QUESTION: In 2018, In Acres, What is a Small, Medium, Large and Mega Farm

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Better still measure net returns - the rest is just fluff.

That is the only measure that matters to me and my operation, however none of my neighbors know that number, nor do I know theirs, so if trying to decide who is a mega farm and who is a hobby farm, it isn't hard to calculate acres, times yield times price to get gross income to classify an operation. By acres alone, a BTO here wouldn't even qualify as a fly spec in most of Sascratchandwin. But by gross sales might be closer together.

[Guest]

a follow who was involved in retail in southern alberta moved here to manage a chem/fert retail here. his comment was that a farmer farming 10000 ac in southern alberta would have trouble farming 1000 ac here(his comment , not mine) . 3000 ac is a lot of work here in the swamp . this is a really hard place to farm . we had a taste of the good life here last fall and this spring , no rain in the forecast as far as you could see . sure makes things easier . thats a luxury we don't usually have . usually always scrambling , behind the 8 ball.scared shitless somethings gonna break down and put us even farther behind . the sloughs are full again and back to normal , i guess?. so size really has a lot to do with location , geography and weather patterns

[AlbertaFarmer5]

a follow who was involved in retail in southern alberta moved here to manage a chem/fert retail here. his comment was that a farmer farming 10000 ac in southern alberta would have trouble farming 1000 ac here(his comment , not mine) . 3000 ac is a lot of work here in the swamp . this is a really hard place to farm . we had a taste of the good life here last fall and this spring , no rain in the forecast as far as you could see . sure makes things easier . thats a luxury we don't usually have . usually always scrambling , behind the 8 ball.scared shitless somethings gonna break down and put us even farther behind . the sloughs are full again and back to normal , i guess?. so size really has a lot to do with location , geography and weather patterns

Agreed, when your harvest and seeding window can be measured in hours some years, producers farming 1,000s of acres in the warmer dryer areas have no concept of what it takes to get even a fraction of the acres in and off around here.