Farm Progress Show

[wmoebis]

All those things went through my head in the last Hr and half. Next time Ritz,Raitt are in Sask for photo op make sure they get to drive that road. Preferably with their family car.

[bucket]

You will phone someone about your adventure?

Farmers sold grain to the eyebrow elevator from the marquis area. Then viterra trucked the grain back over 42 to Raymore. Brilliant hey.

In two days with about 30 loads they blew it apart. Bad timing but viterra downloaded a 20 million highway bill to the taxpayers to load a few trains.

[freewheat]

Nope, not going. Too much to do right now. Aside from my lack of interest.

[farming101]

Grain got trucked from Eyebrow to Raymore?
That's crazy!

[bucket]

Yup and the highways staff in regina act stupid. All they have to do is look at the trucking companies bill of lading.

Lyle ****head stewart says the eyebrow elevator should have never been built there. Wonder who told him that at his board seat interview. Too ****ing bad it's there and so is a rail line - use it.

[bucket]

Wmoebis

Hodgeville is a similar to eyebrow. Hodgeville is slated to be blown up.

Meanwhile the cwb builds a 42000 tonne elevator at moose jaw.

Road costs increase well past 100 million to allow farmers to truck grain somewhere.

On order to build a highway to super b loads you have to essentially build a rail bed for a highway. Interesting hey.

They are tearing one up right now.

This isn't rocket science.

[sumdumguy]

What a gong show! Bucket, you are spot on, but government loves the "progress" to big central delivery. Remember the days of 9 elevators within 8 miles of your farms? Sitting on a rail line. Fond memories.

[bucket]

What no one realizes is that 3 tons in front of wooden elevators is exactly the same as super Bs in front of concretes.

It's not progress.

It's downloading of costs to farmers.

And so is the bin building going on today.

It's assenine.

[fjlip]

Make work/economy for BIG business and Govs. Need to get our money into other's pockets. F*ck I call it regress. Total lack of vision. Yes fondly remember elevators 7 miles apart here. Extremely short 4 mile hauls. Life was good, shit show now, grain passing each other in super b's. Classic is lots of local bushels go 50 miles N to 3 Tisdale elevators, then right back past me on CP at 5 mph all spring.

[bucket]

There is one difference. Grain wasn't on highways.

The youngest nation on the planet has built and destroyed more rail lines. Crazy.

And people wonder why this nation doesn't grow in population.

[bucket]

If you look at total costs involved with moving grain, it's not sustainable much longer.

No one is looking 20 years out.

Highway cost vs railway cost. No one has done the math.

And yet people including myself will go to a farm show to look at progress.

[hobbyfrmr]

Thankfully, I stepped off that ride A decade ago. I am so backwards it would be embarassing for me to attend. I am still spraying with a rodweeder and tine harrows!

[farmaholic]

Drills and tanks still not big enough. Hauling more grain around the field in tanks than my forefathers bin sizes were. Drill widths that are becoming impractical for many areas of the prairies. Drills will be a maintenance nightmare because of so many moving parts with pins and bushings and hydraulic cylinders and hoses. When and where(in size) is the "progress" going to end.

Tillage is back, at least at the show it is. A new
name for an old practice----vertical tillage. More high maintenance equipment, basically tandem discs, each disc with its own bearing assembly and a row of "packers" behind. Protill needs 10-15 hp/ft....40 foot needs about 600 hp at the high speeds required...hope your fields are flat, lol. I realize not all areas are dry but tillage for some people in this moisture environment is absurd.

Should only go every third year. Might see something new then.

[tipsy]

I'm continuing my boycott of farm progress show and regina!

[fjlip]

Never enough...getting ridiculously complex worth millions...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=12&v=IB-_qC_x2EM