Glorious Day

[cowman]

Lee: Yep, I guess you could say it is the equivalent of the "wish book" for farmers? Always very interesting and always something new! Got mine about two days ago.

[Braveheart]

We love to get "The Book". For my seventeen year old wanna be a farmer son, it's one of the highlights of the year.

For me it's always a reminder that "you are only as successful as your wildest dreams". The reason I say this is that the publisher of "The Book" used to be my high school Industial Arts teacher. While he taught us drafting, ceramics, silk screening, fibreglass use, etc. he was always very entrepreneurial in nature. When we were being taught these skills he was always reminding us how the skills were used in industry and always left the "what if" question in our minds. Too bad it was the '70's, most of us didn't remember.

[cottonpicken]

Can you believe the shop space that guy has(on the cover).

That was a good idea to put arial photos of farms for the front page.

Pars&melvil if you have never seen this catalogue i'd track one down.

It reaches 144,000 canadian farms.

[Braveheart]

CP, that farm does have a nice shop, but the big zipperlocks you see are potato storage. The farm is about 9 miles south of Holland, MB on Hwy 34.

But, you're right. The aerial photos are nice.

[parsley]

Got it, CT. We also get "The Plant", "The Prairie Ag" et al, I mean a whack of them!

Parsley

[ruggb]

Braveheart
Thanks for the explanation of the shelters on the farm. I never thought of potatoe storage. I love the covers on "The Book" and have saved them from a few years back.
I suppose there are privacy concerns or whatever but I wish they would give a bit of an story with the pictures.
I don't know if remenber last years cover. It was a gorgeous yard but some of the bins were totally inaccessable to a super B. Funny how yard design has changed over the years.

[cottonpicken]

How many "bushels" per acre of potatoes can a guy produce?

[silverback]

The Victoria Secret Catalog?

It is a good wish book.

[Braveheart]

I recognize some of the yards on these covers. But, I understand why there are no names associated. As soon as your name and address gets in print there is often a stream of cold sales calls.

CP, the farmers that own that yard likely lifted 500# - 600# of potatoes last year.

Silverback, I'll take Giselle Bundchon over potato bins anyday.

[Ron]

CP I am sure I will be corrected if I am wrong but 12-20 tonnes per acre of spuds?