2002

[bgmb]

Fall frost is bad and we are due for one. Farming may not be cool if it does happen

[Klause]

Fall frost is bad and we are due for one. Farming may not be cool if it does happen

What we're inputs in 2002/2004? Half of now? A third?


I'm talking everything... Fert seed chem fixed costs land equipment...

[Sheepwheat]

What we're inputs in 2002/2004? Half of now? A third?


I'm talking everything... Fert seed chem fixed costs land equipment...

Canola seed, less than half. Fert same ish. Chem. Higher, depending on what you were spraying. Land cost and machinery cost are voluntary numbers. I assume most ppls costs now in those categories are three times higher.

I would guess half, all things considered. Depends on priorities. Iron, vs. Production investment.

Freaking cold this morning. Might run out of hay. Got extra hay, Klause?

[bucket]

But you can make it up on volume....lol.

[ajl]

Canola seed, less than half. Fert same ish. Chem. Higher, depending on what you were spraying. Land cost and machinery cost are voluntary numbers. I assume most ppls costs now in those categories are three times higher.

I would guess half, all things considered. Depends on priorities. Iron, vs. Production investment.

Freaking cold this morning. Might run out of hay. Got extra hay, Klause?

Yeah hay market is a sleeper. A extra three weeks of feeding cows will turn this around. Will help me as I make some hay every summer. Maybe it will be worth while this year.

[bgmb]

Honestly 2/3 Klause

[GDR]

Yeah hay market is a sleeper. A extra three weeks of feeding cows will turn this around. Will help me as I make some hay every summer. Maybe it will be worth while this year.

If you got hay to sell get advertising. Hwy 2 is hay truck after hay truck heading south. No surplus at all Red Deer south. We pulled 5 loads from the north that we shouldn't have needed but started early and feeding late along with cold, they burn through a lot.

[GDR]

Never seen a frost like you guys talk about here. Have had some downgraded canola and bran type frosts maybe even some making lighter grain but never a zero yield. I think part of the reason is we get cold nights all summer and often light frosts here and there and likely the plants are hardened a bit better than some areas. Also have lots of moisture and dew as a rule that helps.

Definitely higher costs than 02/04 but lots are self inflicted costs of new iron, overpriced rents and snake oils.

[bgmb]

Other thing is interest rates were higher back then

[seldomseen]

2002 was the smoking hot summer when we had no runoff and hardly had moisture to get the crop started. July long weekend was so hot you wanted to hide in the basement but had to try and do something with the kids. I had just got the canola swathed in early Aug. and it started raining and rained for a month.
All the crop started growing again and the canola swathed disappeared under re growing canola. I had to get a high clearance sprayer to spray the flowering canola fields so I could find the canola swathed. The wheat we also sprayed to take out the second growth. The oats and barley we left the second growth grow and combined some light weight junk about the middle of Dec.