Is there anything for agriculture in this pre election spending spree?

[Horse]

SK3 where does your water go so fast do you have super draniage? After 8 yr of too wet you went to to dry now to wet and now you want dry again , all in less than 1 yr ,no wonder mother nature is so confused,all that is enough to give a dogs ass heartburn.
If we had that much water here in a yr we would be good to go for at least2 yr with a few showers thrown in.

[TOM4CWB]

Great to hear from you Klause!!! Hope you have a good and safe harvest! We will start desiccating peas middle of next week. Canola still in full bloom on later seeded... but the next week will fix that with warm temps (31C today) that will shut it down.

[sawfly]

el nino or not you will never outguess it.
the reserve subsoil moisture is the only reason we have a crop at all this
year. with the driest may june on record. like 120 years

if it has not recharged by next spring. we are gambling like in the 80s.
but the bets are 4 times bigger now


you can have the drought if you want SF3 . i will gladly take 150% of normal every year.

i never dreamed i would see 4 years as wet as the preceding last four.
never though i would see 100 bushel
wheat either.

we could just as easily have a ten year super drought which would crush us all.

hopefully you get your drought and we get the rain

[Horse]

Tom I hate to disagree but in region 4 things are a lot worse than you posted pastures are gust about gone hay is 25/40% normal and the grains I think more are burning than ripining but will have to wait for the combines to know for sure. Grasshoppers I dont know what the threshold is but I would estimate 50 or more per sq ft and all sizes. Rain about 40% normal and a lot of that is the 2/3mm stuff that realy dosent do squat.

[ado089]

I sprayed my peas today but right beside it th neighbors reseeded canola was as yellow as it gets. Probably 20% is like that in the area. Some later peas started flowering again with the showers on th weekend. All I'm saying is some of this crop needs to avoid frost into September.

[TOM4CWB]

Horse,

There is no doubt the showers were hit and miss. Some growers I know will have average crops. others have fields that are as you say 40 percent of normal.

This all thrown together gets to the AB AG averages... which are not far off what I see!

[fjlip]

Who the f*ck need farmers...they are now getting their returns from the "free" market...

[TOM4CWB]

fj,

Just wait till the ND/Lib coalition tell you what is involved with the 'social License' farmers will be expected to fulfill in the new socialist utopia where city folk enviro culture grow it at home folks get through with our farms!

Will be interesting times. Farmers are rich abusers of the land... how else could they own and run gps satellite guided $500k seeders and harvesters!!!

BTW... does not matter what equip you have... we all are in the same boat... if one is 'bad' and rich... all need the same 'social license' to pay penance.

[TOM4CWB]

BTW,

Who is the largest user of water in Canada?

Answer is farmers. We all must cut back 50 percent and save the world... growing crops that need less water to save wildlife and fish in rivers/oceans.

The new social license will be enforced by the left... the PC alberta gov people were totally immersed before ND transition. Enviro Duck conservation no impact on landscape (since settlement) folks have the ear and flavour of the day won! Fun times for those who object... you are evil and are hiding your greedy abusive practices!!!

[riders2010]

Doesn't matter who it is or which government but when you use taxpayer money to target specific ridings and pay out money where it isn't needed to put yourself in power a couple days before an election it's pretty classless. But then again that's why everyone holds politicians in such an esteemed regard.

I think oil industry is worried most about water and what the hell is being pumped into and out of aquifers.

As far as farmers tom you told us the free market is working so if there are extra costs for water the market will compensate us? Those are your own repeated words. Is the free market working or not for farmers tom?

[riders2010]

so why are all these places declaring disasters? Klause hit the nail on the head about crops driving down the highway look good put the swather into it and its not that good, that won t be everywhere but those areas that had the heat when it was dry at the early stages most definitely had more effect than people realized, also see lots of white blank heads in wheat and the shitty canary seed crops in places I expected better.

[newguy]

The States change leaders in two terms for sure.A very good way to force a political correction.That is what this election is about.PCs could have changed leaders before and it would have been done.But now it is up to voters to do the correction themselves.We need a Canadian government again running our country.Not a Harper government.