Arnold visited and told me the young Adrian from Secretan had another birthday. He’s old!
Most folks know but need a reminder – it’s the time to get your chicks for the season. Not many people sell chick any more. Used to come in a 100 chick flat, with a couple extras thrown in.
When Stubbleweather’s Store in Fern Valley sold chicks the loud chirping was called the Sound of Spring Time. Stubbleweather’s don’t carry them no more so check in Moose Jaw.
On the topic of chicks, Arnold said that in the old days in Moose Jaw, when he was in school there; said he got part-time work at the old Cluck and Pluck Plant out by Caron. I never heard a more descriptive name for a business.
Late Monday the boy was by the house on the way home from the Bank. We talked farming and how difficult it is to decide what to plant this year. India put import tariffs on pulse crops in 2017 wrecking that market. Canadian exports to India dropped 83 per cent.
China gave some relief for yellow peas. They increased imports of yellow peas from Canada by 84 per cent in 2018. They use them to make vermicelli noodles, very popular in China. Now in 2019 the Chinese cut way back on yellow peas and the market dried up. With no good markets in India or China no sense growing yellow peas even if they are easy to grow and store. And the pet food market for yellow peas is also gone. Too many folks selling. And the Chinses ain’t buying canola. The boy’s putting in more wheat.
They say problems in agricultural sales come from the arrest of Mrs. Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. She’s the boss of Huawei. She wasn’t arrested for crimes in Canada. She was arrested because the Americans want her. Seen her on TV and she seems like a nice lady. Coffee drinking philosophers and most farmers don’t know why Canada keeps her arrested.
Mrs. Meng Wanzhou ain’t hurting for money. She lives in a house in Vancouver worth $13 million. That kind of money buys you 31 houses in the Sunnyingdale neighbourhood of Moose Jaw.
The whole agriculture business, so important to Saskatchewan, has gone totally crazy. Who knows what’s gonna happen with future agriculture sales. And now the Chinese, who love pork, are gonna cut back on that. Don’t matter that the Chinese have to go without Canadian pork – the Chinese politicians is cutting back.
Since we done what the U.S. wanted with Mrs. Meng Wanzhou, I wonder if the United States will give Saskatchewan farmers money to get through the coming winter? Yah! Right.
Until next time,
Lucid Lu Knight, Fern Valley, via the Mossbank Post Office, Saskatchewan
