Corey Loessin 🧢 @405farmer Twitter profile

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Corey Loessin 🧢

1 year

It works! 1967 John Deere 55 combines wheat again for the first time in 43 years. Took a fair bit of sheet metal work and some new chains. Beautiful day for some nostalgic harvesting! #harvest23

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Corey Loessin 🧢

@405farmer

5 months

I used to think I could weld. Then my son took welding after finishing his degree. He just TIG welded this stainless steel coupler for one of our pumps…patience and prep, he says.

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@405farmer

9 months

The canola market: 20 years ago, sold canola for $6/bus and a greasy spoon biker breakfast was $4.95 2 yrs ago, canola $25/bu and breakfast $9.95 Today, canola $13/bu and breakfast $19.95 #farming #GoodTimes @SaskCanola

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@405farmer

1 year

Crime is out of control in our area. Usually give @rcmpgrcpolice benefit of doubt but lack of enforcement means one of us is staying with the equipment 24/7. No longer calling 911 criminal losers beware.

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@405farmer

9 days

1966 Terex TS14B loading in moist loam soil. Twin 471 Detroits make their own music all day long #Tier0compliant #hillrelocation24

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@405farmer

2 years

Walked into a vehicle dealership to perhaps buy a newer used 1/2 ton. The sales team all sitting in their cubes playing on phones. None really jumped up to make a sale. Walked out again #wehaveanissue

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@405farmer

4 years

Organic vs zero till. Which should command a premium?

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@405farmer

5 years

Our premier @PremierScottMoe is doing an excellent job of managing Saskatchewan through this #covid19Canada deal.

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@405farmer

7 months

Anyone ever run across a petrified T-Rex with one ball? If so, I just found his other one in my field. Could also be one of the ball bearings from Fred Flinstone’s car-he ran the floorboards off that thing.

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@405farmer

1 month

This field is 640 acres. Starting in on it with one combine always feels so daunting. And the neighbor across the creek has 2 big machines going on a 480 acre field. Maybe he’ll pop over and help…

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@405farmer

2 years

Sold one of the kids to fill this thing up today. Couple days of seeding and wife is going to Richie Bros I guess…

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@405farmer

1 year

Why is there an unofficial race? A neighbor just said wants to be done by the weekend-it’s May 8th! Is there an awards program I’m not aware of? Safety, precision and enjoyment-only get to plant 40 or so crops in a career. #tractorthoughts #RegularFarmer #plant23

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@405farmer

2 months

Is there a point to farming more than your family can do on their own? Genuinely curious. By yourself yes at times you need extra hands. Efficiency centres around harvesters. 4000 ac/machine in this area. 2000 ac/person. Maybe super efficient farms are higher? #LaborDay2024

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@405farmer

4 years

This is truth right here

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@405farmer

2 years

If you’ve ever watched an old depression era farmer clean up a tiny grain spill, you realize things were not always plentiful and didn’t come easy #regularfarmer #mydad #agriculture

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@405farmer

23 days

Finished harvest with 1967 John Deere 55. Rebuilt the feeder chain, made our own slats for it and rebuilt the feeder house floor. Runs pretty quiet now. Decent grain sample. Filled the bin right up! #harvest24 @JohnDeere

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@405farmer

5 years

Farm shop art sale. One of three available. This morning only.

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@405farmer

1 month

Quick product review #3 - Honeybee Airflex NXT in Invigor 356. Feeding very nicely. Added the vertical knives this morning and seems divider loss is near zero. Not a tall crop, leaning not lodged. Excellent yield, 12% moisture. 😀👍 @HoneyBeeMfg

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@405farmer

1 year

What I learned on Ag Twitter today: 33 crops planted, all with a few BG drills, should have gone broke 32 years ago.. It takes me 15 mins to fill the sprayer. Inefficient. Basically will never finish. Volvo semi’s. Haha. What a joke they are. This ‘99 may not get me home.

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@405farmer

1 month

Progress is excellent! One good day in a big field gonna fry some French fries. #canolaharvest24 Son in combine. Wife in cart. Me hauling legal? loads. Family farming boys and girls #Harvest24

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@405farmer

5 months

How humbling it is when the crop seeded with a $1.5mil rig looks basically the same as the loose old FC5000 or faded pink BG5710 across the road. A rain after seeding matters #workman 😂

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@405farmer

3 years

There were less empty seats in Bio 110 Monday morning after AgBagDrag weekend… @saskaggrads #andthatsayingsomethin

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@405farmer

3 years

Brought another‘project’ home this morning. 1967 JD 55. Has been parked for 40 years. Came with original bill of sale from original owner. “Idle hands are the devils’ workshop”. Or I’m an idiot.

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@405farmer

5 years

I don’t always fill my truck @Coop_Ag cardlocks, but when I do it’s because @UniforTheUnion told me not to #fired .

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@405farmer

4 years

My winter project #spraymar is done and ready for field testing. All the inventive credit to ⁦ @HolmanFarms ⁩ and ⁦ @landon707 ⁩. Stainless parts and advice from ⁦ @AgriStainless ⁩. Excited to try it!

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@405farmer

26 days

The big canola field is done after several rain/shower delays. And other than some playing with the antique, #harvest24 is finito. #thankful

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@405farmer

6 months

Nice steady light rain. Looks like it’s settling in like it hasn’t for 4 years. Let it rain!! Very exciting. Long way from a ‘drought buster’ but it adds hope. #plant24

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@405farmer

4 years

Testing the additional fire 🔥 fighting equipment we just built for the cart. Low budget about a day of work...and hope to never use it. #harvest2020

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@405farmer

1 year

Field hasn’t been tilled for 33 years. Wrong brand of seeder. Fertilizer in the wrong place. Probably not enough either. Slow to get sprayed-takes 12.5 mins to load the sprayer. Swathed late, in the rain, not quite 2 weeks ago. And yet, crop is getting in the bin. #harvest23

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@405farmer

5 years

Take note @canolacouncil @SaskCanola and @GovCanHealth

Ag of The World

@AGofTheWorld

5 years

To my farming friends outside Europe - a cautionary tale on Canola.

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Corey Loessin 🧢

@405farmer

5 months

Often reminded of Les Henry’s wise words - “Beware the other side of the average”. Land prices, grain prices and weather.

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@405farmer

6 months

Healthy soil. The improvement in organic matter/tilth/worm population after 30 years of direct seeding is simply amazing. Farming systems are area specific. All I know is this system seems good for the arid windy prairie we farm. #notilnoerosion #plant24

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@405farmer

4 years

The ‘85 is back. Fully rebuilt 6.2, rebuilt 4 sp auto, new dual exhaust, new brakes. Way more $$ than its worth but a fun dad son project. 414000km and a new lease on life.

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@405farmer

4 months

Kinda wish mustard was a real crop but it never yields what it looks. And people can only eat so many hot dogs… 4.5 ft high on the 26 of June. Smells terrific.

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@405farmer

1 year

Starting in on a full section of AC Wheatland HRS wheat. One combine on a big field looks like an ant. Going to be here a few days. 10 mile haul too. #harvest23

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@405farmer

14 days

China discounting our canola, India pissed off and shun our pulses, is there anything Trudeau can do to f up our wheat market? Might as well go for the trifecta and kill western Agriculture quickly, less painful #Trudeaumustgo

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Corey Loessin 🧢

@405farmer

2 years

Well, it’s Saturday so … (My sons flag 🤷‍♂️)

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@405farmer

1 year

Irrigation isn’t an everywhere answer. Plus it takes a lot of time/work and expense. The last two dry years, it has paid off very well. It sure is nice to cut a good crop and rewarding after all the work. Water makes grain. #harvest23

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@405farmer

1 year

It’s not the drill, or so much the fertilizer, or what all was done ‘right’. It’s water. With it-things grow. Without it, nothing can make up for it. #drought23

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@405farmer

3 years

100% germ on Wheatland seed. Is this an accurate enough way to test it?

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Corey Loessin 🧢

@405farmer

3 years

Hot take-No self respecting zero tiller would sell their straw to make paper.

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@405farmer

2 years

It is a more respectable achievement to buy and pay for a quarter of land on your own than to use investment money and ‘buy’ a hundred quarters. My humble opinion #landtalk #AgTwitter

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@405farmer

6 years

I’m a proud U of S Agro and our son is starting third year which is great. My last year tuition was $1000. Aidan’s third year is $8200. At least the price of wheat is eight times higher too...what it’s not? It’s the same $ as 1974? Oh how’s that work? @saskaggrads @usask

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@405farmer

4 months

First water pass this year. Plenty of rainfall so far, but the crop is using big water. As Mr Lahey says, time for a little top up. #irrigation24

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@405farmer

1 year

Combine technology has changed over 56 years. The one on the left was $7700. The one on the right has a heated/cooled operator seat that would cost that.

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@405farmer

1 year

Kochia- the weed that won the West!

Simone De Alba

@Simone_DeAlba

1 year

Wild winds today! Great Falls, Montana is buried somewhere underneath all of those Tumbleweeds! 📸 Darrin Schreder / NWS Great Falls

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@405farmer

5 months

Saskatchewan is a funny place. Just when you think it’s so dry and can’t ever rain again, surprise!! Have seen this same cycle many times. It’s not climate change; it’s normal in these parts #plant24onhold .

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@405farmer

1 year

Spritzing on some Distinct and glyphosate at 149 ac/hr with a low depreciation outfit from the 90’s #letthegoodtimesroll

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@405farmer

3 years

Here’s an ‘old start’ video for JD fans. This 55 has sat unused for a minimum of 42 years; new points, condenser and plugs, new oil and gas plus some cleaning, and it has life.

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@405farmer

2 months

Quick product review-Honeybee AirflexNXT cutting dry, standing wheat on day 3 of harvest. Very good performance so far. Adjustable shoes are awesome. Hopefully do some in flex mode in next few days. @HoneyBeeMfg

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@405farmer

10 months

Day 3 of hauling the wheat which makes the flour that the baker bakes the bread with and the grocer sells to the people who make the toast and sandwiches Glad our son is a farmer too #agriculture

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@405farmer

5 months

@stewartjerry253 On backwards…oops

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@405farmer

1 year

Lots of neighbourly interest when you start back up after a rain. What’s it testing? Is it dry? It can’t be dry… It’s gonna be #harvest23

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@405farmer

4 years

GPS/auto steer has been a great advance in farming. But I think bolt on sections are right up there too-if you remember riveting one using your knee as an anvil #harvest20

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@405farmer

4 years

I plant lentils in what turns into a wet wet year...and fababean in what turns into a dry dry year. With that foresight, surely a career at Envronment Canada is a possibility

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@405farmer

1 year

This is so annoying-pay thousands in Ctax and the government sends back a few dollars. I’m going to buy a couple more shares in ConocoPhillip with it. #CarbonFootprint

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@405farmer

3 years

Lentil supply is going to be tight… #Drought2021 #norainnograin

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@405farmer

9 months

Trade is fine, good-we depend on trade. But a question to the carbon tax loving economists that keep saying it’s insignificant…Recall that Ottawa mushroom farm paying 6 figures a year in CTax? They compete with this. How does that reduce emissions on mushrooms?

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@405farmer

1 year

Day 5 #2wheelcroptour concluded. 4000km. Some RVs were passed, many bugs died. Some beers drank and legs looked at. Many nice people and lots of beauty in W Canada. Crop in area travelled is 80% poor, 10% ok and 10% excellent

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@405farmer

3 years

Remember getting your first brown note? During high school, I sold square bales to a horse guy and he pulled 20 of these out of his pocket and paid. Wow I felt rich. Never forgot how rewarding that hard work was. I still hesitate to spend one of these. #regularfarmer

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@405farmer

4 years

That ‘fog’ off in the distance is organic farmland extensively tilled to try and control perennial weeds. Erosion is going to take earthmovers to dig road ditch again. #organic consumers need to know the environmental costs of choice

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@405farmer

1 year

Some are critical of @skcropinsurance being not good enough or being govt subsidized. Honestly tho, who in western half of SK would be seeding a crop, or at least a crop with any inputs without it? It could turn, hopefully does, but it is bloody dry

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@405farmer

5 months

@Jake22Dinosaur He prefers the TIG for aluminum, although we have a wire feed for the mig too. He makes some really nice stuff.

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@405farmer

4 years

Call it regenerative, organic, sustainable, whatever works. 30 years on this field; soil tests and crops show continuous improvement #itsnotjustdirt

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@405farmer

6 years

2nd day doing peas with new header. Think we have it dialed in and can get some harvest done before son #1 heads back to U of S @SaskPulse

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@405farmer

2 years

China has as much land developed for irrigation as the total farmland in Canada. So does India. Canada has less than 2% of its arable land being irrigated. As many areas have water scarcity, is there a huge opportunity for Canadian Ag?

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@405farmer

4 years

@gravellemark So feds announced $4B more for irrigation development but the escalating tax makes it impossible to use the development... “The water will pump itself?”

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@405farmer

1 year

I just can’t get my drill to work. Man, I’ve tried everything. Ya, these black loam soils can b a bitch, and 3 days rain after didn’t help. Even got my PAg. Guess I shoulda taken more agronomy instead of that Poli Sci with the hot redhead How much an acre to fix this mess? 🤷‍♂️

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@405farmer

5 years

If you can easily decide whether to swath, straight cut and when, you’re not a #regularfarmer , you’re a #superfarmer @KowalchukFarms

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@405farmer

4 years

I agree @CherilynNagel as stated on @realagriculture radio-how are people not losing their minds over this crippling #CarbonTax ? We can’t stand for this!

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@405farmer

7 months

Turn the sound up and hear the peaceful Rainbird sprinkler at work. My dad bought this handmove system in the 1950’s and we still get our spring exercise using it. #irrigation2024

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@405farmer

1 year

It may not be obvious, but I have an obsession with water. #Irrigation23 #drought23 #letitrain

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@405farmer

7 years

All our Registered Dietician friends that visited for the lentil tour '17, they are coming off beautiful quality @SaskPulse #lovelentils

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@405farmer

1 year

One interesting fact about this combine-the engine was changed at the dealership before it was sold-upgraded to JD303. #havest23 . @JohnDeere

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@405farmer

2 months

PSA for everyone including wanna be’s… There is no such thing as desiccation on wheat. There is not. If you mean pre-harvest weed control, yes, at the proper stage (ie <30% seed moisture, physiological maturity) that can be done for perennial weed control, and it works well.

Brock Shearer

@bscomet22

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April 29 zero till seeded wheat not desiccated yet 😳 I’m thinking it could be LARGE 🐦📷

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@405farmer

2 years

@theJagmeetSingh Start up your own competing grocery store, or stores. Sell the food at cost, or just give it away. Pay all the carbon tax to refrigerate, heat, transport. It’s a free country Quit wasting time.

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@405farmer

3 years

This is very misleading. A doubling of wheat price only raises bread about 10cents/loaf. And Canada does not have a true shortage. That could happen but has not.

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

3 years

Bread costs are set to skyrocket as the war in Ukraine hits wheat supplies.

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@405farmer

1 year

Just underway with the red lentils. New header. New Crary air reel. Seems to work. Shaving the ground cause they short this year!

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@405farmer

6 months

This. It’s exactly right. If someone says “must be nice”, show them this video. Our pathetic PM needs to reflect on what he said last week re taxing the shit out of older people that had it so easy. And then resign.

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@405farmer

6 years

Almost back home from #Sturgis18 and the common link among lentil fields in Montana, North Dakata, South Dakota, and Saskatchewan-Kochia. Out of control kochia. Virtually every field. Ya, we have a problem...

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@405farmer

5 months

Liberals building houses…

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@405farmer

3 years

A small start on relocating some water to where it can be used. #Plant22

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@405farmer

1 year

Saskatchewan needs to get our act together on #irrigation . Southern Alberta is a booming powerhouse-without irrigation, it would be stage coach ruts and rattlesnakes. @PremierScottMoe @DavidMaritSK We have huge potential!

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@405farmer

3 years

Day 3 “The crop is shit-leave!” tour. BC has some nice scenery. Check on some beaches tomorrow

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@405farmer

3 months

Couple passes ago the nozzles were dragging through the canola. After some big wind and pod filling, the ‘lean’ is on and nice clearance. Crop is getting hard to walk thru, even for the moose #irrigation24 . #canola

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@405farmer

3 years

Due to scheduling, Christmas dinner was today. It was perfect! Joan created an epic feast. Merry Christmas!

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@405farmer

10 months

This is not true. Where is the calculation arriving at 97%? It would be highly dependent on farm type. And there is no payment directly back to farmer. An averaged tax credit amounting to a drop in the bucket. That’s it. Deliberate deception.

Steven Guilbeault

@s_guilbeault

10 months

5/ Fishers & farmers are exempt from the federal fuel charge on gasoline & diesel used for eligible activities. 97% of on-farm emissions are not subject to the price on pollution. Proceeds from the use of natural gas &propane by farmers are returned directly to farmers.

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@405farmer

1 year

Hauling some grain…in the rain! Finally a decent, desperately needed shot of moisture. Hope all the dry areas get some. Nothing more ‘draining’ than waiting for moisture 🙏

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@405farmer

5 years

10 trips thru Saskatoon on Circle in three days and continue to be amazed by the dumb things drivers do in front of 63500kg. Only the skill of most 1A drivers keep them from become pavement smear

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@405farmer

2 years

Regardless of farm size, there’s value in spending some time out in your fields with a pair of gloves on. At least I think so #leaveitbetter #sustainable

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@405farmer

4 years

Seriously @BASFAgSolutions three seed sizes on the same pallet and same variety? Best get this straightened out or will be 100% Pioneer L next year.

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@405farmer

3 years

Here’s an unpopular take: VW diesels are far less impactful on the environment than an EV can possibly be. #factsoflife

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@405farmer

4 years

And 24hr later, it’s all B and all good. Thanks @BASFAgSolutions and @NutrienLTD for the quick response and remedy.

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@405farmer

2 years

Is this gonna work, man? #bourgault #drought22 #zerotill

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@405farmer

6 months

In the words of the great Ricky Bobby “If you ain’t first you’re last”. Of course I’m neither but sure is nice to not see dust. #plant24 #letitrain #CaseIHisshiny

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@405farmer

3 years

Finally got our pivot going. It sat unused for 10 years at least. Kinda late for this crop but nice to smell some moisture in the air.

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@405farmer

1 year

Everything gets an oil change before winter. We have 6 tractors and total tractor engine hours about 1000 this year. 0.25/ac. Is that a lot?

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@405farmer

9 months

How are Philips screws still a thing in 2024? Next free trade agreement, cheese, eggs, whatever access you need USA, but admit that Robertson is far superior #nostar

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@405farmer

2 years

Lentils hot off the field. Blow the heat out of the bin and wait for $0.50/lb ⁦ @SaskPulse ⁩

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@405farmer

2 years

Field find on the second day of water efficiency management. Gotta be a good season ahead!! I thought my wife had a lot of shoes but those draft horses…😂

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