Combines fertilizer

[belly_acres]

the price of anhydrous is $800 cdn. Urea is $430 cdn. The US gas wells are shut down because the US_Cdn dollar difference makes our gas cheaper and ensures the US reserves

 

[Hibred]

What we All have to do and when i say All i mean the American and Candian farmers must cut back. We All must take 10% out of production, after that happens nobody will need government help in anyway and we will be making money out of the market place instead of from government subsidies. Think about it guys and you know this could work, we'd all be making more money and the consumer would pay very little more for food. We all produce the cheapest and best quality food in the world, the problem is the big companies are the ones making the big money off of US farmers.

 

[boyblue]

I like the idea of cutting back on fertilizer or not planting corn at all. I wonder what the cbot would think of thatIJ

 

[Hibred]

I agree lets screw those lousy bastards at the CBOT, all they do is toy with us anyhow so maybe we should just cut back and let them sweat. Those lousy buggers don't have any investment in agriculture at all and look at what we have at stake.

 

[Ed_Boysun]

After 25 years of trying to increase exports through every screwy means possible, the farmers in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, and the United States are still buried in mountains of surplus wheat, corn and soybeans. Has anyone stopped to figure out that it is essentially a zero-sum gameIJ Every bushel that one country exports is one less that the others sell. The mountains of grain remain and the prices continue to slide lower. At the same time we have the new administration calling for increased oil exploration in the continental U.S., offshore, and Alaska. It comes at some surprise to me that most of the farmers that are staggering under the combined burden of low crop prices and higher energy prices also support this strategy. If you have ever been around oil exploration and production it doesnt take long to realize that the oil eventually runs out and the land and ground water have been raped. I dont mean for this to sound partisan, as over the last twenty years both parties have been in and out of power in both Congress and the Presidency and really very little changes. We still hear the same songs We must increase farm exports and Increased domestic oil production will solve all of our problems. Im just an old dirt farmer, but it seems to me that if we used our corn to make ethanol and beans to make bio-diesel we would both use up bushels without screwing someone else out of a sale, and replace imports of petroleum. All the while raising crop prices, protecting our land a little better, and keeping our armed forces safe at home instead of guarding a patch of desert with an oil pipe sticking out of the ground. Does this make sense to anyone else or am I missing somethingIJ Ed The only Democrat Farmer

 

[erndog]

this has been said before on other sites and i think it would be a great idea in a world where all farmers agreed on a course of action. buy half of your production capacity on the board and only plant half of your acreage. make money on the crop you grow and on the board. boy too bad we cant all get together. would be great for one year at least. mho

 

[kidroff]

Farmers grow the things that the whole world needs to survive. If we could band together we would have the world by the balls.

 

[Deerebines]

Where did you get these figuresIJ If you do the math it doesn't equal out......One canadian dollar is equivalent to 67 american cents. Not to mention........there is no anhydrous coming across the canadian border into the u.s. for sale because of the price hike from the brokerages.....what the hell difference does it make what the u.s. does with thier wells in that aspectIJ Actually, I'd think with the prices right now as they are there are more well's pumping than you'd give credit for.....of course that is an opinion and I have no source for it other than my own intuition. I would like to know where you get the idea of the canadian price of N. I'm buying 46%urea for considerable less...I think I could stand the truck bill and deliver to you and still make a hell of a profit.......even after the conversion rate of cdn to u.s.

 

[belly_acres]

the prices were Cargill's at Manning Alberta. Maybe a geography lesson is needed for some. The truck driver gets a fair bit for freight going north in Alberta

 

[bub]

Deerebines where do you live and what is urea and nh3 worth there us or candian I can do the math thanks