End of the Week Thursday Report.

[SASKFARMER3]

Alberta when a new sprayer in Argentina is $175000 us and a new one in canada is $400000 US were not even on the same page any more. Plus they get two crops in a year and in Canada its one. I still cant grow winter barley in snow.


JT new tax will screw us even more and make us way less competitive.

[Rareearth]

Interesting Klause, thanks for posting.

No question planters, singulation, etc will be the next step forward for western Canadian farmers. I hope our local manufactures get up to speed quick and competitive. I’m not going to be the early adapter on off shore equipment (monitors, parts, support etc). With the currency differential maybe with will never be competitive?

Dyker put your Humic with the fert., 100x more effective

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Alberta when a new sprayer in Argentina is $175000 us and a new one in canada is $400000 US were not even on the same page any more. Plus they get two crops in a year and in Canada its one. I still cant grow winter barley in snow.


JT new tax will screw us even more and make us way less competitive.

I expect there are afew other differences to make that big a price difference, perhaps try specing out a new sprayer with less cup holders/beverage coolers, no leather seat.

[furrowtickler]

For a new sprayer here at $400,000 , there will be few options on that .
For the cup holders and beverage cooler with a 1200 gal tank and 120 ft that would be closer to $600,000
The $400,000 will be the basic

[LEP]

Furrow, approximately how many hp per ft? If I try a planter for canola I want to get something small enough my 210hp mfwd will work. Then if I am convinced it has a fit, I will size up the outfit to meet my entire needs. We have quite a few hills so we would need to account for that.

[furrowtickler]

LEP
You should be fine at around 6 mph .
you will need a good 40 gal hydraulics or better regardless of hp .
It’s needed for steady down pressure .
To go 7.5 to 8 plus you need 300 plus hp

[furrowtickler]

These were our results from the planter trial ...

We will do a seed rate trial again next spring with 1.5 , 2 , and 2.5 and maybe 3 And see if that yield bump continues . We have been told it flattens out at around 2.5 lbs / ac depending on seed size .
Depending on the tractor we use, we will aim for 8 mph or better to get the most efficient use of the planter we can .

[SASKFARMER3]

The 400000 was USA price vs Argentina New Price USA price.

[Oliver88]

Most of those carcinogens could be eliminated with bio diesel .... without all this b/S we deal with now

Sounds like a solution that would actually help for our western Canadian economy.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

For a new sprayer here at $400,000 , there will be few options on that .
For the cup holders and beverage cooler with a 1200 gal tank and 120 ft that would be closer to $600,000
The $400,000 will be the basic

Just saying that North American customers expect a lot of creature comforts that the rest of the world is satisfied without. Then we complain about the cost of the equipment. If one figured out the cost of some of these convenience features compared to how many hours they save the operator over the lifetime of the machine, we would likely discover that we could afford to spend a minute and leave the cab to turn that valve ( for example) many times per day compared to the thousands of dollars per hour it cost to have it automated. But the competition has it that way, so we have to do it too, otherwise the coffee shop talk will be how our machine is inferior, so add another few thousand to the cost

Look at how people here run down the imported Russian combines. Mostly based on the aesthetics and operator station, not based on it's functionality. These are the people manufacturers are attempting to please, and it costs a lot of money.

Most of the rest of the world is happy to drive standard transmissions, small cars,etc. Unheard of here.