Ritz just told all us flooded farmers to F&@k Off!

[farmaholic]

On "religion".... even Muslim extremists "believe" their morals and beliefs are right.

I prefer spiritual.....

There is NO proof of anything other than what you see around you....enjoy the stay it is very short in the grand scheme of things.

There will always be times of adversity and prosperity in Canadian Ag but how we approach and handle them will determine our level of serenity. As hard as it may be at times, keep an attitude of gratitude. Worry about the things you can control and not so much about those you cannot. Be real and don't fool yourself either into thinking things are better than they are (false gratitude). Things don't always seem fair or just but it is my choice how I react to them. Make the best of ALL situations.

Now to heed my own advice and practice what I preach....perfection will be attained upon death ;-)

[blackpowder]

Braveheart. Exactly, it's the people who don't lose a job on election night who get policy from A to Z. Alberta's elite are so entrenched they're as rotten as Rome.
Sask3 and Tom. You're sniping at each other from different world views. I choose to respect both of you but support neither.
With a good degree of luck, I have slightly over a decade left of making lemonade from lemons. With even more luck, I'll have something left to live on for the 4 years after that I'll live using Dad as a guideline.
Somehow, I care less every year about the griping, especially from the 'new nobility'.

[grassfarmer]

To SK3: claiming things like you got 200-300% annual rainfall for 8 years in a row is what undermines your credibility. Its called crying wolf.

To bucket: "Every country in the world supports their farmers" with the implication "...except Canada" is simply untrue. Lots of places support farmers less financially and in lots of other places farmers are held in way less esteem compared to Canada.

[SASKFARMER3]

We'll grass it's been not just a little wet but every time you turn around a inch for 8 years. The only one whose credibility is undermined is you.
Then close to a foot of rain in a two day period.
Wtf do you just think we're all dreaming when we say it's unbelievably wet.
Oh wait you don't believe it so I guess it's correct.
Get out of your little part of the world and travel and see what's out their.
I guess the tv must be wrong with the pictures it's showing.
Oh yea the moon walk was fake also.
The whole point to this thread is were told by Ottawa your problem deal with it we don't care. Ritz advisors like tom tell him all is fine and because it's not happening in our back yard who cares.
Do any of you realize that were over wet and Alberta and western Sask. has been growing record crops since our floods hit. Coincidence, we get back to normal and your back to normal.
Tom can preach all he wants but by his replies it's easy to see he couldn't give a shit if fellow Canadian farmers were getting wiped out, by Mother Nature. Manage that.

[grassfarmer]

And I see from charlies post from last summer you were talking the same bullshit then. Sure it's wet where you are but claiming its been 2 or 3 times the normal moisture is just untrue. No argument because your facts don't back you up.

[SASKFARMER3]

So your saying I'm wrong that a huge area has received more rain than ever before!
My god man get out if your little hole and take a drive!
Plus Charlie is full of shit with his post! All the stars lined up last year!
Pretty hard to make a crop come back to life that's dead

[Klause]

Grass farmer last year we were on our way to a great canola crop. This year fields are done flowering 8 days after they start and you can still see the seed rows.


sF3 is right... this year there is major flooding. And it won't come back.


Claiming different is being ignorant of the news...

[TOM4CWB]

Sf3

We have had low 20's Canola when you had rain... Shucks 40mi away they had farm averages over 50.

This is western Canada. Variable crops are normal overall.

You must know this by now.

All the best.

[oneoff]

All I can say is "there are arrogant bastards looking after themselves and their sphere of their ilk".

[SASKFARMER3]

Tom again you just keep showing how you don't get it.
We had 20 a few years ago and 40 miles away had 50.
Try 250 miles away. This is a huge area that has been hit not like a hail storm that takes a few quarters.

[grassfarmer]

Klause read my words don't make up what you think I'm saying. I have said repeatedly that I acknowledge some of you are very wet. The only thing I'm disputing is SF3s claim that he has had 200-300% of normal rainfall for the last 8 years. That is patently ridiculous as is evidenced from his post this time last year where he was claiming to have had only 2.5 inches all summer.
If he quit crying wolf most of the time it might elicit more sympathy for his plight when things do turn bad.

[TOM4CWB]

Sf3/Klause;

"Klause read my words don't make up what you think I'm saying. I have said repeatedly that I acknowledge some of you are very wet."

You are wet. Some in western Canada are way too dry.

That is the weather in Western Canada.

I DO Not Control the Weather.

Feeling pity does what? Do you want my families MONEY, well you have that already in the farm programs you can enlist in with the federal Gov.

Have you a Charitable tax exempt # with revenue Canada you can give me... so I can donate money to your farms?

Where do you want the money sent SF3... Klause... and how much should I send?

Have a good day!

[bucket]

Grassfarmer

How much worse do you want it to get for those that have had that much rain.

[grassfarmer]

Bucket not worse at all, I want it to get better for you guys. That has nothing to do with the false claims of 200%, 300% of annual rainfall for 8 years in a row.

[Klause]

Tom as I said previously... I don't want money...

A little recognition that flooding is happening and people's livelihoods are being destroyed would be nice.


Grassfarmer, the annual average precipitation for Dauphin Manitoba is 280 mm.

They are at over 470 this year and the same story since pretty much 2009.

There's thousands of acres under a permanent lake that will never come back... I'd be more than happy to take you for a drive.

The same thing can be said for a vast area in sw Manitoba and Se Sask.

Imagine loosing 30% of your land base permanently to water.

That's what we went through once already.