30 Follow us on @PrairieFarming Better Farming | October 2024 UP CLOSE custom baling services, they can also offer up feed and straw for sale. “I wouldn’t mind trying some fall rye and taking that for green feed and then trying to seed early barley into it and combining that. It might end up as two green feed crops due to timing, but that could be something we try in the next few years.” What is your favourite part of being a farmer? Although we are doing the same tasks every year, the day-to-day of the farm is different. We have different weather or can choose different varieties for crops. Everything is constantly changing, and we are always trying to do better for the land and for our customers on the custom work side of our business. We are doing the same task, but the task is always changing. What’s your crop rotation? That also changes. I would say we start off with canola, then plant wheat, and sometimes we’ll plant wheat again a Brock and his father John moving canola. Brock, Stephanie, and their dog Dolly seeding earlier this year. Jordan Tomalty photo Jordan Tomalty photo
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