So...there you have it...Ag ministers promise no immediate help

[farmaholic]

Farmer is not synonymous with peasant anymore, get that shit out of your heads.

Sophisticated businesses.

Who the **** has a problem with being wealthy, or having the ability to get wealthy? I'm not doing this for charity or a community service.

Why should one segment of an industry languish in the ****en stone age while the rest of it forges ahead?

Too many people benefit and prosper from the wealth I create and the risk I take....and I'm supposed to be the first, OR ONLY, segment to tightemn my belt and accept less for the goods I produce or services I provide? **** off!

Fed masses are placid people, just once I would love to see a major food crisis world wide. Wake the masses AND POLITICIANS up as to which side their bread is buttered and who is buttering it.

FOOD ISN'T GROWN AT THE GROCERY STORE!!!!!!

[Horse]

There was a time we grew what the market wanted,but now it seems as we grow what we want and expect the market to adjust to our whims,

[farmaholic]

And who the **** is actually subsidizing who?

What percent of income does the average person spend on food?

What percent of income does that same person spend on lifestyle? Extravagant houses, toys, multiple vehicles, numerous hot vacations per year, sports, recreation, entertainmemt, eating out(NOT quite the same as buying groceries) vices.....

[furrowtickler]

There was a time we grew what the market wanted,but now it seems as we grow what we want and expect the market to adjust to our whims,

Bullshit
A lot of successful farms are growing a multitude of crops .
Blackbeans, soybeans , non gmo canola , different classes of wheats for different markets . Ever hear of lentils ??
Peas ?? Yellow, Greens , Dunn’s , maples ???
Plus other bean crops ??
Hello ?????
Again such bizarre statements

[farmaholic]

There was a time we grew what the market wanted,but now it seems as we grow what we want and expect the market to adjust to our whims,

.......I can usually sell everything I grow.

[Guest]

Yes, the poor farmers need a handout. 58% good to excellent crops, how will they ever survive?

Only problem is they forgot to look at the calender when making this revelation??
We are also experiencing a colder than normal summer with a severe deficit of GDD’s
You also cant see the abnormal weed/cutworm pressure from the highway
Yea, its all good at 60mph , and people fall for this shit?

[Guest]

Bullshit
A lot of successful farms are growing a multitude of crops .
Blackbeans, soybeans , non gmo canola , different classes of wheats for different markets . Ever hear of lentils ??
Peas ?? Yellow, Greens , Dunn’s , maples ???
Plus other bean crops ??
Hello ?????
Again such bizarre statements

Borage , seed alfalfa , fabas, quinoa , coriander, etc., etc

[Guest]

Farmer is not synonymous with peasant anymore, get that shit out of your heads.

Sophisticated businesses.

Who the **** has a problem with being wealthy, or having the ability to get wealthy? I'm not doing this for charity or a community service.

Why should one segment of an industry languish in the ****en stone age while the rest of it forges ahead?

Too many people benefit and prosper from the wealth I create and the risk I take....and I'm supposed to be the first, OR ONLY, segment to tightemn my belt and accept less for the goods I produce or services I provide? **** off!

Fed masses are placid people, just once I would love to see a major food crisis world wide. Wake the masses AND POLITICIANS up as to which side their bread is buttered and who is buttering it.

FOOD ISN'T GROWN AT THE GROCERY STORE!!!!!!

The answer to question 2 is ; jealous , lazy, socialist entitled assholes , thats who

[wd9]

Sorry but your out to lunch! If you think your cost cutting is going to shape or compete with countries, oil companies etc.
You were on here not long ago stating your out of grain farming and oh boy what am I going to do. Weren’t you? You don’t even realize you phone power etc is all tied into the costs going up

The other guys you’re competing with have a never ending bank account! Do you still want to farm? Would a better price for your canola hurt you? Holy fk!!

But you’re also the person that lobbied and became the agriville poster child for getting rid of the cwb and it turned out you never even sold to the cwb because of the hog barn in your area. Lol that was beyond d funny. so thanks for contributing to getting rid of that without having thoughts on what do we do when it’s gone. How’s that 10 dollar a bushel wheat that was promised? Where is it? We all grow nothing but feed values wheat no matter what the quality.

And if you don’t need an ad hoc quite literally fk off and sign a form you don’t want one make your big influence on the market. Holy crap how dense can someone be. Tell the elevator you want 8.00 canola to make a real statement. Lmao!!!

Some of us remember cotton, so I'm just going to post this. If you need help, please seek it out. At the end of the day farming is a business, its not who you are - it doesn't define you, rather its just what you do. Adjustments can be made if required, but know life is precious.

The farm stress hotline is Toll Free: 1-800-667-4442

Their site is http://www.mobilecrisis.ca/farm-stress-line-rural-sask http://www.mobilecrisis.ca/farm-stress-line-rural-sask

There is also the farm debt mediation services, http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/programs-and-services/farm-debt-mediation-service/?id=1536081857309 http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/programs-and-services/farm-debt-mediation-service/?id=1536081857309

If you need help, talk to someone. Reach out. For any farmer struggling, you're not alone. There are people that care about you and want to help.

[Guest]

There was a time we grew what the market wanted,but now it seems as we grow what we want and expect the market to adjust to our whims,

Maybe on your farm , or your area , certainly not the case on our farm or in this area , lotsa crops grown here that you havent even heard of

[bucket]

My venture is completely internal. There will be no trade barter with the lamb we sell. Black swan event? I guess a ewe or two may die? Just teasing you. I am under no illusion that my ventures may have problems, but I am pretty insulated from them as the model stands today.

I agree with getting nowhere arguing with each other, but I drive around and see the mini grain terminals, ahem, I mean rows of enormous hopper bins with multi million dollar machinery sitting out front on nearly paved yards, and my sympathy drops like a rock. Hard to get my head around subsidizing people’s choices you know?

I do have sympathy for those with real problems. I have had and continue to have struggles. I know the issues when things are tight. Not tight as in taking back a half million of fungicides, but tight as in how are we going to pay the power bill. That kind of tight is concerning and sad.

Good then,,, we are on the same page...

The rows of bins ....I have to comment on....its a downloading of graincos responsibility that too many have been happy to oblige them....

If it didn't make sense to have elevators every 6 miles ....why should it make sense for farmers to build bin yards larger that the old wooden elevator...duped again.

[farmaholic]

I think we all need to cut each other some slack.

I will point out what I have in the past. "Not everyone started at the same position at the starting line. Some were on it, some ahead of it and some behind it."

Then throw in all the different circumstances we've all encountered during the race.

Respect that.

[jazz]

Farming is a business but its a unique business. We arent making iphones here. Its a necessity of life we are provide and we get little respect for it. I can live without the respect, but I wont do it for free. And yes it is tied up with who you are. You live and breath it 24-7 because you live at your place of work and so does your family.

[farmaholic]

Farming is a business but its a unique business. We arent making iphones here. Its a necessity of life we are provide and we get little respect for it. I can live without the respect, but I wont do it for free. And yes it is tied up with who you are. You live and breath it 24-7 because you live at your place of work and so does your family.

Living where work and working where you live......some people "need" to get away!

[the big wheel]

Some of us remember cotton, so I'm just going to post this. If you need help, please seek it out. At the end of the day farming is a business, its not who you are - it doesn't define you, rather its just what you do. Adjustments can be made if required, but know life is precious.

The farm stress hotline is Toll Free: 1-800-667-4442

Their site is http://www.mobilecrisis.ca/farm-stress-line-rural-sask http://www.mobilecrisis.ca/farm-stress-line-rural-sask

There is also the farm debt mediation services, http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/programs-and-services/farm-debt-mediation-service/?id=1536081857309 http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/programs-and-services/farm-debt-mediation-service/?id=1536081857309

If you need help, talk to someone. Reach out. For any farmer struggling, you're not alone. There are people that care about you and want to help.

Thanks I guess for your concern, it is a serious issue and some need it. But I m certainly not there. Standing up to stupid people that think they are smarter than you or bullshitting their way through an argument I don’t back down from that crap. It’s a major problem within our own industry and the politicians and ag groups use those fools against the rest of us.

It was quite fitting the government release provincially on how to help us farmers through the drought was a few lines about moving the greenfeed deadline back a couple weeks and taking a bigger cash advance and then most of the page was the farm stress line. My reply to you the government is your bullshit response to the situation is why you needed to highlight the farm stress line in the first place.

There’s a few on here also when the September if not August frost comes you’ll be singing a different tune I m sure that’s when reality will hit.