Is Monette Farms like Bernie Madoff?

[Old Cowzilla]

All that new brokenland canola go's to G3 while the local Richardson's looks abandoned. They are always paying more anyways.

[FarmJunkie]

Gotta hand it to Darrel for trying to run a farm all over western Canada but I really don’t know if he realizes what he’s getting into in some of these places he’s trying to farm. There’s a reason the farmers and ranchers of these particular areas had four legged creatures running all over them. Weather changes all the time and the last few years in these areas has been dry. When it switches back to wet or more normal conditions their equipment would the last stuff I would ever entertain buying after the shit I know it would have gone thru. Good luck to them.

[shtferbrains]

That still looks like pasture with the bush pushed up?

How much value added to that many acres?

[makar]

What I find interesting is that to sell any canola to Richardsons or a few others , one must sign a declaration stating that you are not to remove bush and or drain wetlands as per an agreement to sell to European markets.
well all the larger farms as pushing bush constantly and their trucks still roll in and out of those elevators.

Bullshit. I sell almost everthing to RP and the cat is idling as I type. Signed nothing.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I've never been to this exact area, but looking at Google earth, the area around Cayer and Eddystone look just like the muskeg which is prevalent in our area. Except our muskegs are interspersed with strips of high land which is farmable if the cold, rain, hail and snow cooperate. The Eddystone and Cayer areas don't appear to have much elevation to work with.
What would be the process to turn this land into crop land, does it require drainage and landscaping? Or have they inadvertently chosen the middle of a drought to start this project?

[blueversi]

Let them push every stick they want. All trees do is offer cover for large four legged rats such as elk and deer.

[fjlip]

A big front for laundered foreign $$$.

He is just a name, started with SFA, got someone to fund it all, using his name to be legal.

A friend knew him in tech school and it's all BS.

[Old Cowzilla]

Pushing the trees is the easy part its the drainage and rocks....and rocks to dig move and bury.Thin layer of top soil when it clicks it clicks but for how long. As for the 4 legged rats they move farther south to our country and live on alfalfa,soybeans and corn fields. So far the elk stay closer to the mountain but we do get the odd moose wandering through.

[SASKFARMER]

It's swamp.when it rains and it's heavy dirt. Rocks heavy

[blueversi]

A big front for laundered foreign $$$.

He is just a name, started with SFA, got someone to fund it all, using his name to be legal.

A friend knew him in tech school and it's all BS.

Can same be said about the big farm in your area I wonder or are they self made?

[FarmJunkie]

It can be farmed but with lots of cash and time to clean it up. Oh and lots of painful experiences. Not for me when I’m used to what I got. If u drive thru these areas they’ve just bought u will understand better that some land is better left the way it was for the purpose it has been being used for.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Or are they making a bet that the recent warming trend has, or is going to transform the fringes into productive cropland? On an operation that size, taking the risk to get in on the ground floor of what might be the next land boom, might be worth a try.

[wheatking16]

Or are they making a bet that the recent warming trend has, or is going to transform the fringes into productive cropland? On an operation that size, taking the risk to get in on the ground floor of what might be the next land boom, might be worth a try.

I bet this is both.

A big bet but not for that operation.

[Taiga]

This must be a pretty sleepy area if neighbours are up in arms about land clearing for ag development. Doesn’t really sit right with me having neighbours complaining about what somebody else is doing on their property, however I realize this is on a much larger scale than normal.

[wrongway]

This must be a pretty sleepy area if neighbours are up in arms about land clearing for ag development. Doesn’t really sit right with me having neighbours complaining about what somebody else is doing on their property, however I realize this is on a much larger scale than normal.

generational farms in the area no doubt saw a bunch of farmers come and go with big ideas...when they leave it's all thistles and tansy till the poplars and cattails once again take over.