SK Pulse annual report - any suggestions going forward?

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We were at home relaxing this morning and catching up on some reading.

With the uncertainty around the pulse industry, this is when we need leadership from organizations like SK Pulse. I was wondering if they should be trying something different. Here is the annual report and what they accomplished this past year.



http://saskpulse.com/files/annual/report/FINAL_for_Web_Annual_Report_LR.pdf http://saskpulse.com/files/annual/report/FINAL_for_Web_Annual_Report_LR.pdf

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It needs to do a lot different on their take from farmers regarding soybeans. Fat chance! It will be a honey hole for non refundable check offs. Why do we need them dipping into this particular crop?

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I don't disagree. I like having another crop option but soybeans are commodity price driven and I am not sure we can compete with the cost of production of south america.

I am worried about market access in India.

[SASKFARMER3]

We can’t compete with South America in the unreal expensive Canadian system. New seed laws down their alow farmer saved seed after one year paying fee. Cheaper equipment etc.

We’re done!

[Klause]

Oh no they'll charge checkoffs so they can go to Argentina and Brazil and tell "representatives" there just how much smarter and better producers with better practices we are.


After all Saskatchewan soybeans yield 40-50 bpa according to wise guys in coffee shops and online.
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Works till a guy who knows what 40-70 bpa beans actually look like sees the fields. LOL.


That's 65 bpa beans in the southern hemisphere.

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I question why I can't compete.

Soybeans at the R1 level are nothing but money.

Farm saved 1.25 bushels, late may burn off application, 2 glypho season apps, liquid and peat first year, skip the peat second year, a bit of phosphate, 1 mid August rain, $50.00 to $60.00 all in costs to harvest.

Love the beast. If it fails, repeat next year on same land.

[Klause]

I question why I can't compete.

Soybeans at the R1 level are nothing but money.

Farm saved 1.25 bushels, late may burn off application, 2 glypho season apps, liquid and peat first year, skip the peat second year, a bit of phosphate, 1 mid August rain, $50.00 to $60.00 all in costs to harvest.

Love the beast. If it fails, repeat next year on same land.

Except... Western beans are low in protein... Undesirable for human consumption and export markets. Small detail nobody talks about from spga.


Why can't you compete?


My uncle grows 2500 acres of beans a year. Averages 65 long term yield. Grows bin run seed. One pass pursuit one pass gly no innoculant. Seeds with a $45,000 no till drill behind a 250hp fwa tractor. Harvests beans replants to wheat next day.


Gets a buck a bushel more than we do for the beans and has gained 7% through inflation from the time he seeded to when he harvested.

$660 USD from beans then another $500 from wheat in 1 year. Total expenses about $400 for the year.


And don't forget R1 beans will get delisted before too long here... Just like they do with the old conventional canola.

Just sayin' if you see how other countries farm it makes you feel really depressed farming here. Lol.

[SASKFARMER3]

Checking you can tell your self you can compete with snow beans snow wheat snow canola good on you tralitubis South America is destroying our high cost system. Learn travel view.

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Typically low protein, low oil is the result of a cooler than normal later growing season. You've done the tests klause, please share the results.

Are you certain the same fate can't happen in SA, and no one gets rejected, or penalized in the human consumption market?

Point taken on shelving R1, but until they do, then no one needs a 40 bushel crop just to buy a R2.

Sf3, big yields, big views don't impress me much, sorry.

[Oliver88]

I question why I can't compete.

Soybeans at the R1 level are nothing but money.

Farm saved 1.25 bushels, late may burn off application, 2 glypho season apps, liquid and peat first year, skip the peat second year, a bit of phosphate, 1 mid August rain, $50.00 to $60.00 all in costs to harvest.

Love the beast. If it fails, repeat next year on same land.

Valid points.

The only thing that matters is net profit.