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Everyone can use a little companionship on a long day at the end of a busy farming season. So Sammy joined John for a day in the combine earlier this week. This video is a compilation of our corn combine process seen from her eyes. My only question is this….Why was Sammy allowed to drive the combine and I wasn’t allowed to drive the tractor?! You can visit “Back In The Combine Again” to see another video of our grain corn combine in action.
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After numerous breakdowns and trips all across Southern Ontario to find parts for our rather antique combine, John is finally back in the combine again. Our grain corn harvest is moving along nicely now, but there are a lot of acres to harvest before the weather turns. You can visit “The Compelling Combine” to see another video of our grain corn combine in action.
Welcome to day 3 of “Ontario Agriculture Week” where we celebrate Ontario farms and the bounty of food grown in Ontario. This video of the harvest was filmed last week when we were digging russet potatoes. We own 240 acres on the home farm, and somehow we all ended up in the exact same little patch of land jockeying for positions. RJ is running the potato harvester, John is working the windrower, Curtis is bringing an empty truck for the harvester to fill with potatoes, and I use my little Defender to boot around the farm capturing footage for our website and social media.
I’m not sure who is going the wrong way here, but I think it might be Johnny in the windrower. And as for that annoying squeak in the audio, I also think it’s Johnny in the windrower. (Do you see the pattern here…?!) Rest assured there were no collisions, and the potato harvest continues to move forward at full throttle. You can visit the “Video” subcategory in The Common-Tater to see many more videos taken at our farm. Welcome to day 2 of “Ontario Agriculture Week” where we celebrate Ontario farms and the bounty of food grown in Ontario. This drone video gives you a quick overview of some of our equipment. And yes, we really need all this…or so I’m told anyways! We need specialized equipment to plant, maintain and harvest each of the crops we grow. Plus we use additional equipment for field work, packing potatoes and delivering our products.
While we can handle the routine maintenance and upkeep of our equipment, we have an extremely reliable list of outside vendors who have bent over backwards for us over the years. So here’s a huge “thank you” shout out to the wonderful people who keep us going during our critical farming season. Whether we need a tire changed, a tractor fixed, an emergency repair on a weekend, our delivery vans serviced, or parts delivered in a rush, they can usually get it done for us. You can visit “Spring Cleaning” to see John getting our tractors ready for the season. Here at the farm, we all focus on the potato harvest during September and October. After tending to the crop during the spring and the summer, the last step is to get the potatoes into the storage buildings before the weather turns. These are our Yukon Gem potatoes rolling along the belts of the harvester into the bulk truck. Yukon Gems are a favourite potato of our customers. They are an extremely versatile potato, and make excellent fries, home fries, mashed and baked potatoes. We will be growing more of those as we continue to look for a substitute for Yukon Gold potatoes which are becoming obsolete. You can visit “The Hypnotic Harvester” to see another video of our potato harvester in action.
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