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Welcome to our 2010 Alberta Farm Tour online!
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Harvest at AdFarm
On the way to the field we saw…
On the way to the field we saw…
On the way to the field we saw…
Oh look! A field that isactually harvested
On the way to the field we saw…
Ben, aren’t you alittle old for thesenow??
Look yonder – the AdFarm field
Ben, grew up somewhere over here on the horizon.
The East Side – High Ground
Looks pretty good from the road
Heavy swathes on the high ground
This could be a40 bushel crop
Note how tightlythe swathes aretied into thestubble. Theseguys havefarmed in the“suck and blowzone” for years
The pods areslightlyweathered andthe colour haddegraded, butnot too bad
A closer lookat the colourof the pods
The sample – East High Ground
Samplelooks prettygood, oddgreen seed.
The sample – East High Ground
Good evensize, novisible frostdamage
The sample – East High Ground
The sample – rolled out
Grade - #1 Canola$463.30/tonne or $10.50/bushel
The West Side – Low Ground
West side looks great from theroad too!!
Wow – look at those swathes
This could bebetter than theeast side
I’m a farmer in mytruck getting prettyexcited about mycanola.Look at me farm…but
Something is not quite rightabout the colour …
The stubble sure is green down here
The swath looksdirty and is adarker shade…I should get outof my truck.
A closerlook
The sample – West Low Ground
Oh-oh,frost damageand green seed
The sample – West Low Ground
Soft squishyseed, green andwhite seeds.Very few solidblack.
The sample – West Low Ground
The sample – West Low Ground
Grade - #3 Canola$413.30/tonne or $9.37/bushel
East Versus West – Swath Colour
East
West
East Versus West – Swath Colour
East
West
East Versus West – Sample
East
West
East Versus West – Sample
East West
The sample – East versus West
East West
The Implications – East versus West
#1 Canola$463.30/tonne$10.50/bushelYield estimate 40bushelsGross$420.00/acre
#3 Canola$413.30/tonne$9.37/bushelYield estimate 40bushelsGross$374.80/acre
East West
WELCOME TO FARMING !!!
Mother Nature just gave theAdFarm team a $45.20 per
acre lessonEnrollment In her school was
not optional
As we were leaving we saw…
Many moreunharvestedfields
Interesting camera angles
Thank-you Graham Farms