Starting my farming career again

[malleefarmer]

Now this ones gonna be interesting.
About 8kms away and my father was keen to buy it when it sold last time, was held in same family for about 40 years, but a known frosty area, was being run as a successful sheep stud a really good property.

Got sold during a run of droughts maybe 15 16 years ago a real goose bought who was in horticulture,absolutley stuffed the joint up. Covered in cooch grass Elymus repens. Water system for stock water stuffed fences partly removed alot of fallow done to control cooch grass alot of sand blowing.

Be interesting my tip it still may make $350 to 450 per acre. Land is really tightly held in our area

http://tailembend.eldersrealestate.com.au/rural/buy/property-cropping-sa-karoonda-707777

[malleefarmer]

Someone asked GST yes 10%

[malleefarmer]

Wheat

[malleefarmer]

Now the poor figures always budget low Canola

[ajl]

You listed a freight cost on canola while the profitability analysis was done with farm gate prices. Farming economics is better there than here. Land prices are so out of whack here and they have only begun their descent. Yields here, except by the coffee shop braggart and the local colony, are not that much above yours. You only hear about the best fields all the time and there are always those that drag the average down. Our county had the poorest crop since 2002, last year. 2002 was the poorest year in a long time for a wide region of east central AB.

[malleefarmer]

woops correct re freight.

My whirlwind tour of western canada and sorry if i offend anyone, crops did look poor around lethbridge or between medicine hat and lethbridge kinda looked like home.
presume some sort of rain shadow effect lethbrdge area mountains not that far away

[MBgrower]

They dont look like it in pics.
Dealers always rate high. Unless you can run em bald Done at %25
So 60% 2/3 done.
Are they R1s or R1Ws?
Check your beads for any wear or damage too. Power plus weight something slips. Sometimes bead depending on application. Ask your tire guy.
Assess your requirements of course as well. Also make damn sure weight ratios done right.
Just my own experiences.

they look pretty worn to me. Have you priced out new tires lately? Ouch!

[helmsdale]

Farming economics is better there than here. Land prices are so out of whack here and they have only begun their descent

Descent? Hell they're still going up here. Local BTO broke a large amount of regrass and you could see rabbits humping at a 1/4 mile out all summer... yet he still gathered the cash/investors to do a major expansion. Had I grown that crop the bank would be phoning me for money and not the other way around!

[Klause]

Most places in the world have better economics than Canada as far as ag.


Why?


Because here the system is setup to extract maximum profit and leave us with the least.


Thanks to government intervention mostly.

[malleefarmer]

Not sure klause

Im just a bonehead from downunder but seems to me 2 main things that ****s you guys is freight and your narrow weather window for everything oh maybe three bad beer