Can you name..... ??????

[bucket]

Less than 6 bucks for yellow peas??
Lentil prices and grading?????
That’s all back in 1980. But we re paying for today’s cost.

Bingo.....new varieties seem to need more inputs to grow....

Where is the higher returns to primary producers....

And if you indexed it like every other industry associated with agriculture we have been falling way behind....

A new macdon header is $125000...my first new combine in 1997 was $155200 with a pickup header...

A new combine and headers would be close to $700000.......anyone think we are keeping pace...

Even if lentils saved the farm way back when and you put money in the bank ...your burn rate on any crop is slowly putting people out of business....By government policy farms will get bigger and eventually need a very large handout ....

And they will get it because the shareholders are screaming or they are creating some transient jobs....

[Ares]

OK, I will bite. What was the first use of yellow peas in china? What are the current uses of yellow peas? What are green peas used for?


How do you stop the flow of genetics to a country like Kazakhstan? You cant. All they have to do is order a container of export product and plant it. You can't stop it. Incidentally, lentil genetics don't tend to travel well very far anyway, unlike peas which do travel well. Kazakhstan lentils trade at a discount to Canadian due to poorer split yields. Much of our pea genetics used in Canada came from Europe, our chickpeas industry started with Sanford and Dwelley seed from USA. We just imported seed and planted it. Canadian red lentil industry originated from seed imported from USA under crimson. Canada stole the green lentil industry from Turkey to begin with. Wiped them out and now our competitive pressure is coming from Russia on green lentils. What i am getting at is continued research from both genetics, agronomy and policy is the only thing that will allow us to remain competitive. Sitting on Agriville complaining nothing is being done is laughable at best.

Why the f--k i continue to care about this stuff is beyond me. I spent my time at Saskpulse and represented Saskpulse at Pulse Canada as well. Spent 40 days per year on board business plus about one conference call per week. Try making that kind of commitment while running a family farm and a processing company. It was mind blowing the amount of work that was being done and the staff at both organizations are second to none.

I had some difference of opinions on how the King Red and Queen green programs laid out but in the end it was handled how it was handled. Both of those programs have been a flop actually, they should have been broad release. Additionally i am not happy about the changes in distribution of seed that will happen in the future. Not happy at all but it is time for a new blood to lead at Sask pulse. The current system of broad release royalty free shot us ahead of the world and provided massive value to growers. Maxim lentils where responsible for putting massive amounts of income into farmers hands a few years ago. We couldn't have road that gravy train using crimson lentils.

If the seed program is moved to a royalty system i would guess that there will be a shift to a refundable levy at Saskpulse and you guys can get your levy back and just freeload on the agronomy and policy work that you think isn't happening.

I HAVE A BAD NEWS FOR YOU! Those *****rs done it. I was browsing twitter and stopped on Secan's Post about "ILLEGAL SEED EXPORT"... well I'm still reading all articles but too many questions coming up to my head... They've got everything!!!! just no words...My dad still doesn't know sh1t about it....he will get a heart attack... http://www.tdfa.kz/manifesto?lang=en http://www.tdfa.kz/manifesto?lang=en

[TASFarms]

I HAVE A BAD NEWS FOR YOU! Those *****rs done it. I was browsing twitter and stopped on Secan's Post about "ILLEGAL SEED EXPORT"... well I'm still reading all articles but too many questions coming up to my head... They've got everything!!!! just no words...My dad still doesn't know sh1t about it....he will get a heart attack... http://www.tdfa.kz/manifesto?lang=en http://www.tdfa.kz/manifesto?lang=en

Can we work for much less than we are now? Guess we will find out