Post by putsie on Feb 16, 2012 15:19:50 GMT -5
Winter this year has been a treat weather wise for us. Barely freezing temps and minimal snow has ment that outdoor work in Jan/Feb doesn't seem so bad anymore. Most years around this time the registered durum seed, we've grown and cleaned, starts to move out and get hauled into the local Viterra elevator for storage, where farmers come and pick it up in the spring.
This year we've elected to haul it our selves and deliver it to neighboring farms within a 15 mile radius rather than have a trucking company haul it into town. The main reason is we have the time and the semi. We're already getting paid extra to clean it so why not get paid to haul it too. The reason we're delivering to farms rather than the elevator is mostly because most local farmers have better/faster augers than Viterra's worn out conveyer augers that get used to fill their seed bins.
Here's a few pics from the week so far, hope you all enjoy.
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Pulling into the Local Viterra terminal for a weight. They have a big remote scale north of the terminal for weighing incoming trucks that don't have loads for terminal itself.
Viterra's fertilizer blending facility
The reason we're making farm delivery's. This things so worn out it would take at least an hour to unload me......:-P
How many of you guys can say you live 10miles from Congress??? Figured some of you guys from south of the 49th might get a kick out of that... and yes their town streets are (or were the last time I was there) named after American presidents.
Village of Congress, Sk. pop...... maybe 50....My grandpa and dad hauled grain to Congress for years. When I was a kid there was a UGG, Pioneer and Sask Wheat Pool elevators. UGG bought all the property in the early-mid 90's and built the first (center) concrete elevator in 1993. The rest of the terminal was built in about 98-99. UGG (or United Grain Growers) became Agricore-United, which was eaten up by Viterra a few years back. This terminal is now a Cargil because Assiniboia's Viterra terminal is only 8 miles away.
Neighbors bin yard. He likes organization.... can you tell.
For you Mr. Minkler and any other fuel truck drivers out there.... here's a shot of the local Coop's bulk station along Hwy 2.
Didn't run across too much in the way of farming action for obvious reasons. But I did come across a couple items of interest. One farm I went to had this Steiger disc sitting on the edge of the yard. I was too busy asking him questions about his air drill set up to get to askiing about the disc before the semi was empty.
This is a bit of an uncommon item for the area too. Quite a few guys use liquid fertilizer but rarely do you see an devoted applicator sitting around. Can anybody provide a brand name for it? I couldn't tell driving past.
This year we've elected to haul it our selves and deliver it to neighboring farms within a 15 mile radius rather than have a trucking company haul it into town. The main reason is we have the time and the semi. We're already getting paid extra to clean it so why not get paid to haul it too. The reason we're delivering to farms rather than the elevator is mostly because most local farmers have better/faster augers than Viterra's worn out conveyer augers that get used to fill their seed bins.
Here's a few pics from the week so far, hope you all enjoy.
Loading up
Pulling into the Local Viterra terminal for a weight. They have a big remote scale north of the terminal for weighing incoming trucks that don't have loads for terminal itself.
Viterra's fertilizer blending facility
The reason we're making farm delivery's. This things so worn out it would take at least an hour to unload me......:-P
How many of you guys can say you live 10miles from Congress??? Figured some of you guys from south of the 49th might get a kick out of that... and yes their town streets are (or were the last time I was there) named after American presidents.
Village of Congress, Sk. pop...... maybe 50....My grandpa and dad hauled grain to Congress for years. When I was a kid there was a UGG, Pioneer and Sask Wheat Pool elevators. UGG bought all the property in the early-mid 90's and built the first (center) concrete elevator in 1993. The rest of the terminal was built in about 98-99. UGG (or United Grain Growers) became Agricore-United, which was eaten up by Viterra a few years back. This terminal is now a Cargil because Assiniboia's Viterra terminal is only 8 miles away.
Neighbors bin yard. He likes organization.... can you tell.
For you Mr. Minkler and any other fuel truck drivers out there.... here's a shot of the local Coop's bulk station along Hwy 2.
Didn't run across too much in the way of farming action for obvious reasons. But I did come across a couple items of interest. One farm I went to had this Steiger disc sitting on the edge of the yard. I was too busy asking him questions about his air drill set up to get to askiing about the disc before the semi was empty.
This is a bit of an uncommon item for the area too. Quite a few guys use liquid fertilizer but rarely do you see an devoted applicator sitting around. Can anybody provide a brand name for it? I couldn't tell driving past.
