Monthly Archives: August 2009

Harvest is sneaking up fast! The first canola fields are swathed. Some swaths look pretty skimpy. Other fields look quite decent from the road. The yield monitors will tell us the truth (if calibrated right). Robert and I will both … Continue reading →

Robert and I are ‘up north’ again for a few days – my brother Fred asked us to come and help him put up his second crop silage. I got to do the raking with a tractor without a cab. … Continue reading →

How quickly the cereal fields change colour. They hardly head out, a sea of waving green heads and then the fields start to show shades of yellow. Some barley fields are already ripening off. I see farmers making silage out … Continue reading →

My fingers are blue, and I’m sure my lips are too! It’s saskatoon berry time in western Canada. I’m at my friend Sharon Rottier’s U-pick filling my pails and my mouth at the same time. Those berries are sooo good! … Continue reading →