Former Farm Land

rusty6 · Jun 15, 2017

Got some video together of the land I used to drive a tractor on. The past weekend we rowed a boat over it.
Boat Video

DRussell · Jun 15, 2017

Very nice! I see that your camera is waterproof too.

Steve A W · Jun 15, 2017

What changed that the land became flooded?
How long till the tree huggers tell you to remove
the junk from the "Waterways"?

rusty6 · Jun 15, 2017

(quoted from post at 09:50:08 06/15/17) What changed that the land became flooded?
How long till the tree huggers tell you to remove
the junk from the "Waterways"?

A decade or more of above normal rain and snowfall filled up all the sloughs. What used to be several small ones now joins up into over half a mile of water.
Waterways? That water is not going anywhere. Tree huggers don't even know about this. We take a few dead trees out for firewood in the winter when we can go out on the ice. That is as far as we go

55 50 Ron · Jun 15, 2017

What's a typical depth to that water? Is there a solution (or solutions) to drain the water so you can regain income from the land? To loose income seems a stiff price to pay if there is indeed a workable way to overcome the hardship. Does the government "have a heart" and provide any kind of subsidy to offset farm income loss?

I imagine it's an area thing and not just your land that is flooded?

rusty6 · Jun 15, 2017

(quoted from post at 12:15:34 06/15/17) What's a typical depth to that water? Is there a solution (or solutions) to drain the water so you can regain income from the land? To loose income seems a stiff price to pay if there is indeed a workable way to overcome the hardship. Does the government "have a heart" and provide any kind of subsidy to offset farm income loss?

I imagine it's an area thing and not just your land that is flooded?

It is a huge area of East central Sask. that has been fighting high water levels. Drainage is not an option in most cases. Where a road, yard, or town is in danger of flooding they will have pumps set up and push the water to the nearest water course. There were a couple of pumps North of me pushing water over 2 miles South to get over high ground where it would follow a creek. They ran all summer long and barely kept up with the rain.
Crop insurance pays out the first year of flooding but after that the land is considered as "gone back to nature" and no payments.

rusty6 · Jun 15, 2017

I forgot to add that at some points I could not reach the bottom of the water with my 7 foot "selfie stick". Out where the deepest part of the slough was obviously. Getting nearer the shores we ran aground a few spots. Also got to watch for broken off trees under the surface.
And yes, Gopro advertises the camera housing as waterproof so I had to try it out. It is!

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