Thanks For Farming Tour coming to Winkler

Jul 25, 2022

The Thanks For Farming Tour 2022 will be coming to Winkler's Meridian Exhibition Centre on July 27th and 28th.

The event runs from 8am to 5pm both days and features speakers covering topics such as marketing, mental health, and farm transition.

Jeremy Matuszewski is a member of the organizing committee.

"The whole vision behind the tour was, we wanted to find a way to connect with farmers. When COVID shut the world down, we wanted to find a way to connect with them and really to support them, say thank you to them for what they were doing and what they continue to do...We really wanted to try to support the agricultural communities across Canada.," he said. "We hope people come out. Obviously we appreciate those that work hard to feed the world and we just want to say thank you."

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

We're a 6th generation family farm in southeast Iowa showing the real ups and downs of pig farming and row crop farming. No script, just the work. Subscribe and follow along.

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