questions to farmers...

[TASFarms]

How much money are irrigation acres paying in income taxes and other taxes?

[bucket]

How much money are irrigation acres paying in income taxes and other taxes?

If the district is getting 40 bucks an acre for the next 5 years ...the answer is nothing....they are receiving a refund every year...

For some guys it means a million dollars in water expense not coming out of their pockets....

And considering that capital infrastructure was given to them and the government is on the hook for some replacement still....their taxes wouldn't cover the costs...

And the rebuttal question would be how much tax does a dryland farmer pay for zero capital investment from government. ..

[TASFarms]

I think if you look at all the workers Involved, equipment sold , extra grain sold and transported, extra inputs applied for this irrigation project the govt will be getting some of it back. It’s not fair to you or me but it will increase the provinces gdp.

[bucket]

I think if you look at all the workers Involved, equipment sold , extra grain sold and transported, extra inputs applied for this irrigation project the govt will be getting some of it back. It’s not fair to you or me but it will increase the provinces gdp.

It has to get 4 billion back first....and during that time there has to be a ROI on the 4 billion even at 1 percent that's 40 million a year in interest. ...

Maybe you haven't read how there isn't a rail line into Outlook or Riverhurst ...

And what you don't think dryland farmers are not growing more or buying inputs..

The existing 3 large irrigation projects are still funded by government. ... zero ROI..... and since the higher production ....no good highways and won't fix them either.

[the big wheel]

Wonder How many big time sask party supporters are benefitting directly from this?

[Rareearth]

Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.

No I won’t benefit from this project, but the province will. Trying to stay positive here, as the Gardner dam when built was the biggest earth filled dam in the world, how dare they take the risk, no industry, no population etc etc that 40 million dollars maybe could have or even should. Have been spent on what?
- hydro contributes 500 million dollars in revenue each year in sask.
- Lake Diefenbaker supplies 60 % of Sask drinking water needs.
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Was the 40 million fed /provincial a waste of money?

The spillway is open, if you’ve never been there you should go. Every one leaves and says wow!

[TASFarms]

Why arent they trying to get irrigation going in the paliser triangle. That is were the biggest bang for a buck would be

[bucket]

If the province is still funding the current 30 year old projects ...how is the province benefitting?

What is really annoying is private irrigators that have spent their own money are being shit on by the province not providing simple water licenses or the WSA allowing things like lowering lake levels for a DU project...

[bucket]

Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.

No I won’t benefit from this project, but the province will. Trying to stay positive here, as the Gardner dam when built was the biggest earth filled dam in the world, how dare they take the risk, no industry, no population etc etc that 40 million dollars maybe could have or even should. Have been spent on what?
- hydro contributes 500 million dollars in revenue each year in sask.
- Lake Diefenbaker supplies 60 % of Sask drinking water needs.
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Was the 40 million fed /provincial a waste of money?

The spillway is open, if you’ve never been there you should go. Every one leaves and says wow!

Spillway is open again?


What they should do is build the dam at Leader if water is an important resource....then let farmers use their money to irrigate...

Opening the spillway means they could of filled another lake the size of lake Diefenbaker ....we seen the spillway open over 10 years ago....before that they hadn't opened them other than maintenence. ...and yes it's quite a site ....you have to hear it.

You know if they built a dam at leader with a hydro facility and then used the water again at the coteau plant....that gets to be pretty efficient use of water....its called cascading the water ...using it two or three times before flushing it...

Open spillway is flushing water....but it also helps mitigate floods and build capacity for future water events...like the 2 inches we are supposedly in for this week....

[GALAXIE500]

500 million for 80000 acres is 6250 which equates to about $875,000 per quarter plus on farm expense...just about a million a quarter...


If my average sized farm got one million in total in free capital there isa good chance my farm would be better off...


They are getting that for every quarter of irrigated land.....one miiiiiillion dollars per quarter...plus operating cost subsidized as well...in perpetuality....

Just across the border in Southern Alberta , if you have a 1/4 section with an irrigation pivot you are looking at big $$$ to buy any land in that area. I have heard as high as seven figures.