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Are you sure it was actually smoke - something was uncontrollably burning? Must've been quite the unusual emergency if so... Industrial processes common to facilities such as pulp mills often emit hot flue gases that form a white cloud sort of - exactly the same as the white cloud that forms...

Recessions are inherently brought on by negative economic growth. Lower oil prices most often help to stimulate the economy actually. In 2007/2008, the danger was when oil prices skyrocketed, the after effect was when they fell way down. At these prices, oil seems somewhat stable at $80-95 ish...

But there's no oil sands bitumen sheen, what's the worry everyone? In all seriousness... Not good at all. Likely lots of heavy metal pollution into major waterways that will have huge effects far away with time.

Have a 2620 since 2009, and no input costs other than oil/filter changes. Had an older used one before this (forget the model # of it), but same thing - no issues. Got the roto tiller from don lang in ponoka at the time - not sure who would sell the equivalent brand now - it's a land pride...

I think it's time for the wild rose. It should of happened at the last election anyway.

Keep watching for new episodes of airplane repo... Probably hijacked and the plane was stolen though. Gotta think that any airforce would just shoot down such unidentified aircraft, so not sure about the whole bombing idea, but you never know with those Taliban.

Don't electoral candidates have to campaign themselves, independently, raising their own money? Or at least in theory anyway? I wonder who's campaign this goes towards? At least Obama is done soon anyway!

You can invest it in just about whatever you want, but it's only tax free for Canadian assets. mutual funds, etf's, stocks, etc. are all fair game. Some strategies say to use the tfsa for more risky investments - if it works out well you don't have to pay any tax. I try to play it a little safer...

I get the different strains of influenza every year idea. But specifically with this H1N1 strain that has apparently been around for a few years at least now. Is this year's flu shot going to help more, or be better, than last year's, or the year before, or the one before that? They all had...

For sure. Pretty soon Redford will be saying that it was a bad year for flus and they are short of immunizations. Then she'll be saying the budget is gone because they spent too much on healthcare. No one will complain because everyone wants healthcare. :endrant lol

Would've thought that once you built up an immunity it was with you forever - or at least for quite a long while. I guess I forgot too that there's only profit in treatment, not in curing or eliminating anything with our healthcare systems, it's too bad.

Does anyone know if this H1N1 flu is the same strain/virus that started the big outbreak a couple years back? I recall there being a huge rush of people getting a special vaccination just for the H1N1 flu before they incorporated it into the yearly flu shot. If you've had the shot in year's...

There's a few outfits around the area here that seem to pay pretty much anything just to say they farm more than the next guy. I sometimes think there should be a limit on the size of operations - make it more fair I think. Look at trying to start out as a farmer - even a very modest 1,000 to...

This is in Westlock county, north of Edmonton. Landlords wanting 3 or 4 year rotations on canola still get 70-80 per acre, and many 2 year rotations are pushing or exceeding 100 per acre. This is 2.5 to 3.5% of market value for rental. I'm not saying it's right; I'd definitely have a tough go...

New wells can take a while to clean up, yes, but usually the drillers can do this with another pump when they finish drilling the well - otherwise you are risking damage to your pump from the sand. They should've been able to circulate water through the well for you to flush out all the sand and...

Cash rent seems to be the simplest, and over the longer term, probably comes close to the same after a few good and a few poor crop years. Not sure if it applies for yourself, but cash rent does not equate to farming the land yourself for tax purposes. However, a properly structured crop share...

I just got a new iPhone 5S since my old contract ended. It took a bit to get use to some of the new layout with version 7, but after a couple days I don't mind it at all. As mentioned, change a few of the settings and the battery life seems fine. I gave my old iPhone 4 to a family member - also...

One of our neighbours did some field trials last year and compared the yield differences with a weigh wagon and seen up to 9bu/acre increase in cereal grains. His soil was a bit lower pH than ours, but even less than half this increase would be beneficial given the cheap cost of the wood ash...

Petro-Can / Suncor apparently starts changing over on Oct. 31.

Is anyone else looking at products to maintain their soil pH for grain and oilseeds land? Ours isn't terrible, but has been slowly getting more acidic over time for the past several years with continuous cropping. Lime products from Exshaw are probably the most pure, but terribly expensive. A...