In Canada we are lazy as farmers!!!!!!!

[freewheat]

It would be right up my alley, oneoff.
Right up my alley. But your right, even
the farm folks these days are too busy,
too urbanized to grow a garden, raise a
beef, have some hens, utilize wild game,
etc. The ten minutes to feed the hens
and collect the eggs is time wasted for
fishing. And who will feed them when
they go to the latest warm destination
for a few weeks each winter?

Some still do these things, but most
think it is a waste of time. More acres
is where it is at for them. Well, more
acres and bigger, newer iron. And
perfect gravelled yards for all their
fancy depreciable liabilities. They grab
all the land they can, and wonder why
farming has gone how it has...

I do sometimes wonder what they will eat
when all hell truly breaks loose. They
don't even have game to hunt, for they
drain it all, push every last twig over
to make way for 80 foot drills, which
are the most important things in their
minds that they own. Then they come to
me begging to hunt on my land. I don't
think so... lol

I love my life. I have had a heck of a
struggle financially the last several
years, unlike most on here, but I really
feel I have a contentedness regardless,
that many seem to find so elusive...

Farming is a train wreck of a vicious
circle. The latest and greatest toys are
needed to justify more acres, more acres
are needed to then justify the next
batch of latest and greatest toys. And
then picking up another couple thousand
acres is a given, as they now have the
machinery to operate these acres. And
then.... Well, I think you get the
picture.

If we farmers would collectively just
relax, smell the roses, and not be so
dam competetive with our neighbors, we
may actually find that elusive
contentment. I see so little contentment
now a days....

[Len730]

You hit the nail on the head one viscous circle

[oneoff]

I see your point of view saskfarmer3. I don't sympathize.

You have only made it easier for the next stage. You were a relatively small player in this big game. Your part was accumulating a few quarters here and there. You now witness the next step of being gobbled yourself.
The only efficiency gained was eliminating the need for so much on farm labor. My guess is that the weight of iron increased by the "square"; and energy savings from fuel were offset by energy and transportation of refined chemicals and various gadgets now relied upon and seen as crucial parts of the farm economy.
This was also done at the expense of the fabric of rural farm life. I could give some examples; but just look at the local loss of your farm neighbours.
The replacements are and will be more correctly called acreages.

[SASKFARMER3]

Our area has lots of section or two quarter
farmers so no it's not me. Problem it's china
taking over stupid Canadians who are to blind to
see.

[blackpowder]

Agree that contentment is the secret to life.
Agree that we need to own up to our sovereignty. Stop being quite so 'nice'.
Voicing these opinions outside angriville earns the label of redneck, rural, western, podunk, and 'uncanadian'. Love that last one. Yes i've been called all these.
For different reasons I agree with Nicholsons' famous lines in A Few Good Men.
The rest of you are just navel gazing.
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[ASRG]

freewheat: You've got it! I think you are exactly right. Common sense.

[Hopperbin]

The one profs comments in town to a
group of us was simple. Were all lazy we
should be seeding every square inch of
our farm. The Valley should be terraced
and seeded. Drain every single slough.
Have no lawns, Seed right up to bins.
We all listened, then he left.


Is this for real? He certainly believes he is the King of the Castle. Tarrace the Valley? Maybe he should be paying you half million or one million per quarter.

[Hopperbin]

Did anyone get to speak back? I would have called him a mommies baby that still gets everything he cries for.
Sask you and your family can farm and be profitable that land for ever as long as your family wishes to.

[Hopperbin]

I would sell out to him myself. Just squeeze a little more money, could relocate. From the sounds of it his plans don't include working with the neighbours. I think in China they place guards on all the buildings and to watch the machinery. This nieghbourhood is going to all go for shit, that is if you had one. How to give him a dose of reality?

[SASKFARMER3]

Hopper he wanted 6 quarters that touch what he
bought. He don't have enough money.