What would you do?

[checking]

Don't encourage him, Tom.

Con ideas of taxing jobs instead of requiring a royalty share was a terrible strategy.

[TOM4CWB]

Checking,

And ND/Liberano plans to kill jobs... hire friends to do the new paper work... to watch hard working AB families be destroyed... while High Tech union jobs are promised to save [is this supposed to be a JOKE] the world from... CLIMATE CHANGE... that: one volcano Big earthquake...; Coronal Mass Ejection... or meteorite... can wipe all Carbon based life off the face of this planet!!!

And we are worried about increasing the c02 levels...

what... so tell me... plant life is plotting the takeover and destruction of the humans?!!!

You are kidding... right?

[hobbyfrmr]

I would say Jake has the best comparison. Going from $35.00 canola to 11.00. Buying/leasing the right equipment, paying good salaries, striving for the best production because you can afford it from $35.00/ bushel canola.
On the flip side Farmers being what they are, would have astronomically run up the price of buying and renting. Inputs and machinery would also be astronomical because the industry cannot allow farmers to have that much profit.

[hobbyfrmr]

I would say Jake has the best comparison. Going from $35.00 canola to 11.00. Buying/leasing the right equipment, paying good salaries, striving for the best production because you can afford it from $35.00/ bushel canola.
On the flip side Farmers being what they are, would have astronomically run up the price of buying and renting. Inputs and machinery would also be astronomical because the industry cannot allow farmers to have that much profit.

[TOM4CWB]

Hobby

Since produced volume equals profit... the farmer in the US who harvests 100bu/ac Soybeans... and 300u/ac corn... ARE very profitable.

As are canola growers here who harvested 50bu/ac Canola/peas/lentils etc.

[grassfarmer]

I thought that was another "News" report from Rebel media Hamloc - are you a script writer for them?

Was at the local landfill this spring when a shiny new oilfield truck rolls in to unload over 100 as new treated fence posts. I asked them why they didn't drop them off at the local machinery auction site where they would have brought $5 each. Said it was company orders - the lease site they came from was a couple of miles closer to the landfill than the auction site. $500 blown right there is an indication of the excesses of the oilpatch so no, not a lot of sympathy for them.

[wmoebis]

Worked very little in patch.
First job was to go with foreman to NAPA and buy tool crib (8x20 container)full of hand tools. Enough for 350 guys for a 4 month job. After job was done we cut all tools in half with torch and put in scrap bin. Some were never used, made this old farmer cry!

[farming101]

Similar stories are endless. Criminal.

[Hamloc]

On the plus side I got your attention on the minus some missed my point so I will clarify a bit. Choice of 10 dollar canola was related to 100 dollar oil and now 36 dollar oil, just wanted to put revenue loss into a farmers perspective. As for my intense dislike of the NDP sorry my Dad raised me to be self reliant and dislike big government.

Maybe I worry to much about what is coming but they are finalizing a legaly binding agreement in Paris to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 Celsius. The present carbon tax and carbon emission plan put out by the Alberta NDP isn't enough of a reduction to even meet a theoretical rise of 2 Celsius. So what do you see coming. A little history, I listened to the president of the socialist causes of the NDP one day on my favourite talk radio station, he proposed government buying the oil sands and shutting it down. He also said they comprised 40% of the membership of the federal NDP. What does this have to do with Alberta? Well Brian Topp Notley's chief of staff ran for the leadership of the federal NDP and has worked in the federal NDP for 30 years and Anne McGrath Notley's new deputy chief of staff was president of the federal NDP 2006-2009, she even ran for the communist party in Alberta in 1984 in Edmonton. So am I worried you bet. I think we are seeing the tip of the iceberg. Call it fear mongering if you want, forewarned is firearmed. I see higher carbon taxes coming than already proposed and I don't see that as positive. Have a good day.

[Braveheart]

"Forewarned is firearmed"? Typo or ridiculously funny!? Hahaha!

[Braveheart]

Farmers have safety nets (crop insurance, ag stab, Agri invest). Oil companies don't. Yes, oil companies have shareholders, but those shares could potentially become worthless. Farmland will always have value.

[Hamloc]

Oh shit was supposed to read forewarned is forearmed sorry. Eyesight isn't what it used to be lol.