Poll

[wilagro]

freewheat: If you really want to annoy just pull that corner way, way........out...then everyone has to adjust their side slider/elevator or what ever it is called. Then everyone will curse you because the window is too large.

[bgmb]

Freewheat, Its not about how new of equipment you drive its about how much money you make. Why do you have a beef with guys buying new machines it obviously makes sense for some to buy new.... somebody has to wear the paint off for you.

[freewheat]

bgmb, I have no beef with guys buying new
iron at all. I did not mean to come across
as such, I was trying to relate it to the
taxpayer funded sense of security
agristability gave some guys who had great
margins, and had a bankable guarantee that
was not of their own making. Do you see
more what I meant?

[bgmb]

Yeah I hear ya, Agristability was really no different than crop insurance except it protected you on a whole farm basis instead of crop by crop and it also protected you against both price and yield declines vs. crop insurance that only protects you on a yield wreck.

I agree with you on crop insurance it is a good program, better than nothing that's for sure. However the premuims are far far more than agristability.

[farmaholic]

Because I'm not in crop insurance I have
to ask this question. When you expand
your acres by renting, do your individual
yields and experience discount apply to
the new acres? If they do how is that so
different from expanding under
Agstability?

[bgmb]

Yes your coverages and discounts apply to new
acres, very similar to crop insurance except your
trigger is yield not gross revenue.

[boarderbloke]

farmaholic, in SK if you expand, Crop Ins would use land classification in calculating your coverage. If you had an avg yeild of 40bu/ac based on "G" soil, you wouldn't be covered at 40 bu/ac on "K" soil. I think however, if you produced 10% higher than the area avg on your "G" soil, then you'd be covered at 10% above area avg on "K" soil.