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Better Farming

November 2016

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MULTIFARMER40.7CS PANORAMIC25.6 TURBOFARMER50.8 ARCHITECT OF YOUR SUCCESS SALES RENTALS PARTS SERVICE WE ARE HIRING CONTACT ISABELLE CHICOINE National recruiter 450 652-5550, #340 rhemploi@manulift.ca

What are your hobbies or recreational

activities?

VINCE: Woodworking. I haven’t had

much time lately.

HEATHER: Photography, but I

don’t have much time for that too.

What was the last book you read?

HEATHER: I’m still reading Clara

Hughes’s

Open Heart, Open Mind

. I

don’t have much time to read, though.

VINCE: We get a magazine from

New Zealand called

Country-Wide

,

and I read that from front to back. So

we read a lot of periodicals.

What does your family think of farming?

VINCE: They love it. They are just as

passionate about it as we are about it.

What’s your management philosophy?

VINCE: We’re not afraid to try new

ideas.

What’s your most important goal?

VINCE: To raise the profile of

agriculture so that the next genera-

tion can see the opportunity.

How do you define success?

VINCE: When the goal has been

attained, and we believe that takes a

lifetime.

Is your farm vehicle messy or neat?

HEATHER: Messy.

VINCE: Yep.

HEATHER: It’s not my farm

vehicle. My car is neat.

What are three items in your farm vehicle?

VINCE: A tape measure, a little steel

ruler that allows you to dig the

ground up and just see how far the

seeds are placed apart and how deep

they’ve been planted. And then there’s

always a coffee cup.

What are three items that are on top of

your desk?

VINCE: Computer, calculator.

HEATHER: Stapler.

VINCE: File folders, usually.

What was the last piece of equipment you

bought for your shop?

VINCE: A bead blaster.

What’s the best time of day?

VINCE: Morning.

HEATHER: Morning.

What was your most memorable crop or

production year?

VINCE: Last year was an exceptional

crop year for us.

HEATHER: The year the sheep got

killed (11 years ago).

VINCE: Dogs got in and chased a

bunch of sheep around and killed a

whole pile of them. It was a mess.

BF