no one says SFA....

[dalek]

Still No F$&@?%# Use

[walterm]

And where are the conservatives MPs that get the majority of their support from farmers.....just thumbing themselves it looks like....

There is close to 3 million tonnes of floating space out west and no one says SFA....

Because it isn't effecting farmers Ritz set it up so grain companies pay any charges or dumurage. Profits show up in the basis.

[Zephyr]

Great idea if you already have a grain cleaner set up 👍
If not add $300,000 to $500,000 to set up a decent cleaner to handle the crop on an average size farm .
Easy to say , not so easy to pay for and justify for most average farms with no multimillion dollar side business helping out farm expenses

Custom grain cleaners are $.75/bus now
That needs to be factored in

We actually looked into it but the overall cost way too high for our farm for the minimum savings .... at the time .
Maybe some day , but we need more consistent harvests here and growing seasons to get back to decent returns for the crops we grow
The past two years with very poor harvest in this area due to extremely early snowfalls and early frosts does not leave much left on the table for extra projects

We use a quikkleen, granted we have a leg so it's permanently mounted but it pulls screenings out as crops go in at the speed trucks dump. I believe they are $40,000 or so.