Marketing Meetings

[furrowtickler]

Tom , seed growers just got a huge gift from UPOV 91 - but that's ok with you eh?
Good on you for the fight with the rail , giver er shit.
Kinda reminds me of my neighbour who once described a socialist conservative :
All for one and one for all ! Until I can get more than you , then *** you and here's to me !!

[furrowtickler]

Last year it was about $2.50 / ltr - depending when you bought . If you look at the Kugler website you should find a dealer that can give some current pricing .

[TOM4CWB]

Good suggestions Oliver88...

Are you willing to send them in to the CTA transportation review?

Thanks for your ideas!

[wmoebis]

What is stopping the rail Co's from having inter switching agreement now? I have seen BNSF engines the odd time, We see American cars in Canada and we see Canadian cars in the USA.
Is it just free market at work where it becomes too costly, or Corporate greed or what is the issue?

[Hopalong]

Oliver88's suggestion sounds like open running rights.
Both railways and government tend to deny it, but talk and threat of of open or joint running rights were part of build up to revenue sharing agreement.
Downside to open running rights is how to share operations, maintenance, safety and capital cost.
As well, there is question of property rights and whether they apply equally to farm land.

[tweety]

furrow, you need to do a minimum of 5 replications of each. N=1 doesn't cut it. All you prove is, curious result.

[SASKFARMER3]

Cargill Had meetings that cost you to attend this week. BASF and Bayer also had meetings. Same info at all. Good speakers sounds like were at all.
The Bayer meeting is correct its not a total fix that you do and then sit back and wait for fall. A total year long program from seeding till harvest and scouting fields etc gets best results. If you miss out on seeding or spray or get clipped with a wetter period results vary.
Yes farmers to read Agriville. Not one farmer I know even the guys who are almost done farming will admit their done.
ITs farming.
Broad acre was full speed ahead till the lights went out.
Its farming.
The problem in Canada Farmers sit back and take shit over and over. Were a peaceful group that doesn't want to ruffle the feathers of any one. Tom just figured out rail service sucks, wow what have most in East Sask been telling him since last fall. IF it doesn't happen to a farmer in his area its not his problem is the Canadian Attitude.
Sask Crop is going to penalize us 20% that have been flooded for years with our own premium.
Hm when droughts come back and the West has no crops for 2 to 6 years are they going to get their average yields bumped back up again like last time. Or are we going to have to pay our premiums so they can get paid.
AH farming why cant we have one group who represents all farmers and start sticking together. As long as were divided they win and their winning more and more every day.

[bucket]

If I was a politician reading most of these threads - doing nothing would be pretty easy.

Make a few comments and continue the divide and conquer.

Sorry people, but the conservatives have to go. They sat waiting to fix the problems and in the last 4 years have made most problems worse.

They are better as a minority biting at other parties ankles.

[furrowtickler]

We seen the same result across 2000 ac of our wheat and on 8 out of 10 farms who also did trials. We left a check on each field with the base fertility with no fungicide. All check yeilds were in the low 50'sand graded #2 and 3, the combo of foliar and fungicide all yielded From 65-70 and graded #1. That was on 8 different fields of Goodeve. Protien levels in Carberry responded higher than Goodeve. Hopefully we see more positive results this year . Similar results were seen in many areas in Sask last year in wheat.

[TOM4CWB]

Hop
If we can't beat them why not join them?

When I was coming to see my mom in Leduc this morning I saw a 175 car potash train going north on CP

Looks like prince Rupert bound

We see CN CP BNSF all sharing equipment and now operators.

Why don't we lease 200 new locomotive power units to go with our 12000 hopper cars and have dedicated grain trains to peak efficiency and fuel economy switchable between all our tracks
The gov could easily lease dedicate and effectively increase the frequency and velocity of western movement

Max cost reductions
Cut out CP and CN except for the use of personnel Maintance and tracks which can be pooled and negotiated at cost that the railways already have established between themselves commercially
Give the Great Hunter a real joint venture with us grain Farmers!!!
We lease vehicles and equipment every day
There are clear standards of maintaining equipment in North American
Simple
Locomotive power and cars can go where most needed
A Thought

We could revolution grain transportation just like railways have dedicated container trains
We can do much better than the Hunter railers blackmail strategy that till now has cost growers Billions in the past two years alone!!!