Saskatchewan

[Blaithin]

In what way though? Weather, scenery, soil type, politics?

 

[multi power]

In what way though? Weather, scenery, soil type, politics?

Farms looked tidy and generally reasonably affluent in manatoba, in contrast sk looking very run down

 

[BenB]

Agreed it always felt 'different' going into SK, I used to think it felt very bleak!! But know there's some really nice places. My boss had lived previously in SK for a few years and swore manitoba was far nicer! I really liked MB.

 

[Chae1]

If it was that good the neighbouring farms would be buying up any land for sale and expanding there own farms.

 

[John100]

So are you all just going to walk off the plane with no job,no income, no references and magically borrow $10M? What's the plan here

 

[Blaithin]

If it was that good the neighbouring farms would be buying up any land for sale and expanding there own farms.

They are. It's not like land sits around for sale for ages.

 

[multi power]

If it was that good the neighbouring farms would be buying up any land for sale and expanding there own farms.

Remember Canada only has about a twentieth of the population of the UK, and it must be twenty times the size , so land isn't exactly scarce

 

[Hilly]

I know a bloke who went there 25 years ago and wants away but cant afford to come home, sick of the winters.

 

[CJ Hall]

I know men have been there anywhere from 10 to 40 years winters don't bother them

 

[Hilly]

I know men have been there anywhere from 10 to 40 years winters don't bother them

Everyone different.

 

[glasshouse]

The land may cost less per acre (cheap compared with ours) but if the earning capacity is much lower where is the benefit?

Having harvested half a tonne to the acre of barley following a -3 frost in mid august (in Manitoba and the barley was only at about GS59), which could then only be sold for £14 at tonne (yes fourteen!) I would suggest the land in Western Canada needs to have a much lower purchace price than ours!!!

what price was this land?

 

[glasshouse]

I know a bloke who went there 25 years ago and wants away but cant afford to come home, sick of the winters.

canadian land has shot up in value, so has the dollar, so he cant be that far wrong.

 

[Blaithin]

what price was this land?

Common for barley to yield around 100 bushels an acre most places. If you're getting a quarter of that then something's up.

He must have planted it in a slough during a flood year.

Although an August frost will definitely effect yield it shouldn't that much (unless it wasn't planted until July) It will effect Grade though.

 

[Hilly]

Common for barley to yield around 100 bushels an acre most places. If you're getting a quarter of that then something's up.

He must have planted it in a slough during a flood year.

Whats a "slough" ?

 

[Blaithin]

Whats a "slough" ?

Like a bog. A very wet bog.

 

[glasshouse]

This is why scots went to canada.
All about settlement of winnepeg

 

[glasshouse]

Wasnt really a free choice.

 

[Blaithin]

This is why scots went to canada.
All about settlement of winnepeg

Lots of Scots in the area because Lord Selkirk founded the settlement.

 

[glasshouse]

Heres an extract from the book

 

[HolzKopf]

Hi everyone,
My partner and I are going on a trip to Saskatchewan at the end of May, we really just want to see whats its like. Any help would be greatly received even just if anyone knows of somewhere we should visit while we're there.

It's a good Scrabble word

We bottled out of driving from Quebec to BC in 2015 after everyone told us that Manitoba and Saskatchewan was 'boring'; endless hours of the Great Plains. We flew from Quebec to Alberta (Calgary) and finished driving to Vancouver via the Rockies. How I wish now that we'd driven the whole way. If Saskatchewan is anything like the friendly plains of Alberta we missed out.

One of life's great road trips