Another Useless Article! Outlook the heart of the Flood WTF!

[btjadenlepp]

Hey Saskfarmer, thanks for following our web site content so closely. I'm glad you find the information interesting; hopefully it's helpful as well.

Point of clarification on the 'record pea crop' comment, which isn't actually what was said. Pea SUPPLIES are looking to be record large in 2014/15. Here's how we get there: last year's yields were a record, the carryout built up, and there was a big increase in acres in 2014. We're forecasting an average yield for peas in aggregate.

Also, PEAS in Canada equals yellows plus greens and don't forget what green pea prices were trading at the last two years.

www.farmlinksolutions.ca

[SASKFARMER3]

Ok I'll bite on your huge acres in peas seeded! If most guys have a good pea crop in the ideal growing areas I mean like last year and any one who had peas left sold for seed or a bit carry! Flooded area it's very hard to find a decent peas! So if half is like last year and half is shit our numbers differ! Because in my travels you really have to look for your super peas! Theirs nice but nothing like jds last years as a example!

[SASKFARMER3]

Ok I'll bite on your huge acres in peas seeded! If most guys have a good pea crop in the ideal growing areas I mean like last year and any one who had peas left sold for seed or a bit carry! Flooded area it's very hard to find a decent peas! So if half is like last year and half is shit our numbers differ! Because in my travels you really have to look for your super peas! Theirs nice but nothing like jds last years as a example!

[bucket]

at best most fields are 50 percent worth harvesting. Root rots and rain killed the pea crop.

[farmaholic]

Funny, how we as Producers get the message that there is an abundance of what we produce. Yet what we need is in short supply, like fungicides, chemical, fertilizer, fuel, built to order new machinery. Anyone see much old inventory new machinery on lots? Maybe we need to follow our suppliers business models!

[fjlip]

Jay Dee in Humboldt has a dozen 'NEW" sprayers for you. Wheatbelt's lot is full, of air seeders, cultivators, swathers,tractors, even 2 new Versatile combines. Will see how many are left at harvest.

[Hopperbin]

Actually flexicoils saskatoon and shulte englefeld workers are on 3 day out of 5 work week. Klause maybe we could pick up a temp man. Oops I just remembered at shulte they are all filipino. No one experience farming any more there. What a transformation in 2 years. Farmers made that business to what it is today and they let them all go.

[Hopperbin]

Klause my nephew scott is also gone building a viterra terminal. The guy I thought you could hire. Just found out today so with my main man gone in oilfield also am wondering how to get her done.

[farmaholic]

They probably have water damage ;-).....

[Partners]

We farm only 1500 acres..but are doing as good or better than most of our large neighbors..Most of our equipment is "newer"..plus most is paid for..Its all about being "efficient"..

Media has to show the good crops so there will be a reason to keep prices low..and us as individuals are insignificant to the whole picture..

[JDGreen]

One question who actually has all this pea carry out?? The numbers are so far out on stored crop it's hilarious..

[freewheat]

Boarder, lets just say I am MUCH closer to 1200 than to 2000. And I make a living, and my wife is a stay at home mom. It is not impossible. I just take issue that guys like me are not farmers. Comes down for me to the hand I was dealt. I deal with it as best I can, while almost all the others around me rely on Dads deep pockets/land equity to make it on three, four five times the acres. I rely on me. It is all I know. I don't try hard to compete with mittfulls of old money, and long ago paid for land. 5 years ago, I was farming 440 acres with a 100 horsepower tractor. And was raising a family of four kids. Thankfully a few guys realized I was serious, and AM a farmer, and rented me and sold me some land. While my wife remained at home to raise the kids . I simply can not compete with guys who HAVE TO HAVE 10 000 acres and the new iron to go with it, and see no reason to. So I farm differently.

And I AM a farmer. My ENTIRE living comes from the farm, not from my subsidizing wife, or my dad's old land, or my grandpas old money.

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but goodness sakes, I gotta defend myself.

[Hopperbin]

Freewheat I learned like your rant. It would be like a holiday to work on some older equiptment. I would work for nothing. If I retire I will call you up.

[hobbyfrmr]

I like being the non large, organic farmer. Well....until the end of August when all the weeds are sticking out five inches taller than the crop. Then I am kind of hating it, until swathing.
It requires a different skill set, and I really don't fit in any meetings with the conventional guys. Once farmers start talking about expensive fertilizer, chemicals, machinery, I tune out.
It not that I don't like them, they are good people, but all those old stresses and anxieties climb onto me and I have to leave those conversations
Once a person grows a reasonable crop without all that lipstick, there is some general contentment about it.
To be fair, my neighbours go heavy on the inputs, they grow huge crops and live well.

[Hopperbin]

now I also want to work for hobby