a few things positive if you have them

[SASKFARMER3]

Well Tom we actually have something in Common. Nice farm. I like the Mack and Rainbow. Cheers.

[SASKFARMER3]

Ok positive things.

1. Family. My boys Wife and farming with Father at 86 and brother were Modern Hutts.
2. Saskatchewan Summers.
3. Garden.
4. Fruit trees. Nothing better than a apple off a tree.
5. Friends both new and old.
6. Crop it isn't much this year but its still one of the best times of the year.
7. Neighbours both good and bad.
8. Time on a cat with you by your self killing trees and relaxing to the smell of fresh bush dirt. Ah better than any drug.
9. Freedom to travel where ever when ever.
10. I know some will find this funny but rain on the roof top just after seeding all the canola in spring. (then it could stop).
So yes I'm positive. Go Riders!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oneoff]

It could be that what a lot of farmers should be saying is that the agriculture industry, the markets and the weather are not behaving in the best interests of primary producers.

Now Mother Nature acts in ways that are only slightly understood. And control on any large scale is hopefully not possible.


The only floor the markets know is when willing sellers refuse the current offered price; and the contracted production can't be called in. Market dicipline does not come when anyone is cash strapped, pressured by financial circustances; looming shortage of storage space, poor quality and spoilage prone production; lack of markets; refusal of near monopolies in transportation sector to deliver and depression caused by near worthless damaged grain.

Still there are major opportunities in such times of widespread strife. Only a few ever capialize while most go backwards. Most valued positives just seem to disappear and be forgotten.

But dependecy on unwilling transportation services, forward contracting of grains not even yet planted and adding another dozen quarters to operations which already are overstretched beyond days granted by Mother Nature, forces beyond individual control etc. etc. only adds stress and problems to the vast majority of dwindling agricultural producers.

Not that much will ever change. Players will change; but the constraints and root problems beyond individual control will persist.

And farm numbers will dwindle further; farm corporate managers will oversee any significant food production and agribusiness will all but control what used to be called farming.

Please don't confuse these comments with complaints. I take little personal responsibility for today's farm situations. Every past and present farmer has participated; or most likely just watched as the present situation evolved.

[bucket]

Cotton

Me too. I like to leave tarps open. Grain is allowed to cool to put in a bin in the morning.

Woke up to rain. I think it was over by the time I closed the tarp.

It's going to the elevator.

[dave4441]

Our reds averaged about 38 bu/ac. I positively pumped about that. Working on maple peas at about 40 and suspect canary will be 30 plus. Some people are having as good or better year then they did last year, although I agree it is a grime getting harvest done.

[northfarmer]

gusts of 90 k up here did some damage, we were dry and crops were lighter than normal. some people are sour about the wind, have been where the rain and snow have reeked havoc, we have a few days to go and I would take our recent weather and wind to the stress many are enduring and wish you all the best and be safe

[fjlip]

"Not that much will ever change", that's my line!
Best positive is nobody shooting at me!
Absolutely need to get along with neighbors, but never agree 100%, tolerate, smile.
Best place on the planet, best time in history to be alive, good idea think positive, see the bright side, hug the kids and loved ones, forgive others.

[Partners]

Our crops are amazing this yr..guess its our turn..
My wife is the Best Combine operator on the planet...

[sumdumguy]

Partners, where are you farming? That is farming you are talking about?

[ado089]

I thankful god has deemed me strong enough to deal with the weather ****ing me out of 5 of the last 6 crops with flooding, hail and relentless rain while my "buisness partners" deem it fit to take 3X more than they did over that same time frame. How's that? It's pretty easy to be positive and shake off a bad year when you have a net worth of $12M...oh wait I'm 30 and $1.5M the other way cause I didn't get to build my farm on daddy's equity.

[Partners]

Between Fosston and Rose Valley..Small area that received less rain than most in the province..Farmers all around us are in a muddy mess..with very little done, and crops that are poor..

[cottonpicken]

Ado,can't believe how much we have in common.