“The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.” - John F. Kennedy
You can tell by looking at dad that he worked very hard all his life, and I mean that as a compliment. He helped to keep this country fed and our economy depends on people like him. I salute you sir!
I dont think these people need cheap flateries . But specific policies demanded and implemented to alieviete theyr problems and pressures, You sound just like a politician, ohh youre such a hero , now get lost. Very cheap way to fix things. This recognition BS for people in the real world is absolutly worthless, its even worse than that, it drains time and atention when You have to listen to this mildly distracting cheap false uninterested lazy encouregement when you're doing stuff
@uni blab Well, at that scale I guess all you can get are guesses. As the man said there are a lot of risks in that profession. But I get it, we didn't really get an exact answer. So, in short it takes a lot of money to start farming in Canada. Back in India it can be cheap but again the scale can be different. India has a lot of farmers, and the numbers are coming down since people are more inclined to move to cities now.
This is so excellent - as a Saskatchewan farm wife I appreciate you telling the story of the farmer. Honest and true representation of the small farmer’s world ! 💥
Living in Canada and after seeing what it takes to be a farmer here in the frigid conditions I have even more respect for them now. A big salute to our farmers !
@M M I have seen farmers get great crops 2 or 3 years in a row then over extend themselves buying equipment and lose it all with 2 or 3 years of near drought.
That's why programmers are so popular. You have to have only one laptop, it maybe the old one with windows XP even But all your property will be only your own table and a room 2x2 meters as I have now, not such a colossal machines like Alina's dad has 😁
Hi Alina, loved this video. I similarly grew up on a wheat and cattle ranch in Washington State where our family is going on 5 generations. It’s a lifestyle. Your dad is a great guy!
Alina, I really like your relationship with your dad. Make the most of your time with both your parents. I wanna see videos about your life in Toronto now.
Great Job!!! You couldn’t say it any better. When you are born and raised on the farm you have a certain passion for it. The love of the land. It’s hard to explain the feeling. That’s what keeps us crazy people going.
Your Dad was quite the humble guy, when you asked him about driving before he got his actual license. Cool guy. I do enjoy your videos/vlogs. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
Farming for starters is a challenge never mind the fact we have -35 celsius winters, Snow storms, & +40 celsius summers to contend with. Oh yeah and the fact there is such a huge input cost. Im a third generation cattle rancher, that just recently came back to the farm, as my dad is getting ready to retire. I truly wonder how people get into farming if it isn’t handed down from family. Cheers 🍻 everyone from Prairie Sunset Ranch !!
@Davit M Feel free to add me on Instagram and message me with any questions you may have. I don’t know everything but maybe can help you out with some basic questions. 👍 Cheers🍻and all the best my friend.
Alina it is always nice to see you and your dad in a video, especially on a farm in Saskatchewan. He is such a nice man. He has such a beautiful daughter.
Your dad farmed for many years without attending classes and writing exams. His classroom is his farm and land. Learning everyday, facing what Mother Nature throws at him and adapting quickly. With all this learning, you don't receive a PHD in farming, but something far more precious and not easily learnt, which is Wisdom. Alina, I think your dad is awesome! He would be great person to work with. Although, even at your dad's age, I think most of us would have a hard time keeping up with him. Thank you for sharing! PS I grew up on a farm near Hafford. I also went to school, k-12, in Hafford.
Thank you for sharing this precious moments. I plan to start a farm in Canada two yrs later when I retired as a doctor in chn. You make me to know the truth of farm, but I won't retreat, I like planting and livestock breeding, I would try to survive, God bless me.
Agricultural is the best way to survive than depending on anyone to survive, like recently I earn about $23000 from CPV company and the company is different from the supermarket.
Alina Mcleod 😊 thank you Alina, i am just always watching your travel vlogs and just really enjoy them and i feel that calm feeling when watching tbem kinda like when you go to that fave cafe and the food arrives and the feeling just when you see the food, kinda a nice “all is good” feeling - haha sorry i am crazy with explaining things 😀
God bless your amazing dad and all Canadian farmers who work so darn hard to put food on our tables. And tell that speed demon behind you talking to your dad to slow down!. Wow must be doing 100k.
Loved your video. Always good to hear from a farmer with lots of experience. It's crazy how big the farms are getting nowadays. Nobody does summer fallow nowadays so I think this no till farming practice is going to have some long term side effects for the land as well as the grain quality in the future. Thanks to all the farmers. You are the backbone of society.
Much Respect for your Dad and family. You helped build our great country🇨🇦🇨🇦. I fully understand why many family farms sold to larger operations however in the long term I am afraid it will come back to “bite” us especially with the huge tracts of land sold to foreign consortiums. Our land and the ability to grow our own food is one of Canada’s greatest assets. Thanks for the video. As an Alberta boy I also love Saskatchewan...well I love our whole beautiful country🇨🇦🇨🇦
Farming is my passion and always get motivated and cherished when I saw advance farming and fertile lands , even I am also planning to do farming in Canada, this is great source of motivation for me
What a beautiful success story, from the time your mom and dad met, while he was on a trip to the Ukraine to bringing you both home to Canada . The pride and appreciation you showed to become a Canadian. Followed by the beautiful videos you and your dad showing us the countryside and farms. Thank you and your Dad!
Hats off to your dad and all the farmers for their hard work and dedication! Mr. Mcleod has a great sense of humor. Last minute of your video really made my day!
Alina, I have followed you for a while, but this is my first comment. I am extremely impressed by the respect you clearly demonstrate for your father, his generation, and that little community in the middle of Saskatchewan. And while you have "travelled far" that grounding adds credibility and weight to all your subsequent observations.
Hi...im from india and i try for Saskatchewan PR and right now i looking for every video related to saskatchewan agriculture and farming machinery in your channel its so knowledgeable and helpfull to us...thank you so much.
The 1998 movie "Conquest" with Lothaire Bluteau and Tara Fitzgerald did a good job of showing the struggle the farmers face to make a go of it. Nice to see you with your father.
Hello Alina Mcleod, first time I come across your channel and I really enjoyed this video. It was great learning all of those insights, it was great also learning about how big was a quarter of land in acres. I had no clue prior to that. One thing, I enjoyed about many farmers, is how hard-working, passionate, and how humble many of them are. Wish you well on your channel. Thanks.
It’s truly pleasure to see your dad’s interview. Great man. God bless you and your dad. I’m about to retire and move back to my birth country and do livestock farming which is my passion. Always love watching your videos. You’re doing great job. Thanks.
A very good video and the perfect person to interview. Your father is totally right, farming business has a lot of uncertainty attached to it. Income is difficult but expenses are not cheap. In a way, a bit similar to the seasonal ski industry, expensive equipment to purchase and maintain and a very sensitive industry to climate.
Nope. Many times farmers work by themselves - one guy - and 8 quarters and 100 cows are HARD HARD WORK. for a big corporation, eight quarters alone is not much.
@@ralphwiggum250N you are right for the 100 cows, but 8 quarters (2 acres) are like a house garden for me So no chance for him to survive He should know that earlier
@@azzouzfou I think eight quarters is 1,280 acres. Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong. Eight quarters is two "sections." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(United_States_land_surveying)
I can't help but admire your skill as an interviewer and producer. I've watched your video on skipping university. Your presentation, natural ability combined with a degree in journalism would likely propel you towards a national stage. Well done!
Great video about farming Alina!!....your dad seems like a super fellow. He's spot on about us farmers, as I also farm here in SK, East Central Yorkton area, mainly livestock. He made a great comment towards the end where if land is passed down or gradually eased in through the family or corporation then it may be easier to absorb. To start from scratch is expensive.....that's putting it mildly. Great vid!!
I really love to see your videos, which always to make with your dad. and your English speaking ascend is really easy to understand to me. Thanks for your beautiful blog.
Alina, really enjoying your vid's .. they highlight one thing we can all learn ... from the Ukraine to small town Canada ,... all propaganda aside at our core we all just want the same basic things out of life life
Great video! I can totally relate! I assumed the family farm after my parents passed about 10 years ago. No where near the size of farm in your video but it's similar in what it takes etc. Its a business and lifestyle and not for everyone! Your dad is amazing too! Lots of experience and knowledge!
Thanks for sharing! Another good point to touch on would’ve been the price of farmland these days. When times were tough in the 90’s, it was tough sometimes to find someone who wanted to buy land. In our area, a quarter section of land was selling for roughly $40,000-$50,000. Even in the late 2000’s it was only $80,000-$100,000. Now, there’s so much competition for acres, that people are getting $250,000 and more for a quarter of land. If you don’t have a lot of money, or borrowing power, and family to help set you up, it’s pretty much impossible to start up with now. Another interesting part is farm labour in Saskatchewan. Older retired farmers like your dad are extremely valuable as farm help, because they can operate pretty much all farm machinery and not smash it up, which is important considering the cost. There isn’t a lot of people trained like this anymore, most people are raised in town or the city and don’t know how to operate all these things safely. Whereas back in the day, there were farm families everywhere, every family had many kids, and all were trained at very young ages on pretty much all farm machinery. It’s not like that anymore, so these older ex-farmers who still live out in the country are very valuable to the bigger farm operations, as they’re the only option with experience as well as very reliable. It’s not easy getting quality farm help out in the middle of nowhere.
Thanks for the tour! I looked up canadian crops in RU-vid and your video came up. Driving by Saskatchewan to winnipeg last weekend I had no clue what most of the crops and devices are. This video explained a lot 👏
The fields look so big over there and i was amazed by hearing the size of your dads farm and seeing different kinds of equipment. Farms of that size is probably uncommon here in Finland. My neighbor has about 8 cows and 50 calves and maybe he gets up to 10 % of your dads farmland owning just a part of it.
travelled through Saskatchewan 2 years ago loved it, had always flown to Vancouver where 2 daughters live, just wish I had done this trip earlier, your dad is a great guy, worked hard all his life and loved it, not many can say that
Wonderful presentation! I grew up on a small, simple farm in Eastern USA. The lifestyle was quite enjoyable but difficult at times; there is incredible UNPREDICTABILITY! Small livestock farms seem to be going by the wayside in the industrialized West!
Yes they are going by the wayside but here in rural Ontario we are trying very hard to bring them back and we need the support of our government and also we need the support of the urban population.
Other than the corporations, the only people I’m aware of that are still buying any significant amount of land are Hutterites. A couple years ago I learned from an elder that starting a new colony in southern Manitoba can cost >35 million, including land, buildings, and equipment.
As a small farmer in Ireland, I really liked this insight to country life in Canada. Much the same movement to bigger scale is happening here, but it seems that is the pattern the world over.
Do you know that you don't actually need to own a farmland to be able to earn money from Agricultural Investment. Have you heard of Argo investment company, you can invest into their own farmland and they do all the dirty work and you earn profit from that.
Such a humble daughter of a humble farmer, although I subscribed your channel for travel logs, but todai am really impressed to see your awareness on farmers, all farmers worldwide are same, one of my friend told me the king of market is not producer nor consumer but middlemen or you can call trader.
Hi Alina , The farming life is hard physically & fiscally. Your Dad is Awesome to have succeeded in both that & raising a wonderful person like you. Great video.
A real gentleman and humble guy, a very nice and informative interview. Any interesting story from your dad's farming career would be very helpful, and some tips and tricks to run a one man farm show would be great to hear. Best wishes
That farmer farms around us. He grew his operation since this video. But he is a good farmer and takes care of his guys, equipment and family. It’s really amazing watching that fleet of combines smash out a field in just one hour. They will either have 8-14 combines in a field and the amount of time it takes to start a field and finish is mind blowing... that being said it’s a huge dream to work with them and get your hands into something you never thought would be possible but in the next couple years I think I will be working there and seeing how this big operation really works and is held together with the people and family.
