Hot deals alberta cold in sask.

[ajl]

Hate to say it but I also went dumpster diving so I could find enough bottles to cash in at a Chinese corner store so I could buy a couple of dollars worth of gasoline to get home.

Good times with the NDP in power.

With today's hyper inflationary gas price, you would need to visit a lot of dumpsters before you got home.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I ****ed up this morning , our overnight temp was -17, yes MINUS 17 , October 9 . maybe check the record books for that ??? this is confirming what tge experts have been saying about the decreased sunspots or whatever the **** it's called

That would be the cue for the resident troll and card-carrying cult member to Provide a cut and paste which Proves that this is exactly what we should expect from global warming.

[TSIPP]

If I remember correctly gas was around 30 cents a litre.

I’m glad my luck has changed.

[chuckChuck]

Provincial politicians like to take credit for the good times. But the reality is the province has no control over interest rates, commodity prices or the weather. Partisans like to forget this in their rewrites of history.

The Grant Devine 80s were a disaster for agriculture. High interest rates, low grain prices and drought pushed many farmers into bankruptcy. Oil was worth bugger all and the province was migrating west.

Grain farmers received some subsidy payments under the Western Grain Stabilization program during Trudeau, Turner and Mulroney governments.

Devine loaned every farmer $25 per acre. I put the loan in the bank and collected 11% interest and paid it all back. This went to every farm whether they needed it or not.

[MBgrower]

not sure but I think sf3 did that on purpose
back in the day on a shitty fall like this , the communists released a press release with "farmer" spelled "framer". they were shamed over it . had to be there, I guess ? they really looked bad over it , was bad timing for a govt in power at the time !

yah, he did that on purpose, i found it quite funny. Kinda reminded me of BTOFarmall.

[macdon02]

Provincial politicians like to take credit for the good times. But the reality is the province has no control over interest rates, commodity prices or the weather. Partisans like to forget this in their rewrites of history.

The Grant Devine 80s were a disaster for agriculture. High interest rates, low grain prices and drought pushed many farmers into bankruptcy. Oil was worth bugger all and the province was migrating west.

Grain farmers received some subsidy payments under the Western Grain Stabilization program during Trudeau, Turner and Mulroney governments.

Devine loaned every farmer $25 per acre. I put the loan in the bank and collected 11% interest and paid it all back. This went to every farm whether they needed it or not.

Brilliant move if your an opportunistic capitalist ..... what's the point of the comment?

[Guest]

Provincial politicians like to take credit for the good times. But the reality is the province has no control over interest rates, commodity prices or the weather. Partisans like to forget this in their rewrites of history.

The Grant Devine 80s were a disaster for agriculture. High interest rates, low grain prices and drought pushed many farmers into bankruptcy. Oil was worth bugger all and the province was migrating west.

Grain farmers received some subsidy payments under the Western Grain Stabilization program during Trudeau, Turner and Mulroney governments.

Devine loaned every farmer $25 per acre. I put the loan in the bank and collected 11% interest and paid it all back. This went to every farm whether they needed it or not.

Devine had control of interest , he dropped ours from 16 to 8%
better the 25$ would of went to Quebec transfer payments , I guess ? bombardier maybe , what a ****ing joke
we sure as **** didn't put the $25 /ac in the bank and collect interest , you see , we had no help , we did it off the farm and with off farm income , all by ourselves , there wasn't many REAL FARMERS, that didn't need the 25$/ac
that 25$ helped us survive , and we have built a fine farm out of **** all

[WiltonRanch]

Brilliant move if your an opportunistic capitalist ..... what's the point of the comment?

He’s saying provincial govts don’t influence their economy. Like a nazi saying Jews didn’t die at their hands.

[macdon02]

Chucks comment just explained why QE didnt work and why a carbon tax wouldn't either. If "green companies" see a better return in receiving a govt handout and reinvesting in a savings account pays better return then in their own industry why dump a handout where the return is less? Economics 101 and yes Chuck you're not an idiot. You saw a better return in interest rates then the industry you made a living at

[seldomseen]

Chuck Chuck is right about one thing. The Eighty's were a disaster for farmers and for me starting in the early Eighty's Grant Divine was the one and only guy that ever helped a young farmer get going!

I doubt I would have made it without him and will always be indebted to him. Thanks Grant!!!

I sure didn't have the money to put the $25.00 in the bank and collect interest. I needed it to keep my farm going.