Whats up with Grain Deliveries.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yesterday in general was not a fun day.
Started with Elevator wanting HRS so We delivered then call from Moose jaw wanting Durum. Sending 5 superb then Fert dealer wanting me to get fert out that bought in Dec. Then call they want Malt barley delivered to Balgonie. Oh yea crushed called late in day looking for one load of canola. OK all Jan, Feb, March very little movement on all grains hauled lots when could but no steady movement. Now road bans are on and oh they all need the shit. I don't get it.

[SASKFARMER3]

9 more super Bs today this is stupid but thats grain deliveries in Canada.

[Hopperbin]

Grain cleaner give us 3 hours before we needed to pick up clean wheat so we delivered 2 loads to elevator, he was surprised we did that. :-))

[hlg]

SK3 you complain when you can`t move grain and when you can. That is the canadian way!!!!

[grrrr]

SF3- Sometimes I don't know if you are bragging or complaining.

[Burbert]

I agree, that the current system with HTP's and the new more efficient RR's are a true marvel. Big trucks, true screw samplers, faceless, brainless grain buyers, have truly turned the old flaw system around. To hell with sittin down in a warm grain company office, with a local buyer/friend/neighbour, gettin a cheque to spend locally and havin a cool one with the boys at the bar. Yup screw all that, this is a globeel economy, rip and tear the guts outta everythin, farm managin and marketin is all that counts. Oh yeah the neighbors ifin you have them kin take aflyin jump in the lake all I care, cause I'm busy gittin min.......... Farmin has tuly become total, total, total FUN fer all!!!!

[JDGreen]

Burbert my neighbors have spent their entire lives hating us. Therefore your worthless spew. About bein buddies and havin a beer together doesn't apply. - truly don't care what my neighbors do as I live 10 min. From a city where all my tits up farming buddies now live.SF3 I feel your frustration. We will be in same boat 30 days from now. TRying to get ready to seed and will be having to haul grain ..

[hlg]

should be no problem , hire one of your tits up buddies!!

[Burbert]

JDGreene, You's just don't get it do ya! Farmers hatin one another, is exactly what the whole entire, commercial, globeel, capitalistic, screw job, is all about. Divide and conquer, ever heard that? If'n farmers don't like one another, they'll never co-operate and get farmin better or their communities. Open you eyes and look around, the country is dying, drying, sighing, lamenting the goodole days, when there were neighbours to hateya. Near neighbours and towns are mile, and miles, and miles away now

[checking]

I think you might be surprised how seldom your neighbour's talk about you. They have their own busy lives with family, and survival, that there is little time to dream the life that Burbert desires. However, take that sun and sand winter vacation, and you will find the neighbour who you haven't seen, or spoken to in the past year. Soon you will be all caught up on their doings, and be happy to get home!

If your father was around, he should have told you that attempting to cooperate in the good old days was less successful than it is currently, and it's strictly based on numbers. You've chosen to remember the nostalgia, and tuned out the actual.

I don't agree with you that the country is dying. It is, however, changing. There is major development taking place along highways between rural communities. There has never been more interest in commercial development and acreages along these corridors. In time, even in our area, I can see a joining of communities. It's not going to happen off these primary highways, and if it does it will be a row back from them.

So, best bet for you Burbert is if you're a straight grain farmer who actually wants a friend, then team yourself up with a straight rancher. It's a combination that seldom competes for the same land base out in the sticks.

Also, consider the peace and quiet and freedom of your present situation. You're still able to take a whiz off your back step, and no one will see you, or care!!!!

[fjlip]

JDGreene, sure you don't mean envious neighbors? Perceived success can breed envy. I have experienced that personally. However,those that appear hated in this area, act as to bring that on themselves. Not a good situation to be so negatively viewed by neighbors. It's not healthy to hate either.

[Choice2U]

Burbert....you talk about the the pitfalls of capitalism and no-one helping no-one. Between the crow, grain industry regulation, the CWB, KVD, supply management, (and I could go on and on) we have had a much more socialist agriculture system than capitalistic over the past 100 years and you're bitchin about the way things are. Look in the mirror, man! Supply management has led to more large farm operations and less value added and processing in the last 20 years than anything in the grain industry. The grain industry has consolidated out of necessity (fighting regulation every step of the way) which has been slower than the consolidation due to ever increasing profitability in supply management. Large profits trump necessity.

[Burbert]

Sooooo, whats with the sniveling and whinning? Farming is better than ever, times is really really good. To hell with the neighbours, claw and grab, chisel and steal, whatever it takes is good grab the cash and run away to the tropics. The neighbourhood is dying, no way its better than ever seems empty, but it isn't. Suck in the polluted air and water, its good fer ya, listen to the sounds of those semi roarin down the road. Sweet, sweet sounds of success. Dream about the simple life, no way man every man, woman, and child fer themselves. Law of the jungle applies, the way it should be. Get outta the way or I'll run over ya! Great world we are creatin. Think my boy'll farm, never, never, never in a thousand years, with the current sh-t system that is developin!

[checking]

Burbert, one man's garbage is another man's treasure. So when is your auction sale?

I won't ask for your tropical address. Just pray your native neighbours arn't the head hunting types that you've labelled your present ones. Also, hope there is no room in their soup kettles!!!!

[Burbert]

Well, I'm glad that the current system works well for some of yous farmers! Cause it don't work for all. Unless you consider garbage to be your treasure. Its no mine! But we are probably a different generation, and hence have our own views about paradise. By the way, it appears farming may disappear in the future too, cause the oilies are working on green algae technology, energy and fuel. Soon we may be eating that crap, and the sludge from the oilsands will ultimately be the greatest gold mine of all. But then we kin plant trees, yeah, lots and lots of cash growing trees............