Canola crusher Renting thousands of acres north. Of valley in Saskatchewan!

[carebear300]

Surprise, Surprise the old rule of free enterprise applies once again, the golden rule.
Them that has the most gold makes the rules. Governments are theoretically supposed to step in and regulate them but they tend to control the governments because of all the capital they control. The writing is on the wall.

[hobbyfrmr]

Crushing plant for sale? LOL! Louis Dreyfus is
one of the biggest multinational grain companies
in the world, not just another farming neighbour in
your way!
They could rail soybeans in from the USA switch
away from canola without blinking an eye. LD
could buy SF3 and me at the stroke of a pen.
Its a sign of the times. Every time I see a BTO
driving by, and think of the guys age, and massive
debt load, I think, "who is farming who?"
I really think the custom work is more profitable
than farming it for the crop.
It's not a bad strategy, make an alignment with
different landlords, do the custom work. You will
know if it leaves the market, or if its for sale etc.
maybe the custom work guy has a son who wants
to farm but there is not enough land for both of
them. The custom work is like an apprenticeship.
The young person will learn all about business
instead of living under Dads shadow waiting for
the old guy to die.

[lesm]

I don't know why this is such a big issue.
SF3, if you farmed this land or I, what
difference would it make? What is wrong
with a crusher having access to their own
supplies. Nobody is stopping you from
building a crushing facility. Sorry, I
just don't get it.

[countryguy]

They are doing exactly what farmers should have been striving to do all along. Sadly the unexplainable need and desire for farmer independence has created these monsters. Agribusiness is shaping up in the world exactly how us stupid farmers let it.

[oneoff]

Well there are more than a few things stopping big projects.

#1 Ourselves and our neighbors
#2 The existing big guys that would do everything to crush the project like a fly; or more likely cause it to fail
#3 Our leadership at all levels who like "you" "just don't get it".
#4 Projects that are completely out of our comfort zones aand levels of expertise.
And so these mammoth leaps don't very often get off the ground.

And the ones that do; we often later give away eg. the prairie grain pools such as Sask Wheat Pool. We're too embarrassed to learn from when we stood by and LOST or even deliberately supported policies which were sure to reasons for their demise.
Such as the CWB whose managemment and some off the core values deserved/deserve to be banished from the land.

[oneoff]

Often the people who honestly believe they are protecting their sacred turf; are the ones who are cultivating its imminent destruction.

[mbratrud]

I'm pretty sure they will get tired of that after a year or 2 OR will be a huge operation within 10yrs. Its a free market.
I agree with the poster that discussed value added but just in reverse. From their perspective i'm sure they are concerned about supply of product just like we are concerned about land supply. The more foreign or large corperate consolidation the larger the larger the threat.
Even though I don`t particularily like the competition, I wouldn`t change our way of doing business.
Don't be surprised to see more of this in the Future.


So SF3 are you saying if a group of Farmers got together, and made a good business case to build a crushing facilty in JRI and LDM backyard. That would add good value back to your farm you wouldn't do it because you wouldn't want to mow their grass so to speak?

[BTO_farmall]

God Bless You Saskabush,

Louis Dufus is Shootin Themselves in The Foot. Here's The Numbers, Why. Say Theys Crushin 2500 MT per day = 110,231 Bu per Day/30 Bu Yield to Thee Acre = 3674.37 Acres per DAY Theys Roughly Crushin. As Yous can see, Theys gunna needa Be Farmin Alotta Land just to Maintain Crush. This is a VERY Bad Business Plan on Their Part. F#ck em', Just Haul Right on By and Dump in Richardson's Pit!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[samhill]

I think they'll get a new appreciation of what canola is
worth.

[phoenix64]

Jeepers boys make sure ur expressing concerns
to ur local elected officials! Farmers put these
guys in govt....we can take em out!

[Hopperbin]

At first glance renting a few thousand acres is a drop in the bucket. Some day Sask3 may come the day you or your offsprings will want to rent the land out due to what ever reason accident etc. Can you say to yourself you would like to just rely on the local farmers be them young or old to take on the job? Two sides to this story. One thing for sure if LD has the best dockage and a better price I will sell to them. Nice to see basis at better levels. I don't think their income per acre is going to be any better than yours since they likely intend to get mostly custom work done. Does not make sense in my books. I think there is still profit to be made in making responsible machinery purchases and maintenance. Still makes sense somewhere to have a little competition out there.

[cottonpicken]

Should the question not be why?

Obviously money,but why,are they greedy rich
pigs making more or are their margins so low they
are sucking air or is it a risk play?