It seems that the media is starting to take an interest in the crop conditions...Globe and Mail.
And some BTOs are starting to indicate its pretty serious ...one that just built a feedlot but it will be full of something sooner than later. He will be OK but he even realizes its a bad situation.
The rant for a Saturday morning.
I wrote my MP on June 1st 2021 about the implication of the drought , had to remind him again. Emails get lost you know?????actually ignored.
He stated he is working behind the scenes. Thats great....He was working behind the scenes last year during the pandemic helping the liberals pass 400 billion in spending as well for the general population.
Lets call this day 7 of concern in the general population of how bad things are on the farm...
Then lets see if the government reacts with meaningful payments within the same time frame they did with the pandemic.
How can throwing a few billion at agriculture be any more difficult than the billions Trudeau gave away last year on a daily basis? This is not difficult and what is 10 billion when you have wasted 500 billion?????
Tax deferrals on cattle into a market like this , when you do the math , is for some the only way, but they are going to take a shitkicking and getting back in will be expensive.
The pandemic provided wage subsidies and CERB and other programs with real money ...
They didn't ask the general population to sell something and take a tax deferral.
Air Canada received close to 9 billion in direct government money after having a fairly profitable year in 2019.
Farmers are asked to help other farmers. Farmers are also told to be businessmen.
As a business do you see westjet helping Air Canada,,,,Evraz helping Algoma....Bourgault helping Morris Industries???????
Politicians in western Canada get their votes from farmers along with donations to run their campaigns...because you know """Saskparty good , NDP bad """"slogan needs lots of cash. And federally a cardboard cutout with conservative on it would win and thats what we get for representation. Big money..Little representation.
We have a federal conservative ag critic that lately her only job is a new dress fitting...its amazing how politicians upscale themselves with their new found wealth from taxpayers. Lianne Rood took a trip out west had to have full western wear to fit the part , how they stuffed her in is beyond me..Here is a hint ...don't stand with cattle in the background if you are going to make the feeders look thin.
Farmers in general should be pissed off in this province for the AG minister to say he can't afford a program...this government has committed 4 billion to irrigation along with federal funding it will be 6 billion...for no more than 500 farmers who won't use their own chequebooks.
Here is a fun fact to think about....if you put every irrigated acre that is built or proposed to canola ( 500000 acres ) and it grew 2 tonnes per acre ( it won't) that is one million tonnes of canola . One million tonnes of canola won't fill the requirement of the recently announced expansion or new builds to the canola crush industry in this province. Those tonnes will have to come from dryland farmers who, BTW are also going to help pay for the 6 billion irrigation scam. But dryland farmers are not supported.
Back to the 4 billion of debt financing for irrigation...80 million a year in interest...160 million in principle over 25 years. 16 million a year if funded the same way as the 3 largest districts at 40 bucks an acre.
Province doesn't have the money...I call bullshit...so should every dryland farmer.
And some BTOs are starting to indicate its pretty serious ...one that just built a feedlot but it will be full of something sooner than later. He will be OK but he even realizes its a bad situation.
The rant for a Saturday morning.
I wrote my MP on June 1st 2021 about the implication of the drought , had to remind him again. Emails get lost you know?????actually ignored.
He stated he is working behind the scenes. Thats great....He was working behind the scenes last year during the pandemic helping the liberals pass 400 billion in spending as well for the general population.
Lets call this day 7 of concern in the general population of how bad things are on the farm...
Then lets see if the government reacts with meaningful payments within the same time frame they did with the pandemic.
How can throwing a few billion at agriculture be any more difficult than the billions Trudeau gave away last year on a daily basis? This is not difficult and what is 10 billion when you have wasted 500 billion?????
Tax deferrals on cattle into a market like this , when you do the math , is for some the only way, but they are going to take a shitkicking and getting back in will be expensive.
The pandemic provided wage subsidies and CERB and other programs with real money ...
They didn't ask the general population to sell something and take a tax deferral.
Air Canada received close to 9 billion in direct government money after having a fairly profitable year in 2019.
Farmers are asked to help other farmers. Farmers are also told to be businessmen.
As a business do you see westjet helping Air Canada,,,,Evraz helping Algoma....Bourgault helping Morris Industries???????
Politicians in western Canada get their votes from farmers along with donations to run their campaigns...because you know """Saskparty good , NDP bad """"slogan needs lots of cash. And federally a cardboard cutout with conservative on it would win and thats what we get for representation. Big money..Little representation.
We have a federal conservative ag critic that lately her only job is a new dress fitting...its amazing how politicians upscale themselves with their new found wealth from taxpayers. Lianne Rood took a trip out west had to have full western wear to fit the part , how they stuffed her in is beyond me..Here is a hint ...don't stand with cattle in the background if you are going to make the feeders look thin.
Farmers in general should be pissed off in this province for the AG minister to say he can't afford a program...this government has committed 4 billion to irrigation along with federal funding it will be 6 billion...for no more than 500 farmers who won't use their own chequebooks.
Here is a fun fact to think about....if you put every irrigated acre that is built or proposed to canola ( 500000 acres ) and it grew 2 tonnes per acre ( it won't) that is one million tonnes of canola . One million tonnes of canola won't fill the requirement of the recently announced expansion or new builds to the canola crush industry in this province. Those tonnes will have to come from dryland farmers who, BTW are also going to help pay for the 6 billion irrigation scam. But dryland farmers are not supported.
Back to the 4 billion of debt financing for irrigation...80 million a year in interest...160 million in principle over 25 years. 16 million a year if funded the same way as the 3 largest districts at 40 bucks an acre.
Province doesn't have the money...I call bullshit...so should every dryland farmer.
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