Furnace came on

[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....

[mustardman]

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.

I realize you have a science background farmjunkie, Oh wait , you don’t !! All you have is an Opinion
Read Any Peer Reviewed article on climate change, open your mind ,not just your mouth

[AlbertaFarmer5]

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

I can certainly agree that weather patterns get stuck lately, sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. But I am not old enough to say that this is unusual or unprecedented, and I can't seem to find any pattern in the weathered records available.
Just curious what metrics you are using, and what time period this change started. And how far back you are able to find records to make such a conclusion, all the records I can find are so full of gaps that it is impossible to draw any conclusions.

Do you mind sharing your data, or analysis, I do really want to see the results.

[FarmJunkie]

Those peers probably have no agenda of their own. U know the David Suzuki types.

[sumdumguy]

I remember the 60’s, 70’s and eighties - same crappy patterns. I wouldn’t stop raining in the 50’s, then 1961- bam farmers quitting and leaving for city life. 1962 not much better- seventies a little better until 74, Just at cutting time - 5 inches of rain and frost August 18. Then about 8 feet of snow (drifts as high as 2 nd story roof). I think this farming the Palliser Triangle is a monumental challenge, never any different.

[MBgrower]

Those peers probably have no agenda of their own. U know the David Suzuki types.

those peers rely on fabricating climate change so that the government funding continues to pay for their 'research' and wages. its always about the money.