How many will admit

[theplowboy]

I don't post very often but will read the threads on my phone when I have a minute.

I learn a lot and enjoy hearing everyone's opinions.

Some of you guys must be pretty good at typing, I peck away with two fingers.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[GDR]

I've been following for a couple years. Enjoy the personalities on here. Likely read it more often this fall and added a few posts, mostly because misery loves company. Pretty stressful harvest for most of us and a bunch of farmers that understand the challenges is comforting.

There have been some useful conversations on here and definitely some to skip over, often the same fight from the week before.

From a marketing perspective it's pretty important to get a feeling of yield, quality and timing from other areas, definitely like that aspect.

Even non farmers can add value for us all. Errol Anderson and previously Charlie Pearson are good examples of great info. Don't mean you have to agree with them always but more insight the better.

Agree the made up handles are an excuse to behave poorly, I gotta respect the folks that have the balls to put there name with their statements.

[Hamloc]

Hamloc is my farm name and comes from being a hog producer for 25 years, a career that ended in 2007. I now grain farm and have black angus beef cows with my family. Forage is certainly correct I am a financial conservative with more middle of the road social views. I think to a great extent farmers tend to be financially conservative through necessity. I have a trucker who considers himself a small L Liberal, we have great debates while loading grain, in the end sometimes we agree sometimes we disagree but it is always a fun and spirited debate. My wife always tells me I would argue black is white lol.

[SASKFARMER3]

Oh how haters hate, hey Forage.

The friday crop report was started because the original crop reporters used by sask ag and food were farmers who really didn't have any skin in the game. Retired guys with a few acres. I tried when I stopped working for Sask Ag and Karwandi at the time said No they have good reporters.

So when That is why on Agriville I post the crop report and really it went from 400 to 800 to almost 1200 now. So yea people are reading about real farmers and the struggles of planting growing and harvesting a crop. We don't live in the Canola dome where every thing is peachy and nice with sugar plum fairies.

We live in Saskatchewan where mother nature rules the roost.

So yea you can say no one looks at it and its just entertaining. Thats your opinion.

I think some are watching.

Because the BS the Man, Sask, and Alberta try to sell is sent to give every one a warm fuzzy feeling.

Have a great day. Might even fire up the combine and do another field of Barley for another neighbour.

Farmers helping farmers!

[bucket]

Stone picker


Sorry ...it wasn't my intent to offend anyone ... just curious as to the traffic here.

The one problem with writing ...it can be interpretted different ways.

Writing has no emotion other than the way it is understood by the reader. Facial expressions while talking to people in person or tones while on the phone say more.


Still am curious as to where people enjoying this site are from and why they don't join in a conversation.

I have quit feeling foolish for asking devils advocates questions....it promotes thought.

[furrowtickler]

I will have to agree we the Sask Ag report being bogus at times . August 2004 was a good example, I still remember that one like it was yesterday. Local patchy frost in a few low lying areas was the official word after the province wide devastating killing frost that cost farmers billions. Hardly a word was said after the fact. I lost a lot of respect from that point on.

[bucket]

Furrow

Bogus is the ag survey that asks to pick three out of five issues....statistically it will be all 5 as issues....why ask farmers what they need with a predetermined outcome?

[malleefarmer]

im only here to add international flavour and many of australian grain growing issues mirror yours.

We moved on without single desk in a reasonably orderly way wereas you guys are finding your feet still.

Yeah its more of a general farming board/blog rather than specific commodity page but who cares and despite odd argument its way way more civil than many other sites that i do not visit you have to be "in" to even get a response only other site i use is combine forum many many ausssies on there

[ianben]

Hi I been looking and posting occasionally on here for a long time. When I started most seemed to use their real name like CharlieP. Must admit I miss him on here.
Being from UK I tend not to butt in on your local issues but read Thursday/ Friday crop report most weeks.

I do visit other forums around the world but like agriville because in my opinion it has about the right amount of traffic.

Some others are too big and the threads go too fast and you never get too know the posters other have too little to be interesting.
So thanks agriville and it is strange to miss people you have never met, and feel sorrow at someones passing in a virtual way.

[SASKFARMER3]

Furrow hit the nail on the Head with Sask Crop report. The frost years not a peep just a little minor frost.

I had radio interviews about a week later from CBC and CjGx etc and said boys the pods have no seeds the wheat heads are empty in some its major.

That was the end of their credibility.

So yes Ill take what real farmers are seeing in their area over some civil servant.


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[grassfarmer]

I had radio interviews about a week later from CBC.....

You traitor you, how could you?

[WiltonRanch]

I lurked here for quite a while before posting. Good place to see how it's really going down lol. What happened to Burbert? Did he die or lose his computer privlidges?