Friday Crop Report on a Thursday second week April.

[TASFarms]

That JD Vance sure has all the tools in his lunch box when negotiating, nothing settled in Trump's Iranian War and Orban gets smoked while JD campaings for Orban in Hungary.

Let's not forget Trump's rallying phone call in support of Orban, that really sealed the deal for Orban

Meanwhile us Canadian business owners are get screwed beacuse of Trump Irainian War, but like what's been stated on here, he's only trying to mop mistakes made by past POTUS.

So quiet here on Agriville regarding Trump's Iranian War, inputs through the roof, no outrage not even a peep, all is good out on the prairies.

Nothing at all like the praising comments towards Trump of a few months back.

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I think a lot of people are just sick of corruption and thought Trump was a glimmer of hope to get rid of some of it.

Is Trump out playing Carney? Ontario manufacturing looks bad.

[Taiga]

I support taking out the Iranian regime forage. Hopefully he finishes the job.

[shtferbrains]

Oh, on the big land sale in our area, it seems big dogs can’t get financing in place but still make big deals.

Plus, three or four really big dogs are having issues.

"Some of those operating loans are going to be pulled."

Bankers are getting spooked?
What looked like profitable, well run farm businesses now won't cash flow?
In the past, when the banks head office decides risk is rising shit runs down hill and a lot of customers can get caught in change in policy.
In our area there was a time when Scotia sent a mgr in that cleaned out all their farm lending.
Any farmer writing Scotia cheques was collecting interest and not paying any.
They closed branches in small towns with near new buildings.

But that couldn't happen nowadays.
Everything is different now.

But I'm guessing right now would be a very tough time to be shopping for new financing?

[blackpowder]

This fixation with Trump is fascinating.
He made snippets of sense until his second term.
Now he has no fks to give and is showing his age. The rebound is also worrisome.
But it's also mindboggling how events in our own country over the last decade just disappeared..... It's the sheeple at home that deserve the focus.

[TASFarms]

How the Iranians are allowed to operate in Canada is beyond me.

[Old Cowzilla]

Auction sales still strong thou must be spring fever !

[farmaholic]

Yes not enuf done in canada about the dramatic increase in fertilizer

I hear nutrien is facing multiple 2026 class action lawsuits and a USA Department of Justice investigation alleging a conspiracy between fertilizer manufactures to fix and artificially inflate prices for fertilizer and forced Farmers to pay higher prices.

The alleged price fixing scheme is credited with contributing to a 60 % increase in fertilizer costs

The allegations highlight that nutrien along with others control a significant portion of fertilizer production in North America allowing them to exert influence on market pricing

Trump has said lately that he is watching fertilizer prices CLOSELY and will not accept PRICE GOUGING

what is being done in canada ? besides nutrien celebrating pride month and pride partys in the parks

The only way to teach businesses, that would do something like that, a lesson would be to make them pay the inflated portion of the price back to the people/farmers who paid it. And then the Competition Bureau would still likely err on the side of caution.

[makar]

Or if N is 600 / tonne or higher at anytime of the year switch to pulses or

chemfallow/Summerfallow and tell nutrien and their buddies to get lost

Yes you've pre bought and parted with your money many months ahead

But

What about next year ?

Come on Let's Go !

We all cant grow pulses. Summerfallow dont pay bills.

[Grahamp]

Thanks for starting again Saskfarmer. Look forward to this every week.

[LEP]

"Some of those operating loans are going to be pulled."

Bankers are getting spooked?
What looked like profitable, well run farm businesses now won't cash flow?
In the past, when the banks head office decides risk is rising shit runs down hill and a lot of customers can get caught in change in policy.
In our area there was a time when Scotia sent a mgr in that cleaned out all their farm lending.
Any farmer writing Scotia cheques was collecting interest and not paying any.
They closed branches in small towns with near new buildings.

But that couldn't happen nowadays.
Everything is different now.

But I'm guessing right now would be a very tough time to be shopping for new financing?

You are 100% correct. I remember being a new recruit at Head Office CIBC. Part of the orientation was to go to meetings in various departments. So I am at the executive management meeting and they are discussing what risk rating where they will draw the line on clients. I spoke up and said you know you better look at the relationship as a whole. Those operations that risk rate 1 or 2 have sons or daughters that risk rate 4 or 5. So Don't expect Mom and Dad to stay if you kick out the kids. ...

I wasn't invited back. Don't make waves when you are a newbie.