Friday THANK YOUS

[SASKFARMER3]

Ok, you're going to be the first to get this.


I am thankful for getting weather that is totally back to normal Saskatchewan weather.

I am thankful for the Crop that I am harvesting.

I am thankful for the deals that are coming up when things hit the fan.

I am thankful for my family to be able to farm with me.

Also, I am very proud of our neighbours to the North who took time to go harvest 5 quarters of land for a neighbour that took his own life.

This is community spirit at its finest. Way to go guys.

[bucket]

I am always saddened by the loss of a fellow farmer by suicide...whether I knew them or not....

The early sunrises, the late sunsets, the haze of harvest that turns the sun orange,,,,gazing thru wheat as it augers into the semi...

Very few people on this earth witness the serene beauty of agriculture ...the others see it in video or pictures ...its not the same ....you can't feel or smell the air from a video or pictures....fresh turned soil in the spring or the smell of harvest whether it be freshness of wheat straw or the rotting of canola stubble..

Pictures or videos don't awaken your other senses....farmers witness it everyday...

I have slowly learnt by the clearness of the sky what the day will be ...still miss but have never quit learning which is what drew me back to the farm.....the learning on my terms and maybe with some luck the opportunity to teach another generation...

[farmaholic]

Nice comment Bucket.

[bucket]

your welcome


Sadly the rest of the story is the fact that some guys never get the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of agriculture due to the stress of a crop ruined by a rain or snow or hail event within mere seconds of putting it in the bin...

and of course the constant overlooking by the so called neighbours that are licking their lips waiting for the failure....

and the complete lack of support from others or government when shit does hit the fan...

as you listen to those that get steady support from government for the possibility of creating one more job while agriculture is ignored for its potential job creating ...so families struggle while the leeches thrive....and in the end the leeches die from sucking the life out of the host...

Two stark opinions of ag... both true ...and not hard to figure why things happen ....sometimes these events from both posts in the same day.....

[SASKFARMER3]

Good comments Bucket.

Yea I just have a hard time understanding suicide. Lost friends and classmates and university friends to it. Hell Even a very good friend on here. The ones who are left behind have such a huge problem after the one who thought they had a problem solved are gone.

Yea positive Friday is a good thing.

The rain well gets today is a good thing even if I only got to the halfway mark. I'm half done is better than not starting yet and I'm halfway to home plate.

[sumdumguy]

new holland or case?

$10-15 thousand Case Repair. We’ll put this on the list of fall/winter projects. It happened 6 hours from end of our harvest.

[farmaholic]

If the weather is going to **** around and keep me out of the field then at least "rain" and give me something!!! System after system slips by us from 50 to 150 kms away. We are in a corridor that isn't getting much of anything. While I was harrowing yesterday some distant neighbors were combining. We are down to flax and MAY have been able to sneak in afew hours here and there between fog and meaningless amounts of rain.

I guess my comments a while back of Sept being a pissy month are coming true, I didn't want to mention it again and rub salt in people's wounds. We are only halfway through Sept but the forecast doesn't even look like good harvest weather. Hopefully there's October.

[sawfly1]

thankful for a cool shop in the summer and a warm one in the winter.
strange as it sounds , still thankful 40 years later , I do not have to go back to school in September.

it is a great life. and a lot more fun when you can make money at it.
a job that tends to make you better all the time , because we pay for our own screwups
for the most part .


pretty satisfying when you get it right .

it just beats a lot of other jobs, that are the same thing all the time.

like pulling wrench's on other peoples dirty equipment.
or sitting at a desk , in a cubical or anywhere else and dealing with people all day.
or behind the wheel of a truck all year. harvest is more than enough of that.