There is corn grown for cattle winter grazing to cut down fuel/time/bale production
The Tarriff Hype.
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When did I say there is zero corn or did I say we dont because we cant compete?
Indeed. Silage and test plots of feed corn. Its fairly new and still in testing. Itll be a long time before it gets to the point that feed corn is as viable as barley.
Corn
- Corn is best adapted to areas with more than 2,000 corn heat units, but, with the introduction of new low-heat unit hybrids, corn is increasingly being adopted throughout Saskatchewan for silage and late-fall or early-winter grazing.
- Because costs are high and proper variety selection, seeding rate and method, fertility and pest control are critical to successful production, first-time growers should consult with an agrologist prior to seeding corn.
- In order to reduce financial risk, producers should also purchase Corn Heat Unit Insurance through Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation.
- Provided that the agronomic package is adhered to, corn generally produces more forage than cereal, but late-summer frost can substantially reduce yields.
Warm-season crops
Warm-season crops need warm soils to germinate and more heat to mature than cool-season species and should be allowed to mature through July and August.
www.saskatchewan.ca
The sugar beet belt. Its low enough. 1000+ feet lower than south central sask.
Empathy from the trucking industry where diesel & tariffs are the wildcards right now.
Heat units of the soil, warmer in the spring and fall
U.S. farmers are so dependent on Saskatchewan potash that they’ve been begging the Trump White House for a tariff exemption. The U.S. is only able to produce about 10 per cent of its domestic potash needs, with the rest coming from Canada. “No substitutes exist for potash as an essential plant nutrient,” reads a statement last month by the U.S.-based Fertilizer Institute.
Uranium it’s another one of those things…the bluntness of Trump’s tariffs has revealed a whole bunch of Canadian imports that don’t have easy replacements. As such, Americans are simply being forced to eat the 25 per cent tariff and pass it along to their customers in the form of higher prices.
The inflexible nature of U.S. aluminum demand, for instance, means that Americans are still buying roughly the same quantities of Canadian aluminum, except now at a 10 per cent premium.
Protectionist policies such as tariffs are often implemented as a sop to the manufacturing sector. You make foreign goods artificially expensive, which effectively acts as a subsidy for domestic factories as they no longer have to contend with cheaper foreign competitors. The result is higher prices for consumers and lower overall productivity, but at least you have a few extra factory jobs to point to.
That’s assuming that the imposed tariff on an import is something can be readily replaced by a U.S.-made alternative, such as beer, beef or potato chips. You’re still forcing consumers to buy a less-competitive version of what they want, but at least that less-desired option is available.
So it’s telling that as these tariffs approached, the reaction wasn’t jubilation from the U.S. manufacturing sector. It was the opposite.
An index maintained by the Institute for Supply Management found that U.S. manufacturing reacted to the looming trade war with stagnation: No major orders, no new production lines and instead of hiring sprees, there were layoffs.
“Demand eased, production stabilized, and destaffing continued as … companies experience the first operational shock of the new administration’s tariff policy,” explained a statement by the group.
As to why, it certainly doesn’t help that a lot of manufacturing inputs suddenly got way more expensive, with aluminum being a prime example.
FIRST READING: How Trump's trade war is blowing up in Americans' faces — National Post
The stock market gains racked up following Trump's election are gone, and their once-booming economy is now shrinkingapple.news
(YouTube & “'We don't accept this': Canadian Ambassador explains why Trump's tariff fight is pointless”)
How Canada can unlock its economic superpower potential — National Post
'With an ambitious policy agenda, the G7 nation can become a major economic force'
Marko Papic, chief strategist at BCA Research, also reckons Canada could be better off in a warmer world. “Global warming could increase agricultural yields, open up large swaths of the country to mineral exploration, and allow for new trade routes through the Arctic,” he said.
Canada boasts a huge supply of other commodities too, including the largest potash reserves (used to make fertilizer), over one-third of the world’s certified forests and a fifth of the planet’s surface freshwater. Plus, it has an abundance of cobalt, graphite, lithium and other rare earth elements, which are used in renewable technologies.
“Canada absolutely has potential to be a global superpower,” added Papic. But the nation has lacked the visionary leadership and policy framework to capitalize on its advantages….So let’s ditch this liberal boat anchor and put somebody into governance other than the liberals already!!!
Yeah, but this is the prairies we are talking about. My kitchen table had more elevation change than from Edmonton to Winnipeg.
How many match packs unders the legs to level? Dont fool yourself girl. Edmonton is at 2200ft while Winnipeg 790ft Calgary 3420ft Regina 1893ft Saskatoon 1653ft Swift Current 2680ft Brandon 1343ft Selkirk 738ft
The Cypress Hills, covering about 2500 km2, are situated in southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan. With a maximum elevation of over 4790ft they rise 1968ft above the surrounding prairies, forming the highest point in mainland Canada between the Rocky Mountains and Labrador.
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In contrast to the noticeable drop-offs in Canadian and U.S. GDP forecasts over the past months, the outlooks for China, Russia and Saudi Arabia all got better. China, in particular, is on track for 4.8 per cent growth in 2025.
Trump’s tariffs against Canada have ostensibly been levied for the sole purpose of pressuring Ottawa into taking a harder line on border security.
Trump is only allowed to unilaterally impose tariffs in case of a “national emergency,” for which the White House has cited Canada’s purported contribution to the “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs.”
In multiple public statements, however, Trump and his cabinet have framed the tariffs as part of a wider strategy of protectionism, including the shutting-out of foreign goods in order to shore up local manufacturing.
“We have de-industrialized the United States of America. There are things we can no longer make and we have to be able to make in order to be safe as a country and in order to have jobs,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview this week on CBS.
On the shortlist of major Canadian foreign policy accomplishments was the time in 1997 when then foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy gathered several dozen countries in Ottawa and got them to sign a treaty banning anti-personnel mines. Now, four of the signatories — Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — are looking to pull out of the treaty because they want to mine the borders they share with an expansionist Russia.
The 1990s actually saw quite a few high-minded international treaties that aren’t looking like great ideas in hindsight. One of the more notorious being a 1994 agreement under which Ukraine gave up its nuclear stockpile in exchange for a guarantee by Russia not to be invaded.
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The market is wallowing amid an unpleasant soup of tariffs, uncertainty and confusion. The major U.S. indexes — the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq exchange — are all flirting with correction territory, meaning they’ve given up any gains made in the run-up of enthusiasm preceding Trump’s inauguration.
Losses on the S&P add up to US$4 trillion since January. Among the biggest losers are Trump’s richest supporters: Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index calculates 10 of America’s wealthiest people — mostly in tech-related industries — are down US$300 billion so far this year, led by the world’s richest, Elon Musk, who has all but stapled himself and his fortunes to Trump since the start of the president’s second term. The market value of Tesla, Musk’s electric car company, has fallen by half, or about US$800 billion, and could well plummet further according to investment bank J.P.Morgan, which cut its price target for the stock to US$120 a share, compared to US$428 on Jan. 15.
So dire is Tesla’s outlook that Trump offered a personal endorsement, appearing on the White House drive with the black-clad billionaire to make a public pledge to buy one of his cars.
Though Trump put Musk in charge of downsizing the government, improvement is hard to find. Federal spending hit a new high last month — US$603 billion, up US$36 billion from 2024 — despite Trump’s pledges to slash it. The federal deficit set a new record at US$1.15 trillion over five months.
Investment firm Goldman Sachs slashed its forecast of U.S. growth to 1.7% from 2.4%, stating “our trade policy assumptions have become considerably more adverse” while White House policy “is managing expectations towards tariff-induced near-term economic weakness.”
“The longer the tariffs stay on, the more the risk of recession grows,” economist Luke Tilley told the Associated Press. Former treasury secretary Lawrence Summers says the odds are now 50-50.
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The Wall Street Journal, the bible of U.S. business, says top corporate and financial figures fear Trump is dragging the U.S. into trouble. In a much-discussed editorial it denounced the tariff onslaught as “the dumbest trade war in history.”
A recent headline warned, “Wall Street Fears Trump Will Wreck the Soft Landing.” While corporate chieftains hold their tongues in public for fear of upsetting the thin-skinned, volatile president, the Journal reports, in private they’re appalled. One participant in a recent top-level corporate gathering reported “universal revulsion” at Trump policies, adding “They’re also especially horrified about Canada.”
Trump’s tariffs against Canada have ostensibly been levied for the sole purpose of pressuring Ottawa into taking a harder line on border security.
Trump is only allowed to unilaterally impose tariffs in case of a “national emergency,” for which the White House has cited Canada’s purported contribution to the “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs.”
In multiple public statements, however, Trump and his cabinet have framed the tariffs as part of a wider strategy of protectionism, including the shutting-out of foreign goods in order to shore up local manufacturing.
“We have de-industrialized the United States of America. There are things we can no longer make and we have to be able to make in order to be safe as a country and in order to have jobs,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview this week on CBS.
On the shortlist of major Canadian foreign policy accomplishments was the time in 1997 when then foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy gathered several dozen countries in Ottawa and got them to sign a treaty banning anti-personnel mines. Now, four of the signatories — Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — are looking to pull out of the treaty because they want to mine the borders they share with an expansionist Russia.
The 1990s actually saw quite a few high-minded international treaties that aren’t looking like great ideas in hindsight. One of the more notorious being a 1994 agreement under which Ukraine gave up its nuclear stockpile in exchange for a guarantee by Russia not to be invaded.
FIRST READING: New figures on just how badly Canada and U.S. are being mauled by Trump trade war — National Post
The U.S. is actually losing more money, even if the impact on Canada is greater
Losses on the S&P add up to US$4 trillion since January. Among the biggest losers are Trump’s richest supporters: Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index calculates 10 of America’s wealthiest people — mostly in tech-related industries — are down US$300 billion so far this year, led by the world’s richest, Elon Musk, who has all but stapled himself and his fortunes to Trump since the start of the president’s second term. The market value of Tesla, Musk’s electric car company, has fallen by half, or about US$800 billion, and could well plummet further according to investment bank J.P.Morgan, which cut its price target for the stock to US$120 a share, compared to US$428 on Jan. 15.
So dire is Tesla’s outlook that Trump offered a personal endorsement, appearing on the White House drive with the black-clad billionaire to make a public pledge to buy one of his cars.
Though Trump put Musk in charge of downsizing the government, improvement is hard to find. Federal spending hit a new high last month — US$603 billion, up US$36 billion from 2024 — despite Trump’s pledges to slash it. The federal deficit set a new record at US$1.15 trillion over five months.
Investment firm Goldman Sachs slashed its forecast of U.S. growth to 1.7% from 2.4%, stating “our trade policy assumptions have become considerably more adverse” while White House policy “is managing expectations towards tariff-induced near-term economic weakness.”
“The longer the tariffs stay on, the more the risk of recession grows,” economist Luke Tilley told the Associated Press. Former treasury secretary Lawrence Summers says the odds are now 50-50.
Kelly McParland: Trump's litany of failures is adding up — National Post
For all the attention focused on the daily outpouring of headlines from Washington, it’s noteworthy how little of substance has yet to be accomplished
A recent headline warned, “Wall Street Fears Trump Will Wreck the Soft Landing.” While corporate chieftains hold their tongues in public for fear of upsetting the thin-skinned, volatile president, the Journal reports, in private they’re appalled. One participant in a recent top-level corporate gathering reported “universal revulsion” at Trump policies, adding “They’re also especially horrified about Canada.”
Dont forget we have 5 million who need to leave Canada in the next 9 months. Do we have the 18,000 a day leaving needed? In 4 more weeks when its warm enough will there be a rush on the border?In contrast to the noticeable drop-offs in Canadian and U.S. GDP forecasts over the past months, the outlooks for China, Russia and Saudi Arabia all got better. China, in particular, is on track for 4.8 per cent growth in 2025.
Trump’s tariffs against Canada have ostensibly been levied for the sole purpose of pressuring Ottawa into taking a harder line on border security.
Trump is only allowed to unilaterally impose tariffs in case of a “national emergency,” for which the White House has cited Canada’s purported contribution to the “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs.”
In multiple public statements, however, Trump and his cabinet have framed the tariffs as part of a wider strategy of protectionism, including the shutting-out of foreign goods in order to shore up local manufacturing.
“We have de-industrialized the United States of America. There are things we can no longer make and we have to be able to make in order to be safe as a country and in order to have jobs,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview this week on CBS.
On the shortlist of major Canadian foreign policy accomplishments was the time in 1997 when then foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy gathered several dozen countries in Ottawa and got them to sign a treaty banning anti-personnel mines. Now, four of the signatories — Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — are looking to pull out of the treaty because they want to mine the borders they share with an expansionist Russia.
The 1990s actually saw quite a few high-minded international treaties that aren’t looking like great ideas in hindsight. One of the more notorious being a 1994 agreement under which Ukraine gave up its nuclear stockpile in exchange for a guarantee by Russia not to be invaded.
FIRST READING: New figures on just how badly Canada and U.S. are being mauled by Trump trade war — National Post
The U.S. is actually losing more money, even if the impact on Canada is greater
Maybe a rush on the Mexican border.
The ones ordered out of Canada, they’re 1 in 8 of the Canadian population. They’re just gonna ignore the order, not flea to the US.
They can't stay here. That 5 million leaving is the solution to the housing crisis. The Liberals need them to be the solution so they can grandstand.Maybe a rush on the Mexican border.
(YouTube & Mexicans leaving America because of Taco Bell)
The ones ordered out of Canada, they’re 1 in 8 of the Canadian population. They’re just gonna ignore the order, not flea to the US.
What’s going to make them leave? Seriously? They’re already here. They’ve made lives for themselves. Got Jobs, etc…so as long as they stay off the grid and out of the system…they’re not going anywhere.