Proud of your product

[nibs1]

Freewheat you too make real good points,we have done the same with our kids when they were home, raising meat chickens,eggs, pork,beef. Now that they are grown and moved on they all want farm raised produce (as welll as their fiends) so we are back raising most of ours and their food.we are very proud of what we produce from meat to grains. We had the organic inspector out the other day and gave us some good complements on our crops and our raising our own food,but it took 14 years to get here, its is a different way to farm and not for everyone.I am enjoying farming way more now than when I was conventional.

[nibs1]

Hobby you said it exactly the way we feel about our conventional neighbors we each farm our own way and often talk and compare, no problems. Hobby we will have to get together for a coffee or beer sometime, i am from the south and your in the north i take it, maybe meet in Saskatoon?

[hobbyfrmr]

Nibs, i appreciate the offer. I would like to meet eventually. I could bs all day about organic. My biggest trouble is we have 4 young kids and literally, everyday, we are madly off in all directions. My trips to Saskatoon are scarce and usually for parts. This is just the way we live at this time. I will keep it in mind.

[cottonpicken]

Can't really blame a guy for using the tools in the toolbox. It's somebody else's job to figure out what is safe and what isint

[cottonpicken]

And you cant really blame a guy for not wanting to chase around a bunch of critters in his spare time when that stuff is so frickin cheap

[sumdumguy]

We have grown a lot of lentils since 1980 and never desiccated, only swathed. Why, you ask. Because if we could produce a good green sample without the pre-harvest spray, why would we spray them days before consumable product?We knew a fellow farmer who sprayed Decis on his lentil swaths to kill grasshoppers. Think the people who ate those lentils would have appreciated the kind gesture? Think they would appreciate the glyphosate? Life is precious.

[farmaholic]

Sumdum, do you receive a premium for your efforts and social conscience?

[Ache4Acres]

The dum guy is right. If you recognize a problem you try to avoid it. If the situation dictates a preharvest glypho its ok to do it, everyone wants to survive. But at the same time double think it. We are proud of the food you produce but its inarguably better without chemical days before harvest.

[tweety]

Definitely worth the read - especially the section on BT corn. The story of Papaya too. Few articles have ever put it all together. Highly recommended for any farmer regardless of your production practice.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/07/are_gmos_safe_yes_the_case_against_them_is_full_of _fraud_lies_and_errors.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top

[Rareearth]

Why is it that farmers ( one of the oldest and most honourable professions) bear the burden of social responsibility?
Shouldn't this be a Federal responsibility, then it would be shared by all Canadian citizens? Until it is my responsibilities are to family, farm, community, province and then national. I make no apologies for my decisions and actions. To survive and look after the priorities however misguided some believe they are.

To walk a day in some one else's shoes....

[tweety]

It seems interesting people today with so much information at hand are even easier to dupe then ever before. And believe it at an almost religious level.

also interesting, none of them have answered your question.

[sumdumguy]

Farmaholic, nice green #1 Lairds often enough. Some years a bit of grief, yeh, but standing lentils can get pounded down too.