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kevin kimball

@kevinki16180099

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Family farm since 1881 - Essex cty. , On

Joined December 2021
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@kevinki16180099
kevin kimball
2 years
@JaroGiesbrecht @cafreeland I like this Lady ,she would make a great PM
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2 years
How too get a visit tomorrow from MOE & have your farming neighbours/environmentalists hating you
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Couple more pics of tractor recovery . Fwiw Deere lights work under water. And never seen a pigeon for yrs. but a bunch of white ones hanging around now.
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2 years
@Fendt_NA Wow ,must be worst tractor ad in history showing blantant enviromental laws being broken .....
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2 years
@lesiavasylenko So sad , I have a 8 yr. old grandson and never want him or any child anywhere to face what the Ukrainian kids have
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@SteveClarkPC I do not understand your point....Its not about supply its about affodability ...Rich people are not homeless, poor people are...now solve that
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1 year
Thinking about being cutom fertilizer applicator
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2 years
@ShelleyJon1 @RodKahx I used to like him when he did Cross Country on CBC radio...since then he has become a cesspool
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2 years
@401_da_sarpanch I know u only have a second to decide ,but I would tried to take ditch rather than small vehicle
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11 months
@401_da_sarpanch What is the problem , in warm/hot weather livestock trucks get priority crossing the borders as they have live animals onboard
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kevin kimball
8 months
Surprised today that several farm & industrial suppliers closed at 2 pm. Not a problem,just surprised. Thank you too all feed mills & drivers for doing double duty before the holidays as everything needs to eat. Dairy farmers never know what a holiday is
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1 year
@401_da_sarpanch Driver coming up in LH lane could swallow his pride and tap his brakes and let the guy in...BUT some that have the right of way and are taking it even if it causes an accident
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6 months
How 6 weeks can change finances, cull sows up 100% , cash hogs up 25% , feed down...Actually seen a hog farmer smile this week
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1 year
Like farmers getting free hats at farm show
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1 year
That time the world ran out of toilet paper.
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1 year
Rainy ,wet weather. Wheat to harvest,feeling depressed? Take the afternoon off and visit someone in Nursing home or Hospital...Life will look better when you return to the farm
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2 years
@401_da_sarpanch I just don't understand not checking mirrors...Like guys hitting signs/overpasses with raised dump box...surely it feels different driving with box up, pto spinning & u do have mirrors
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2 years
@kowalchukfarms1 Another one, My Mom & nephew. Mom is 93 and lived on this farm now for 73 yrs....and still lives on her own ...
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2 years
After 23 hrs. power restored at hog farm....Poor generators never got a break..Thinking life without elecricity today is about impossible along term...Cannot imagine what the Ukrainian people go through everyday. Hydro 1 said power by 4 pm. Friday, thankfully got it 7pm today
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kevin kimball
1 year
Very nice enjoyable visit with Lyle and Maaike Campbell this afternoon , great,down to earth farm couple . A smart young couple.
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2 years
Harriston ,On. people extra nice. Thanks to RBC tellier there and nice young lady who pulled out her phone when I needed directions to farm by Minto Farm Equip't.Beautiful area.
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1 year
Funny how many people who say they never listen to or watch CBC think its propaganda ,biased and want it defunded . Fwiw , I think CBC is the most balanced of all networks. Now the haters can reply
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2 years
@RonFilipkowski Idk what has happened to America the beautiful and Great country it used to be.
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1 year
Couple days at Benmiller Inn, old,but nice,quiet. Would nominate Watford Tim Hortons as dirtiest coffee shop in Canda , Washrooms even worse than the order /dining floor. Richest looking farmers seem to be in Feather business, beautiful,well kept farms. Huron cty. great crops.
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kevin kimball
2 years
@JaroGiesbrecht @cafreeland 0 sympathy here for the convoy. Just as bad some of my neighbours for what reason idk was blocking the Windsor/Detroit bridge causing business and employees much hardship
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25 yrs. can really age one
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2 years
Neighbour files for bankruptcy ,owes $188 million to creditors...We use to cash crop this before greenhouses a dozen yrs. ago ...Guess my chances of selling for big $$$ is gone. Fwiw I do not rejoice in this as like in the '80's ,this affects all of us
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kevin kimball
2 years
@Deere_Salesman Might be even more disappointing what you offer for a used X9 is a few yrs.
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kevin kimball
9 months
@MaritStiles Why does Minister of health always look so mad and angry...I am mad and angry that local Hospitals cannot provde 24 hr. emergency service . Idk if its funds or labour issues. We sure don't need a spa for the rich in Toronto with homeless/starving people on the streets
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kevin kimball
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Sad with politics being such a dirty,nasty business ,and everybody digging up dirt on you we lose out on some real good people running for Federal,Provincial or Municipal offices. We the citizens lose out in the end.
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kevin kimball
2 months
2 life firsts...Combining Wheat July 1 and putting on 28% sidedress on tomorrow...Seems backward
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kevin kimball
1 year
Renting an airbnb and before you are accepted you have to send them a pic of yourselves. Kinda weird. Would u rent to this couple
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kevin kimball
10 months
@Stuthefarmer I thank all veterans and liked the Remembrance Day services today...I wonder how many of the "Truckers Convoy" was at a Remeberance Day Ceremony today
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kevin kimball
4 months
Always listen to your wife..her last night "Cold air is coming out of the air ducts " ...me "ok" . Me this morning "I am freezing,no heat" ...Thanks Dowler Karn for letting us run out of propane again ๐Ÿคฌ..So much better service when dave in Chatham ran it before Windsor started
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kevin kimball
2 years
ADM direct fertilizer ,Madison, Ill. pkp...min. 26 ton urea -$465/ton , K -$475 t, dap-$690 ...USD. as of Friday Jan. 13
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Happy 16 to oldest grandson today. Took him to get license and he drove home .He has a nice gf but they have no chicken quota
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kevin kimball
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@401_da_sarpanch Other truckers should have helped block pkp. in and then a a "talk" with him...if he has plate number OPP will investigate
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kevin kimball
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Did Tim Hortons lose "roll up the rim " appeal from not printing prize on rim? Do u check or just ignore it now? Fwiw I am tired of Scene cards, loyalty points, ect. Just show me a cash discount. I Miss. u get a discount on meal tabs (maybe other stuff too) when u pay with $$$
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2 years
Tile installed in early July ran its first water today ...
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kevin kimball
2 years
We all know farming is a "business" but I still find it disappointing seeing girls/guys visiting other farmers Landlord's to take over the land. Farming "business" is changing fast ...A real good reason to own most of the land you farm. Maybe its just an Essex County thing.
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2 years
@merry123459 This sure isn't the Canada I was born into and loved for 70 yrs. Dissent is 1 thing, rudeness, name calling, ect. not acceptable
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kevin kimball
2 years
Will cell phone work after semen spill? Employee was breeding sows and had phone & semen bottle in pocket when AI tube which split open and ran into phone. He went to Staples to see about it and they just looked at him real strange. Surely not the first guy having this
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@CBKimbrell Casey u know farmers are special ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚. They love ethanol mandate, subsidies,tax breaks...But supporting homeless, single moms,welfare,immigrants,ect. is bad as they should just help work harder
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@cynicalmilkmaid Lot of factory workers, nurses,constuction, ect. work long shifts yr. round. Idk why some think farmers are special or only ones that do those hrs. a few weeks a yr.
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2 years
@willy1805 @s_guilbeault @PierrePoilievre Another question ,why is anyone trying to drive in weather like that and risk killing others or themselves...common sense says stay home
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kevin kimball
2 years
For the cost of Ford's new Hwy. 413 would it be cheaper to buy back the 407 which is underutilized and releive some of the 401 truck traffic?
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kevin kimball
2 years
@brittlestar Both of these have to go
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kevin kimball
2 years
@Brink_Thinker Really wonder who came up with the name Captain Kangaroo...the days of getting 4 TV channels and your backside walloped if you misbehaved
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kevin kimball
1 year
Green Lea in Mt. Elgin is one of those companies that just provides great service. Local dealer, no idea on part. Norac boom ht. control, Green Lea said, don't have one in stock but will get you one. 8:30 am Monday , noon Tuesday its delivered .
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Day of reflection-Dad would have been 100 today. 1 room school (which I & GF also attended).Passed in 2005. Never had a Credit or Debit Card. Farmed from 15 to 78, started with horses. Idk how happy he would be with changes,neighbours mostly gone,church,school closed, greenhouses
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kevin kimball
3 months
I do not think anyone can stop the shrinking of good Ontario farmland. Everybody says they want to keep good farmland until its wanted for another use,i.e. battery factory, subdivisions, hwy 413, urban sprawl,ect. Towns always built on best farmland in SW On.
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The Windsor Star
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Guest column: Shrinking Ontario farmland must be protected for future generations
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Last pic post tonight for hog people ....How can a Sow fit through a 2' x20" opening ...lifted cast floor section
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kevin kimball
1 year
You have many different choices
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FLEXjs
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$105 for 4 steaks. WTF? ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
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kevin kimball
1 year
My take lately on Ontario Health care. I know waits can be long for elective surgeries/tests but I have been visiting a patient at Windsor Regional in the Oncology ward and what I see is a dedicated staff of nurses and Drs. working hard.Thankful for local hospitals.
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kevin kimball
1 year
Flasback.....Remember when we were all excited to get $13 beans 30 months ago...Now $20+...Not sure what corn was fall of 2020
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John Nooyen
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With beans going over 13 bucks might get myself new shoes
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kevin kimball
1 year
For those who retired /quit farming do you find life boring? Made feed early before barn girl comes as Son on holidays. Hear this funny rattle blowing off feed ,then steam all over. New viscous drive from Deere separated in half apart and stuck in rad. The fun never stops .
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kevin kimball
9 months
Went to princess Auto for farm stuff and Mall for Grandsons coat. Mall packed, food court packed,parking lot packed...I read that everybody was broke in the paper? Treated myself 1.25 bu. corn bought me medium Starbucks Mocha Cafe (glad i didn't think about it that way then)
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kevin kimball
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@apasztor82 Not just farmers, mental health,worry,anxiety,depression affects all walks of life . I would think those that say they never felt any of these are lying to themselves. Family/friends need to see the signs,be aware and give support as very few will call help lines.
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kevin kimball
1 year
Is the idea of doble sided stalls a humane issue to prevent fighting of something else. Commercially would be pricey.Barns look beautiful
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kevin kimball
1 year
Congratulations to Ken Palen & family on 40 yrs. in business...Thanks for meal & get together today & Elaine Freose' talk
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kevin kimball
2 years
Speaking with a Manager at a major bank today and he said mortgage requests have dryed up. And mortgage brokers work on commission so they are cutting out BS and going straight to best rate. Today he expected a 1 yr. fixed to be 5.1% and expects B of C to raise rates again on J25
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kevin kimball
1 year
@991CKXS Hope they annouce that someone is building a grocery store...Nice place to live in a 1 stop light town if it had a grocery store or even a full service Shoppers Drug mart.
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kevin kimball
1 year
Larry has got it right "we protect farmland in Ontario until someone other than farmer needs it" . Excellent summary by Larry
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Larry Cowan
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@jcurtis7ac I have always said we protect farmland in Ontario until someone other than a farmer needs it. 700 acres gone from food production. Enjoy your electric vehicle as you complain about food prices!
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kevin kimball
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U either support Ukraine and democracy/freedom or think Puitn/Russia way is better. I choose Ukraine and Canada's support of them. Problem is Canadians present generation have never seen or been sent to fight a war .Ukraine is just the start of Putin's offensive
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๐Ÿ˜ŽCanada First ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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The Gov't is literally stealing our money while we sit here and watch him do it.๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ #338ForTreason
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kevin kimball
2 years
141 yrs. ago today ancestors took a there's did 388 yrs. ago.
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kevin kimball
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@991CKXS MIL was recently in there for a week excellent facilities and staff... A lot of shady ,scuffy characters on the streets around there ...And a lot of used syringes .
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kevin kimball
2 years
Thank you Supply Management
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J.P. Gervais
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Important to keep in mind when thinking of food inflation. Lower inflation rate is true across a wide variety of products: dairy rose 8.6% vs. 12.0% in US, and 19.6% globally. Canadian chicken prices 7.7% (vs. 14.8% in US); pork 3.6% (vs. 8.7%) #CndAg
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kevin kimball
2 years
@TraceyKent @CarymaRules @ryanlindley How about giving them all a free ticket to Ukraine/Russia
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kevin kimball
4 months
If your farm was expropriated and you desired to continue farming where would you want to relocate to ? Or would you just take the $$ and call it the end of your career.
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kevin kimball
2 years
@IsisWise And Churches operate tax free....and Churches got BIG covid $$$$ support...A certain Church sect here was promoting there members and the children to block the border
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kevin kimball
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Tractor & tomato wagon issue at the St. Anne's ferry ...Preferred Towing doing recovery
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kevin kimball
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@BenRiensche Benjamin enjoy reading your posts and you sharing your insight. Every pic u posted is for most unaffordable . I am 71 ,farmed through that period. Smaller equip't but new combine,4 row ch & 16' flex in '78 was less than $50k, 1086/4440 $30k , pkp. $6k ,ect.
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kevin kimball
2 years
@RobSomerville1 Idk if it matters and I don't care if farm gets sold. Its been in our family name for 141 , let the descendents decide what they want without guilt.
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kevin kimball
2 years
A better scam than the fake grandson call needing money to get out of jail..... Imho the TV evangelists prey on the ederly & vulnerable
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Michael Cleere
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Pastor Joel Osteen pays himself an annual salary of $54,000,000 from his church profits. He had a custom garage built with 20 car stalls for each of his custom vehicles. His favorite is a Ferrari 458 Italia that cost $270,000. He lives in a 70,000 sq ft mansion. In the New
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kevin kimball
2 years
AI on the farm always meant artificial insemination.....
@CBCWindsor
CBC Windsor
2 years
While many post-secondary students have heard of the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT, some are hesitant to use it.
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kevin kimball
1 year
@TrevorJonesCKL @OntarioPCParty Trevor, seriously ,you being a former law engorcement officer know what Ford did. Instead of Ford fest and resignation and withdrawal of Greenbelt housing is in order
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kevin kimball
11 months
Sm is drawing out the worst in society . Whether you dislike the PM or US President, or other politicians I don't think they need to be disrespected, sworn at and threathened . Canada is a great country were rest of the world wishes they could live...End of rant
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kevin kimball
1 year
Fire awareness. Had a partial field of corn stalks no tiled into beans catch fire. Strong wind , burned fast. Now will Pioneer beans survive in the ground? Son/nephew used manure tanker to put it out.Less manuer to haul later now.Thanks Cloverview Farms & Leamington Fire'e help
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kevin kimball
2 years
4-H at Comber Fair was well supported by community & business today . Pigs sold fom around $7 lb. live to over $10 , fowl up to $50 lb. Has been going on since 1859. Many thanks to buyers like Gord's Abbattoir, Trimble Farms/Meats and all the others.
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kevin kimball
2 years
@FoodProfessor I don't think that China hog expansion is causing Olymel's problems. I believe there fast expansion, hig debt load and trouble sourcing labour. Interesting to see what the economics of selling pork to China is when Chinese owns biggest pork farm/plants in the US - Smithfields
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kevin kimball
1 year
Got a new neighbour last year., Idk how he is going to fit in ...Big black flag in his front yard with FUCK TRUDEAU on it, i understand if he is against our PM but kids on school bus, young grandchildren and me does not need to see this.
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kevin kimball
1 year
@KevinSerfas Very nice recognizing his retirement and work. Often the best employees are those who come and ask for a job
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kevin kimball
4 months
High food costs vs. vehicles $500-1,000 a month, $500k mortgage with taxes $4,000 month ...Eating out , 3x food cost + hst...Grocery prices for 95% of Canadians is cheap . Don't be lazy , prepare and cook food at home .Coffee 15 cents , Starbucks small $3.10..life choices
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Ian Hanomansing
4 months
Sunday on Checkup: Between boycotts and coupons โ€“ how are you navigating high food costs? Who do you blame for high prices? Call tomorrow, connect via or reply here.
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kevin kimball
2 years
@FoodProfessor Life sure is tough. I remember when you had canned or frozen veggies in winter. We never had 'fresh' veggies yr. round..An orange or banana in winter was a treat.
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kevin kimball
2 years
@Derricktgoat For MOST farmers there income and net worth has doubled or more...Prosperous times on farms and reflected in land,machinery,ect. values. I don't credit Trudeau as much as world economy. Not a fan of PM but I am solidly in the 'never vote for Pierre camp'
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kevin kimball
11 months
Livestock guys Sunday mornings before Church
@ksetzergrains
Karl Setzer
3 years
At least itโ€™s not frozen
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kevin kimball
7 months
Lot's of money for Battery Plants, parking garage for Spa ,ect. and we have ER's in Rural areas being closed...I don't get it
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kevin kimball
4 months
Two huge injustices here #1 -expropriating good farmland with no immediate need or purpose #2 If the $35K acre offered price is true they are also stealing the land which if its for development the offers should start at $100k an acre....Farms need to replace land/livihood
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Sandy Shaw MPP
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People in #Ontario are not going to let the best soil in the country be used for any other purpose than farming. Proud today to stand in solidarity with my Official Opposition leader @MaritStiles and the good people of Wilmot. #PeoplePower
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kevin kimball
2 months
Not to be taken as anti immigration or racist , but maybe some of these protestors should rethink why they are in Canada. Do not bring the Israel/Palestine war to Canada . Not even sure what they think they are accomplishing other than to make life miserable for other immigrants
@OliLondonTV
Oli London
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Canadian Police show zero tolerance to out of control mob of Palestine activists, shoving them to the ground and spraying them with bear spray.
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kevin kimball
2 years
@smc429 @mmpadellan @Fallenbronze And Buster maybe is implicated in earlier roadside hit on Smith who was gay and (some allegedly say) was involved with Buster...Watched documentary, all the males, Alex,Buster & Paul felt and acted like they were entitled to do/act like they want
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kevin kimball
2 months
Brookston clay after 25 yr. rest & grass as LL's landing strip .. Need a bunch of dairy/beef farms with forages in Essex cty...like virgin ground now
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kevin kimball
4 months
@LorneMc Lorne Dowler Karn let tank run empty . Generally 2 fills for home does us a yr.
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kevin kimball
2 years
@jsreinecker @federalreserve Your neighbour is calling u in the morning as he has decided to sell that farm you wanted your whole life
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kevin kimball
1 year
@401_da_sarpanch Truckers life, wait to get loaded, complain about taking so long too load.......then BS for a 1/2 hr. telling you there life story
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kevin kimball
1 year
2/2 Cheap interest has put us in the mess many are in now. And 5% or even 7% is still cheap interest/mortgages
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kevin kimball
2 years
@Campbellgrain @levijwood @gmjochum If its CFIA they can pretty much do as they wish , we run into them checking pigs as we unload and have had them show up at farm to check feed mill/medications/clean out procedures. Can't think of American lady cfiawho used to work for OMAF and husband is beef farmer in lambton
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kevin kimball
10 months
More important than combining corn today . Wife & I had lunch with the Ure's and Shepley's and spent the afternoon at there home on Detroit River before they leave for the South this winter. Great Pork producer friends for 45+ yrs. Missed them since Covid
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