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Farmers love carrots, don’t you know? They dangle one for years in front of the next generation, so to keep the young folks guessing when they will become part-owners and have their dreams turn into reality.
“The proverbial carrot that Dad is holding out is really getting me down,” says the young dairy farmer.
The family has grown its roots deep into the soil at their Abbotsford, British Columbia, area dairy farm.
Allan Mulder was just a boy in 1969 when his father purchased the farm where Allan and his wife, Dianne, raised their three daughters.
Food, water, shelter, clothes and sleep are all things we take for granted. Without any of these basic things, life itself becomes difficult for us, if not impossible.
Understanding the basic concepts of growth helps improve calf and heifer management. Early postnatal growth is the most efficient time to develop skeletal growth, muscle growth, deposit protein and attain the highest feed efficiency.
Every year is different. That’s what makes farming interesting and, some years, very challenging. This year across much of Canada we were blessed with reasonable conditions at the end of April and in early May.
Widespread flooding across Manitoba wiped out the chance of a hay crop this year and is affecting forage supplies this winter.
According to Glenn Friesen, business development specialist – forages with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, it is estimated a million acres of farmland were flooded this spring and summer.
With more than 250 companies exhibiting the latest equipment, products and techniques for the ag business – the Pacific Agriculture Show is the place to be for anyone involved in agribusiness.
Held Jan. 26-28 at the Tradex Exhibition Centre in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Show times are Thursday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The admission charge is $10 for adults, $5 for seniors, and children under 14 free.
It is hard to believe this is our final issue of 2011. Last year, we introduced our plans for a new Canadian edition at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock, Ontario.
One year later, we returned to celebrate accomplishments made thus far and announce bigger plans for the future.
Two busloads of dairy producers and industry representatives crisscrossed through southwestern Ontario on Sept. 16 to see improvements made on area dairies.
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