So who is buying?

[Partners]

Oh, it was a half-section im bad but again name the area getting 62 plus BPA this year.

I must have missed it.

Best we heard is a small area SE of kelvington.
85 bly
40 to 50 canola..
Won the rain lottery this yr..

[Freightshaker]

Oh, it was a half-section im bad but again name the area getting 62 plus BPA this year.

I must have missed it.

North of red deer a half hour.

[furrowtickler]

This entire area averaged less than 10 bus canola and lots of complete wrote offs
It’s not all rosy out there like what machinery dealers are lying about
The amount of contract buy outs in that area alone is huge .
Frustrating for thousands of farmers to listen to how great things are
5 bus / ax canola even at $20 won’t even cover basic fertilizer costs let alone anything else
Crop insurance helps but reality is more are dealing with poor crops and negative net returns than there are cashing in from small isolated pockets of average crops .
Good to see a few have done well 👍
Majority have not

[Herc]

You can draw the map about twice the size. Elrose had 3-4 bpa crops. 7 bales per 1/4 section.

[jazz]

It’s not all rosy out there like what machinery dealers are lying about

Maybe something else. Rolling leases.

Rather than take back equip, talk farmer into rolling it out to a new term with some new iron in the mix.

Presto, look at us, we are so busy now. Hey get an X9 before your neighbor does.

[GDR]

Lack of new inventory likely not just because of purchases, likely short on production due to covid and world supply issues. Pretty easy to be completely sold out of 2 units when on a normal year you might get 20.

[furrowtickler]

You can draw the map about twice the size. Elrose had 3-4 bpa crops. 7 bales per 1/4 section.

Absolutely, it’s just the area I know for sure that was very poor .
I am sure there are several areas that large or larger in western Canada that were as bad or worse

[Rareearth]

I like the way that was done with the map and circle.

That puts it into perspective and much easier to relate to vs coffee shop, and other gossip or rumors

Thank you

It would be i teresting to see a crop insurance version of that.

[shtferbrains]

During those hot dry weeks we had 2 weekends you could hear the thunderstorms going by but we got near nothing.
Some only a few miles away got significant rain.

Specialty Canola
$25 ×50×320=400K
Rain lottery.
Half a crop for SF3😁
Never been a year like it where a few are once in a lifetime lucky and down the road worst crop in a lifetime.

[Sheepwheat]

Best we heard is a small area SE of kelvington.
85 bly
40 to 50 canola..
Won the rain lottery this yr..

Being in that zone a few things on that. We never got more rain so much as far less heat, and high humidity. Not a lot of days above 30, hottest was 33. We also had subsoil to spare to start with.

And even so, there was lots of stuff that was far less. In other words, Averages are less for sure. There were some real doozy crops for sure. My crops were ok, maybe twenty per cent of normal average. My poor looking barley was a pretty crazy surprise in a good way, much better than it looked.

Not as many or as full grain bags as a whole. Especially oats.

Needs to rain though to recharge, or next year will be a different story.

Bigger sloughs and lakes still have higher water than the long term average.

[TASFarms]

I bought a used combine off Robertson’s. They said it was the first used combine that The whole company sold this year as of 2 weeks ago.

[blackpowder]

There's enough aged inventory in combines I should be able to do another fairly cheap roll in 2-3 years.