Premiere meeting nothing about agriculture?

[the big wheel]

Thanks again sask party for ignoring the growing problem sask farmers are facing.

[SASKFARMER]

Yes, you are correct and yes the premiers should have had AG on the Agenda as Skippy and company have hurt us just as much as oil and gas.

[Misterjade9]

Why is this surprising to you? The premier is on record as saying that the Sask Party is going to target the urban vote in the next election. They know they have the rural vote in the bag, so why spend time and money courting it?

[bucket]

Their masters are not in agriculture....


the masters are light switch industries ....on and off depending on what government gives them....or what they tell the government to give them. ....

You have to wait till Jimmy says he lost enough before they will bother with agriculture....and as long as he can keep doubling parts and labour when no one is buying new ...he's OK ....

[bucket]

4 of those premiers get a majority of their support from rural Canada....who are they representing?


Agriculture should have been a slam dunk for support since Quebec has 4 billion committed to dairy from the federal government. ...and almost every other province has had a hiccup in production this year...

Very disappointing....but I don't have to vote saskparty either...with an election coming up. ...the Saskparty can see what the urban vote will need and cost them....

[Guest]

yes , this entitled bunch of pricks need to go
we need a new Sask party
Moe is sticking up for Sask , will give him that ,though

[bucket]

yes , this entitled bunch of pricks need to go
we need a new Sask party
Moe is sticking up for Sask , will give him that ,though

Yup ..it's OK for the province to ask for more money from the federal government when they are having money issues but farmers are expected to find money by borrowing more....

What pocket do you guys think all this money comes from in the first place...it's all the same taxpayer. ..

[SASKFARMER]

Here is the problem right now with politicians and AG groups and farmers.

Listened yesterday to a pulse giant talking to a bunch of guys about peas and lentils and saying suck it up buttercup this is the way of the world and you have to get on with life and produce peas for half what you use to get. Oh ill still take the same cut and get gov loans etc but you MR Farmer have to change and adapt.

This is who the Liberal party of Canada listens to as a farm representative. Were just cry babies to the masses and the pigs (companies) keep getting shit from gov.

Second, on-farm groups the Sask party listen to as an example the shit for brains who is always on the radio north of me. Oh, he is an exceptional farmer in his own mind. He is done harvest so everyone else should be and there is no problem in rural Sask. He has a little grain dryer his uncle bought and that is good enough to dry all the grain.

These are the guys who Gov listens to and it's no wonder we don't even make the agenda.

When you have parasites and shit for brains on boards this is the result.

Follow the money and see who gets and how they will support the gov.

Its time to realize AG as we know it is dying fast and it can all be traced back to Idiots who don't understand farming.

[sumdumguy]

Yesterday, somehow, not sure how a salesman from Montreal called asking to be our bag supplier. The answer to him, “ Nope, we don’t do business with outfits in Montreal- Period.” He was shocked, yeh right, take a friggin hike. If our politicians won’t take a stand against the East, we have to do what we can.

[bucket]

Moe and Marit are both making more now as politicians than they ever did farming....

Their answer is obviously to let the little guy get forced out....


I wonder what would of happened if Moe couldn't have put together a memo yesterday of unity of the premiers....maybe they should have left little ole Saskatchewan get use to the new reality....

[SASKFARMER]

Here is a little tidbit the little guys aren't going to crash this time its the BTOs. Lots of chatter going on.

[bucket]

I don't agree...I think they will force the little guy out and borrow more to the BTO to buy out the little guy at a lower price to make the lender's books look OK...

[bucket]

Let me get this straight....ALberta and Saskatchewan have low oil prices and have trouble getting it to markets so they need help...

Farmers have low grain prices and are losing markets and we get ?????

So any farm group could have come out and changed a few words and pointed out the issues in agriculture and farmers representatives were singing with the crickets...

[westernvicki]

National bodies are supposed to lobby the Feds. Ideally provincial bodies would assist in defining the issues of concern for national bodies.

Provincial Ag associations embrace agronomy & research, the odd trade mission, a bit of market promotion, & love to attend conferences on our behalf, but defining policy issues appears to be a low to no mandate of most commodity organizations. And so we have to ask, who is minding the store?

If commodity groups are not perhaps it is APAS. They were supposed to be an umbrella group, perhaps it is them?

Meanwhile back at the ranch, net income fell 41%, while input prices rose in 2018, and after a harvest from hell 2019 is looking no better, but rail rates went up, and global competitiveness is real & carbon tax with falling income only adds to the pain, and despite the fact that China appears to be warming up to Canada in various notable ways included removing the meat import ban, but not canola why?



Reality bites as agristability, designed to assist income crisis, was gutted by the Conservatives, (did anyone ask for the old formula at the very least.) Did they mention over ****tails even the need for urgent paradigm change and the need to invest in diversity?

But the real question is did Scott Moe have a list? Or even a single issue.
Did Jason Kenney have a list? Did Ag issues make the dinner conversation even in passing?

How well do we as an industry prepare our leadership to understand the issues in agriculture to even a fraction of how we defend oil and gas? We need oil and gas, but we need agriculture to as agriculture is the body of rural Canada, and rural Canada is a huge geography.

And so, do your grandkids a favour, call an Ag director of any association and ask, how they define the lobby on ag policy?

Annual meetings are coming in January, its a great place to ask this very question.

[bucket]

Interesting comments from Scott Moe and other premiers.....

They used the term " unprecedented " in the scrum


I expect the farm groups to do something "unprecedented" as well...

Like change the premier's words and issue the same release about agriculture. ...

At least 4 premiers get their support from a rural base....and zero mention of where their support comes from.......

And here is a really stupid question....what is Andrew Scheer talking about these days?

The premiers have to be the opposition because Scheer is in over his head. ..