Water Drainage/Sask Water Security Board

[oneoff]

Anyone else is welcome to have the last words.

[chuckChuck]

I would say by the looks of it, this year round up ready canola is fast becoming a weed especially in round up ready soybeans! It will be only a matter of time before glyphosate becomes useless thanks to farmers who don't understand biology and can't imagine farming without dependence on chemistry.

Nature is not static, it is always changing and evolving. Trees replace grassland when the conditions allow it. Our geologically recent landscape and soil is only about 10,000 years old. Humans interrupted the natural process of fire, but nature provided the wet spell that allows cat tails and trees to flourish. Trees have recorded significant growth the last few years.

What is the point in clearing land that will only be farmed less than 1/2 the time? This wet spell will pass and we will again farm more acres.

Bad weather has been part of farming for 10,000 years. Farmers have some control over their ability to survive. The 1980s were farm more destructive. High interest rates and dry weather killed many farms.

Severe flooding is terrible. Farmers need to build more resilience into their farming systems. We have adopted a very expensive energy intensive farming system. Input suppliers and grain merchants would like nothing more than total control of the seed to market. Many crops are already there. Farmers take all the risk on borrowed money.