Better Farming - November 2016

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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