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Maybe That's Just Me

Perhaps the greatest influence on farm commodity prices over the past quarter of a century has not been hungry people, or the impact of Mother Nature, but the meddling in the market of world governments.

It's been 10 years. It was exactly a decade that I've been waiting in anticipation for the punch line of this joke. I was 14 years old. My grandpa Bob would have been 64, though he would tell everyone he was only 63 at the time.

It's been a busier SJHL off-season than usual, in no small part due to all the in-province futures deals that were made leading up to the January trade deadline.

Surely I'm not the only one who finds it a little bit chuckle-worthy that Saskatchewan's weather tracking equipment near Regina has been only 50 to 60 per cent efficient over the past several months because of weather-related breakdowns.

Many analogies have been drawn over the years between Saskatchewan's two favourite sports - football and politics. Both are rough and tumble and often won in the trenches. Both will see the occasional cheap shot.

As we hit the entry gate into the dog days of summer, thoughts begin to drift toward this fall's provincial general election and the concerns that need to be addressed by both parties well before Nov. 7. It appears as if the current Sask.

Last week I mentioned my Welsh friend who likes to laugh. Today I want to share a bit of advice he gave me years ago, it has always been sound, and you can probably benefit from it.

I thought I'd get a jump on this column because we all know that one shouldn't put off until tomorrow what can be done today, and I'm constantly trying to write these at the last minute.

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