Unprecedented excess rain changes animal behaviour!

[mcfarms]

Oh and entitlement is not something that was ever preached in our household, hard work good management and good sense. But agree too many people in society do have that sense of entitlement I see it ever time I attempt to drive in city traffic.

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Unprecedented excess rain changes animal behaviour.

The only change I've noticed has been with the two legged kind. They have grown to hate water as much as the CWB, NFU and the NDP.

[bucket]

Did someone mention irrigation?

The highest subsidised farmers in the province that like to show off their new equipment every year and then not realize that if the government had not set up a pressurized pipeline they would have nothing.

The real test for whether or not government's should build irrigation is, would the group of farmers it benefits do it on their own. If farmers can't or won't do it on their own why should dryland farmers subsidize it and then have their noses rubbed with it.

Same thing applies to those that fall back on daddy's company or bank account. Would you have been able to do it on your own? Very few can say they could or for that matter would want to.

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Bucket - your words show that your senses have evolved beyond "sight" to "insight".

Thus, you have shown your progressive development into a stage where you will be able to enjoy life whether the water is low or pumped in from a government subsidized ditch - ah, the bliss of adaptability!

Welcome to the race.

[cottonpicken]

"we are all playing the hand we were dealt"

-cant remember the author

[bucket]

burnt

Don't know what you mean but here is some funny stuff.

A guy owns an irrigation pivot which is subsidized by the government through the infrastucture and he ends up with a "too wet to seed payment".

Is it double dipping? Bad luck? Or the true meaning of being on the government payroll?

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bucket - there has been a lot of mention of evolution in several other threads here of late, so my comments, being somewhat related to them were probably justifiably incomprehensible.

As for the scenario you described, I would ascribe it to a category of its own.

There must be a special name for screwed up government interventions like that!

Any suggestions?! I could think of a few . . .

[vvalk]

bucket.
That is a pretty narrow view of things. What about supply management. Where did the value of $30 to $40000 per dairy head or $100 a chicken come from? Made up from thin air. How about the cattle guys? My cousin just bought a feed lot because he said there is no risk. In southern AB they called it the Golden era of BSE. Land prices jumped 50% or more since those cheques showed up in the mail. Some as high as $50 million. Know of guys who went to the post office and opened up $3 and $4 million dollar cheques, never knew it was coming. Even the hutterites cant compete with the feedlots.

[furrowtickler]

Ahhh, supply management b/s, - what two things can you cotrol 98% of the time in supply management(livestock) - quality and quantity. The two absolute things compltely uncontrolable in grain/oilseed production - does no one else get those two points??? The main two reasons why the cwb has always failed and will always fail - complete mercy of mother nature. Look out your truck window people, ducks are swimming everywhere and jack frost will be around.