So Alberta is Going to Save the Day! Ha HA.

[gustgd]

0% harvested on our farm as of right now. Started swathing Canola today though very thick crop for this area. I estimate 35-40, crop insurance averages are 28. Probably should have sprayed for scloritinia. We have the potential for one of our best barley crops ever! But.... Some of the lentil fields are full of scloritinia and butritis (sp?) That's the crop that pays the bills around here.

On wd9 being a wheat board lover LOL. Only because I think I know who he is. I'll bet he's done more to help Canadian Ag in the past pick your time period than
Most of the Kings of the coffee shop that spout off on here

[wd9]

I hate the monopoly of the Act. The CWB could actually become a great marketer if they had to work for it in the real world, not the enshrined unaccountable world they operate in.

I think sometimes most find it hard to separate the two and call the CWB the actual monopoly. I want my right to market to whomever or is it whoever i feel is best for my business like most of the other crops. A lot of great people including many farmers have been used up and spit out trying to make that seemingly simple change. But alas, it doesn't happen or look like it will for quite some time.

I hate the monopoly and my loss of simple right to freely market what i produce.

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

Are we going to let the Stuart (District 3)and Allan (District 5) show go uncontested?

I am about spent... howabout you take Gregs place?

[mcfarms]

I know who WD9 is and she or he IS a wheat board mole ( I always suspected as much And as far as Alberta saving the day, well , isn't that the normal course of events...transfer payments anyone?

[rosco]

I can't speak for what others will produce, but I know from walking my canola fields and talking to others that have also walked fields here in EC Alberta, that the canola yields are not going to be super. The big storm (24 hrs of driving rain that ran from Olds to Lloyd) in early July hit a lot of the canola at a critical stage, and it just never recovered. We've had rain for 60, but I'll be tickled if mine goes over 25. WD9, the crops mostly look really good from the highway, but get out into a pea crop or canola "here", and it will shock you. My spring wheat and malt barley could be my best ever, barring frost. I'm betting that we will be short canola bushels by May, and the market will reward us then.
Rosco

[furrowtickler]

Rosco you may be right, areas around us that had pounding 3-5in rains have alot of blasting in the canola. Canola will not ave over 35 in western sask/eastern alberta. I will stick with 27 west-can ave at best on 13.5 harvested acres.

[wd9]

It's a tough year to call. Peas do really suck every where over the last month.

No Tom, being on the board i believe isn't the solution. Its not even about grain or agriculture. Its pure politics and litigation.

[oneoff]

There were collaborators during the second world war; and there are some amidst farmers today. They are dangerous people; with very cold and mean attitudes and demeanors.

[SASKFARMER3]

Some of you brand me as a very negative person, funny in real world I am one of the most optimistic people out their. But that being said what I am trying to point out is some very basic facts.
1. Stats Canada acreage doesn't add up. Phone Sask crop insurance ask them how bad the flooded acreage payments will cost the province, most would shit at the dollar amount. So that acreage is out of production.
2. Crops are nice to excellent to awesome in West Sask in general. But one note is its end of August and being green at this time of year isn't a good thing.
3. Canola seeded end of June and is still flowering is included in Stats Canada numbers, realistically if its still yellow your in trouble.
4. Flax that's still blooming or still very green hm flax growers know what will be their.
5. Where is all the oats they talk about. Oh neighbors seeded on June 30Th looks awesome should head any day.
6. Peas and Lentils if they got to much water not good at all. Some awesome yields in our area to total right offs. Red Army's look good and are yielding OK, fields are landscaped to valley it could rain every day and no water standing. Pulse buyers are hoping on usual fall sell off so don't have to store attitude.
7. Alberta has nice crops but has problem areas to.
8. Why seed dealers have warehouses full of returned seed yet we supposedly seeded record acreage. Hm Brown bagging or BS report.
9. If one has a 60 bushel HRS crop on 160 Acres and 40% floods out during the year, Mapping shows flooded areas very well. Is it really a 36 Bushel crop. Hm.
10. If one was over wet in 2009 and its back in 2010 and doesn't quit this winter will 2011 be a toast year.
Realistically it could that's the gist of most of my posts farming isn't seed spray harvest, financial reward. It's blood sweat and a huge amount of luck with mother nature.

[TOM4CWB]

SF3;

Farming isn't about a formula to print money. Work for a bank if that is your desire! We have done better than many working 9-5... with bald spots to show.

Oneoff;

"There were collaborators during the second world war; and there are some amidst farmers today. They are dangerous people; with very cold and mean attitudes and demeanors."

Who was that meant for?