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(wind blowing)

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(Phone ringing)

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Hello?

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Oh, pretty good.

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We\'re busy at the farm here.

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So, he\'ll probably take your
combine and we\'ll do 10 acres

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on, on his land.

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(pounding)

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(wind blowing)

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Oh, boy, now we\'ll
be safe on the road.

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Now you know where I keep the
brake fluid on the side of the

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truck and behind the seat.

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Okay, now we\'re just about
ready to start this baby.

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(machine running)

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It\'s on.

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When we get the
combine to your farm,

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we\'ll have to get
a cleaner sample.

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That\'s pretty chaffy, right?

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Yeah.

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We\'ll work and probably
get it cleaner, okay?

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Okay.

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You know about your dad, he\'s
been dumping grain for 50 years?

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Yeah, he told me all about that.

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Yeah, ever since I\'ve been 11.

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(machine running)

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My greatest passion in life
is farming, is agriculture.

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I\'ve always wanted
to live right here.

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I\'ve always wanted to farm and
just never thought of anything

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else, and it just,
it feels right to me.

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I feel like people should
follow what they love to do,

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and this is definitely
what I love to do.

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Okay, Shawn,
everything looks good,

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in the engine compartment
the oil is good.

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This is this quarter
section of flax.

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It\'s getting later in the
season, but, um, it\'s a good,

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it\'s a good flax crop, like,
I think it\'s running about

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30 bushel an acre.

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And my son, I bought this land
for him when he was 3 years old,

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my boy\'s land is right beside
the main homestead farm.

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Even when I was young,
like, 6 or 7 years old

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and stuff like that,
he\'d be, like,

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what should you grow in your
field this year?

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And I\'d give him my opinion,
it might not have been the

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greatest, I was kind of young,
but he\'d listen, for sure,

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\'cause he knew that, like,
it was important to me.

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Ever since he was a small boy,
at 2 years old he could make the

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noise of any tractor or comb.

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Yeah, a born farmer, yeah.

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So, he could make the noise
of any tractor or combine.

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I\'m going to school at the
University of Saskatchewan,

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and I\'m right now pursuing
a degree in agriculture,

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and the program is called
Agronomy, basically, like,

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the scientific methods
of crop production.

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Farming had got very, I
don\'t want to use the word

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computerized, but almost
that way, right, yeah,

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with land maps and variable
seeding and precision farming,

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that\'s the word.

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My dad doesn\'t understand
all that stuff very well,

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and I think he chooses not to.

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He\'s been farming the
same way his whole life,

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and all of a sudden
it\'s just like the past,

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on our farm specifically
in the past, like,

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10 years things have
changed so much,

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just like he probably went
through the same thing

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with his dad.

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I\'m this young guy coming in,
trying to push all this new

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technology in, and my dad\'s
kind of maybe getting a little

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overwhelmed at some points.

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But then again, he\'s the one who
taught me most of the practices

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that I know right now, so if I
know something I\'m doing on this

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farm it\'s a good chance that
I learned it from my dad.

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Okay, on the road again.

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Sometimes there\'s
a generation clash,

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\'cause I have my opinions on
what we should do and where we

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should go with this
farm and he has his,

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which is completely
understandable,

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but all together I love working
with my dad \'cause it\'s just,

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like, the feeling of our family,
our family\'s been doing this for

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110 years, working father and
son together day after day,

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year after year, to get the crop
in basically and to get it off.

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And I just, I don\'t know, I take
pride in working with my dad,

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and, like, he loves farming
more than anyone I know.

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I want to, I want
to be like him.

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I want to love farming just as
much as he does for 50+ years

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and just, just to never quit.

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This land will all turnover to
the children as time goes on,

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and it\'s always been
that way in our family,

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it passes from one
generation to the next,

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the land is never sold, and
that\'s our way of keeping the

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farm going and, you know,
we can all get by that way,

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it\'s always been that
way, always will be.

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All in all, it wasn\'t too bad.

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I was hoping for
a little bit more,

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but I was hoping for
25 bushel an acre,

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but it turned out to be 23.

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Yeah.

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Well, the way the year went, I
think it turned out pretty good,

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to be honest with you.

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Dah.

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What do you think you\'re gonna
seed on my quarter next year?

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What do you say, son,
you\'re the agronomist?

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Just might try and convince
you to grow canola up there,

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I don\'t know.

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Canola, yeah.

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You usually grow
canola after durum.

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I wouldn\'t mind
trying growing canola,

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but I\'ve had a couple of fellows
to tell me to quit canola,

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it ain\'t making no money.

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I don\'t know, I think we need to
follow a strict rotation plan

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and keep going through that
same cycle every 4 years.

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Mm-hmm.

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That\'s probably what
we\'re trying to go,

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that\'s what I would
like to go towards,

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so you have the same
crop that was there.

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Are you learning that in
school already or not yet?

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Oh, yeah, like, you
learn generally, like,

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just the idea of crop rotation
that\'s important for everything.

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Yeah.

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