Friday Cocktail in the last week of January 2025

[Herc]

417 combines at Pattison, 167 are X9’s.

440 at Rocky

169 at Redhead

340 at Brandt

Nobody seems worried…..

[LEP]

Holland America. Then when we are on the river we are with a company called Do Brazil Right for a few days into the Amazon Jungle and up some tributaries. It’s a complicated agenda to set up plus you need yellow fever shots and malaria pills. Plus April 01 Canadians will need a visa to visit Brazil which is a process in its self.Water levels were at record lows so trip was almost cancelled but it’s been raining steady now so we hope we get to all our destinations. Will report back when we arrive if we have data .

Watch out for Pirahna.

[Crestliner]

417 combines at Pattison, 167 are X9’s.

440 at Rocky

169 at Redhead

340 at Brandt

Nobody seems worried…..

Is that close to a $1 Billion of combines in total? Wow? That's a lot of interest every month to pay.

[farmaholic]

Does anyone need a combine with a seat with sensors that can tell you what you ate for dinner by the smell of your farts? How about less tech and better engineering. What's wrong with simple and basic. JD would have done themselves a favour by offering a smaller version of the X9, those combines need big headers to feed that beast. And those headers are quite the contraption.

Machinery prices seem to be based on 2021/22 grain prices. Well it's not 2021/22 anymore either.

Did Gerry Bourgault recognize the possible unsustainable trend of ever increasing size and price of machinery and choose to get out?

Everything is a million bucks, maybe that iron should depreciate on the lot for a while, instead of on my farm...

[shtferbrains]

Implement company's have inflated the price of the dealers inventory annually in recent years making large inventory an asset.
Made everything work.
Even the RB clear out probably didn't hurt.
US buyers were always there?
New money coming in with buyouts always happening.
Everything looks like it has snowballed on them now.

Not enough money in the pot

[Old Cowzilla]

Local JD and RME shops were quite busy and full this week from what I saw . RME service mgr. said they have couple new drills and cults to put together right away and service a few new quadtracts. Needed O-ring kit for loader tractor half was in Regina and other half was in Toronto ( Loader tractor capitol of Canada )

[blackpowder]

I've heard Gerry saw the direction the company needed to go but aged out instead.

[Sodbuster]

Gerry’s kids did not want to take over Bourgault also.

[Herc]

Gerry’s kids did not want to take over Bourgault also.

Be like a son taking over the farm when he’s never done a single days work on it…..

[sumdumguy]

Be very careful for malaria. Our Canadian friend, born and raised in Saskatchewan didn’t even realize he had been bitten by a mosquito but died of malaria at 55 years of age. He was a hospital electronic tech in Quatemala for more than twenty years.