Kevin Bisschop 🇨🇦 🐄🧍‍♂️

I had a visitor in the milking parlour this morning!

The covercrop is living its best life with these warmer temps!!

Flood Watch just issued for the Sunshine Coast, Sea to Sky, Metro Vancouver, and the Fraser Valley. My area has already recorded 181.4mm of rain in this storm, and much more still on the way. We may see 300mm of rain before this AR shuts off later on Friday. #bcstorm

It’s not the rainfall totals that concern me….its the temperature!!! A lot of low- mid level snow is gonna melt fast. Currently 3°C and raining.

@woody_VA Exactly… I often will run without 4 way flashers and only use the beacons so when I do turn on signals people actually see them turn on.

@CanadianCowMan I hate left turn with farm equipment. Turn signals mean nothing on farm equipment

This is why I will merge into the left lane if safe to do so when I turn left with farm equipment so people don’t try to pass me when I’m half way thru a turn.

@Brad604 We getting the left overs this week!!

Haleakala on Maui recorded 812.8mm of rain yesterday. NAM weather model says they are expecting another 787.4mm of rain over the next 24 hours, and another 1,800mm of rain combined over the next 48 hours. This is quite likely the most powerful Category 5 Atmospheric Rivers we have ever seen on Planet Earth in recorded history. In 72 hours, portions of Hawaii may see double the amount of Rainfall that Vancouver, BC would see in an entire year. Think about how wet of a city we are. Double our annual rainfall in just a 72 hour time span. Beyond baffling to see this. I can't even begin to imagine what 8+ feet of rain would do to an area falling in just 3 days. Sure Hawaii has seen a thing or two. But this is beyond extreme for any location on earth.

@ndcorngrower @yield360 My boss has run 2 for the last 2 seasons….. we pump manure water thru them.. works great!!

@yield360 Rain. I jknow a guy averaged 276bu per acre of corn last year.

@kowalchukfarms1 When traveling east /west everyone expects the time change…. But now going south into Washington is going to be a time change as well in the winter months….. logistics is gonna get interesting I would imagine.

@CanadianCowMan Are you going to rub it in every year like those just to the east of us? 😁 Hopefully Alberta is next

I guess we just did the last time change ever…. Gonna be interesting this fall when everyone around us changes and we don’t.

A great morning to get some manure spread!!!

After no snow this winter and barely any cold, we have daffodils blooming…. Might go mow the lawn later….. I’d say spring has sprung here!!

Social Media: The Ag industry is trying to kill us! Meanwhile farmers: Let’s make sure we use canola oil in our home because we grow canola. Have that beer because we grow malt barley and eat that steak from the animal we raised on our farm… #RegularFarmer

@gwiesefarms Competition to Fendt and Claas Zerion. Plenty of tractors this size out there already!!!

Out of touch? These aren’t needed to profitably farm.

@surfingshreddie 3/4-1 inch

@CanadianCowMan How deep have you planted?

The most winter we’ve had so far…. Hopefully the covercrop is able to handle it as a lot of fields are mid shin to knee high.

@gwiesefarms Here….. land rent per year is equal to 1 months loan payment if you bought it!!!

How much are you land payments + property taxes? If they are greater than your breakeven cash rental rate, then your rental ground is supplementing your owned ground. Don’t have a breakeven cash rental rate? Why not?

@DamianPMason It’s because we are the only industry whose operations are dictated by weather…. When you have a 3 day window to make hay/ silage you need the equipment to get it all done in a short time!

Truth: Way too much money is tied up in farm machinery that is horrifically under utilized on most farms. No other business would outlay capital for such paltry returns. But...farmers like machinery.

My John Deere 6125M decided it needs a new turbo.. AGAIN!!! This one lasted only 2 years and about 7 or 800 hours…do I get a Re-man or go with OEM? PS…. Not sure what option dad went with the last time it happened. Have to find that out yet.

@gwiesefarms Grandpa even said land was too expensive to buy 40-50 years ago.

Farmers who tell me land is too expensive rarely find any to buy. Those with an abundance mindset get all the good deals. I see deals below market value being sold in the most expensive counties in the state every year.

@JerodMcDaniel “No risk, no reward “

We’re not breeding heifers to sell them, we’re breeding them to calve. Most people just see $ signs when talking about bred heifers, sure there’s a value there, but what we’re looking at is the future. Cattle will and should replace row-crop acres. It’s a race, get to runnin’!