Furnace came on

[Klause]

June 2 and the furnace is going. 30 mile wind and 6 degrees this morning. Still only 14

[WiltonRanch]

It’s like a desert hot in the day and bloody cold at night. Low humidity allows for the temperature swings. Scary shit

[bucket]

just wait for August....

[mustardman]

We’ve been in this climate Change for a few years. systems get Locked on and refuse to move.
One Extreme to the Other.
Extreme drought and then 26 inches of rain.
Kind of hard to Adapt to that

[Klause]

We’ve been in this climate Change for a few years. systems get Locked on and refuse to move.
One Extreme to the Other.
Extreme drought and then 26 inches of rain.
Kind of hard to Adapt to that

Macoun came here when it was wet. Palliser showed up un a drought...

And the last two hundred years have been tame as far as prairie weather.

This isn't climate change. This is called living in a plains climate that is too far from large bodies of water to be sufficiently moderated.



It's one of the reasons land here is normally cheap compared to many places in the world... Seems many have forgotten that fact


Mins you, if we actually had coherent Infrastructure planning and construction we could tile and drain and collect in the wet years and irrigate in the dry.

[bucket]

Macoun came here when it was wet. Palliser showed up un a drought...

And the last two hundred years have been tame as far as prairie weather.

This isn't climate change. This is called living in a plains climate that is too far from large bodies of water to be sufficiently moderated.



It's one of the reasons land here is normally cheap compared to many places in the world... Seems many have forgotten that fact


Mins you, if we actually had coherent Infrastructure planning and construction we could tile and drain and collect in the wet years and irrigate in the dry.

You can't grow the crops that justify the development of irrigation in this province....it would be highly subsidized.....more so than supply management...I can lay it out for you but taxpayers would be outraged....

Right now every major irrigation district is receiving 40 bucks an acre help from the government...what are dryland farmers receiving????

[fjlip]

We’ve been in this climate Change for a few years. systems get Locked on and refuse to move.
One Extreme to the Other.
Extreme drought and then 26 inches of rain.
Kind of hard to Adapt to that

You mean like the 1930's, like WET 50's and 70's dry as hell 80's and early 2000's?
Change all the time...nothing unusual here, adapt or leave.

[mustardman]

You mean like the 1930's, like WET 50's and 70's dry as hell 80's and early 2000's?
Change all the time...nothing unusual here, adapt or leave.

Anthropogenic Climate Change Began in the 1830’s- remember the industrial revolution?
The 30, the 50s 70’s and 80’s ALL had contributing weather events from increased carbon in the atmosphere

[Guest]

Anthropogenic Climate Change Began in the 1830’s- remember the industrial revolution?
The 30, the 50s 70’s and 80’s ALL had contributing weather events from increased carbon in the atmosphere

As the fear mongering side would say ;
Were gonna need some proof on that load of crap

[WiltonRanch]

Irrigation I’ve looked into it. We have a growing body of water eating our farm yard. Family has been at this location for 80 plus years and never been flooded like this. As it stands now could easily could irrigate a 100 acres in a dry year but time I buy a pivot and pay for pumping cost in a dry year there is no way it would pencil on its own merit past dewatering my yard. You tour the western USA, southern Alberta, and B.C. you see lots of pivots. But the growing season and heat units are a lot more plentiful than in the black soil zone. Guys close to lloydminster were irrigating with the city wastewater on pasture and silage ground. One guy lost his pivot in a wind storm and didn’t bother replacing it as he said it wasn’t worth it. Now if our climate turned hotter and drier then maybe damming the north sask river at highgate and back flooding our gully we could pivot off that potential reservoir it could make sense. Till then thinking irrigation would make sense at this particular latitude is pie in the sky.

[FarmJunkie]

Climate change my ass. It’s been changing forever. We didn’t do this. Christ sakes we can’t fix this. U wanna pay a tax? Pay a tax to get rid of our garbage properly or sewage treatment instead of dumping it in the ocean. Climate and environmental issues are totally different animals. We created the last 2 issues. We didn’t change the weather.

[bucket]

Irrigation I’ve looked into it. We have a growing body of water eating our farm yard. Family has been at this location for 80 plus years and never been flooded like this. As it stands now could easily could irrigate a 100 acres in a dry year but time I buy a pivot and pay for pumping cost in a dry year there is no way it would pencil on its own merit past dewatering my yard. You tour the western USA, southern Alberta, and B.C. you see lots of pivots. But the growing season and heat units are a lot more plentiful than in the black soil zone. Guys close to lloydminster were irrigating with the city wastewater on pasture and silage ground. One guy lost his pivot in a wind storm and didn’t bother replacing it as he said it wasn’t worth it. Now if our climate turned hotter and drier then maybe damming the north sask river at highgate and back flooding our gully we could pivot off that potential reservoir it could make sense. Till then thinking irrigation would make sense at this particular latitude is pie in the sky.

Riverhurst has 15000 acres developed now..has a pressurized pipeline ..government built it ...replaced much of the concrete pipe as it breaks down....total original cost 80 million back in 1990....the government handed over the assets this past winter for nothing and still funding them 40 bucks an acre every year....

The most money made on any of it was the guys that did nothing but sell their land that could be irrigated...before the project 15000 a quarter no pivot....now 500000 a quarter no pivot...nice return for those that did nothing and paid for nothing to make their land better....