VRT.. Echelon or Farmers Edge

[fjlip]

Hate to be a supplier or working for one. Pay cuts for everyone? Layoffs and million dollar houses to pay off!
How about the inventory some are carrying?
Machinery dealers lots are full. Next Ritchie will be interesting. Got an auction booked? Values are evaporating.
Lucky interest rates are SFA, maybe they will go lower? Keep floating, lock in lower rates in future? Nothing but stress.

[fjlip]

So who owns the data? Claas, Deere, Case the software developers? Interesting... smells like a class action.

[Hopperbin]

I just ask my supplier what others soil tests are and I separate the bullshit. Jd if 1/3 of your land can benefit then why?

[Rareearth]

First deflation then inflation.

The velocity of money, demand, is low right now. Every one is pulling back, saving, paying off debt, etc. the Fed can print all the money it wants, banks aren't lending, the opposite is happening, interest rates are too low right now, when interest rates start to increase hold on, it will be turbulent.

[JDGreen]

i think possibly when it was fine tuned after a few years we would see the benefits on all of the acres. 1/3 is just a quick number that if this VR actually works then should easily be able to track the difference on these acres immediately due to the topography and soil quality that varies in it.

[SASKFARMER3]

Allfarmer Grand Prairie is booming. Ah if the price keeps dropping and goes to 35, you will be able to shoot a gun down main street at noon on any given day and not hit a single person car or dog.
This is serious shit. Not Not in my back yard were ok and will weather the storm.
Million dollar homes in Calgary will be empty. Ok Broad Ass maybe already!

[GALAXIE500]

Its funny how my old 7200 CIH hoe drills with 80 lbs of 34-17-0, and my Steiger ST 250 tracor gave me the same yield as my superfarmer neighbors with their $250,000 bourgault airdrill , and lets not forget their $450,000 NH tractor.

[LEP]

In my opinion the benefit equals the cost of the service , so no net to the farmer except in ideal climate. I have seen it work against guys as much as for them.

This is old technology and I believe in not too many years we will be making our own maps, getting the cost down and therefore receiving a net benefit.

I think variable seed, fungicide and dessicating are the areas that would benefit our farm. I am going to wait for technology advances that allow me to do it on my own.

[farmaholic]

Galaxy, maybe that's why farms are many times bigger than they were with the equipment you described. How else do you pay for that stuff and secondly now we need to shave expenses to help make it make sense. Simply put, prices for our commodities, lagging behind most of the time, forces Producers to be leaner operators. Hair splitting techniques for razor thin margins, no thanks...

[JDGreen]

Yes good one GALAXIE !! I am also wondering why i just don't go back to the those same 7200 hoe drills. Sounds like sour g****s to me..

[sumdumguy]

not just Calgary, big new homes built on oil credit all over Alberta and Saskatchewan. They could be under water very soon with the loose lending practices. Guess who is on the hook, the taxpayer through CMHC.

[SASKFARMER3]

No small town home is worth over 300000 100 miles from a city. Sorry not even close. Also never were homes in our area 850000 and the hood never was 100000.
Homes were way over priced.

[Rareearth]

Global market access, both directions. They do it with steel and other commodities.

[agstar77]

Sometimes it is good to reflect on the purpose of these innovations. They should not be for cosmetic purposes or to make profits for the developer alone, they must pe practical and add value to farming.

[Rareearth]

The housing market is influenced by , the replacement cost or the cost to build new pricing and the demand. The developers, contractors have been going flat out for some time now, now a correction, not that unusual. Now the length and depth of the correction is another thing, fundamentals... Charts don't factor bubbles.