Hail storm hits east sask!

[SASKFARMER3]

We'll the shit show continues! Saturday a large hail storm brewed up and hit a very large area at the heart of the flood Zone!
Our farm had damage on 14 quarters! Some anywhere from 100% to 30%. Vehicle damage house damage etc!
Yes hail insurance but that's basic cover your seeding costs!
Starting to think maybe finding A Chinese buyer is a good idea! 8 fricking years!
Crooked lake hit hard by flood received the brunt of the hail storm, my prayers go out to all effected!
To those that have a barn burner crop on the way count your lucky stars!

[Tucker]

Any uncontracted wheat is staying in the bins now. I was stressing a little about moving it and making room for new crop. No more. What I'll lose on this crop I'll gain on last year's. If the grain companies want high protein wheat it's here in my bins. Just pay for it.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea peas contract for fall now has me worried! Were down to half acres. Yea really depressed tonight, just can't catch a break. Tomorrow will reevaluate but 1/3 farm has hail damage! 1/3 has flood damage and 1/3 might make some thing so a 60 hrs is 20 a 60 canola is 20 a 50 peas now 15 a 120 oats is 60 and barley is just ugly!

[SASKFARMER3]

According to kap in Manitoba who did a study on the 2014 AgriStability were F)&ked! Probably why Ritz hasn't even been out to see the destruction! I was in Alberta on the weekend and most in stores didn't even know sask had huge floods. I guess we really means hit all to canada!

[Hopalong]

For those who expect crop failure and nothing from AgriStability, might be time to thank RRs and graincos for grain in the bins to help carry on.
Sympathetic to your plight but think crop insurance and AgriStability still provide significant risk coverage and we should be thankful to have these programs.

[sumdumguy]

SF3, its just one of those years when farming is not so much fun. Will the crop recover some? Hang in there.

[farmaholic]

I saw that cell go through on radar yesterday, by the radar colour intensity(purple) it looked bad. If I had enough hail insurance bought, I wish that field of peas I posted pics of got hailed 100%.

[farmaholic]

SF3. When we think about all the things that can go wrong in getting a crop planted to safely harvested and in the bin it really is quite amazing if we dont run into something that will affect the crop. The longer I do this and realize my level of establishment the less tolerance I have for getting kicked in the nuts over and over again. I don't have to do this. What makes it worse for me is realizing that the big battle and gamble of getting the crop to the bin is then followed by getting sodomized on two fronts at the terminal, marketing staff and then grading staff. And this year the RRs joined in with the terminals. If it wasn't for a kid wanting to farm I don't know how much longer I would do this. As I've said before, I am no longer 10 feet tall and bullet proof. I am not interested in risking "my" capital so a whole parasitic system can make a living off me while I carry a large portion of the risk. And the older I get the wider my eyes open. Maybe its time I heed my own advice and don't it or the bastards grind me down.

Do you insure for just variable costs or both variable and fixed? Our rate in the two townships I farm in are 3.2 and 5% (was about 6.4 once). Peas covered for $200/acre cost $20/acre, ouch.

I hope you get good and fair Adjusters.

[ajl]

Hopefully your drowned fields get hail now and you collect hail insurance. I think the Chinese are starting to figure it out so your too late on that plan. They called the CPP already.

[Braveheart]

The surprising thing about that storm is that it maintained its' intensity all the way from central SK right into central MB. Usually a storm should lose some intensity, but this baby was dumping hail and spawning tornadoes all the way.

[Hopperbin]

Tell me about the chinese . I know they can actually smell a penny a mile away. Its funny about the dollar thing.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea the last 8 years, have not been fun. 100ft tall and bullet proof is not for me any more. I also would quit this occupation if I didn't have sons that have the spark. But with costs getting insane and all the BS with railways etc. I wonder if they can make it. Yes cycles will change and we will once again be on top for growing a crop. But is it really worth it.

[sumdumguy]

SF3, we had a good spread of gumbo ground, all 3 sons university educated and found their niche. We could not continue working 4 a.m to 10 p.m. with farm and 2 major on- farm businesses, so with their blessing we sold out. As years go by they have made a fair bit of change outside of farming, but some back into land and now have twice the amount of land besides their own businesses, and now we work for them. The pay is good. We enjoy this more and I think they can
say they did it on their own. So there's more than one way to skin a cat even though its always by trial and error.