Newco and CGC Claims forms

[oneoff]

The claims process jumped another step this morning. Producers are being told they have 30 days to get their claims submitted.
The letter says
NOTE: Due to the large number of producers who may have claims against New3co Grain Ltd., please be advised that our next correspondence will be at the end of Juluy, 2012. The reason is to allow all producers 30 days from the date of this letter to respond.


So on the one hand, those who miss the claims deadline will miss out; but the payout to the rest should be potentially increased. I have also been told first hand; that in previous instances of non-payment; there have been submissions made which should not have qualified; and were indeed paid out.
You see, not everything is necessarily done above board.

[newguy]

Sprayed 200 acres of tame hay twice last year. End of june and mid august. Sprayed before seeding then direct seeded. No sod left was perfect conditions. Seeded some to canola and some to durum. Moisture has been from just right then too wet now just right again.

[Burbert]

Another Comedian Framer, clu#%$%fu%K!
Angribusiness is really really, up there
when it comes ta, bullsh*t ethics. Cousin
theys got nada, none, nothing, never more
will there be any ethics in framing or
gobermont agencies.........

[ALLFARMER]

Still dry here ASRG maybe 1/4" since spring

Crops look ok considering

Need to decide/figure what its going to turn out
like in terms if yield. Thinking of buying anywhere
between 35 to 70 heifers next week.

[kato]

Once spring of 2011 monsoons quit, we had zero rain all last summer, which made for some wonderful hay, BTW. Then a winter with hardly any snow. People were worried about drought earlier in the spring. Not any more.

Now... it's raining again! It held off until the crops were in, and since then seems like it rains almost every second day. Listening to thunder right now.

Guys are having trouble spraying, but other than that, so far it's nowhere near as wet as this time last year. However, the local grain guys are getting worried. Low spots are starting to fill up with water again.

[oneoff]

I'm not asking for sympathy or support. That way no one will be disappointed.

But there are upwards of 120 farmers who got skinned. And they would be owed multiple times a $10,000 bill (if they made such things. As a side note it is apparently true that both the US and Canadian government found it too convenient to have large amounts of money in small wads and so made $100 bills the biggest denomination made).

Anyway it will be telling if there isn't at least a few Newco casualties in the agriville readership.

On the other hand, maybe these forums really don't reach a very large cross section of farmers. It should be possible to estimate the agriville readership; through responses to some pretty important issues such as the Newco inability or refusal to pay their obvious debts.

Surely this isn't a case of refusing comments that might be used as support to prevent this injustice from recurring.

[smcgrath76]

Pretty good here right now. We missed
some patchy rains and got some others.
Last Wednesday we got 1/2" here and when I
went to help paint our local hall the
grass wasn't even wet. Last night we got
nothing (2 100ths on my fancy
weatherstation), but I was coaching ball
in Lloyd and we got rained out big time.

[grassfarmer]

We could take more @ 3 inches through April/May
and 2.5 in June so far. Missed a heck of a storm today
it seems - just back from southern AB delivering a
bull and HWY2 was wet all the way from Crossfield to
Sylvan Lake. Hail in the ditch at the N and S edges
and unbelievable amounts of water in the fields
particularly from Innisfail to Sylvan. Fields that were
relatively dry this am have lakes in them tonight.
Completely dry here today though.

[burnt]

Here in southern Ontario we were really cold and dry all spring. Locally, we had almost no rain since the snow left in early March. This was after a really weird winter that saw a lot of rain in Jan. and Feb. which put the water table up really good.

So after a super dry spring we finally got almost 2.5inches in the past two weeks, perfect for crops. The hay is really short due to heavy late frosts and too little timely moisture.

[perfecho]

Looking good here, just south of Edmonton......about 2.5" in last 10 days. In a perfect world, would dry up a bit so as spraying could be done without leaving tracks.
Really enjoying sitting outside these days....smell of lilacs beside deck, butterflies all over, birds singing away....and no mosquitos! Wondering it this is going to change soon?

[ASRG]

ALLFARMER: If you would share......what are those heifers going to cost you? Do you see this as a better way than buying bred hfrs. in the fall? Do you have the bull power in place?

[ALLFARMER]

ASRG Hoping to pick them up for $1100/ea
900lb animals. Going to make the 6 hr drive
down to buy them myself. Need to visit family at
Westlock anyway, been kind of avoiding that, had
too face it this past winter dad has no idea who I
am anymore. Anyway have 4 very good younger
bulls (2yr old & 3,3,4) so good for what 30 each?
That's 120 so likely will have 128 to
breed....close enough??? My best guess is bred
heifers 1800 to 2000 this fall/winter. Looking at
the cattle futures charts cattle are overall trending
upward. If we start getting some real, amount to
something rain I plan to keep back a large
percentage of heifers for replacements. $1800 to
$2000 an animal is way too much for me
personally.