A Christmas gift for Horse

[grassfarmer]

I don't understand the complaint that they don't sell them. They do - here is one in my area that has been on the market for a long time. If its such a great catch why isn't it snapped up already?


http://www.century21.ca/raymond.borley/Property/AB/T4T_1B4/Rocky_Mountain_House/North_Ram_River_Road/On

[Horse]

They do sell them and that is part of the problem, like marketing boards quotas were given and then they started to sell them and build that cost in the produce price, the more you get the more you can charge. I am not sure but as I remember forestery alotments are handled different from grazing leases, they dont qualify for resource revenue. As for the ram trucking and rough terrain are a big problem , there never should have been leases opened up in the foothills, last I heard was someone from coronation had the lease on seven mile , the grass is poor the season is short and the losses are high.. I could truck my cows to medacinehat if I had a lease but that wouldnt be profitable either unless the resource sector kicked in a few $ like millions. Name one business that would operate under the same rules as grazing leases. IE if I brought you my cows to pasture can I also charge you rent for your house you live in????

[blackjack]

I don't usually get involved about rumours but my father's family ran cows on Seven Mile creek to Ram River falls since the early fifties.They actually trailed the cattle home east of Rocky every fall up until the late eighties.My uncle passed away last spring so I would assume the reason for the sale.My thoughts if it was such a gold mine as Horse suggested I wonder why his family would not have continued on.

[Horse]

I nnever said it was a gold mine in fact I said there is no money to be madein that country running cows. My point was the gov is doing a very poor job of getting a return for OUR land base. It is worth way more for tourisim in fact the gov gets more from hunting and fishing lisnces than they do from AUM.I lived and traveled the seven mile from 1960 til1973 and the only cows I seen trailed was when they went over corkscrew headed for caroline at the first snowfall, and they wernt supose to.I dont know how they trailed cows the only access was from Nordeg or Caroline.

[blackjack]

I get it now Horse so all those ranchers that pasture in the foothills from Waterton to Fort St John are bad...where you ranch is good.By the way Horse if you were a hunting guide back then you would have known there was another route out.

[Horse]

Yea the north fork of prarie creek but impassabe in poor weatrer.