Friday Cocktail and news going into mid January.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

If pics are true..looked like thousands of vehicles in a compound.

I was more thinking about this end. Can't just unload the vehicles without some type of reseller. Let alone booking the ship and the berths on both ends.

Can Uncle weiner sell an entire ship load of Chinese cars?

[Grain Farmer]

I can think of a few on here that would gladly store those vehicles on their land .
Just to help the Green agenda.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I can think of a few on here that would gladly store those vehicles on their land .
Just to help the Green agenda.

They're very same hypocrites who vote NDP and support unionized labor. And claim to care about the environment and carbon emissions.

Also support importing cheap Chinese vehicles made with slave labor using coal energy and no environmental or labor standards.

[wrongway]

[QUOTE=shtferbrains;n829360]Some of the highest margin and almost always profitable are what are referred to sunset operations.
The ones who are still active farmers, sometimes community leaders, who are not actively expanding and will farm mostly owned land with well maintained equipment.
Have a crop deferred, a crop in the bin, and a crop in the field with inputs prepaid.
Sometimes hold a crops like flax for multiple yrs waiting for that price peak they got once.
Their neighbors are all waiting for them to quit because they can't see why they keep farming because they don't need the money.
Everybody knows at least one.
Might have a few here

I confess to being one of these guys. After struggling for decades trying to make a living I got lucky in the cycle and hit good crops with good prices.
Now farming is fun with good equipment and good run of great weather.
There is a lot to be said to having a bunch of lazy cash molding away in some bank. sure takes away a lot of the stress.
a guy can only golf and fish so much he needs something else...and if its nurturing crops or livestock for as long is it is enjoyable who is to judge that?
to the young guys bide your time...everyone dies eventually.

[farmaholic]

Jensend, North America(USA and Canada) sold their soul to cheap Chinese manufacturing and now they want it back. Our whole (economic)lifestyle is dependent on cheap disposable Chinese junk, even clothes and shoes for our kids...

[Old Cowzilla]

News that 1 shipload of canola sold March delivery.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Jensend, North America(USA and Canada) sold their soul to cheap Chinese manufacturing and now they want it back. Our whole (economic)lifestyle is dependent on cheap disposable Chinese junk, even clothes and shoes for our kids...

Think of how easy it was to fall into that trap, and how painful it will be crawl back out.
On the way in, the lower cost of living came first, the job and business and tax revenue losses came later. Trying to reindustrialize, everything will be far more expensive first before the jobs and wages and tax revenues catch up.

One way or another, inflation is in our future. Well maybe not our future, but the consumers.

[SASKFARMER]

Big land sale on some dirt i farmed once. It sold for $700,000. for the grain land. I would call it our poorest dirt we farmed. Not even close to any other of ours. So yes interesting,

[fjlip]

"There is a lot to be said to having a bunch of lazy cash molding away in some bank. sure takes away a lot of the stress.
a guy can only golf and fish so much he needs something else...and if its nurturing crops or livestock for as long is it is enjoyable who is to judge that?
to the young guys bide your time...everyone dies eventually."

Apparently the real busy people don't?

I agree last 10 years best in my career...glad I seen them.