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Seeding peas on canola stubble. Not one single weed on this half section.
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Its crazy how much sooner you start out there compared to here. Still snowbanks in the treelines here.
Yeah I heard lots of snow in the fields this year. Last year I was on my way to Revelstoke on march 11 and saw a guy seeding. Had some weird electrical glitch with the drill so didn't get much done the first couple days. Disc drill pulls pretty hard seeding deep and on a hill.
 

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There was a bill that passed in the house that exempts farm fuel from the federal carbon tax increases. It was a Conservative motion and was voted in favor from all parties except the Liberals. Tell all your friends in case you have a liberal hiding in a haystack.
Ken I understand that natural gas costs for agricultural shops and barns are exempt from the carbon tax. Have you seen a how this is allocated if you have one meter. If you have a link or information on this I would appreciate in info you have.
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Ken I understand that natural gas costs for agricultural shops and barns are exempt from the carbon tax. Have you seen a how this is allocated if you have one meter. If you have a link or information on this I would appreciate in info you have.
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I believe the exemption is only allowed for greenhouses whereby 80% of the consumption is exempt from the carbon tax. All other farming activity pays the full carbon tax.
 

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Little shower this morning, about 1/3 done seeding. Our drill that was built last year has every single fertilizer main hose wearing out already. They only have about 1200-1400 acres on them and I'm running around with my roll of duct tape. I guess they sourced some really cheap hose and other guys are complaining too. Sounds like they're going to warranty it but now isn't the time to be replacing hoses on a nearly new drill.
 

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Little shower this morning, about 1/3 done seeding. Our drill that was built last year has every single fertilizer main hose wearing out already. They only have about 1200-1400 acres on them and I'm running around with my roll of duct tape. I guess they sourced some really cheap hose and other guys are complaining too. Sounds like they're going to warranty it but now isn't the time to be replacing hoses on a nearly new drill.
Sounds like the never ending battle of hydraulic hoses leaking a blowing on the new drills in the past few years... material made by the lowest bidder.
 

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Did a update on my drill today had no choice or it wouldnt let me link to the drill well now my nh3 is not recognized the joys of modern farming
 

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Little shower this morning, about 1/3 done seeding. Our drill that was built last year has every single fertilizer main hose wearing out already. They only have about 1200-1400 acres on them and I'm running around with my roll of duct tape. I guess they sourced some really cheap hose and other guys are complaining too. Sounds like they're going to warranty it but now isn't the time to be replacing hoses on a nearly new drill.

Hose isn’t the same quality even the good stuff also fertilizer is a bit sharper as to round which really wears
I’m going to jinx myself here but our 15’ Deere still has original hoses between cart and drill - they are getting hard/ brittle but resisting changing We have spread a good jag of urea ahead of drills last few yrs so that helps wear too.

One day we will join the paralink and big tank crowd


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Bigtime fall was right around 1 dollar then it went to 1.10 in december to prepurchase then to .95 in jan then after everyone bought it dropped to under .80 cents a pound late feb


Did nh3 price drop from fall pricing?


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We store the drill inside lucky enough to have enough storage hoses of everykind last so much longer now

Hose isn’t the same quality even the good stuff also fertilizer is a bit sharper as to round which really wears
I’m going to jinx myself here but our 15’ Deere still has original hoses between cart and drill - they are getting hard/ brittle but resisting changing We have spread a good jag of urea ahead of drills last few yrs so that helps wear too.

One day we will join the paralink and big tank crowd


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We were supposed to get water this weekend. Apparently a blowout in the canal and no water coming for a while. One guy said 2-3 weeks and another said 1-2 months. This is really bad.
 

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We were supposed to get water this weekend. Apparently a blowout in the canal and no water coming for a while. One guy said 2-3 weeks and another said 1-2 months. This is really bad.

Fingers crossed for a speedy repair for you guys.


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We were supposed to get water this weekend. Apparently a blowout in the canal and no water coming for a while. One guy said 2-3 weeks and another said 1-2 months. This is really bad.
Crappy….

What’s your irrigation district there?
 
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