100 million dollars

[bucket]

To be fair though what did farmers deserve last year? We have sky high prices that apparently everybody here held out for and received and we were essentially untouched (economically speaking anyways) by Covid. Can you with a straight face say we deserve a handout this year? Especially over the small main street retailer? Imagine if you were forced to close your farm while the largest BTO in the area was permitted to operate. That’s what much of Canada small business had to deal with last year.

Yes I can ...and quite easily when the farmers to the south have had the equivalent of 100 billion Canadian thrown at them in one payment or another...

Most recently it was another 20 dollar an acre payment for corn , soybean, wheat farmers.

And no carbon tax with lower input prices...you don't think that isn't helping small town USA???

When farmers start disappearing again , do you think as that as healthy for the industry and an opportunity for you? Or do you see as a industry in trouble?

[burnt]

$100 million for (how many) farmers.

And yet the feds dole out $670 million for a tiny handful of chicken farmers to help offset their supposed losses from the trade agreement?

Maybe I'm missing something here.

[WiltonRanch]

We’ve been lucky with decent prices lately. Previous years have been lower. Problem is the government policies will blow us out of the water irrespective of market forces or weather. Good majority western farms dropped their carbon footprint 20+ years ago with zero tillage and growing in size to maximize efficiency. What more does the government want us to do? One breath the push biofuels and increased domestic food processing, fine enough. Other breath they tax those gains. There will not be enough grown to fill demand for our own consumption. It’s pure bs false economics which in the end we’ll be importing food. Sad when ag has and continues to innovate and use less resources to produce more. Bloody Northern European siocialism with a French cuk flair.

[burnt]

...What more does the government want us to do? ...

After the discussions already seen here, I assume that your question is rhetorical?

If not, the government wants you to shut down, retire your land and allow it to return to buffalo range and re-wilded lands.

It is ludicrous to think that the government of Kanada - run by the most inept, mental midget leader of all our history - actually has the good of farmers and farming in the most remote recess of their twisted minds.

[jamesb]

Yes I can ...and quite easily when the farmers to the south have had the equivalent of 100 billion Canadian thrown at them in one payment or another...

Most recently it was another 20 dollar an acre payment for corn , soybean, wheat farmers.

And no carbon tax with lower input prices...you don't think that isn't helping small town USA???

When farmers start disappearing again , do you think as that as healthy for the industry and an opportunity for you? Or do you see as a industry in trouble?

Completely agree that the US farmer payments are nice and will say we will never never see them in Canada.
As a long term zero tiller I got screwed by the latest federal budget. How long will they go before they realize that they should have maybe rewarded guys doing their part. Compare our farming methods in Sask to pretty much everywhere in the world and I believe we stand up pretty good environmentally. Feds don't see it. Gonna take years to lobby for a change. Same as the grain drying deal, they finally made a little change to right the wrong.

At the end of the day if I cant make it work the way land prices are going I will put out the for sale sign and sell to the guys down the road who are paying up for land and machinery.

[fjlip]

And those already have 30,000 acres and "NEED" more apparently.

[Guest]

$100 million for (how many) farmers.

And yet the feds dole out $670 million for a tiny handful of chicken farmers to help offset their supposed losses from the trade agreement?

Maybe I'm missing something here.

sure looks funny in print