Three important issues in W.Canada agriculture

[ajl]

Three most important ag issues.

1) Sales reporting
2) Getting rid of the whole climate change/green new steal scam. No carbon taxes and no offsets.
3) Higher rates of interest. This is what provides discipline to ag input costs. This also promotes savvy business management and innovation. It would allow small and medium operators to grow efficiently and slow the consolidation to larger less efficient entities. For example we would eliminate industry costs of relocating bin yards every summer as well as a lot of grain bagging. Having a dozen million dollar combines on the road is simply not efficient but that is what happens in an artificially low rate environment. Much more efficient to have a half dozen operation running 2 machines each with a more local land base.

[Blaithin]

Honourable mention issue.

Aversion to change. - Can list issues that need to disappear or can try and think of ways to work with those issues as permanent things. Ie) environmental concerns.

[checking]

On your checkoff number, I actually think the weeds need to be thinned to two representative groups, grains and oilseeds. Too many groups means too little influence.

Why should soybeans be thrown in with a grouping based on its nitrogen fixing quality?

Is pulses going to future insist that it owns the checkoff dollars to some grain or oilseed that eventually is modified to produce its own nitrogen?

As far as I'm concerned, soybeans and canola are common products, and should be together under the oilseeds banner.

On the carbon tax, push me too close to where I am wasting my time, and I will quit this business. Come on, Just In Trouble, wake those federal advisors to pluck up.

[bucket]

FYI Delaney Boyd said in a webinar that notill farming will not be eligible for the offset program in Saskatchewan

[TASFarms]

Looks like western Canada needs more Buffalo

[bucket]

And Alberta is shitcanning their farming offsets as well

[Blaithin]

And Alberta is shitcanning their farming offsets as well

Alberta shitcans everything. If you aren’t O&G or coal then you’re nothing.

[Oliver88]

Three most important ag issues.

1) Sales reporting
2) Getting rid of the whole climate change/green new steal scam. No carbon taxes and no offsets.
3) Higher rates of interest. This is what provides discipline to ag input costs. This also promotes savvy business management and innovation. It would allow small and medium operators to grow efficiently and slow the consolidation to larger less efficient entities. For example we would eliminate industry costs of relocating bin yards every summer as well as a lot of grain bagging. Having a dozen million dollar combines on the road is simply not efficient but that is what happens in an artificially low rate environment. Much more efficient to have a half dozen operation running 2 machines each with a more local land base.

Your list looks the best and would add one point.

#4. Fight any new environmental regulation or code that is pushed on farmers.