Mother Nature just took another million tonnes off the books

[ProFarmer]

70kph winds have done alot of damage on the prairies today. Neighbours 3/4 left to straight combine is now white. Nicely swathed fields scattered and rolled up maybe more than a million tonnes.

[farmaholic]

Tell me about it..... I am sick of being robbed by Mother Nature and the Industry. HURRY...book your specialty canola acres, certain months are selling out!!! HURRY...book your fertilizer the price is going up. This is only 8-9 months in advance of when it is needed and twelve months before you will see a return. Maybe I can pay for everything with the "reality" cheques I've been getting this fall. I am expecting afew more of those cheques!!!

[ALLFARMER]

All the farmers in this area taking a beating too.

[SASKFARMER3]

South of Regina lots and lots of fields
are scattered all over the place. On way
to Yorkton from Regina early this morning
and its the same swaths all over the
place. Fields upon field with swaths all
over the place.
Yea I think us farmers better get on the
same page pretty soon. Mother nature rules
and CEOs can take their pay a year in
advance and FU*&koff!

[agchat]

Totally agree with Saskfarmer, and Farmaholic.
Some of these companies are making total fools
of us. I said it before on here but not did not
agree with me. Pay 800 tonne for fertilizer, and
450-500 bushel for canola seed, and then when
mother nature takes over we cry in the fall.. Its
like a friend of mine says " Thats why God
invented winter, so farmers can heal".

[ajl]

When are land prices going to fall?

[furrowtickler]

When farmers stop pay high rents to investors and leave them hang with their high priced dirt for a few years. High land prices where driven buy investment, but righ land rents were driven buy the farmers themselves. Much like the run up in canola seed price, that started ten years ago with Ivigours - they sold out every year so they just kept raising the price - charge what the market can bear. Sometime we as farmers have to look in the mirror....

[freewheat]

It is interesting the outpouring of
concern when a farmer gets dished out
weather trouble. I distincly remember
when guys on here told me to shut up
and stop whining about our weather woes
of the last 7 years.

At any rate, I have not been able to
afford early booking, prepaid fert. etc.
And I have wondered why some do it so
profusely, even if you can afford to.

Bear in mind guys, the big bad companies
are not "forcing" us to get bigger, take
on more risk, rent more land, buy more
land, buy more iron to farm that more
land. It is us as farmers. To me,
blaming the weather for our own
decisions on the need to be gigantic
farms, is silliness. To blame the
weather and the companies who milk us
dry is silly too. There are options. And
finally for some of us who have had some
good years for a decent run, to get all
wound up after ONE bad weather year, is
like a kick in the head for those of us
who have struggled, really struggled to
keep things afloat for so long.
Especially when guys discuss things like
their new sprayers, combines, swathers,
land prices, but then complain when the
weather does not cooperate, for
decisions YOU alone have made.

So do not act like you have been held
at gunpoint, cuz you have not. If Bayer
were forcing you to get bigger just
because you can, not for economic
reasons, but because you can, that may
be another story. But Bayer is not
forcing, Viterra is not forcing us to
kill ourselves.

We are doing it to ourselves...

END RANT!!!

Still love you guys, but really, get
some perspective. If crop insurance is
not enough to cover costs, maybe you
should control your costs better. No one
forces you to jack up rent, buy new
machinery, spray because the neighbor
sprayed, etc. etc.

Peace, and do not take this personally
any of you. It is directed at farmers,
myself included at times...

[Burbert]

On the other hand, there are places
across the land, where crops are good.
Framers are preparing to take off a
decent, valuable crop. No more wheatie
bored arguments, skys the limiting
factor when sellin this crop.
Butt its always this way, somebody is
goin ta cashin, when others have failed.
Drought and Wet in South, bugs and
worms, low low yields, big big rent
payments due, not ta mention interest
bout ta kick in fer high price canola
seed, spray and fertilizer. LET THE
WHINNING BEGIN! Oh well there is
Angristability, Angriinvest,
Crapinsurance and well jest angry
framers, ***** about ta go after Ritz
(best gag minister of all time), he'll
kick in a penny er two. OHHHHH fergot
pennies are been phased out, screwed
again,unlucky frustrated framers,
SNIVEL! Oilies'll treatya good ifn ya
work fer them all Winter.

[wilagro]

Don't like the wind? Quit ripping out the trees...in fact more trees should be planted. Plan for adversity...disaster is going to happen sooner or later. The odds in western Canada are NOT on your side. Whomsoever decides to farm here had better have a thick hide or a rich papa...or both. In the old days, marryin' a school marm was like crop insurance but with more benefits.

Life is not fair but mother Nature does not play favorites...so as my Pappy always said, "there's always next year". I said, "piss on that BS and hiked off to the big city and got a job...it was a lot better than starvin' to death and livin' like a peon.

[hobbyfrmr]

Freewheat, well said
most farmers aroumd here are running around
with their Dad's chequebook so the hit is not as
hard. They will beok with high rents and nee
machines.

[ALLFARMER]

Straight cut your canola then.

[grrrr]

Well said Freewheat. I agree 100%

[farmaholic]

Maybe I've been doing this too long....
Anyone interested in some whine-olyn lessons, HURRY book now I'm filling up quick.

[Cattleman]

Freewheat, I always enjoy your posts. I totally agree. A smaller mixed operation is looking to have a lot of advantages now and into the future. People just don't want the work or hassle anymore.

In my mind all the risk and stress of a large single enterprise, doesn't necessarily outweigh the hassle....