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

[SASKFARMER3]

not sure of the exact acreage! But it is funny how New purchasers want to not use the locals who grew up and farmed in the area.
Some land that I had rented with a agreement for sale but didnt buy has just been rented by a guy 50 miles away. I wasnt even given a chance to rent what I use to farm. The other renter wasnt offered rental arrangemet either.
What they got from the guy 50 miles away is less than they would have got locally.
One note the guy 50 miles away has been here before and left a million plus debt.
They will learn. oh well thats farming

[freewheat]

Good for them. I mean who cares? Farming
is so far gone anyway. If my dad were
here, he would hardly recognize it
anymore. The mad land rush by almost
every farmer these days is consuming
their very souls.

It is all about the land, the "stuff".
Everyone is after more "stuff". What a
pathetic society we have become.

It is all consuming. It never used to be
this way. All everyone talks about is
getting more land, more land.

Is anyone content to simply do better
with what they have? I guess that is why
I simply don't care if a grain company
is farming some land. I am not greedily
trying to get more, more, more.

Contentedness is an elusive animal. Now,
I am not saying if land close by came up
for sale, and I could swing it, I would
not bid on it, not at all, but this
panic is telling.

It seems as time goes on, year after
year, the greed gets worse, more
intense. I have yet to meet one of these
farmers who are of the more mindset,
take a deep breath, relax, and say I
have enough. Why is it so hard to say I
have enough? What is it all for? Our
casket, our urn? To show that more acres
constitutes some kind of importance,
status, or what?

If more guys would buck the trend, be
content, we wouldn't be in this mess,
because we would still have a rural
population worthwhile preserving. As it
is, everyone wants to have 10 000 acres
or at least 5, under the fake idea you
need that much to make a living. It is
the only way they can justify it. And
then these same land hungry guys get all
twisted up when someone moves into their
area and rents some land.

See, their plans are disturbed, the land
they had eyes for is now in jeopardy.
That is why they are so upset.

It is because all that matters to them
is MORE LAND.

End rant. Just so sick of the drama in
the countryside. The lack of content
souls. The greedy nature of farming
today...

[wd9]

freewheat, 1

[farmaholic]

Freewheat: Maybe if more kids would
have stayed on the farm and not been
discouraged by negativity and two
decades of tough times where there
seemed to be no hope of making a decent
living comparable to everyone else and
government policy of ownership rules
which kept land prices artificially low,
there wouldn't be this feeding frenzy we
are experiencing now. There was money
to be made speculating on comparatively
cheap Sask farmland. And money to be
made farming the land.

[fjlip]

Well said Freewheat, I AM CONTENT, I have enough.
Quote in the Furrow "He has the most who is content with the least"

Some need to tame their inner greed, the desire to leave a legacy.

Once read that the more stuff/land you have the more important you are, therefore more likely to live longer.

Another take on too big to fail or too big to die. Good Luck guys.

[countryguy]

" True contentment does not come from attaining more but from wanting less"

I too am content.

[farmaholic]

We only farm 2500 acres and the older I
get the more I think it is too much,
funny thing is I don't remember when the
tipping point was. Some would suggest I
am lazy, others crazy. I make a good
living on it and that is good enough for
me.

I do have to admit I like buying land but
haven't bought any since 2004.

[fjlip]

Farmaholic, everyone I know that left for Alberta or got a trade/ profession 40 years ago is way better off than I am. They are retired with big monthly cheques or annuities, beautiful homes, kids all educated, investments, etc. They were seeing the reality of primary ag when I saw $$ in the 70's.
Rural life style was great, however, my rewards involved more risk. Now we are stuck in dying communities that offer little to those who stay. That is the saddest part, slow motion death.

[farmaholic]

fjlip: Based on pure assumption, would it
be fair to say you might have the same or
better net worth as them, except it is
tied up? Any established farm that
cashes in their chips wouldn't be any
worse off in my opinion. Just if you have
someone(family) wanting to take over, do
you plunge them into perpetual debt?

[fjlip]

I agree net worth is there unless next gen farms, then the gain will not be fully realized in our hands. We farmed so our parents never cashed out, in fact went further into debt because of that fact. Legacy value perhaps, not with out cost? What ever makes you happy, our parents are.

[Choice2U]

The lefties complain about the big bad
multinationals. The righties like me say it is their
choice. My comment would be that ....knowing LD
is competing against other growers and has the
potential and right to move into my area, I would
rather support bunge, Viterra, JRI etc and send a
message with my feet to LD

[SASKFARMER3]

Freewheat good points,
The thread is about a grain company getting to
rent Saskatchewan land that now so called
Canadians in Vancouver own. They chose multi
national over Saskatchewan farmers.
It's not about me being greedy.
Choice good point vote with your feet.

[wd9]

freewheat, that's plus 1. apparently the
80's software won't allow the plus sign!

[ALLFARMER]

Dumb plan on LD's part on many levels. 1) that its
a drop in the bucket of their needs 2) what are
they going to have to pay people to run/manage
this operation PROPERLY 3) anyone here ever
wait 10 days for a custom sprayer or custom
seeder? I have and never again. 4) how many
guys (few) have to deliver else where before they
notice. 5) crop rotation anyone? 6) value of canola
lost when a big on farm storage bin heats. 7) if
they do decide to scale up to 100,000 acres isn't
the municipality and province going to feel some
heat then clamping down on this?

[ALLFARMER]

O ya then the custom guy screws the job up.