To All our Suppliers, 2008 has long gone!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SASKFARMER3]

Wd I am out of here very shortly.
Simply are our suppliers stuck in 2008.
I'm in the new world af farming, where we have
foreign owners (new Canadians) owning most of
my neighbors, land companies farming all around,
yet were still here and will be fiorhopefully a long
time.
Again are all our suppliers out to lunch.

[sumdumguy]

When farmers prosper, everyone gets a piece of
the pie. Thats how it has been since I can
remember. Bankers are looking at the same
signals that you are. They may be getting cold
feet. Inputs are up at levels sustainable by great
commodity prices, cash rents and land costs are
sky rocketting, machinery costs are limit-up.
Yields were disappointing in some areas and
prices are slipping. If you were the banker, what
would you be thinking?

[hobbyfrmr]

SF3
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they
aren't after you”

Start planning an exit strategy before you go and
hurt yourself or your family. , I see this all the
time. Get some help. There are some good
professionals in Regina, very discreet and
confidential. It doesn't have to be this way.

[SASKFARMER3]

I better call in all the loans I have out to
neighbors. Quickly.
The banker thing is right on. Most get scared at
the top.
Yes the last few have seen better prices despite
the f$&ked up weather.
But the gravey train is leaving the station.

[SASKFARMER3]

Thanks hobby,
Saw my esso dealer and Deere dealer their
yesterday. What a session.
Ha ha ha.

[ajl]

Interesting discussion. The reality here
is that Alberta (a.k.a. the garden of
Eden) had in most places a very good crop
in 2012. Saskatchewan for the most part
had a disappointing crop in 2012. This is
one fence the grass is greener on one
side.

[Digger]

Funny as we rush around getting ready for christmas and talking to lots of our suppliers about 2013. One common theme seems to be out their.
THEY DONT GET THAT 2008 has come and gone!
First lets start with Equipment for the farm!
Your trade is worth nothing because we need to make so much of a profit to keep the doors open.
Our product that your buying is worth its weight in gold. All the new things that we added to it.
Yea its a combine with new decals and a sprayer with new decals and a new serial number.
Nothing earth shaking about it and in less than a year youll tell me its worthless.

DONT BUY A NEW ONE. ITS A CHOICE.

The Grain companies, Who take our grain. Promise the world look at the crop in sample pails then relook then check again under a microscope and finally buy it with dockage.

AGAIN YOU HAVE CHOICES HERE. IF YOU DONT LIKE COMPANY A CHOOSE COMPANY B OR GROW SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

The chemical and fertilizer guys and gals. Yes you have our drugs and we need them to get our fix but killing your client is just bad buisiness.

CHOICES ABOUND HERE. SHOP YOUR BUSINESS AND YOUR BRAND OF CHEMICAL.

Fert is up. OK Anhdrous, and liquid.
Granular is lower.
Glyphos is up and so is all the new chemicals. Oh yea buy your seed for 2015 and pay for it now since we need a supply for two years out.
Buy your disease control for next summer now as we know its going to be a very bad year (for you MR Farmer).
Government on all their programs that were in place and are now gone. Cleaned the house, smoke and mirror show and actual coverage is way down.
RMs we know most are broke or on the edge looking at land values to increase their taxes.
To all the land companies and banks that are helping farmers become extinct.
SERF!!!!!!!!!!!!!SERF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SERF!

Checked today, All grain prices are dropping and in the shitter. 2013 is shaping up to be one heck of a loss year!

WHY DIDN'T YOU LOCK IN SOME HIGHER PRICES BEFORE? BUY A PUT OPTION? AGAIN A CHOICE YOU HAVE MADE.

ANOTHER CHOICE IS TO QUIT FARMING AND RENT TO GUYS PAYING THE ABSURD $/ACRE. LAST TIME I CHECKED NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO FARM.

OH well its nice for all our suppliers to live in 2008

WHEN PEOPLE SEE THINGS THEY DON'T LIKE OR UNDERSTAND THEY OFTEN TIMES LOOK FOR SOMEONE TO BLAME.

LOOK IN THE MIRROR!

[lesm]

Just finishing purchasing all my
fertilizer, chemicals and canola seed
for 2013. Cost per acre is $159.00. Last
2 years we grew a mediocre crop, but
have never made so much money in our
lives. My point is that even though the
costs are rising dramatically, the
potential to make a huge profit is far
better than when the grain prices were
lower. Farmers are becoming very
affluent-they're trading equipment just
for the sake of trading and with cash.
SF3, farming is becoming a very
lucrative business!

[HappyFarmer]

Sk3, you have some good posts at times.
Don't make this place your thearapists office.
This is farming. Live with it or quit.
Things could be A LOT worse than you are making them out to be.

[fjlip]

Buyers have always paid as little as possible, just enough to keep us producing.
Suppliers always charge as much as possible just as long as farmers continue to buy.
Competition is the only plus, but a money losing business will not last. There must be a profit for all of us.

[freewheat]

Boy, if your actually talking to your
suppliers and john deere and esso and
such, that generally means you are
wealthy enough to be able to buy inputs
before year end to alleviate a tax
burden. Not everyone is that fortunate.
I have not talked to my supplier for
ages, because I do not have the means to
do end of year buying. See, I am digging
out of a massive hole that the crappy
weather of the first decade of the
century has blessed us with. This years
profit is the first scoop of the spade,
in the digging out of the hole.

Enjoy your trip to hawaii or wherever it
is that you are going. While you are
counting your cash, and trying to decide
what to do with the year end, all the
while complaining about farming, some of
us will be looking forward to paying for
last years crop in the new year. If I
wanted, I could really whine about my
personal situation. But you know what? I
am happy with what I have, never been
happier. It is not all about STUFF!!!

Contentedness is hard to find the more
affluent one gets. Here is to a Merry
Christmas, and hopes of contentment for
all. Stuff does not bring contentness.

Merry CHRISTmas!

Sheesh

[Burbert]

Ass kissing and sucking up has always
been a huge part of framing in Alberta.
Tom and his framing family are very,
very, good at it. Mix in some old time
religion and conservative political crap
and you've got it maid. Environment,
who cares, neighbours, who cares,
sustainability who cares. Me, me, me,
myself and eye is all that counts now in
Comedian Angribusiness. Enjoy the new
realities, high land, rent prices and
conservative laws, bein shoved down yer
deep throat!!!!