Hows your "F - - KING" Day going!

[JDGreen]

how would i know im south of swift... But if i was a bettin kind of guy i would say its still green ;-)

[Klause]

Hey JDGreen,

I have an IT business on the side, and since that's gotten battered by the economy work in the patch out west (as you probably know). I don't "need" the farm to make money, but it would help. I'm not married. But I have to take care of my parents - neither of whom work, as being immigrants neither have a pension.

I realize we all WANT/NEED money. We WANT/NEED the farm to make money. However stressing out, driving people around you and yourself up the wall, and seeing everything in a bad light will hurt your health, your family, and your friendships. It's a bad year. It's bad from Steinbach to High Level. Guys in SK are whining about the rain and fields being too wet... Try being wet for three years in a row, mudding in seed and mudding out crop.

All I'm saying is count your blessings... Many in Canada have no clue - absolutely NO CLUE how well off they are.

[fjlip]

If this "WET" is the new "NORMAL", I'd bet a big chunk of the prairies will be used for other than crop production. This scenario is absolutely impossible to work with, producers will quit this torture. This day going downhill fast, rain started by 11am, even thunderstorms.

[riders2010]

God are you ever inspirational Klause, I am on such a high the rain is falling my four wheel drive is buried out in the field, canola I cannot swath half is shelled out, wheat is a pretty combination of black mold and pink fusarium and I feel GREAT!!! I am so glad you brought me into the utopia of unreality, I think I am gonna call Ritz right now and tell him keep on screwing us that have no margin to fall back on in his supposed to be scrapped agrivation program and that he really is a stand up kinda guy.
And then when I wake up tommorrow, to reality I'll start banging my head against the wall, and when that is done hopefully I'll have done a good enough job to get back to unreality again, but who's gonna feed my family?

[Klause]

riders2010, and basically most of you - You've had two excellent years... followed by this year. You should have built up ample capital and should have the equity to wether this storm. What would you do if you were in Ste. Rose / Ste. Amelie / Laurier, MB where this is the third year of this wet shit? Yes, this crop is horrible. We're all in the same boat.

Need to support your family? Here you go:
http://www.savannaenergy.com/default.asp?id=60

http://www.bigeaglehydrovac.com/employment/

You live in a free country where if you have the initiative you can do what you want, and sometimes you need to do what you have to to get where you want to go. Does bitching, moaning, and whining get your grain in the bin? Does it get rid of fusarium? Does it stop the canola from shelling?

Perhaps you need to live in a country where you grow a 50bu/ac soybean crop, and a 110bu/ac wheat crop, put it in the bins, guard it from communist terrorist gurillas, only to have it confiscated from the government, who puts an "export tax" on it and you end up with 15 and 20% of the full market value respectively. Perhaps you need to be in a country where bombs are set under highways and city streets. Where corruption runs rampant.

That's South America. That's were my parents immigrated from. Do not sit at your computer, or tap away at your blackberry whining about all the little things (and a piss poor crop for one year is a little thing in the grand scheme of your life).

If one crop failure puts you so close to the edge that you're a 32nd of an inch from failure, you will need to re-examine your operation... you obviously have more debt than you can handle safely.

[SASKFARMER3]

Well Klaus here is some slush money. Why the hell would you leave all that fun for this shit. Simple question if all you think is we bitch. Because listen the CWB and all its trouble plus the games of stats Canada etc is reality and that's our corruption.

[SASKFARMER3]

Also in South America If you have a poor summer crop their is always the winter crop.

[Klause]

There is no winter crop in Argentina. You plant winter wheat after you harvest soybeans.... One crop per year. Brazil is different. My parents moved here from Argentina.

[cottonpicken]

Klause-your in the land of bulls,our
grunting,moaning,bitching,pulling,fighting,is a
horrible legacy .Everybody has left farming my dear
immigrant/ignorant.


If you want to prove me wrong answer one simple
question.

Why is the greatest agriculutural technology base
western canada?

[riders2010]

Well as a matter of fact Klaus we've had 3 years of the last flood, every bit as bad as this one and then some, crop out over winter that didn't amount to shit all this spring now 60% seeded. Take a look around you farmers going broke left and right, an agristability program supporting farmers that only had one year of loss in the last 5 and nothing for others in our situation. Hell if I had only this to deal with in the last 5 I'd be embarrassed to cash that agristability cheque when others are getting nothing. So what is all the pictures and going on and on about the wet all about? Your on a scale where going and getting a 9 to 5 can pay your expenses good for you but not many are any more.

[gregpet]

Klause, you are right. There are people in other parts of this country and world, through no fault of their own, who do not know if they will eat tomorrow. Most times we do not realize how well off we are and are spoiled with everything we have and wish we could have more but this year is going to set us back.

For all the bitching and moaning SF3 does I truly cannot believe he still farms. Why put yourself through this every year? Surely you could find a less stressful occupation. I appreciate most of your posts but the doom and gloom of chicken little's sky falling gets tiring. I am living through the same conditions as others in the wet areas yet not complain constantly.

Be careful so you don't end up like this guy:

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[Klause]

I'm not saying all you do is bitch... but seriously, I've been following agriville for two years, most threads are people complaining about this or that... Does complaining fix anything?

The CWB topic is getting old. I don't like the CWB. I don't grow HRS. I grow CWSWS and sell it to ethanol plants... make the same money as you guys do through the CWB (higher yield, lower price) and get my money at delivery. Want to get rid of the CWB? Get a unified voice and start protesting it. Look at farmers in Europe - and in the USA. They actually know how to stand up for themselves. Hell, look at what's been going on in Argentina. They (farmers) have forced the government to curtail their export duties.

Name calling is a very fine method of showing professionalism. Farmers are pretty much the only sector of our economy that drives up their own prices (land, equipment), then complains that it's too expensive. When complaining doesn't work, they resort to childish namecalling...

The bad thing is, this is a VERY small section of the farming population... As you can see by the opinions of those on NAT and TCF compared to AV.

I've been in Canada since I was 9 months old... Don't dare call me an "ignorant".

Greatest technology base in Western Canada? Get your head out of the sand...

Grain bags = Argentina
GPS = USA.
Striptill / Notill research = USA.
CTF = Australia
...

This list can go on and on. They've been using air delivery systems on Vaderstaad and Amazone seeders for longer than we have.

By the way... in South America, grain bags are placed in the yard, on large cement / asphalt pads... not in the middle of a field... just thought you should know that