what does it cost you to sustain your farm for a year?

[cottonpicken]

Checking crowned himself/herself as king/queen of
the dumb ****s a while back.

[cottonpicken]

And before dumb **** starts yappin-how many
people does the average sask farm provide for?

5-10 thousand people?

So we shouldnt do what we where born to do ?

We all know you didnt seed a crop-loser.

[parsley]

"what does it cost you to sustain your farm for a year?"

No chemical costs
No fertilizer costs
No pesticide costs
No crop insurance costs


So I guess the answer is: The farm sustains us.

Pars

[checking]

You're entitled to your opinion, among other things that includes my tax support, apparently. Born to cry, cotton, is that it?

You still drinking warm milk, or do you funnel it in like the real thumb sucker that you portray?

[freewheat]

Checking said....

Freewheat.

Topography gives me 120 to 135 acre cropping quarters, year in - year out, even with the substantial improvements made over many years. If you subtract the rain events, is that the way it is for you?

As I see it, you have one problem, and unfortunately it has to solve itself. The trouble is you are too determined that it can be fought, so I guess you have two problems. I know I would not attempt to fight the number of battles that you have described. There is one cavaet, however, beavers without work material are what? Been there, made the improvement, solved the problem.

Areas that can't be sprayed are weedy. So what? That is not the end of the world if they are competing against themselves. They will suck up some of your surplus moisture. All of the weedy land is telling you it hasn't gone to the state you describe. If they go to seed, it's still not fatal. Some of my best fields were farmed (if it could be called that) by a one round tiller back in the seventies. Then it was off to town to the beer hall.

Back off with your planes, save your chemical. Stop rutting your fields. Stop trying the impossible that will lead to equipment breaks. Leave them in the quonset. Erosion problems are usually fixed by grassing out water runs. I'd question your thought process that lead to placement of bins, grainbags and piles on a flood plain.


I Say;

Otherwise, it appears that you have everything under control.

I have 140-150 acre quarters.

Beavers without work material? What do you mean? I should log the 30 % slopes of the local ravines? WOW. Let me explain something. I am in a no drain zone. I am near two 200 acre lakes. They are full. Whenever it rains, the water pours out of them across my land. this has never happened in this farms 90 year history.

I WILL fight. I will spray my land.

My bins, pile, and bags are not on a fricking flood plain, they are on an elevated well sloped area. See, you just cannot fathom it is wet. VERY FRIGGIN' WET.

I swear you are just trying to jive with me. Tell me your just teasing!

[sawfly]

this is a switch, it is usually the
west side of Sask and eastern Alberta that have the yield loss. drought .

and the east Sask and Manitoba cashes in on decent yields and price.88 ,02

total reversal
what to do about it
50$ seems low 100 seems like lots
if your bidding up land to 50-60 $ cash rent or 1000/acre purchase.
then there should be a price to pay if things do not work out. ( this free market comment from the lefty)

it is just too complicated ,at 100$ some will get screwed , others that did not spend will do fine.

but compared to 28 bushel of frozen feed wheat in 03, borderline crop insurance, gross 60-90$/acre
100$ with no inputs sounds pretty good


from the sound of this forum we are an independent , infighting ,jealous ,selfish lot. our income is dependent on some other farmer getting trashed by mother nature. we know damn well that if we produce more than the market needs , we will end up giving it away.

yet we can not get together on anything.
our only hope is a benevolent government when things go bad . sad

[checking]

Freewheat.

Are you saying that the nearby two lakes are at a higher elevation than your land? They crest themselves, and flood out your land which can't drain because your ravines are blocked by beaver dams. Is that it? If not I'd like a better explanation.

[tmyrfield]

Checking....it's obvious that you have no idea what being too wet is like, ridiculing people who are trying to describe it to you is not cool. show a bit of compassion or just STFU.

[TOM4CWB]

Sawfly,

'from the sound of this forum we are an independent , infighting ,jealous ,selfish lot.'

Does this answer the question 'cost to sustain your farm for a year'?

What is fair? To the single parent trying to get by on minimum wage renting the house... no assets other than an old beater car... here are the grain farmers... expecting the single parent to pay?

Do you need $40,000, $60,000, $80,000?

To someone earning $60/day... working 8 hours... this looks extreme.

So we should 'get together' and take even more from the folks on the bottom of society?

What is fair... Sawfly?