Farmer talk

[sledneck__11]

I will never get tired of seeing Ukrainian farmers stealing Russian tanks.

Mb if someone would drove one of these to the ovconvoy in ottawa trudy woulda actually had a reason to use the emergency act

 

[Rn4]

Sad world we live in right now. This years gonna be hard on farmers that didn’t get a good crop last year to capitalize on the ridiculously high prices. Fert, chemical, seed, fuel all through the roof all to hope you weather the year and come out on top next winter. God do I love gambling lol

 

[kovs]

Sad world we live in right now. This years gonna be hard on farmers that didn’t get a good crop last year to capitalize on the ridiculously high prices. Fert, chemical, seed, fuel all through the roof all to hope you weather the year and come out on top next winter. God do I love gambling lol

Yup gambling with hundreds of thousands if not into the the millions and all at the mercy of Mother Nature and the markets to determine outcome And if we make a few bucks we’re shunned

 

[jhurkot]

Had a little training this week on our new disc drill at the dealership. I’ve never had good luck with seed depth on our hoe drill (bumpy fields from no till). I’ve been seeding all my life with flexicoil but the new cart is quite a lot different. Still waiting on the seed tool but at least the cart just showed up. I’ve seeded the last 12 crops but I’m gonna put my dad on it this year since everything is new and should hopefully work properly.

 

[cdnredneck_t3]

Had a little training this week on our new disc drill at the dealership. I’ve never had good luck with seed depth on our hoe drill (bumpy fields from no till). I’ve been seeding all my life with flexicoil but the new cart is quite a lot different. Still waiting on the seed tool but at least the cart just showed up. I’ve seeded the last 12 crops but I’m gonna put my dad on it this year since everything is new and should hopefully work properly.

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Is that the one with the electric meters for each run? They put the fans in line with the chutes now it looks like. Should be a improvement. We had more plugging issues with our 3850 6 run 45ft than we did with our 1910 deer 8 run 61 foot because of how flexicoil routed the air I believe.

 

[jhurkot]

 

[Mike270412]

 

[jhurkot]

People have been seeding for 2-3 weeks here already. Our drill should be ready for pick up this week. -11 this morning.

 

[Lightningmike]

People have been seeding for 2-3 weeks here already. Our drill should be ready for pick up this week. -11 this morning.

Holy! Is it normally this early down there? Seems pretty risky .

 

[snopro]

Holy! Is it normally this early down there? Seems pretty risky .

Guys in the south are nuts seeding that early in my opinion. Like a wise old farmer in our area once told me you have to seed early if you want to have time to reseed everything again. Lol

 

[jhurkot]

Guys in the south are nuts seeding that early in my opinion. Like a wise old farmer in our area once told me you have to seed early if you want to have time to reseed everything again. Lol

True. All 100ft bourgaults with rail cars so they must have lots of land.


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[snopro]

True. All 100ft bourgaults with rail cars so they must have lots of land.


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In the last 3 yrs around here thats all you see as everyone (90%) have 700-950bu air tanks in either Bourgault or Seed Hawks

 

[sledneck__11]

I was up in la crete area yesterday never been up in that area and we literraly drove 7 hours north of edmonton last 2.5 hours its straight bush and no cell service i was like man these guys must farm 80 acre chunks make one turn off highway 88 wham 22 quarters of land touching in one block 3000+ acres in one chunk i have never seen anything like that where we farm biggest chunk your going to see is one section together then tree lines around it. Was a incredible site to see that wide open of a area. I know in southern sask one farmer has 5000 acres in one chunk but it makes sense to me down tbere as literally no trees was not expecting that for northern alberta

 

[MK4TDI]

I was up in la crete area yesterday never been up in that area and we literraly drove 7 hours north of edmonton last 2.5 hours its straight bush and no cell service i was like man these guys must farm 80 acre chunks make one turn off highway 88 wham 22 quarters of land touching in one block 3000+ acres in one chunk i have never seen anything like that where we farm biggest chunk your going to see is one section together then tree lines around it. Was a incredible site to see that wide open of a area. I know in southern sask one farmer has 5000 acres in one chunk but it makes sense to me down tbere as literally no trees was not expecting that for northern alberta

Drove up there at the end of May last year to buy a trailer, was blind sided by the same thing, except I didn't know they farmed up there.

Definitely was confused when I turned off 88 and saw a row of grain bins. Beauty area there... short growing season but lots of light in June and July when it counts.

 

[jhurkot]

 

[snopro]

With the price of inputs this year I think I'll wait till it warms up more and maybe get some moisture.

 

[jhurkot]

With the price of inputs this year I think I'll wait till it warms up more and maybe get some moisture.

Yeah no kidding. I was going to go out and check soil temps today but the wind is blowing at 93 km/h so I think I'll pass.

 

[snopro]

Yeah no kidding. I was going to go out and check soil temps today but the wind is blowing at 93 km/h so I think I'll pass.

Haha you could start a dust storm digging around lol

 

[jhurkot]

“Without water, we wouldn’t be here”: Alberta irrigation district raises concerns over blocked access to water

Editors note: This story has been updated as of April 25, 2022. Farmers are all well aware of what happens when mother nature turns off the water tap, but what happens when human-engineered access to water is suddenly blocked? Water users in the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District (LNID) in...

www.realagriculture.com

This is a really big deal.


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[The big greasy]

Trudeau government targets grain growers as worst emissions offenders

A Trudeau government report is putting farmers next on the carbon emissions chopping block, using UN data that accuses Canadian grain growers of producing crops with the highest “emissions intensity” in the world.

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