I called the WSA minister's office...

[blackpowder]

But Mcfarms, irrigation clearly doesn't work look at potatoes in Outlook. It has nothing to do with Sask govt over 100 years.
Why, I'll bet if they had the Crow back everything would be better. Feedlot Alley clearly a drain on taxpayers.

[mcfarms]

so are you saying crop ins separates irrigated from non irrigated?

yes and no , yes Irrigated is not eligible for lack of production but we can take all risk on irrigated which we do for the hail endorsement which has usually gave us better dollars per acre coverage at a lower rate than straight hail.. We have to combine and store dryland separate from irrigated in case of production shortfall and a claim audit which will happen this year.

[Rareearth]

Just to shake the agriculture divisive sword,

Sask doesn't need a cattle industry, nor should it be supported
As some suggest with irrigation

[bucket]

What support has the cattle industry had. $200 a head really is a joke.

When you compare it to the $10000 per acre to get water to the quarter line free gratis on the wet dream project.

FFS the proponents and capitalist farmers on the west side won't even pay for sledding their land to qualify. How the hell are they going to afford the pivot?

One guy, who is the hall of fame, couldn't even do the math that 4 billion on 400000 acres is 10000 per acre. he had to get out his calculator.

On another thread , it was mentioned the cost of getting natural gas to a farm yard . That costs more to install yhan this water project and its used year round.

[Happytrails]

In the cost/benefit world i.e. the real world the economics of irrigation largely depend on climate and markets. Long growing season supports irrigation. High value crops also. Short growing season and commodity crops grown far from market not so much. The irrigation districts in Alberta are a huge success story in many ways but so are the subsidies that make them possible. Not sure that the same model works in moister, cooler Saskatchewan.

[shtferbrains]

In the cost/benefit world i.e. the real world the economics of irrigation largely depend on climate and markets. Long growing season supports irrigation. High value crops also. Short growing season and commodity crops grown far from market not so much. The irrigation districts in Alberta are a huge success story in many ways but so are the subsidies that make them possible. Not sure that the same model works in moister, cooler Saskatchewan.

Very well described.

Irrigation makes California's ag production dwarf all others even with highest cost water.
But if you have crops and climate that in some years it's optional to run the pivots I'm not sure how well that will pay.