Originally posted by TASFarms
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Then the Saskatchewan government is continuing to fund the districts 40 dollars an acre for 5 years and pick up the deficiencies found by a government funded engineering report . The Riverhurst district is picking up close to a million dollars a year in taxpayer funding for 15000 acres.
Only 5 percent of the total acres in irrigation that the taxpayer funded are in higher value crops.
Many companies have came with government backing and then left.
Potato barns were sold for 5 cent on the dollar.
Taxpayers are picking up the major costs of the current proposed project on the west side. All the soils to find out which quarters are irrigatible is taxpayer money. If a farmer can't afford the 2500 per quarter to sled their land , there is a good chance they can't afford to buy the $200000 pivot per quarter.
Farmers over there are still blaming the NDP government after 40 years for shitcanning the west side project but in 40 years that group never got their cheque books out to complete it.
Do you need more clarification.
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