Ctv regina supper news

[stonepicker]

I'm hoping the price of bigger used machinery will come down like it has on used straight-cut headers. dealers are having trouble moving all the 1and2 year old combines they're taking in on trade, especially the ones from some bigger farmers that drive the shit out of them and do very little maintenance. most farmers know who looks after machinery and who doesn't.

[grassfarmer]

What an interesting concept: "If all farmers would refuse to buy used hutterite equipment, the dealers wouldnt be so eager to sell them new machinery at discounted prices."

And the average farmer would be ahead how?

Wouldn't a smarter plan be for farmers to recognize the power of collective bargaining, organize your own machinery purchases in a similar manner and thus all get the deal the Hutterites are getting now?

[cottonpicken]

You mean if we had a giant brokerage firm with exisiting infrastructure and people maybe called the cwb canadian western brokerage wow good idea

[fjlip]

When we shopped for a 4 year old combine, purposely looked for a single unit smaller farmer trade. Think it's better maintained, driven by owner / wife/ kids.
Jay Dee salesman's comment was that ALL Hutterite trades go to Ritchie's. They are "USED" up, too many hard drivers, lots of hours/acres, too much resale risk. So let's NOT shop at Ritchie's either.

[farmaholic]

Good point fjlip, could you imagine half a dozen testosterone driven young males all vying for the bragging rights for being the fastest combine operator? Yikes!!

[Hopalong]

Have to agree with suggestion in opening post that farmers are becoming more business oriented.
At one time, tried to support concepts of collective or co-operative bargaining by dealing with pools and other co-ops.
Have come to conclusion it was mostly wasted effort.
Think any renewed efforts would be even less likely to be supported by more business oriented operations in the future.

[bgmb]

Huts get paid by the government to school their children. Always in on supply management but thats not enough they are also peddling chickens on the side through the back doors. Heck I even saw their locally grown table potatoes in the local store the other day. I wonder why peak of the market lets the Huts away with that, cause the average guy certainly would not. Huts have a tax return for every member of the colonoy, then donate everything back to the church. Its quite the system.

[tipsy]

How accurate is the ctv report? 25 combine's @ 4-5000 acres per machine is 100000 plus acre farm??

[farmaholic]

I would have to watch it again but i thought it was 25 pieces of machinery(could it be combines and headers and I thought I saw a smaller tractor leading the parade) and they farmed between 20-25 thousand acres. Have to admit it would be fun to be part of it.

[farmaholic]

Yup 25 pieces. 22,000 acres.

I like where the "salesman" tells us to remember $500,000 per combine as they go by. Ya right, that may be MSRP but apply the "programming" and "multiple unit discounts", blah, blah, blah and what is each combine sold for.

Oh ya, grain prices on my farm are priced 25% higher than what I get. But after the programming and volume discounts, I settle for less than MSRP
too. Give me a break. ....

[Oliver88]

What was the point of the CTV news piece?
Or was there point?

[grassfarmer]

Seems the hutterites aren't popular with a lot of people but I've found them to be good neighbours, hardworking, god fearing people - could have a lot worse neighbours.

bgmb, do non-hutterites pay for schooling their children without Government help? of course not!

Supply management is there for anyone that wants to buy into that system - why shouldn't the hutterites?

They are very successful as farmers because they have a diversity of enterprises which I think is smart. They also support more families per quarter or section than a lot of your big family farms and I think that's a good thing too - we need people on the land.