This is a barn traveling down the highway.
You can be upset it’s blocking your path🤬
You can complain it’s not going fast enough👺
Or you can be thankful to be able to be in the moment and share it with others. 🤟😁👍
Life and
#AgTwitter
is exactly the same 👍
#perspective
18 wheels and 1500 bushels,
200 more feet and I’m at the road.
A few more tow straps and another tug,
And I’ll finally be on my way,
To the big ole grain elevatorrrrr 😁
#plant18
#harvest18
Photo by Cyndi Hummel.
#KathyMattea
Was light of the moon on sixth of Jan
In a Kenworth pullin' elevator
Cab-over Pete with reefer on
& a Jimmy haulin' the bins
We headin' 4 bear on 614
'Bout a mile outta Piapot
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
& I'm about to put the hammer down.
Jerry Kambeitz' Photo
"There are 5 million diabetic people in the United States, and 1.25 million of them require insulin daily. It takes the pancreases from 26 cattle to provide enough insulin to keep one diabetic person alive for a year."
Did you know that? I sure didn't! 😵
#ThankTheCows
Golden rye, blue sky, combines on the fly.
Grain runnin' through my veins.
I was born small town, deep roots.
Working with one another,
Helping out a fallen brother.
It's how I was born and raised.
Some fun with a
@HunterBros
song.
Photo by Dwain Peregrym.
#plant18
#harvest18
Homesteading, 1902, a To Do List!
- Buy 160 acres
- build a house
- cultivate a specified area within 3 years
- Use horses to clear and break the land.
- Plough fireguard to protect farm buildings
- Plant a garden
- Hunt game
- Collect rainwater
- Organize barn raising
Life on a 🇨🇦 farm!
Jan: Plow snow
Feb: Plow same snow wind blew.
Mar: Calve in -30
Apr: Calve in -40
May: Seed crop then it snows.
June: Drought.
July: Torrential downpours.
Aug: Harvest begins! It snows.
Sept: Week 1 +30C. Week 2 snow.
Oct: No snow!
Nov: Combine in snow.
Help Wanted:
Modern harvest crew looking for hard working people with horse experience.
Please see us in the field to apply.
*This is 1902
*Guess the wage
*How many horses do you count?
I've raised three generations.
8 kids.
Cows, horses, ducks, turkeys, geese, cats, and dogs have all called me 'home'.
You say I'm just an 'old barn.'
What have you done with your life?
#Kandahar
#Saskatchewan
One minute your driving down the road looking at the scenery, the next minute your driving in the scenery looking at the road 😐
Cudworth, Sask.
Photos by Brad’s Towing.
"And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
🇺🇸
#harvest19
Amazing photos by 📷Ray Brown
Columbia County, Washington.
"Swamp Donkeys in the Canola."
One of the greatest days in my life, was the day I spent a million moose minutes with these beautiful creatures. The moose is the Hollywood Star of Mother Nature. Loves to pose for the camera! Just pure joy.
I loved scouting crops around this old church. I spent many hours around this work of art. Thinking, admiring, creating stories... love, love, love this old church!
"Farmers of Saskatchewan lined up waiting the arrival of a train bringing relief supplies of food, clothing, fuel and hay probably around 1931." - Photo from The Winter Years by James H. Gray
Farms per country:
China: 200 000 000
Brazil: 4 400 000
USA: 2 200 000
Canada: 205 730
Australia: 85 681
Thanks to
@BumperCrop1
I was intrigued to look up these stats!
Today I sat with a farmer in his shop and made him a gratitude list. He told me stories and I wrote down the key points. When I was done I hung the list on his cork board.
Sales is about caring, not about selling.
It’s very easy to care about those that you respect.
#farmers