Anyone want to WAG a production estimate after looking at this?

[LEP]

This is Alberta? need a legend pls.

It’s an impressionist painting named “Great hope, but sad reality”

[AlbertaFarmer5]

This is Alberta? need a legend pls.

I was lost too. I finally found the word Medicine Hat in the right bottom corner, and Lethbridge in the left side. Then it all made sense.

You can clearly see every pivot as dark blue, and the non-irrigated in between as distinctly different colors.

Upon closer inspection of Larry's map, it appears to make each county its own color. So a minority of irrigation in an otherwise barren county will make the entire county brown.

With the poor granularity, I didn't realize it followed county lines originally.

That explains why the good crops don't show up elsewhere.

Definitely a disaster, but there are a few brightish spots that the map doesn't portray.

[jazz]

I am surprised with as dry as this yr has been they didnt limit water draws for irrigation.

Sucks bad enough when your neighbor gets a shower and you dont but it must really suck when he has a pivot and you dont.

[sumdumguy]

I am surprised with as dry as this yr has been they didnt limit water draws for irrigation.

Sucks bad enough when your neighbor gets a shower and you dont but it must really suck when he has a pivot and you dont.

Pivots with tax payer dollars - another paradigm.

[bucket]

I am surprised with as dry as this yr has been they didnt limit water draws for irrigation.

Sucks bad enough when your neighbor gets a shower and you dont but it must really suck when he has a pivot and you dont.

Really sucks when the guy with the pivot gets 40 bucks an acre for 5 years to grow the same crop as you and they are guaranteed a crop.

Canola, flax, wheat , durum. lentils under pivot rotation....40 bucks an acre per year for the 3 major irrigation districts.

And the government gave them the infrastructure , and the government is picking up the tab for the liner in the canals. SSRID has a 153 million dollar deficiency list the government will pick up.

[Guest]

“And the taxpayer gave them the infrastructure , and the taxpayer is picking up the tab for the liner in the canals. SSRID has a 153 million dollar deficiency list the taxpayers will pick up”


There bucket , fixed it for you
Too many forget who funds the govt

[WiltonRanch]

Is it right they are converting some canals over to pipelines to reduce evaporation and maintenance?

[bucket]

Is it right they are converting some canals over to pipelines to reduce evaporation and maintenance?

Don't know but the WSA guy said they are lining the canals at Outlook and they are at the government's expense.

[bucket]

“And the taxpayer gave them the infrastructure , and the taxpayer is picking up the tab for the liner in the canals. SSRID has a 153 million dollar deficiency list the taxpayers will pick up”


There bucket , fixed it for you
Too many forget who funds the govt

You are very sharp this morning...even government people don't realize their salaries are taxpayer money.

Thank you...I was wondering if anyone could correlate that.

[GDR]

I am surprised with as dry as this yr has been they didnt limit water draws for irrigation.

Irrigation water is melted mountain snow pack. Mountain rivers are quite high from the heat it's all melting faster, the dams are overfull.

[jazz]

Is it right they are converting some canals over to pipelines to reduce evaporation and maintenance?

There is no way a pipeline can compete with a canal for volumes unless they are planning their own storage on site to go along with it.

Irrigation water is melted mountain snow pack. Mountain rivers are quite high from the heat it's all melting faster, the dams are overfull.

GDR, its not making it down stream. The chain lakes north of me are disgusting this yr. Very little new water into the system. Algae blooms, low O2, dead fish, horrid smell.

[bucket]

Steve Primrose the chairman of SSRID thinks encouraging selling straw off the pivots is such a great thing...

The phucking ranchers are helping pay for the SSRID infrastructure... FFS

Just another guy that lives off government while promoting his own ideas.