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

[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?