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Post by Oatking on Nov 17, 2024 20:26:11 GMT -6
Wondered how many farms are asking for check off dollars back ?
I never have tried .
With high seed cost I feel it’s excessive
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Post by jcalder on Nov 18, 2024 6:53:33 GMT -6
We never have either but might start now.
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Post by slipclutch on Nov 18, 2024 8:15:12 GMT -6
Moved a bunch of last years corn. The levies/checkoff. Was enough to buy a small car!
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Post by Oatking on Nov 18, 2024 9:11:46 GMT -6
When seed is at or near a hundred dollars an acre I feel why is it the farmers duty to pay for ag research ?I know the federal government does a lot of research with cereal grains but that money comes from our check offs and tax payers . I wonder how much check off dollars Bayer or basf pay for food studies or other multi purpose uses if their grain products they market ?
I feel more inclined to pay for my cereal check off dollars but for canola and beans I feel the equation balance has shifted way to much for extreme profit for the seed company .
It adds up too !
On My little farm I pay close to 4500 or so a year all said and done if you include keystone ag producers .
Oats is quite high because of volume of bushels.
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Post by generalchaos on Nov 19, 2024 9:50:56 GMT -6
I did it this summer. It’s a hassle. For one crop you need to apply for them to send you a time sensitive link.
And then you can only go back a certain amount of months. So I did that and got a letter 4 months later saying I missed the deadline. I’m sure I didn’t but too much of a hassle to check. They make it difficult. I did get a cheque from Manitoba Crop Alliance but it also took forever.
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Post by SWMan on Nov 19, 2024 21:11:42 GMT -6
Been doing it for years, or at least my wife has been. You will soon realize that these entitled pricks at the producer groups view it as their money and take every measure to prevent you from getting it back. It is endlessly frustrating, I would compare it to revenue Canada but they are just incompetent and these people are very deliberately being difficult.
Painting with a broad brush I know and there might be some things that are worth funding, but honestly how many cookbooks/seed rate trials/warm weather meetings are really necessary? There are soooo many issues that really affect agriculture and the crops they are supposed to be advocating for that seem to just never get addressed. I went to one of their "young farmer training meetings" and they made it abundantly clear you had tolimit any controversial discussion and be friends with the politician so you could have their ear, what ever happened to just speaking the truth?
I'd like to know how I start an organization and collect part of someone else's paycheck without permission? Does any other industry tolerate this kind of nonsense???
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Post by Oatking on Nov 19, 2024 21:31:45 GMT -6
When you put it that way , check offs sound worse than a union !!!
I thinks it’s worth my time to get this money back !
I thought a lot of research dollars is already conceded by high seed prices .
Makes me sick how much money has been wasted by my crop bushels .
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Post by SWMan on Nov 19, 2024 21:44:46 GMT -6
When you put it that way , check offs sound worse than a union !!! I thinks it’s worth my time to get this money back ! I thought a lot of research dollars is already conceded by high seed prices . Makes me sick how much money has been wasted by my crop bushels . Ha ha, it would be worse but they don't convince us to stop farming and starve everyone like a union would. However difficult it's still worth the grief, because it's a lot of money. And you are correct there is plenty of research being funded by seed costs. |
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Post by shmiffy on Nov 19, 2024 22:47:40 GMT -6
A producer should have to check the box for the deduction at time of sale. It shouldn’t be automatically take off.
There is basically no research dollars going into a biological farming system style.
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Post by SWMan on Nov 27, 2024 9:37:22 GMT -6
Going through my emails and ended up on the Manitoba Canola Growers website. A look through the projects will soon reveal an amazing prowess for spending money. Some of these projects involve millions: canolagrowers.com/research/ This one for example. The three objectives here would take any grade 5 student about a morning to complete and somehow it used up over $131,000. Most of the beneficiaries are universities and government agencies, is this money laundering? I don't see any breakdown of expenses, might have to dig deeper for that but you get the idea: canolagrowers.com/research-article/development-of-a-harmonized-clubroot-map/ |
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