Friday C o c k t a i l report and other useless stuff. Its Friday let's have fun.

[Hamloc]

Saskfarmer I was interested in your opinion that there will be lots of yellow peas grown in your area. I was talking to my local BASF rep a while ago and it was her observation that yellow pea acreage in her area had dropped 90%. Certainly less peas being grown in my area, off combine prices now approaching high $9 range. And yes many of my neighbours are growing more barley than in the past and are well over 50% pre sold for fall. Interesting times, I am certainly glad my fertilizer is in the bin in the yard, amazing how input suppliers do their best to take away any profit a farmer is allowed to make!

[SASKFARMER]

The pea file is the disease problem and it's more than just Aphanomyces. Its big-time new strains of Fusarium. We have been doing tests with a company from the UofG in Ontario and its shocking what's going on in our soils. So yea disease is the killer with peas. Nothing seems to work.

The 8-year rule is great but you need a lot of lands.

Barley is the crop for 2021.

[SASKFARMER]

How heavy to seed connect 2.25 2.5 or 3?

[jamesb]

How heavy to seed connect 2.25 2.5 or 3?

This past year based on tkw it was all of 3. I don't know if that's really needed but seems to work.

[SASKFARMER]

Had lots of texts and have a game plan ready to go.

Carry over is going to be real tight for canola end of the crop year.

Know shit Sherlock.

[SASKFARMER]

Holy shit is it cold today. Thank god for oil and gas to heat our homes.

Don't like it, turn the switch off.

Enjoy your electric blanket and high power costs.

It's all a joke and the left should be called out.

The idiot lawyer who made the motion to have Regina a nonoil city has lost his job.

Good, I say.

It's time we started to push these idiots back.

[sumdumguy]

Just like the left fires everyone who doesn’t sing their green song, the right would do well to step up to the plate, take out the broom and use it. Its high time they get some push-back. Out mit da shcrap!

[furrowtickler]

Code of practice, On farm traceability, social license, etc etc can have merit in some ways but in the end the cost is on farmers with no payback. I feel that those farmers that do get involved in the discussions about these projects do have their heart in the right place. Unfortunately at the end of the day the marketplace only grudgingly pays for the extra work and costs. We have such a huge disconnect from the farm to fork. It is concerning that those with no real understanding of the reality of modern agriculture can and will handcuff us to do things as "they" see as proper. How do we as farmers react to this incursion in our business ? To date I have taken my check off back yet from the commodity groups and don't have a problem with them engaging in the discussion about the code of practice issue on one hand but feel that they had better tread very lightly and consider the ramifications. The ducks and canola issue from last year was a glaring example .

I think you pretty much nailed it
There will be zero payback but by playing by all the rules they will let you stay in the game if you play by ever rule . Carbon credits to farmers will be extremely difficult, they will make sure .
Where this will eventually lead is to be penalized for not being part of this .
That’s where this is going wether one agrees with the “code” “reset” or whatever they want to call it .
You will be rewarded by not being penalized basically.
I am on the fence on this only because I feel it will be mandatory sooner than later and we already, like the majority, do most of the “code” already .
We are preparing for it but in no way think there will be any gain from it . Just more scrutiny by those outside the farm and far more regulation. It will be just another form out back door taxation with little outcome at the end of the day .
I believe it’s set up to target the large superfarms but in reality it do nothing but harm the average family farm .
I hope I am wrong , but it’s about control at the end of the day and another piece of the wealth distribution plan through environmental climate change policies.

[jazz]

I think you pretty much nailed it

How did social license work out for the oil patch? It went from signing some aspirational statements to a carbon tax to legislation landlocking our resources to cancelling projects to net zero 2050 to next step outright banning fossil fuels.

The farmers behind this are just the latest useful idiot patsies who still think if we can just tell our story to John Q Public we will be loved. Thats never going to happen.

[Guest]

glad i am nearly done!