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Welcome to our 2010 Alberta Farm Tour online!

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Harvest at AdFarm

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On the way to the field we saw…

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On the way to the field we saw…

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On the way to the field we saw…

Oh look! A field that isactually harvested

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On the way to the field we saw…

Ben, aren’t you alittle old for thesenow??

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Look yonder – the AdFarm field

Ben, grew up somewhere over here on the horizon.

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The East Side – High Ground

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Looks pretty good from the road

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Heavy swathes on the high ground

This could be a40 bushel crop

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Note how tightlythe swathes aretied into thestubble. Theseguys havefarmed in the“suck and blowzone” for years

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The pods areslightlyweathered andthe colour haddegraded, butnot too bad

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A closer lookat the colourof the pods

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The sample – East High Ground

Samplelooks prettygood, oddgreen seed.

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The sample – East High Ground

Good evensize, novisible frostdamage

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The sample – East High Ground

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The sample – rolled out

Grade - #1 Canola$463.30/tonne or $10.50/bushel

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The West Side – Low Ground

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West side looks great from theroad too!!

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Wow – look at those swathes

This could bebetter than theeast side

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I’m a farmer in mytruck getting prettyexcited about mycanola.Look at me farm…but

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Something is not quite rightabout the colour …

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The stubble sure is green down here

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The swath looksdirty and is adarker shade…I should get outof my truck.

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A closerlook

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The sample – West Low Ground

Oh-oh,frost damageand green seed

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The sample – West Low Ground

Soft squishyseed, green andwhite seeds.Very few solidblack.

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The sample – West Low Ground

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The sample – West Low Ground

Grade - #3 Canola$413.30/tonne or $9.37/bushel

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East Versus West – Swath Colour

East

West

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East Versus West – Swath Colour

East

West

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East Versus West – Sample

East

West

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East Versus West – Sample

East West

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The sample – East versus West

East West

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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

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WELCOME TO FARMING !!!

Mother Nature just gave theAdFarm team a $45.20 per

acre lessonEnrollment In her school was

not optional

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As we were leaving we saw…

Many moreunharvestedfields

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Interesting camera angles

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Thank-you Graham Farms