DRY

[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.

[SASKFARMER3]

Like free wheat says we hunkered down did things different! I hope you never have to have one that lasts this long but the biggest loss is hard savings you dip into took time to put away and will take years to rebuild while just 100 miles away or less their is no problem at all!
You adapt to less, you throw away pamphlets about the newest greatest thing, you dry different things!
But like I said earlier day three seeding and I'm up and down mile and only once and a while turn, life maybe is getting back to normal!
One word of advise if you are in this situation you won't care to ask how are you surviving it must not be that bad. Water in excess is good for shit!
Ah free wheat maybe we're finally exiting the drought zone! What a glorious dry day!

[grassfarmer]

Freewheat I have the greatest of respect for your situation and how you tell it, you are believable.

Not so SF3 who is quick to chime in that he survived just like you - except he can't help boasting over the years how much new machinery he has bought, the holidays, how much tax he had to pay. A BS'er.
The arrogance shown in his last post " if they could read my posts on Internet they wouldn't be starving! " shows what a complete ignoramus he is.

And yes fjllp, in much of Africa they have huge extremes of weather. It's impacts on agriculture are way more significant than in Canada because there people starve in large numbers when crops fail, not sit and whine from their winter holiday deck chair in Hawaii.

[SASKFARMER3]

Grass your full of shit! Your a typical NDP wow is all I have to say wow?