Would someone care to lobby our politicians that an $80/acre straight acre payment is not unrealistic given the fact that government makes all this from taxes and puts very little of it back into agriculture, the very place it gets all of this revenue from? It’s obscene.
And this still does not include any monies made from the companies that make these products including its breweries, longshoremen, grain elevators, CN Rail, CP Rail which takes a third of our cheque right off the top.
Chemical and fertilizer companies take another third of the total price. …
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Kochia has become a significant problem for Prairie farmers
As you travel through southern Saskatchewan and Alberta, particularly in areas challenged by dry growing conditions, the magnitude of the kochia problem is easy to see.
Then in order to make your land payments and put some food on the table, you, your wife, and any kids over 14 all get a job.
The last thing the farmers need is another loan. They can’t handle what they got and most of them haven’t got the last loan paid for from the last farm crisis.
Like a lot of farmers I’ve farmed for the last 30 years and I should be handing it over or retiring but I now have 50 percent less equity in my farm and by the way it’s going, give it 10 more years and I’ll have none.
… By springtime there’s going to be hell to pay. There will be farmers that can’t even feed their own family. I’ve been there. You can’t go on welfare because you still might have $10,000 equity left in a $600,000 investment.
– Arnold Elliott,
Smiley, Sask.
