Acres Might Not have a Renter! or be SEEDED!

[tstep]

Have no problem with people from South America or where ever buying land and farming it themselves. Good on them. It's these ****ing people that are buying and wanting renters and asking the big dollars so they can make their 5% or thereabouts return. Tell these assholes what you are going to give them or it sits idle.

[ag-boy]

tstep
yes it is supply and demand me be free enterprice !
smart operators and money makes money .
in this part of western Canada ,we had some nice returns last years ! hope and paid of some debts.
I see on your expression not happy about the outlook ts

[SASKFARMER3]

Agree the south Africans become part of rural life the others spend most of their time back in China!
Outside voice!

[Oliver88]

Sask3 your outside voice is correct.

[sk_wheatking]

Guy's I can see negotiating your rent it's doing business but I highly doubt that farmers like tstep are telling their land lords " here's what I'm going to pay you ,either like it or **** off!" That might work on an anonymous farm forum like this but in reality you would be done doing business with that person forever. Unlikely and unprofessional. If you don't want to pay what the landlord wants then move on why such hard feelings. Do you go to a car dealership and tell them here's what I'm going to pay or **** off? I doubt it. If you can't negotiate a rent that works for your farm then I guess you move on to something elsewhere.

[jake550]

Lol!! That's what we should be telling the car lots too! Lol

[SASKFARMER3]

It's happen sk lots don't say f$&k off or take it. They dance around the price from 65 down to 35 to 45 and if can't hit the price they say bye and walk.
Now if someone that picked another farm because they were the BTO on the block and now are left holding the bag and can't find a renter. If these guys show up its this or nothing. After a few screw ups they come around.

[blackpowder]

Obviously a different world in SK.
When you talk about productive value are you talking of the ability of an acre to stand alone and pay all of its expenses and payments?
If so then forum farming would be fun because anyone could buy in.

[SASKFARMER3]

Ah blackpowder it is and when the droughts come back we will shine again.
Ah farming why pit one against the other just realize one area has been decimated by rain. As a farmer I never believed I would hate to see a rain cloud or snow storm.
Never in my wildest dreams, But we do.
Good land is still selling for $396,000.00 poor is 160.000.00

[furrowtickler]

Too bad Ducks Unlimited don't kick in when a guy pays big bucks for some dirt. Some got a surprise this year.
Ducks and geese cant make land payments.

[hobbyfrmr]

The land will get seeded, it always does. Rent price may be lowered but landlords find solutions. They can have it custom farmed or else rent for lower values. Someone will come in and farm it.
big farms around here are not scared to pay their men to drive equipment 125 km to plant and extra 1700 acres.
It is fascinating that these guys travel to the neighbouring RMs to rent land, then those neighbours travel to their RM to rent land. Then again, these operations run over 15,000 to 45,000 acres.

[tstep]

Got neighbors that are doing it. Landlord realizes that he has a good farmer farming the land and knows that it is tough times and will lower the rental rate. Farmer told me that this is what he told his landlord for this coming year. Got it right from the horses mouth. Some local landlords want to have local farmers farming the land and look after it. That is the problem with far away investors they have no idea what goes on and are just looking at the dollar. So then the farmer, stupid as some are, plants the crops the make the money and throws the stewardship out the window.