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Agriculture committee As I said before, I think it's time to start playing hardball. There's a pile of imports coming into this country from China. Maybe some of their ships should also sit and wait in the water while we decide to unload them. Two can play the game. I don't think the way the situation
April 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Kaun
Agriculture committee I would agree with that. I personally haul my canola to a crush plant. That way I don't have to wait for the trains to show up at the grain elevators. Approximately 10 days after I've signed a contract, I'm hauling. They give you a day to haul and a time to be there. In dealing
April 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Kaun
Agriculture committee Yes, every little bit helps, but being from an oil province, I don't think my oil counterparts are going to support that either. The real thing is that we have to get this canola going, and we have to stop the light-footed dance around the subject. We need our current governmen
April 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Kaun
Agriculture committee Yes, in my mind that's just a band-aid effect. As Stephen said, you're just digging yourself into a deeper hole. It's nothing that I would do because I try to stay as far away from debt as I possibly can. I think if this gets hung out to dry much longer, I'm going to cut to the
April 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Kaun
Agriculture committee In my case, as I mentioned in my presentation, seed is ordered early on in the year. It has to be because some years it is short. Carrying over seed can cause depletion in germination. Quite often the seed is already treated. I also mentioned that canola seed is about $600 to $70
April 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Kaun
Agriculture committee Thank you. My name is Mark Kaun. I'm a third-generation farmer on the land that I own. I produce wheat, barley, peas and canola—a rotation of crops for the best agronomic practices for minimum disease issues and maximum yield. I have a GPS precision farming practice of variable
April 9th, 2019Committee meeting
Mark Kaun