Is Monette Farms like Bernie Madoff?

[bucket]

And there lies the problem guys think your nuts asking $50/acre for pasture yet sombody will give you $80 to grow a poor crop of canola What are Co-op style pastures charging for pairs now? ( if you can still get into one )

Makes a guy wonder why the pastures are not getting ripped up for cropping? What stops them from doing that? Big $$$$ in cropping, why grow cattle???

[AlbertaFarmer5]

https://www.producer.com/news/monette-farms-clears-trees-in-man-locals-frustrated/

I find this Western producer story concerning.
The locals somehow believe they should be able to dictate what their neighbors do on their own land?

And the media thinks that landowners removing their own trees is newsworthy enough to send reporters all the way to the scene?

While I sympathize with the local cattle producers tried to compete with that, it sounds like their plan was to leave it in Bush which last I checked doesn't feed very many cows. This looks a lot like the free market at work, someone is willing to spend the money to improve the productivity of the land, therefore it is worth more to them.
Either that or else global warming doesn't occur on schedule, and it all reverts back to pasture land, in which case the locals can buy it back after someone else spent all the money improving it.

Is this what the future holds? Farmers need to consult all potential stakeholders before making any improvements to our own land?

[furrowtickler]

What I find interesting is that to sell any canola to Richardsons or a few others , one must sign a declaration stating that you are not to remove bush and or drain wetlands as per an agreement to sell to European markets.
well all the larger farms as pushing bush constantly and their trucks still roll in and out of those elevators.

[Old Cowzilla]

All that new brokenland canola go's to G3 while the local Richardson's looks abandoned. They are always paying more anyways.

[FarmJunkie]

Gotta hand it to Darrel for trying to run a farm all over western Canada but I really don’t know if he realizes what he’s getting into in some of these places he’s trying to farm. There’s a reason the farmers and ranchers of these particular areas had four legged creatures running all over them. Weather changes all the time and the last few years in these areas has been dry. When it switches back to wet or more normal conditions their equipment would the last stuff I would ever entertain buying after the shit I know it would have gone thru. Good luck to them.

[shtferbrains]

That still looks like pasture with the bush pushed up?

How much value added to that many acres?

[makar]

What I find interesting is that to sell any canola to Richardsons or a few others , one must sign a declaration stating that you are not to remove bush and or drain wetlands as per an agreement to sell to European markets.
well all the larger farms as pushing bush constantly and their trucks still roll in and out of those elevators.

Bullshit. I sell almost everthing to RP and the cat is idling as I type. Signed nothing.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I've never been to this exact area, but looking at Google earth, the area around Cayer and Eddystone look just like the muskeg which is prevalent in our area. Except our muskegs are interspersed with strips of high land which is farmable if the cold, rain, hail and snow cooperate. The Eddystone and Cayer areas don't appear to have much elevation to work with.
What would be the process to turn this land into crop land, does it require drainage and landscaping? Or have they inadvertently chosen the middle of a drought to start this project?

[blueversi]

Let them push every stick they want. All trees do is offer cover for large four legged rats such as elk and deer.

[fjlip]

A big front for laundered foreign $$$.

He is just a name, started with SFA, got someone to fund it all, using his name to be legal.

A friend knew him in tech school and it's all BS.

[Old Cowzilla]

Pushing the trees is the easy part its the drainage and rocks....and rocks to dig move and bury.Thin layer of top soil when it clicks it clicks but for how long. As for the 4 legged rats they move farther south to our country and live on alfalfa,soybeans and corn fields. So far the elk stay closer to the mountain but we do get the odd moose wandering through.

[SASKFARMER]

It's swamp.when it rains and it's heavy dirt. Rocks heavy