Seeding Plans/Intentions

[jazz]

Attempting an intercrop and a cover crop this yr. Gotta change. My instincts tell me business as usual is not the way forward and because our land costs are in the $75 range we have a bit more room to move than the big rent guys.

[farmaholic]

Oats, barley, hemp. 25% plowdown.
Same as every year. I hope to break even, I could use the money.

LOL, what a guy....

[farmaholic]

Don't like wearing out expensive machinery on small margin crops. 25% summerfallow, first time in 30 years.

I will need identifying photo evidence halfway through the season...hopefully its chemfallow. I'm from Missouri.

[Partners]

The people buying at auctions must know something we don't.

[biglentil]

Say if gas were to go to $5/l will people stop driving? Nope they will drive until all the plastic in their wallet is exausted.

Farmers are doing the same damn thing. Making it up on production, like running buffalo over the jump.

[jazz]

People will change their lifestyle due to taxes by cutting discretionary purchases or searching for alternatives there. So eat out less times a month or put up an expensive iffy solar array on your house. Stop driving or give up your morning timmies. Lower your home heat during the polar vortex or make the kid clothes last another couple months. Take a plane trip with the family or just do a staycation at the lake. Pay huge costs for groceries with carbon taxes or take a 24 to trumpland and load up on cheap milk, meat, booze and gas.

Canadas GDP will suffer because of it one way or another because people have lifestyle alternatives readily available. They don't have feasible energy alternatives. We will probably get our emissions reductions as well not by actually doing anything environmental, but by exporting and sacrificing a portion of our consumer economy.

[WiltonRanch]

Don’t know why anyone would seed more oats and barley. It’s itchy and takes more bins. Seriously though you need big yields to make barley net better than wheat, and when you have land that wheat and barley yields within 10 bushels why? I can never understand. Only reason I grow barley is because I have cows.
This year I plan to grow about the same mix as usual except more green feed and a field of summer grazing to supplement adjacent pasture. Was planning to seed lots more canola but chickened out.

[farmaholic]

I plan on seeding with good intentions....



The Pirate ship "SS Ghetto" is ready to set sail.

[SASKFARMER]

Hey, you better get going your neighbour has a bunch seeded.

I hate to say it but every single time I seeded in April we had a shit show.

So it still looks like go day is May 1 North of the Valley.

[farmaholic]

Hey, you better get going your neighbour has a bunch seeded.

I hate to say it but every single time I seeded in April we had a shit show.

So it still looks like go day is May 1 North of the Valley.

We're small enough to time our start date to something reasonable. Flying that Jolly Roger flag indicates we Pirates will take over the SS Early-birds bounty when it sinks...just kidding, not looking to control the whole Ghetto Sea.

[shtferbrains]

Grandpa used to say it was time to seed when the leaf's were the size of a mouse's ear.

[jazz]

Doesn't look ghetto to me. I am embarrassed to post pics of my seeding rig. I only seed at night so nobody can see it.