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

[BTO_farmall]

And I would be willing to Bet The Farm That Gregpet (A Regular Poster Here) is First on The List to do Custom Work fer Loius Dufus. Greg has Done Thousands upon Thousands of Acres of Custom Work fer DumbBroadAcre Farms Already. Whatta Sell Out Eh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Oliver88]

How many acres around Southey is Louis Dreyfus
renting from this investment fund?

[SASKFARMER3]

2400 plus the other stuff they have in the area.

[Saskabush]

The same grain company is also renting thousands of acres on the south side of the valley too and MFI ag (joe melnick) is doing all the custom work for them on the south side. I would not trust him as far as i could throw him(he is farming for all the new chinese farmers too). He will likely screw up and get kicked out of there sooner or later though as he will try to screw somebody over. So good luck to him and LDM but i am done doing business with them if i have to compete against them for land.

[DogPatch]

Sign of the times boys! Take the hog farms, Looks like Maple Leaf will own and raise most of their hogs by buying Puratone, and Olymel has bought Big Sky. Most the smaller family hog farms are gone. Read where Puratone owed big money to grain producers, and MLF told them they bought assets, not debts. Good to see that MASC and province of MB will get stung with the debt

Why should it be any different for Crushers and grain land?

[Burbert]

Sign of the times boys/girls, anything
goes ta turn a buck. Who cares if yous
don't like it er lump it. Money talks
and BS walks. Corporate interests in
Angribusiness is a good thing. Anything
that keeps driving land prices/rents up
is good to. The future is now people.
Suck it up, mosta ya is small framers,
soos yous going to dooodooo land with
the birds in future to. Enjoy the
Comedian advantage, level playing fields
and transparency is always what we
wanted, ain't it????

[hedgehog]

so will they grow continuous canola and screw the soil?

[oneoff]

When you get on the exponential growth and change curve; it can lead straight to hell in a hurry.

And anyone think that our leadership is ahead of that curve????. Lots of luck to absolutely everyone.

[SASKFARMER3]

Thats my guess who will be farming it for them.
Its real easy, if you want to farm it then we dont have to sell to you.
Crushing plant for sale real fast.

[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.