DRY

[farmaholic]

DING!!! Ok back into your corners....

Cotton, do you want to ref this match. Too much hitting below the belt.

[SASKFARMER3]

Hey grass ever here of auto correct! See some of us are busy trying to make living farming in not the best conditions so when we type it's because we' im a hurry!so since you have lots of time doing nothing correct away!

[fjlip]

Still say the wet/dry guys should trade farms and experience the ugly of both sides. Farm a mile in my shoes... way too f*cking wet on my little piece of the planet!

[freewheat]

Great idea fj. I would be very game to try dry for once. So long as someone trues wet in my place! lol

[bucket]

I have had both.

I prefer a drier bias. You can do something productive when it's dry. Wet and rubber boots is not fun.

[parsley]

Jwab, do you farm in Africa? Parsley

[fjlip]

You must be referring to the violence, not weather extremes?

[SASKFARMER3]

Sorry but if they could read my posts on Internet they wouldn't be starving! It's a ag forum about farming not the Luthern hour or church! I feel real bad and donate to certain causes! So yes it's a serious issue but again this is a ag forum about farming on canada!

[RichFarmer]

SF3 how can you still be operating after 8 years of crop failure ? You either had very deep pockets going in or it's not as bad as you are letting on.

[freewheat]

Richfarmer. I can not speak for SF3. But I will speak for myself. Here is what my farm with no deep pockets or paid for land did when we went through the horror:

We buckled down. We never bought a thing that was not necessary.

Went from not using a canola advance, to maxing it out. In other words we had to add debt to keep flowing along.

Started changing how we farm by diversifying into animals and building fences.

Growing and shooting most of our own food.

I have the shallowest pockets in the countrysideguaranteed, but we pulled through. I am just pointing out that it is possible to NOT buy iron, not change borderline tires, not use gps, not have the latest phone and data plan and apps, not have a thousand dollar a month truck payment:

For us, we clamped down HARD, and lived frugal like my grandparents in the 1930's.

I think in this current downturn, while many are talking like 9 dollar canola is not profitable etc., or that it costs them X dollars to seed an acre, we will pull through easily, because of what we have learned about money management/frugality in a time of hideous/no crops.