So maybe crop conditions arent as good out west as some let us believe.

[farmaholic]

Glad to hear you got it out, and safely :-)

[SASKFARMER3]

Hobby take 60 on 40% of a quarter and 20 on 20% and 40 % on nothing. How is that a balanced out crop!
That's a 27 bushel crop that they spent on 80% of a quarter before the flood! Their losing money!

[blackpowder]

Time for someone to go to the lake for a month and leave the internet behind.
Hmmmm, I'll never know what that's like.
Woes me.

[Hopperbin]

How are you marking out klause? Did you get out
Yet.

[hobbyfrmr]

Wow, Sf3 that is some rough math all right . 27 bu/ac x $10.00 is only 270/acre. If a farmer put 300/ acre into I the is short $30.00/acre. Use an round number like 3000 acres canola planted would leave a $90,000 loss.
If this really happens, some farmers are going to have to take from their savings accounts.

[seabass]

What savings account? After the last 5 years of which 1 maybe 2 were good its tough to put much money away when we are always in recovery mode. Next year will be a recovery year if we are lucky. Sick and tired of pumping hundreds of thousands into the ground just to breakeven or lose money.

[ado089]

Maybe if we pay more freight we'll make more money.

[SASKFARMER3]

Hobby take your 10 down to 9 and who seeds the whole farm to canola throw in wheat at 4 x 27 = $108 plus your 270 divided by 2 = 189 - 300 expenses the farmers are only losing 111 an acre! God do you live in the city and not farm!
Thus is a huge fricking loss!

[hobbyfrmr]

I think there are some exceptional crops in north west (?) area of Sask. Last year The farmers had a huge yield, about 35% more than usual. It looks to me like a carbon copy recipe so far. Maybe these guys will only break even...they could use the money. There are some very large, efficient, low cost producers around here so the economies of scale are in favour.

[ado089]

Hobby, they're not as low cost as they lead on. Do you farm between krydor and hafford?