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[bucket]

Tweety

You don't want me as a politician helping set the rules. Do you?

Last time I looked I wasn't getting paid to solve these problems. And to date no one has listened anyway.

When you have the canola council recommending shorter rotations that might be a starting point.

[tweety]

No way bucket, you can't do that!

Not looking for rules, looking for solutions. Most of the posts are about what is wrong and how the farmer is ripped off, costs are too high, and how it all should be free and owned by farmers.

Well, what is the answer then?

[farmaholic]

Producers as a whole have way more power than they realize. Organizing and exercising that power is what seems to be lacking. Competing amongst ourselves for perceived limited supplies, capacity and markets is self defeating. Free and open markets for who? Who is "really" competing for YOUR business? Two railroads on seperately owned infrastructure, a small handful of chemical and fertilizer companies, 3-4 major equipment manufacturers who forced dealer consolidation thereby eliminating same brand competition and set rules enforcing it. Afew grain companies and for some people, due to their location, maybe one within reasonable distance. And we all want to be David taking on the Goliaths......

[Tucker]

3 inches near Russell on Sat night. Awesome. Thank you.

[SASKFARMER3]

Big problem some will see this year with shitty yield is our costs are way to F$&kkng high to grow a frixking crop in canada! Disease control to Fert to seed to in crop! Ever have a issue and it's always your fault!
It's a bull shot buisiness at best!

[sawfly]

grey beard like the bleeding edge term.
never heard that before.

farmaholic
it is david and Goliath,

it is kind of like consumer protection we need and are not getting it from this gov.

there may be lots of us , but we are individuality powerless.

call me a socialist , lefty , whatever. but gov.s should have public interest at heart.
not just corporate interest.

eg. paying every year forever for a fungus or blight resistance, to a private corp.

VS

have a public breeder do it
with a one time cost.

i just do not get the logic.
of handing the whole business to the private sector.

[bucket]

Tweety

This year is an excellent example of how the best genetics mean shit if it foesnt rain.

Where is the drought tolerant canola that yields 55 bpa to meet the canola councils goals?

Oops they forgot about that gene of drought resistance because more than likely those that are supplying the seed also have a hand in selling fungicides. Think on that a bit. Drought probably means less use of fungicide. Don't want that.

Or how about a better durum that you can spray out volunteer cereals like wheat. To me a round up ready durum makes some sense from a purity point of view. Not enough durum to make it worthwhile.

Perennial wheat using genes from crested wheat. Oops another tin foil idea.

Vision? Maybe from a farmers interest.

[TOM4CWB]

Bucket,

If the genetics are so off... what do you project the drought short western (worse than the worst of dirty 30's) Canada will produce? Half of normal... 3/4 of normal yields? We will beat 14mmt of Canola in 2015 harvest?

What is your prediction?

Lets see just how 'bad' the Canola genetics are!

You are WAY off base Bucket... new Canola/Wheat/Pea varieties are way more productive!!!

Cheers!

[GOODRUM]

Productive for who?
Minimal yield improvement comes from plant breeding or higher fertility and farming practices.
As I said before, were the ones being farmed and yes we are more productive , producing way more in terms of wealth for the other end of the food chain.
The economic spinoff from grain farming has increased incredibly in my lifetime, yet I am working with more borrowed money than ever before just to fund the rest of the industry.
The turnover of money is incredible , to keep pace with the advancements in the industry.
Look at the big picture, operating loans are relatively new, as are cash advances and forward pricing and delivery contracts.
Every farmer is eligible for a $400k advance!!!
Does this seem right?? If the direction were pointed is profitable for us the need for this program wouldn't exist.
$400 k used to be enough to retire on . Now it and more is required to fund one growing season.
Talk about an addiction!! Wow!
Sure I can grow a canola crop my grampa would be amazed at but I know he was not borrowing from the next generation to do it.
All our leaders need to be scrutinized more, our innovative plant breeders to our political leaders are all a bunch of lemmings , watch out who your putting your trust in, mite not be the direction you want to be going.
Firearms registry is abolished to win elections but upov91 is snuck in without any resistance,
Priorities I guess.

[bucket]

Tom

When are you and your secan members going to the trough?

Seems odd that the AWC and canterra/limagrain partner up for some trough funding and you secan members are left off.

Better hurry and partner with someone to get some private taxpayer funding.

Canola crop is currently below 11 mmt for thus year.

Canada is looking at a small crop compared to the inputs put in to grow a crop. We should be looking at crop close to 2013.

If you did the math of farming practice compared to 1988 this is a colossal wreck.