Friday Crop Report on a Thursday.

[TSIPP]

Feeding cows this morning a couple miles from home it was windy but sunny, anyway a cloud with a snow storm came over and I couldn’t see the cows or the bales, I pulled out my phone and looked at google maps and I was right beside the bale stack but couldn’t see it, I waited an hour and it cleared up a little, cows are happy and I’m having a rum and coffee with a little Irish cream, better than anything at Tim hortons.

Spring can’t happen soon enough!

[SASKFARMER]

Best snorkeling ever. Couple hours just wish I had the lungs I had back a few years.

Rum is a ten!

[woodland]

Dyed diesel was at $1.71 at 2 pm today. Gotta put the hour in since it seems to change that quick. Up 50 cents from Saturday which I thought was crazy already. I wonder where it will stop?

The income and loss statement for this year will be interesting for sure with 100% inflation on nearly everything except the bovines. If it doesn’t rain this year will their value go negative like oil did a few years ago?

Truly living in the midst of the most interesting of times. Hopefully we can remain solvent while the market is irrational………..🍀



I wonder what this crazy world will be like when they start to call the shots?

[Landdownunder]

Amen to last statement question.

[furrowtickler]

Dyed diesel was at $1.71 at 2 pm today. Gotta put the hour in since it seems to change that quick. Up 50 cents from Saturday which I thought was crazy already. I wonder where it will stop?

The income and loss statement for this year will be interesting for sure with 100% inflation on nearly everything except the bovines. If it doesn’t rain this year will their value go negative like oil did a few years ago?

Truly living in the midst of the most interesting of times. Hopefully we can remain solvent while the market is irrational………..🍀



I wonder what this crazy world will be like when they start to call the shots?

That my biggest worry above all , hopefully this world does settle down for our children’s sake

[SASKFARMER]

When the fertilizer industry is on side with 30% reduction like skippy wants I would say we’re going to have todays prices into the future. They make same profit and sell 30% less. Were fu ked as farmers again.

Our farm groups in the dark again

[bucket]

When the fertilizer industry is on side with 30% reduction like skippy wants I would say we’re going to have todays prices into the future. They make same profit and sell 30% less. Were fu ked as farmers again.

Our farm groups in the dark again

Has anyone noticed the attack on the Liberal fertilizer reduction never mentions the actual cost of fertilizer.

Or what farmers base their decisions on? Soil test , crop rotation , soil moisture, and soil moisture.

Reductions will happen for those three reasons more than anything else.

Now throw in double in price and reduction targets will be met.

Conservatives met with Fertilizer Canada , this has nothing to do with farmers. Its a lobbying effort by the fertilizer companies and the conservatives are puppets.

If they gave a shit about farmers , there would be the same attention to western Canadian farmers as what there was in 1988.

[BTO780]

How will this reduction affect the Canola Council of Canada saying yields will be 50 average by 2025?
I’m sure last years drought brought down the average quite severely.
I sure hope we don’t grow less for less, or else there will “less” of us around.

[dmlfarmer]

Canadian fertilizer pricing is not a environmental/Liberal/WEF plot. It is capitalism at its finest. Canadian fertilizer has been priced off the Black Sea region for years, because this is where competitor product would need to come from to replace Canadian production therefore this is what Canadian fertilizer producers price against. Fertilizer producers do not price on cost of production, they price on competitive replacement of product.

The same situation exists in fuels. Profit is maximized by charging buyers the maximum price before buyers switch to a competitor.

Canada is an net exporter in N fertillizer, fuels, and even ag commodities, and all are priced NOT on production costs, or what Canadians can afford to pay, but rather based on a world pricing basis of what is the maximum value that can be extracted by sellers/traders.

Older farmers will remember Canada once had a 2 price system for wheat whereby the price for domestic use of wheat was controlled. Saudi Arabia still offers low gas prices to Saudi citizens regardless of world price of oil If we truly had a socialist government, fuel, N fertilizer, and food commodity prices could be limited for Canadians use without short term shortages since we are net exporters. However, the blow back by global companies and their shareholders would be immense.

Consolation of industry in the names of ever fewer companies have given those companies more power than the governments of many countries. And the pricing problem will continue to worsen as competition continues to lessen in all industries.

It is easy to blame lefty dogma for high prices. Trouble is, it is the exact opposite that is the cause of high input costs like fertilizer and fuel.

[shortbox]

Has anyone noticed the attack on the Liberal fertilizer reduction never mentions the actual cost of fertilizer.

Or what farmers base their decisions on? Soil test , crop rotation , soil moisture, and soil moisture.

Reductions will happen for those three reasons more than anything else.

Now throw in double in price and reduction targets will be met.

Conservatives met with Fertilizer Canada , this has nothing to do with farmers. Its a lobbying effort by the fertilizer companies and the conservatives are puppets.

If they gave a shit about farmers , there would be the same attention to western Canadian farmers as what there was in 1988.

I think we got more press in 88 but I never received f all from government