Ag Canada to discontinue trees for farmsteads

[wilagro]

So Harper saves money on supplying trees for western farmsteads but doesn't mind wasting it on planes, ships and other war materials.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Century tree planting program uprooted/6760524/story.html

Gerry Ritz the farmer's friend...yah!! right!!

[newguy]

Have to agree 100% on a bad deal to close out the Indian Head tree farm.

[Wheatking]

When was the last shelterbelt built. Ten,
maybe twenty years ago. All they did was
grow trees for decoration around yards,
and that is something we can and should be
paying for.

[Hopperbin]

I would like to plant a row of trees this year. And I would intend to pay for them why should they be free? Plant them weed them lay down plastic, water them. Why the hell not pay for them.

[parsley]

You whine for free trees to plant. Meantime all
farmers claim the cost of bulldozing out trees as
a farm expense. As well, many farmers spray the
perimeters of their shelterbelts with chemIcals to
kill the seedlings that germinate. In
Saskatchewan, countless trees are
supplied free at the Estevan power station.

Grow up. Pars

[cottonpicken]

I think we should raise gst/pst 1% to save the
program.

I think we should raise the pst/gst 1% to feed
undernourished kids in school.

I think ' ' ' '' ' ' ' ' '' ' ' fight more wars in bumfukistan

I think ' ' ' ' '' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 'dental program in schools.

I think raise '' ' ' '' ' ' ' ' 'to build a dome stadium in
regina

I think "'"'"" ' ' '' ' ' ' ' ' '' 'to fight drug and alcohol
addiction.

I think "'"""'' ' ' '' ' ' 'gst/pst to fight the growing fat
bastards that are taxing our health care to death.

I think ""'' ; ' ' ' '' ' ' ' ''to twin the highway between....

Screw lets raise taxes to 100% of income and let
government run everything,that works right?

[cottonpicken]

No,no,no cotton,i like the wars against bumfukistan
you can't chop that,but ya the rest is good especially
those leach undernourished kids yuck yuck.

Cotton:sorry dummy,the libertarian philosophy don't
work like that.

[wakopa]

when i plant trees i just cut off branches
before they bud in spring and stick them
in the ground. same with fruit trees. yep
i do the work myself.

[ColevilleH2S]

Just as horse stables are no longer considered essential infrastructure, so have shelterbelts become redundant. A private company called Monsanto fixed in twenty years, what the shelterbelt centre was toiling away at for 80.

The tree program, along with hundreds of others should be gone. The government should only run core programs like infrastructure, defence, policing, etc. and run them well. Not X thousand programs, and manage them all poorly. Focus,focus,focus.

[ALLFARMER]

Ya who was the tree/shelterbelt program for???
No real shelterbelts built I know of around farm
land anymore. 120' sprayers, 70' air drills them
days is over, now it's about 8 - 10 quarters in a
block is the goal. Let private industry grow the
trees for their market....acreage owners.

[fjlip]

The old shelter belts and yards are getting bulldozed burned and buried by huge farms to make yet a few more acres. Indian Head tree farm is not needed any more. Less farm yards every year. Yours might be next.

[wilagro]

When the next "Dust Bowl" hits you may just choke to death on your farm too as the top soil swirls away.

[hobbyfrmr]

Wilagro, I think direct seeding will seriously slow
down dust bowl conditions like in the 1930s.
Stubble will hang onto the soil a little longer than
tilled soil. Around here the big farms are digging
out all tree lines, fence lines and shelter belts. It
makes larger longer fields and that makes
efficient seeding and spraying. Let the next guy
worry about erosion or spray drift.

[grassfarmer]

Good things trees and shelter belts on the prairies
but no reason they should be provided free to those
wanting them at taxpayer expense.

[Ronski]

I have to agree with Grassfarmer. If you want trees buy trees, don't expect the taxpayer to do it for you.