Ctv regina supper news

[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.

[Hopperbin]

Same ratio as a 5500 acre farmer purchasing 6.25 pieces of equipt. The tax deduction should keep them at near 0 tax. I dont subscribe to the 0 tax policy for myself. What are lease rates these days on new jds?

[Horse]

AH the worm turns . All yous were going to set the world on fire when you got rid of CWB and limets on amount of eligable ins well I sure hope you all enjoy wolowing in self pitty now you have starved out all your small neibors only to find out you are fast becoming the small farmer. GOOD ON YOU ALL.

[riders2010]

They are successful because of slave labor and the credit unions kiss their asses on the way in and polish it on the way out. Turn down local kids but give hutts anything they want. It's a commune you know from the word Communism!!!! Worst thing for any community.

[Braveheart]

Horse, not surprised at your post. You're just a neigh sayer!

[grassfarmer]

Riders, the word commune doesn't come from communism - it way pre-dates Marx's time coming from 12th century French.

definition: an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, and, in some communes, work and income.

Nothing communist about the hutterites they are very successful free market entrepreneurs.

[grassfarmer]

That was funny braveheart!

[phoenix64]

Grass, just curious, is your god fearing neighbors helping out in local communities, fund raising for hospitals, schools, rec facilities, working funerals? Are they competing against local fab shops with unfair business practices such as low wages and the like? Ask them if they or their parents and grandparents went to the front lines bearing arms to defend their country in the two world wars. Myself and the rest of farmers in this district are thinking they are quite lacking in all the above and will never allow them to gain a foothold in our area

[grassfarmer]

Yes, they are quite involved in the community - always have had the reputation for being the first to help out if neighbours experience a fire or a barn collapse or if someone breaks a leg and needs their chores done for a month or two. In this area they also participate in the Canadian Foodgrain Bank's projects by coming in and helping combine the crops etc. My local colony plows out the road and parking lot to the community cemetery which is surrounded by their land in winter, they also supply chairs and food to other funerals held in the local community halls. They've donated products to local fundraisers and are active bidders at the same events.

Isn't it free enterprise if they chose to charge less than local fabrication shops? I thought you guys here were all for competition and free enterprise?

True about them being pacifists, that's a tough one to swallow for some no doubt. We had the same in Scotland - some farm families that were conscientious objectors and their neighbours weren't too happy when they came back from the wars injured and found they had greatly expanded their farm holdings.
Its not unique to the hutterites.

So what right have you to prevent them "gaining a foothold" in your area? Again it seems lots on here spout the "free enterprise" mantra but only practice it when it suits them.

[RD414]

4 combines went to BigRose colony. 14000 acres. 6 went to Springwater colony. 22000 acres.Rest of items were swathers, small tractors ect. Like grass said, good neighbours, willing to give a hand when needed and they keep busy. They have a good system, if you don't like grain farming, help in the beef, help with the bees, work in the shop fabricating, bend sheeting for roofs. 5 colonies own a lot of land around here but still always more for sale.