30 Farm News First > BetterFarming.com Better Farming August 2016 UP CLOSE Brenda Lammens UP CLOSE UP CLOSE get more. And when my wife goes shopping, she gives them my email address. Hours a day on a cell phone? Fewer than two hours, but that might comprise 20 to 50 phone calls. Some days it’s delightfully quiet. What about your smartphone? I have an iPhone – I can receive email on it. And I have Twitter, Instagram and email and text on my phone, so my phone is my primary communications device. I use the phone to link to a GoPro camera which I have mounted on a little drone. I’ve been doing some scouting. I was looking at the wheat to see if there’s much green in the wheat. But you can also see tile drainage; you can see holes in the crop. And you can see a 20-acre field in five minutes or less, including flight time. Walking it would take a lot of time and you only see what you’re really standing in. So I see it as an opportunity to see some things that I might want to investigate further on foot. Email or text? I don’t really have a preference. It’s more about the timeline when the communication needs to happen. If you want to send me an email I might get it tomorrow or the next day if I remember to check. Texting, on the other hand, rings in my pocket or in my hand, so I’m more likely to respond much faster or even instantaneously. Any favourite apps? Weather app, Instagram, Twitter, a couple of games “for mental health breaks,” CBC, Maclean’s, and The Economist, for world and Canadian issues. Hours a day on the Internet? One to three hours a week. I use it as a resource for knowledge but also for parts lookups, spray-label lookups. Where did you last travel to? Sudbury in May for the Ontario high school final for gymnastics. Number of hours in the office each day? About three weeks a year. My wife and I do the books – she does most of it but I do some of it, which keeps me very involved and aware about what’s going on in the finances on an ongoing basis. What do you like best about farming? The independence of being self-em- ployed is a huge thing, especially for family time and commitment. I have a great diversity of things that I do, from sitting in a tractor seat for a week or two at a time, to cutting, building, welding – I like doing that stuff. I like solving problems. What is the single most important advice you've received or lesson you've learned? One of Dad’s mantras, and it’s something that I really subscribe to fully: the seed in the bag has 100 per cent potential and everything that you do after that can only take away from the potential yield. So you’ve got to manage all of the things that you can manage, to the best of your ability. What’s your management philosophy or guiding management principle? Lead from the front. I believe in leading by example. Are you involved in any committees, boards, associations, or volunteer efforts? Hastings, Lennox and Addington Soil and Crop Improvement Association, former president of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, Lennox and Addington Federation of Agriculture board member, Greater Napanee councillor. What are your hobbies or recreational activities? For the last 18, 19 years it’s been family but that includes a variety of things that we enjoy together, from downhill skiing in the winter to water-skiing and wakeboarding in the summer. What was the last book you read? A Tom Clancy novel. What does your family think of farming? Rob, the oldest, wants to be here and take it over. Jessica enjoys a lot of things about it that I enjoy – the variety, the opportunity for the kids, the opportu- nity for us to do things and have some freedom that way. 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