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Date Posted: Monday, March 26, 10:09:15pm
Author: Lij
Author Host/IP: adsl-99-186-236-116.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net / 99.186.236.116
Subject: Wow.... I just looked online at some properties in Saskatchewan....
In reply to:
AS
's message, "It's dirt farming at it's worst." on Monday, March 26, 10:38:35am
For instance.....
Town: Central Butte
Municipality: RM of Enfield No. 194
Province: SK
Land: 276 acres
Taxes: $621
Description:
276 acres – slightly rolling topography; 261 cultivated acres; no bush, some sloughs; Average New Scale Assessment 43,880 / 160 acres
Cn$621 taxes on 276 acres?? You must have high income tax because that is downright cheap money for property taxes. On my 615 acres in the river bottoms I pay over $11,000 in taxes per year to the state government. It didn't used to be that way, my taxes have more than doubled in the last decade (and that under a republican administration for the most part).
They are asking Cn$130,000 for that acreage. Even if you just count the tillable acres that is just Cn$500 per acre. I may sell out here and move to Canada. I can become a real land-baron up there. When my mother died the appraisal on her 100 acres was $3500 per acre. Of course, you're probably growing wheat year in and year out, or maybe some rape for oil up there. And productivity may not be the same as down south. But man....
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Productivity is variable. The winters are loooooong. Yes, income tax is high-Universal Health Care has to be paid for somehow. -- AS, Monday, March 26, 10:27:11pm (d207-216-49-87.bchsia.telus.net/207.216.49.87)
Wheat, canola, mustard, rye....those are the grains that first come to mind when to comes to the area around the farm. Drought, flood and hail are the secondary crops.
Our neighbour to the south lost his farm a while back thanks to trying to support himself and his two nephews, who had ambition but not a lick of business sense. A few bad years and Don had to sell out-I think he took what was left and moved to Calgary to live near his sister. His land was mixed farming, he supported a couple dozen head of cattle and grain but lived in town, since his cattle could be watered from a dug-out. Too bad, he loved his life but was trying to do right by the boys and paid for it since he never married and had no secondary income from a spouse, which seems to be the way a lot of farms make a go of it these days.
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Yeah, that far north sound like it would be a real challenge... -- Lij, Monday, March 26, 10:30:55pm (adsl-99-186-236-116.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.186.236.116)
.....a person would have to be dedicated to it.
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Winters as low as -50 with the wind chill factored in. Summers anywhere from high 30's to mid-teens. -- AS, Monday, March 26, 10:46:41pm (d207-216-49-87.bchsia.telus.net/207.216.49.87)
The hunting is good (duck and geese), I imagine there is some fishing in the lakes around that area. Amateur softball in the summer, curling in the winter, snowmobiling or atviing depending on your cold/dust tolerance. Shopping is probably just the local co-op and a few hardware stores,drug store,etc Most small towns have lost what business they had to the big box stores in the city, mostly because very few kids have stayed in the community to set down roots of their own.
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Much the same here. But at least every county has a main town with shopping so you're never more than about 20 miles away... -- Lij, Monday, March 26, 10:54:00pm (adsl-99-186-236-116.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.186.236.116)
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So, I took a look at the village's community page. And yes, it's now a village, not a town. -- AS, Monday, March 26, 11:07:13pm (d207-216-49-87.bchsia.telus.net/207.216.49.87)
What services they have, the only ones that are not single listings are that they have two beauty salons and two restaurants. One credit union, one grocery store, one medical clinic, one general store, etc. Wow, depressing. Reminds me of Sparwood....
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Lemme guess..... -- Lij, Monday, March 26, 11:16:34pm (adsl-99-186-236-116.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.186.236.116)
Meacham?
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No. Further east. -- AS, Monday, March 26, 11:27:38pm (d207-216-49-87.bchsia.telus.net/207.216.49.87)
It was never exactly a convenient trip....packed in all our food for the day trips, no bathroom (just the outhouse, LOTS of spiders since it was used so little) and you worked up a good sweat only to have no way to even rinse off before the drive home. Boy, those moist towelettes we take for granted now sure would have been a treat back then!!!!
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