Feedlots short ?

[riders2010]

Add insult to injury blame farmers for mismanaging
The budget.
They’ve literally done nothing for the drought.

[bucket]

Add insult to injury blame farmers for mismanaging
The budget.
They’ve literally done nothing for the drought.

APAS got neutered on that , APAS gets money from Saskatchewan government . They smoothed it over for their per diems. They had the opportunity to embarrass the Saskparty.....they chose not to since Tool Lewis wouldn't have been allowed to run as an MLA if they continued the narrative.

[riders2010]

This is classic example where NO amount of money will solve the problem.

We need Rumpelstiltskin to spin some dollars into hay.

I thought I was feeding $150 bales choking at the cost, $300 good god why did I keep the damn cows!!!!

Like most things you didn’t understand what
We’re talking about. Last summer and fall
When ranchers knew there was no feed
They asked for help. The response was basically
A media farce where people believed the
Sask party actually helped the situation.
When in fact writing off 10 bushel barley that’s
Less than a foot tall produces very little bales.
The write off should have occurred at 20 or 30
Bushels an acre meaning more feed would have been
Available. Also farmers that don’t have livestock
Should have been offered market price for
Acres of barley oats to be baled.
Thai would have solved the current absolute dire
Situation cow calf producers are in now with
3 months or more to go feeding.

There was literally next to no money in this program
Offered by the provincial government.

The only place there is hay is far away from
The drought zone there should be an additional
200 bucks minimum offered immediately.

It’s a farce to say the money didn’t help
When realistically there was next to nothing
Offered.

[bucket]

Like most things you didn’t understand what
We’re talking about. Last summer and fall
When ranchers knew there was no feed
They asked for help. The response was basically
A media farce where people believed the
Sask party actually helped the situation.
When in fact writing off 10 bushel barley that’s
Less than a foot tall produces very little bales.
The write off should have occurred at 20 or 30
Bushels an acre meaning more feed would have been
Available. Also farmers that don’t have livestock
Should have been offered market price for
Acres of barley oats to be baled.
Thai would have solved the current absolute dire
Situation cow calf producers are in now with
3 months or more to go feeding.

There was literally next to no money in this program
Offered by the provincial government.

The only place there is hay is far away from
The drought zone there should be an additional
200 bucks minimum offered immediately.

It’s a farce to say the money didn’t help
When realistically there was next to nothing
Offered.

You hit the nail on the head, the delay in making the feed available ruined any chance of having adequate supplies.

30 to 40 bpa crops is where they could have made a difference but it would have meant a better program.

You can not have ag ministers and bureaucrats with their prerequisites that they have uncles and aunts on the farm or they have farm relatives.

When farm groups realize David Marit isn't and never was a farmer , they might make progress in better programs.

[Guest]

this Sask party needs to go , we need a new one. strayed too far from the provinces backbone
sadly there are no options for us and they know it . best alternative maybe buffalo party?

[bucket]

Trying to educate myself, how many acres equivalent does it take to feed a 40000 head feedlot?

[burnt]

Trying to educate myself, how many acres equivalent does it take to feed a 40000 head feedlot?

I was trying to figure that out as well this morning.

Would it be accurate to estimate that for every 10,000 hd, the requirement would be about 250,000 lb/day based on 25 lb/hd?

That would be heavier animals.

If so, that's about 3 trailer loads per day? For each 10,000 hd?

I'm just going by what I put into our few finishing animals.

[Retired]

Trying to educate myself, how many acres equivalent does it take to feed a 40000 head feedlot?

About 1.5 acres per animal x a turn around of 2.5 x would be 40000 animals x 1.5 acres = 60,000 x 2.5 turnaround = 150,000 acres to feed a feedlot of 40,000 animals . this is rough off top of head but i think is in ballpark about 6 or 7 townships.

[Sheepwheat]

Anything I can do about my November contract that they won’t take still? I could use a cash injection by now.

[riders2010]

Sorry bud, you just can’t see the big picture. My point isn’t about the funding, it's the fact that when there is simply not enough feed to go around, no amount of money will solve the problem, no matter the timing or the amount.

If you think animal owners are waiting for a handout before they source feed you’re fooling yourself. If it’s not there, it’s not there, no amount of money can fix that problem.

I’m in no way saying they shouldn’t help, or that it shouldn’t be more dollars. I’m just saying there are some things money just can’t fix.

There was lots of feed maybe some miles would
Have been involved but there needed to be some
actual dollars And some foresight involved to acknowledge
The situation. No non livestock producer is going let
Anyone cut their barley or oats for the shit
Price per bushel that crop insurance was at.
If there was a top up lots of acres could have been
Cut.

But our at minister barely wanted to acknowledge
The drought at all. When the feds asked if help
Was needed there was no reply.

This could be a major disaster unfolding.
There are some yo-yo guys around that have
Thin cows at the best of time I doubt those
Animals will fair very good now for sure is another
Issue.