The Fat Lady is singing. Not up to the stage but singing.

[SASKFARMER]

What a useless harvest from hell. I have never in my entire farming carrier ever had this much crop out. Some will say you could have pushed harder. Really tough in an area where most from small to large have crop still out. Few are done but very few.
We got to 73% done — all taken tough.

21 ACTUAL HARVEST DAYS since it started with the peas. 4 we went that probably we should have stayed home and watched a ball game or went golfing. Really tough. With rain snow fog clear harvest tough ok harvest and repeat all fall shit didn't go as planned.

But the overnight snowstorm has hit and hit hard with blowing snow, and I looks like she is over for 2019.

Kind of a releaf maybe as how much more damage can one do to their equipment to get off a ****ing crop.

Oh, Justin will offer an olive branch and give the carbon tax back on grain drying. Woopie ****ing do.

[bucket]

She has taken a bow and left the stage...

Retiring MLA says it was a tough harvest...and their answer is to get the carbon tax off propane...

Read an article that the premier had correspondence from a farmer that had dried 2 million bushels....thats 12 million bucks....and his worry is the carbon tax...

Saskatchewan’s premier complained openly to reporters about grain drying costs after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s re-election, saying costs are “significant.”

He referenced receiving a text from a farmer who has dried over two million bushels of grain.

“I don’t know what he’s getting back in his carbon tax rebate, but it most certainly isn’t going to offset the carbon tax that he’s going to spend in one month drying his product.”



What about the 5 billion still in the fields ...

[dmlfarmer]

She has taken a bow and left the stage...

Retiring MLA says it was a tough harvest...and their answer is to get the carbon tax off propane...

Read an article that the premier had correspondence from a farmer that had dried 2 million bushels....thats 12 million bucks....and his worry is the carbon tax...

Saskatchewan’s premier complained openly to reporters about grain drying costs after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s re-election, saying costs are “significant.”

He referenced receiving a text from a farmer who has dried over two million bushels of grain.

“I don’t know what he’s getting back in his carbon tax rebate, but it most certainly isn’t going to offset the carbon tax that he’s going to spend in one month drying his product.”



What about the 5 billion still in the fields ...

HUH? Is the farmer claiming it costs $6.00 a bushel to dry the 2 million bushels??? Or is $12,000,000 the value of the grain he dried in which case, what was his actual cost of drying that grain?

[SASKFARMER]

Big grain drying bills.

Guys hoping it is drying in air bins and frost busters going.

Dryer works great but slow and steady wins

Trudeau’s tax is costing all farmers huge dollars but when you elect a dunce and expect a leader it all makes sense.

[Hamloc]

HUH? Is the farmer claiming it costs $6.00 a bushel to dry the 2 million bushels??? Or is $12,000,000 the value of the grain he dried in which case, what was his actual cost of drying that grain?

Certainly the $12 million would be the value of the grain. I read an article the other day put out by Alberta agriculture that suggested that all costs in it costs between 10-16 cents per point to dry your own grain depending on whether you use propane or natural gas. That seems a bit high to me as quite a few of my area elevators have drying facilities and charge anywhere fron 10-13 cents a point. So if you had to dry all 2 million bushels down 2 points and it cost you 10 cents a point for easy figuring that amounts to $400000 dollars, not an insignificant cost. Personally I don't own a dryer so it would be interesting to hear what those who do consider their cost of drying to be

[fjlip]

Wheat 18 to 14%, about 8-10 cents bushel, Nat gas and power. Dryer 42 years old SFA depreciation.
But f cking around moving grain is a pain in the AZZ.

[SASKFARMER]

The moving grain around is a pain maybe a grain pump next purchase

[Oliver88]

The moving grain around is a pain maybe a grain pump next purchase

This item could improve drying times. It would be nice to learn more about this.

As far as the carbon tax on propane, natural gas and electricity us farmers will have huge tax bills this fall. If Trudeau has his way these tax rates will be 2.5x as much in 4 years!

[SASKFARMER]

Any farmer who is in Love with the Carbon tax and thinks its the second coming of Christ. Will be sick when Justin and company take it to 50 times higher. When you let the stupid people run the show expect an insane outcome.

[chuckChuck]

Nobody is in love with the carbon tax. It is just a tool to reduce carbon emissions.

BC has had one for years and there emissions have not increased compared to their economic and population growth. They have a relatively strong economy as well.

Preston Manning supports carbon taxes over regulations because it allows individuals to decide how to reduce emissions. It's market driven.

Farmers have exemptions from carbon taxes on fuel. There is a case to exempt natural gas and propane as well.

APAS estimated the carbon tax will cost farmers around $2.00 -$4.00 per acre. If that is going to put your farm out of business you are already in trouble from other causes.

"According to number crunchers at the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, average production costs will increase by $2 an acre in 2019 and rise to $3.85 an acre in 2022."

Most input costs fluctuate in price from year to year way more than $2.00 -$4.00 per acre.

https://www.producer.com/2019/04/calculating-the-cost-of-a-carbon-tax/

[Partners]

The moving grain around is a pain maybe a grain pump next purchase

Know a farm that is all set up with system.
Hooked into dryer.
Sit in office and watch the screen. Like at terminals.
Only issue so far the elbows on the pipes are wearing out faster than advertised.
Needs a big man lift to access them.

[AC man]

Know a farm that is all set up with system.
Hooked into dryer.
Sit in office and watch the screen. Like at terminals.
Only issue so far the elbows on the pipes are wearing out faster than advertised.
Needs a big man lift to access them.

I also know of a farm in the Humboldt area that has a grain pump system. Is this the same farm?

[bucket]

Nobody is in love with the carbon tax. It is just a tool to reduce carbon emissions.

BC has had one for years and there emissions have not increased compared to their economic and population growth. They have a relatively strong economy as well.

Preston Manning supports carbon taxes over regulations because it allows individuals to decide how to reduce emissions. It's market driven.

Farmers have exemptions from carbon taxes on fuel. There is a case to exempt natural gas and propane as well.

APAS estimated the carbon tax will cost farmers around $2.00 -$4.00 per acre. If that is going to put your farm out of business you are already in trouble from other causes.

"According to number crunchers at the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, average production costs will increase by $2 an acre in 2019 and rise to $3.85 an acre in 2022."

Most input costs fluctuate in price from year to year way more than $2.00 -$4.00 per acre.

https://www.producer.com/2019/04/calculating-the-cost-of-a-carbon-tax/

The costs can't keep being downloaded to primary producers....you cant say we are going to measure your emmissions and charge accordinly but not credit you for your contribution to reducing emissions. ...

Lower emmission equipment gets nothing for farmers but a higher price tag while NCC and DU have 100 million of government money to play with as environmentalists (cough then puke)....

[Partners]

I also know of a farm in the Humboldt area that has a grain pump system. Is this the same farm?

Very possible.

[Guest]

all i wanna know is "how in **** is a carbon tax gonna reduce emissions " ???????
cluck cluck is the only one who could dry his grain with a solar fired dryer and burns unicorn piss in his tractors
its a ****en joke and anyone who can't see it for what it is has problems
its as stupid as numbnuts saying he bought carbon credits to offset his second campaign jet ?
and these dumb ****s swallow this shit
his campaign would have more emissions than my lifetime off battling mother nature
but at the end of of it all i will have accomplished something