Re: case ih harvesters
Don,
I'll go into forum culture a tad bit for ya
There are a lot of 'lurkers' on the net, which some people are afraid of, and thus don't like showing where they are from. Personally, I spend a LOT of free time volunteering on support boards for things like Linux, web-software, etc so I'm not really worried about it, but if you're not that much into the web, it's not always a good idea to give out too much information. The web has a population in the hundreds of millions at any time, and you never know who is reading what you write.
Now, I'm from the norther boonies of southern Manitoba. We're 50KM north of Dauphin, which itself is 200+/- KM north of Brandon. The closest village is Ethelbert, and there's a ghost-town called Ukraina about 4 miles east of me. There aren't many active farmers around, well, actually, there are only three in the RM of Ethelbert, counting myself
The rest are hobby farmers, or work off-farm.
Then, to the south, we have some "Rich Kid Farmers" who make big messes on the land they rent (which happened to that canola field). As for summerfallow, around here all the old-timers still think that you need to let the land "breath" for a year between crops... Average yields around here are low - 20bu/acre in Canola, 30 - 45 in oats, 10- 15 in wheat, and peas, 5 - 10 in flax, and 20 - 30 in barley.
Boy... this post went off-topic! Sorry! Don, I guess we should PM this conversation, and keep the thread on Case IH combines
-Christian