Done, Seeding now time to hit the lake.

[parsley]

Oh, btw, Mc, you left your load of canola sitting so you could reply?

Eager now aren't we. LOL

That was the best part.

Now, I'm going to ask you a trick question. LOL

Let's see if we have any common ground when it comes to marketing:

I'd enjoy if you'd read my blog.

Would you enjoy it if I bought farm products from you?

Note: I used the word enjoy.

Parsley

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes MC its nice to talk marketing on this site, but look at stats of use lately today as an example, US Dollar at par 0 replies, frost tonight in all west 3 replies, going to lake after long seeding process for one night 30 replies.
Seems to me once in a while letting off some steam or just silly nonsense helps one come back to earth and realize that life is to short to sweat the small stuff.
Yes funny always remember summer holiday to Clear Lake or BC, but never remember picking roots, stones, cleaning the barn hauling bales fixing fence, running the cat, scraping or going on a bender with friends and then having to go do smf at 7 instead of 6 on a sat morning, Dad was leaving us time to sleep.
And lots of us who are on here have met with lots of people who run huge companies, banks, oil companies etc.
So back to marketing but lets have fun also.

[mcfarms]

Never seen a computer get apoplectic before kinda funny.

Single desker hardly...some people who read that will get a good chuckle like I did.

[per]

Yes I used one for the first time this year. Have been using a conventional diamond and then foster buncher for many years. I have never bunched wheat straw or canola straw before, usually we have enough acres of barley to suit our needs. I went to the Jones unit because I wanted to be able to direct seed or at least have that option. The bonuses were that not only did we direct seed our bly stubble this year without any troubles but I gain HP on the combine by not needing the straw or chaff spreader any more. Straw is straw, cows like some varieties and not others. I calculate straw at 4% protein. You could test it and be exact but that is about what it usually comes out at. The chaff depends on the combine and it's operator. For the first several days of each field the cows will do well. I monitor their manure by watching the grain, length of fibers and consistency. When the fibers start to lengthen then they are short of protein. How much you save depends on the cost of protein. I have used pellets of all sorts, tubs, alfalfa and barley. Often the barley is the cheapest option and good alfalfa can be as well. Tubs are the least satisfactory especially when it is really cold. What you save is in the fiber, not hauling bulky feed out of a field and back to a field and not baling or manure spreading. Also it is the least dusty option at harvest time cutting the fire risk down as well as making a fire easy to fight because the straw is in manageable locations. Will it pay for itself in a year? Depends on how many acres you do, how many cows you feed, how tough the winter is, how long you use them, and the cost of the protein. I pencil all my options every year and it comes in at or near the bottom every year. They do require that you own a heavy harrow and make the cows use them up. We had a field near wintering calves that were swath grazing and the calves loved them and cleaned them up well. I'm hooked on bunching but you will have to do the math for your situation. Seems like a lot of $ for what you get but after the winter was over I never regretted it and AJ will recycle that money in Western Canada.

[mcfarms]

Oh and wasn't that eager just was going by the house, needed a drink and came into return an email to a landman and knowing that once the bait was set wouldn't take to long for the fishy to take it. lol ( see fishing analogy)

[parsley]

How often do you drink corn whiskey, per? Morethan 12 times a day? LOL Pars

[parsley]

if Japanese malt customers or the Japanese national flour millers association or the president of the largest brewery in China came here, they would be looking for wheat or barley,via a Winnipeg office, and protocol would DEMAND that they process their visit through, yes, you have it folks, the monopoly seller of wheat and barley.

I don't suppose they'd want piss off the Wheat Board, do you?

Nope


So, Mc who's speed dial are you on? LOL LOL LOL Pars.

[mcfarms]

really ??? Oops guess we're breaking protocol then, you're amusing.
Oh and by the way it's not us thats getting the friends and family discount from the board on the buyback, but I'm sure you're topping it up on your sales to match what the rest of us farmers on agriville would have to pay to get a buyback right???

[parsley]

I've spent more damn time and money than you could imagine, (even though there are presently available, depending upon who you are: no buybacks, reduced buybacks, variable buybacks, and negotiable buybacks,) working towards making sure everyone, including you, are NOT having to pay any buyback at all, but after reading pettiness like that, it makes a person ask themselves, "what was I thinking?" Pars

[mcfarms]

Its not pettiness and you know it, it's wrong and the fact that most farmers aren't even aware that the organic sector is getting preferential treatment over every other hard working farmer in western canada is too, I wrote the board and asked why this was happening the response was that organics don't compete in the same markets as the grains we grow do ,which is a load of crud.
All grains compete in some fashion or another and frankly that was when I really realised that the board had actually became orwellian in that "some animals had become more equal than others"
You are the one that accused myself of being a suck up to the board Parsley, which by the way on agriville is the signal that rational discussion is over when the well well well your just a single desker or a farmer for just us starts up you know,I think despite your protestations to the contrary the pot was calling the kettle black. Dontcha think.

Now that said I may be wrong all you have to do is tell me here that you have never paid a buyback to the board for your grains lower than what the rest of us would get and I will apologise sincerely and honestly. But if you have taken a low cost buyback then you better do the same to me.