5 percent off the top! Thanks Brad!

[smallguy]

Well guys I am thankful for the money from crop ins. The way i look at it, other businesses out there lost dollars from this wet weather, and have no subsidy of any kind. Cousin has a road construction business, every dam rain and wet day is a day lost that he cannot get back, still has to pay men something to keep them around, and still has to make payments on buggy's cats, and packers. Neighbors nephew owns a campsite, 3 par golf course in southeast, will not open this year at all. No money for him. Be thankful guys, as one said earlier, this is tax payers dollars.

[SASKFARMER3]

How is it a subsidy when it costs me $100,000.00 for insurance for a year. Does your cousin pay insurance. Come On.

[jensend]

what's the government share of your premiums? maybe $150,000?

[checking]

Farmallll. (key kind of stuck there - you should ask again to get that fixed!!!! - dang now another one is sticking). Did I tell you I loathe paper work that involves government?

One year out of 121 and counting does not make a swamp of my SE SK.

It also does not spell disaster for those who are well aware there are manageable risks, not booms and busts if you are prepared to hold inventory. The truckers, dealerships, servicers, and elevators will not go completely hungry.

Really BTO, that practice of holding something back in years of plenty does work, and government aid is never required.

We can't allll farm around Winkler, Manitoba which I'm told is owned by six Mennonite families. (I just haven't determined in which of those gene pools they kicked your black sheep butt out of.) I congratulate them for the move.

[smallguy]

saskfarmer-- Just a gentle reminder, that your 100,000 a year insurance is also funded buy the tax payers. Look at your bill before federal and provincial portions are paid. Would you be able to afford it at all??

[jensend]

from the scic website:


















Premiums


SCIC sets premium rates to recover losses (claims paid) over the long-term and to maintain a sustainable program by paying off program debt and building a reasonable reserve. The methodology used by SCIC to calculate premium rates and yields must be certified by an actuary and approved by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada every five years.

Premium is cost-shared with producers paying 40 per cent and the provincial and federal government 60 per cent of costs. Premium dollars are not used to pay for program administration. The full cost of program administration is cost-shared by the federal and provincial governments.

[BTOfarmallll]

South East Saskatchewan & South West Manitoba is One Big Swamp. Any field that is not square and flat with no obstructions is considered a Swamp, won't convince me otherwise. Who's Seeded & Who ain't??? Rest my Case, Swamp Land. We's comin hard fer that Winkler Land. Gon gut them Minnownights like a Pig that they are. Runnin Cash Rent Up Northa $250 an Acre. Now watch em' Squeal!!!!!!!!!!!

[wd9]

SF3, you and frankly all of us farmers in many ways are well taken care of and make an awful lot of money from hard working tax paying Canadians that also buy food. Do it even remotely right with all the programs, next to free crop insurance, taxable benefits, tax breaks, GST returns... ad nauseum and you almost can not go broke farming.

It has been whispered it may be cheaper for Canada to buy the food it needs and not fund ag at all, it would be cheaper.

We are fortunate souls, and well compensated, to be farmers in Canada.

[checking]

BTO, the shunned and ostracized Mennonite.

What's this post about you needing a rain? Where's your irrigation pivots? Can't be much of a BTO if you haven't a few miles of them!

Swamp!, what slough browse are you eating that the moose wouldn't?

95% of our land could be seeded today without rutting anything, or getting anything stuck, you bun without a sesame seed top! The soil moisture is absolutely perfect, and will be without a speck of wetness. Fall seeding will be a pleasure. You'll be wishing that yours was the same.

I do have a suggestion for you, Mr. pivotless man. Employ some truckers that haven't any grain to haul, fire up a fleet of water trucks, direct them to what you call your closest Manitoba swamp, and fill them up. Next buy enough wash basins, petition our armed forces, and have them individually water your wilting bean crop. It's the Chinese thing to do!

You are too young a pup to know a 1961 drought. It makes you appreciate a wet 1962 that literally paid for farms.