Rob Somerville
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Farmer MBA (Specialization in Ag) cattle/grain
East Central Alberta
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How I start off every morning… fly the drone out to check the cows. Checked 5 herds on 5 different quarters. All from my kitchen table. Checked all the bunks, water, cows are all in and look comfortable. Takes 15-20 minutes. Strong winds today slowed the drone up a bit.
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I have never forgotten when we received a donation of hay 2002 in what was called Hay West. It was a real morale booster. We still have the name of the Quebec farm family who donated that hay tacked to our bulletin board
Iowa's like a sibling -- we might tease Nebraska every so often, but we're also there to lend a helping hand in times of need. ❤️ (PC: Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts)
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I see people joining this
#WEXITALBERTA
or
#Wexit
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Here in Alberta Canada we call these things Texas gates. What are they called in Texas? I think they have a different name there.
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I am out of a job. For the past 10 days or so I have been hauling water to this pasture, 4-6 hours a day. We got 2.8" rain in the last 24 hours. Consider the water hauled.
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@DanKEberhart
@SecretarySonny
@POTUS
@realDonaldTrump
Trumps bully tactics do win trade concessions from world leaders who give Trump a small victory while waiting for his time to be up. Americans seem oblivious to the hard feelings he is generating amongst close allies and former friends much less the global community.
#Section232
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Got this photo off of Facebook. The PTO caught the shirt and ripped all the clothes off of the guy. He had a sprained arm and a lot of cuts and burns. Someone was there to grab him or he would have gone around the shaft with his clothes.
#BeSafe
It only takes an instant.
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We saw a solar farm yesterday. North of Drumheller by the airport. A huge area of prime farm land covered by solar panels. A $36 million project by ATCO. Somewhat upsetting to see that. It kind of brings home some ugly truths about just how unimportant farm land is.
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I have been farming a long time. What I have learned is the most important farming skill is the ability to know your costs. Sure, I always had some records and thought I knew what I was doing. I really did not know and mistakes were made. Cost management is a core competency.
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This photo belongs on a calendar, post card or something equally special.
My afternoon nap was replaced with twins ❤️❤️… so happy I was able to help my girl …. I can sleep later 🙏🌼🌼
#lambs
#twins
#shepherdess
#farm
#hillfarm
#lambing
#lambingseason
#nature
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We keep a small bottle of oxygen by the chute for emergencies. This was one very dead looking calf but when we left the pair the calf was breathing OK.
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IMO agriculture is in a very dangerous time. If stability is the farmers friend ag does not have many friends right now. Who remains to farm another generation and who are forced to quit will be determined by luck not by skill. The vultures are circling.
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How is it
@environmentca
tries to convice us their climate change models predicting global gloom and doom are accurate yet they cannot forecast weather for the next day? If you can't forecast weather for the next day don't tell us you can forecast the climate for the next decade
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Our old MF860 is working to put a 30 foot swath through.
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My strategy for getting through the drought? Appreciate what I do have, like family. I know it will rain someday. I also realize the drought will affect my mood, no matter how hard I try, so I try to be careful about over reacting to things. It will be OK.
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Maybe... just maybe grass is world's largest solar panel. Grass produces energy (calories) that are converted into food by cattle. All this while storing CO2 a
#GHG
. Pretty cool.
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Do people do autopsies on cattle that die? Got a dead calf this morning. Don't know why it died. I feel like I should know what happened. Could've eaten some plastic. Got stepped on. No signs of scours or starvation (the usual). Not old enough to have most diseases. They just die
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Baling very dry hay. I smell smoke. Got the bale out and some smoldering hay doused with water. I'm counting myself lucky today. Will have the new bearing in soon. And still have a baler.
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The vet was scheduled to be at our place this afternoon but we received word she was injured this morning at another place. I can't think of another occupation that requires all that education and is subject to injury, sometimes serious injury.
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So I did something yesterday... my wife and I are the proud owners of a Ford electric truck. Its very nice. Only the second new vehicle I have ever owned. We live far from any town so need to do a lot of driving. The fuel saving by going electric was too great to ignore.
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I hear Canadian dairy producers are going to paid a bit more for their milk. I am pretty much OK with that. I know I couldn't do that job, day in and day out, 24/7 for years. They earn their money.
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Wow! How do people get like this? Extreme, I mean very extreme views on Covid. I know some of these people. Good people. But they have been radicalized. Really. Is it social media? Their church? Coffee shops? People.. it is just a vaccination. 99% of people have had lots of them.
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I talked with someone who is in the midst of calving. He calves by himself and checks every two hours, around the clock. I don't know how he does it, I certainly couldn't do it.
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A handy dandy tool… it’s a non contact voltage tester. In cold weather we use it to make sure block heaters have power. Or waterers or anything. Just touch it to an insulated wire and if there is power there the end will glow red.
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Nailed it!
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Four year old
#grandson
birthday. Parents gave him a riding John Deere tractor. We gave him a set of plastic tools. After riding the tractor all morning in the afternoon he was fixing the tractor while muttering to himself. Muttering seemed to be a necessary part of it.
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We are mostly cattle with some grain. Medium sized farm. I look at the grain guys and the equipment they can afford to buy and I know the cows can never generate that kind of cash flow. Not even at todays cattle prices, not even close.
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Drought is the big equalizer. Our big farming neighbours with their impressive lineup of expensive seeding and spraying equipment... Their crop is burning up just as bad or worse than ours which was seeded with a much more humble line of equipment.
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Would your cows do this? Ours would take some persuading. I don't know if our cows can swim or not.
Cattle swimming to one of Ireland's offshore islands for grazing.
Can you imagine me trying that with ours 🤣🤣
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Drought solutions... installed a solar powered submersible pump in a previously drilled well. We now have a water supply on this quarter.
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Other than I am not sure people actually handle square bales by hand anymore, this looks like a cool rig.
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Checking cows with a thermal drone... Cows glow making them very easy to spot, day or night. This drone is basically a flying camera. One of the cameras is thermal which is very useful for finding cattle even in trees.
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Ford F150 Lightning (electric) truck being put to work. (Being careful to not exceed the approved weight for the truck). Truck used 30 kWh per 100 kms empty going to town. Used 42 kWh per 100 kms loaded coming home. Lots of power for the job. The electric F150 handled the load.
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Another load of fats going out. The truckers I admire are the ones who are working. Getting the job done.
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A couple of pics from this morning's cow check with the
#M30T
drone. One photos with zoom, the other with thermal. Just checking the bunks and the dugout to make sure all is OK. It was.
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We had a heifer in the wrong field, in thick brush. Herding her out to join a herd in the next field. Could not see her from the ground most of the time but could follow her with the drone...
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Social media... I've noticed that everyone is an economist and expert in taxation policy. Now everyone is an expert on Covid19, vaccine development and medical therapies. I'm still waiting for people to become experts on humanitarianism and plain human decency.
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I got word that a fellow we know has unloaded all his cows. He had no feed and no water. He was just a young guy with a young family starting out with a hope and a dream.
#Drought2021
did him in.
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I am up early. Couldn't sleep. Woke up thinking about what it was going to cost to feed the cow herd this winter. Believe me... you don't want to go there.
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Buyers fees at Ritchie Bros auctions... if I bid $1 on a pallet with some junkie stuff on it (and am the successful bidder) I then owe Ritchie Bros the $1 that I bid plus $100 minimum buyers fee. Plus GST.
Its a rip off.
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May 20, 2003. Canadian cattle producers remember the day well. I remember my Mom called me up and asked if we would be OK. I didn't know.
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I bet many cattle producers have had this happen to them or a member of their family. It was the same for me... a quiet animal suddenly turned and roughed me up against the fence. Most of the time we get lucky, get out. Not everyone does.
This cow has been with us for 7 years, she’s calved every year. She’s one of the quietest cows on the farm. This is why you should never trust any of them. Last night wasn’t a good one. Dani is ok, just bruised, but if she was lone working it could of been different. Hellish.
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Remember when... you took the air cleaner off and put a pencil or comb in the choke to get the engine to start?
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#CalvingTips
We have found that dark chocolate works to get a calf to suck. The darker the better. Rub the calf's mouth with the chocolate it will often suck immediately. Works when nothing else will.
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As harvest winds down it is important to acknowledge how fortunate we have been in 2022. We got the rain when we needed it and we missed the hail. We had pasture for the cattle and will have feed for the winter. You need a good year once in a while.
#grateful
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Anyone who has given milk to a new born calf knows that milk is a miracle food.
Feeding new calf colostrum. Cozy in her house with infrared heat.
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The first week with the new Ford all electric truck... Basically it is a Ford F150 (with all the bells and whistles) that is dirt cheap to drive. Very comfortable to drive. Incredible horsepower and torgue. Need to be careful about speeding. Equivalent mileage is 3-3.5 li/100kms
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I would never have guessed...
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We are getting lots of rain. Crop is in and sprayed. Bulls are out with the cows. Grass is growing, crops are coming on. Life is good. We had to go to town with a nearly empty fuel tank just so we could have some stress 😀
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We aren't calving yet but for those that are... what is your best method of getting a cow to take another calf? Any sure fire methods out there? We skin the mother cow's dead calf to put skin on the twin or whatever calf we want the cow to accept. Works pretty good, not 100%.
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Be careful... there are people in this world that will try to sell you hay they do not have, do not own. We were nearly taken in ourselves. They will pretend to own hay, put an ad on Kijiji, even a photo. They want money up front. We are going to see a lot of hay fraud this year.
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I found what is maybe Red Deer’s fastest charging station. 350kw. (Tesla may still be faster). Our Ford Lightning took in 187kw at first but slowed down to about 150kw then 55kw around 80% charge. Fast and convenient but not cheap. About the same cost as gas for those kms.
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It feels odd, listening to it rain outside.
Super relieved we are getting some rain. Wondering if we will get enough to make a difference. We only have had 1/4" so far but I am expecting more. Grateful to the family for toughing it out through the dry. Everyone is really tired
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Our pasture and corn is insured using a rain gauge which is located about 8-9 miles away. As far as the insurance goes it does not matter what rainfall we actually get on our farm it only counts the rainfall in the distant rain guage. It is a system that does not work at all.
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Would you buy a diesel over electric truck?
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A much younger version of me thought to be a successful farmer required skills in producing cattle or growing crops. Today I would say the
#1
skillset for a farmer is the ability to form successful relationships with people.
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We have an old barn that collapsed. Does the wood have any cash value or do we just dispose of it?
A few years back I grabbed a bunch of really old barn boards from a soon to be demolished barn. This is one of the only pieces I haven't purposed yet. What do you see??
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Polio was not a fraud. It seems necessary to say that after reading tweets about how vaccines don't work. I grew up with people just a bit older than me who had polio. Most are dead now so the life long impacts are less visible. Vaccines are a miracle.
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For years I worked under the belief that if I could just get the cow herd to a certain size we would be profitable. I found out it does not work that way. Older yet wiser.
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I'm sure it is great to be able to work from home... but when I phone a large company it is not super when I get a response like I am working from home so I cannot get you the information required. It should be seamless, I should not be even able to tell you are working from home
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Wow! We drove to Red Deer yesterday. Folks, there is no grass out there. We thought we were bad. There are lots of areas that are worse. No program is going to save the cow herd this time. There is simply nowhere for the cows to go. It has to rain and rain a lot. Soon.
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Its all baloney about cows contributing to climate change. The world have been covered with grass for 1000s & 1000s of years and animals were grazing that grass. No man made climate change then. Now there are cars, planes and big industry using fossil fuels. Its not cows fault.
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We are trying to be responsible with
#Covid19
. Stay at home, avoiding family gatherings etc. Then I see photos of the long lines at airports and wonder if we are just being chumps. We are trying to keep the incidence of Covid down so others can enjoy themselves & have a good time
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Overheard 2 old guys in McDonalds... they had spotted our Ford Lightning truck plugged in at Peavy Mart. They weren't impressed!Apparently they knew all there was to know about electric trucks. Not! Its not what we don't know, its what we think we know that is wrong that hurts us
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#M30T
drone thermal camera video of our cows at the bunks. It was dark when the video was taken. The thermal camera uses heat not visible light to "see". The cows (and a few cow patties) are the hottest objects, they show up glowing white.
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About fat cattle prices... hopefully we will never again be told that big lie. You know, the one about how packer profits trickle down to the producer. They don’t. Let’s stop pretending they do.
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I took a photo because I thought I might never see this again in my lifetime. The corn is 2 feet taller than I can reach. Places are taller. Ten feet tall?
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Today President Biden will cancel the
#KeystoneXL
Pipeline.
Its not that I care much about a pipeline. Its that Canada is such an easy target. The Rodney Dangerfield of the global community. There will be no push back, no repercussions from Canada. We are basically a colony.
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This is worth a retweet…
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I have known farmers that sell beef direct to consumers. Some have been doing it for quite a while (must be working). Is it profitable? Worth the extra work?
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Something about this video... the thermal camera shows which cows have more condition, one or two have less. Cows with less condition lose more heat, especially along the spine. I've know all along a cow in good condition took less feed to keep warm, this video illustrates that.
#M30T
drone thermal camera video of our cows at the bunks. It was dark when the video was taken. The thermal camera uses heat not visible light to "see". The cows (and a few cow patties) are the hottest objects, they show up glowing white.
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News reports are saying 18,000 dairy cows are dead. The remaining cows were moved to safety.
🚨
#UPDATE
: Mass Casaulty Incident has declared after explosion at dairy farm in Dimmitt, Texas. So far one person is in critical condition at this time with information being very limited this was moments after the explosion that took place
#SouthForkDairy
#CastroCounty
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Nicely played!
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Our Ford F150 Lightning electric truck has 20,000 kms.
Impressions:
Big roomy comfortable full size pickup
Very nice to drive
Quiet
Lots of power
Outstanding acceleration/braking
Full time 4WD
4 wheel independent suspension
Incredible driving economy (equal to 80mpg)
(Thread)
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This lady posts amazing photos.
Home. Today is a Fell day. I'm up on my beloved Howgill's treading a familiar path. My company is that of Shadow, sheep and swifts that whirl then twirl about the folds of gentle fells. Warm winds blow that tangle hair. Saturday a day for solitude and silence.
@NFUCountryside
🐑
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@gmbutts
Rage farmers... I have never heard that term before. As a farmer myself, I am pretty sure the individual confronting the Minister was not a farmer. That person could make their living any number of ways, he could possibly be unemployed. Why use the farmer word?
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I'm working very hard at trying to stay as positive as I can in this drought. We were so close to hitting the jackpot but now we're in survival mode yet again. They say this is next year country. Need to stay positive so we can keep slugging away until next year. Its not over yet
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I have never seen cows moved like this...
Walked the last cows home from pasture without heated waterers.
2-mile walk: Used the trusty “Mobile Polywire Paddock”. Sure saves lots of fuel, stress & time compared to trailering them, although the 💩 trail on the road might not be as favourable with the neighbours 😂🤠!
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@FoodProfessor
The Competition Bureau seldom does anything. It is a show piece, a pretend piece.
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What happens to hail damaged vehicles? I imagine a badly dented truck is written off. But does someone fix it? It goes for parts? Because if the price was right I wouldn’t mind driving a truck with hail damage. They seem to get dented doing farm work anyway.
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My daughter is here for the weekend. She took the Electro Beast out for a drive aka
#FordLightning
. She asked where the flux capacitor was. Good question. I am sure the truck has a flux capacitor I just haven't found it yet. Buttons still to be discovered. She likes the frunk.
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On cold windy days... I was remembering my Dad and neighbours who fed cows using a tractor with no cab or even a horse and sleigh. I don't know how they did it.
Or maybe I do know, they did it because they had to.
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Bull sales... I am seeing bulls selling for $15,000. That takes a sharp pencil to pay that for a bull. Or maybe they are not using a pencil at all?
Can you justify paying 15K for a bull? Answer is: people justify all kinds of things.
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The thing is... farming was way more profitable in 1973.
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Just thinking about the Fed Govt's plan to mandate labels on hamburger. & people pondering why hamburger when other foods are not labelled. Its about driving the Cdn cattle industry right into the ground. Its about anti-cow. Couldn't be more clear.
@mclaudebibeau
@HealthCanada3
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@jdman9870
My uncle who was an ace fighter pilot and later taught pilots to fly jet fighters always said any landing you can walk away from was a good landing.
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