Oh well here we go again 1.08 can to USA dollar first thing this morning.
So my Deere equipment is cheaper(wink wink) but my products are higher so no one will buy them. YEA YEA YEA. The dollar is the least of our worries this year. Crops are late I don't care what the guy from Moose jaw is saying were all late and when it froze in 2004 moose jaw froze to really bad. Our crop has rejuvenated to look really nice cereals and canola and peas. But hell a frost like 02 or 04 in august and the Deere's will stay in the shed for fall of 09. Looking back on 2002 it was a colder summer than this year but the same hot one day cooler 4 or 5 then hot again. Crops also in 2002 had the potential to be our largest production ever. 2009 look better than last year for all except the canola. So if the dollar goes to par and if we have a frost will life on the Canadian farm not look to Rosy. Yes it could be worse financially than any of the two previous.
In 2002 prices were strengthening and could blend up. In 2004 prices were down but Crop and CASIP (choke choke) were their to absorb the blow, inputs were lower.
2009 could bring in low prices, no blending, high inputs, and no fed or prov help because of their huge deficits.
Lets hope, no pray the frost does not get here till mid to late "September".
So my Deere equipment is cheaper(wink wink) but my products are higher so no one will buy them. YEA YEA YEA. The dollar is the least of our worries this year. Crops are late I don't care what the guy from Moose jaw is saying were all late and when it froze in 2004 moose jaw froze to really bad. Our crop has rejuvenated to look really nice cereals and canola and peas. But hell a frost like 02 or 04 in august and the Deere's will stay in the shed for fall of 09. Looking back on 2002 it was a colder summer than this year but the same hot one day cooler 4 or 5 then hot again. Crops also in 2002 had the potential to be our largest production ever. 2009 look better than last year for all except the canola. So if the dollar goes to par and if we have a frost will life on the Canadian farm not look to Rosy. Yes it could be worse financially than any of the two previous.
In 2002 prices were strengthening and could blend up. In 2004 prices were down but Crop and CASIP (choke choke) were their to absorb the blow, inputs were lower.
2009 could bring in low prices, no blending, high inputs, and no fed or prov help because of their huge deficits.
Lets hope, no pray the frost does not get here till mid to late "September".
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