Well it’s official as of midnight tonight that at least my marina is closed and no boat launch is available. Although, I could put my boat in and leave it in my slip, but I’m not allowed to access to use my boat.
Guess I should of bought a cottage with water access.........but that still only allows immediate family on the boat.
A week ago I took advantage of low fuel prices and pulled the boat out to top up the fuel tank, I stopped the pump at $175.00 @ 265 litres and it gave me 7/8’s of a tank and now god only knows when I’ll be able burn that fuel. There now my boat sits in my shop with ethanol fuel for which it never has had. Not even sure how many containers of Seafoam I’m going to have buy???
On the farming side of things, the farm life is starting to ramp up. The last two weeks the beef cattle have started giving birth. Today we had our second set of twins, bringing newborns up to 9 calves. I’m still bottle feeding one of the first set of twins as the mother has abandoned it but still protects it.
Another flock of 4-5 hr old chicks arrive Monday morning, 22,500 of them. With the temps up and rain stopped the fields have been drying up and so I’ll get on the land to spread manure (4-6 days spreading) and working the land soon.
With this Covid 19 we hear all about businesses, jobs closing down and all the restrictions that has been placed upon us.. There isn’t much said about the farming industry.
For what Im familiar with in the chicken farming and diary farm, I’ll shed a little insight on how they are feeling the impact of this virus. As for the chickens, the eggs are in incubation now with 28,000 chicks scheduled to be shipped on Monday morning. With cut backs handed down we will receive only 22,500.
As for the diary farmer I know very well, he is forced to dump over 8000 litres of milk into the manure pit along with other diary farmers as well. Operating costs still remain the same.
Guess I should of bought a cottage with water access.........but that still only allows immediate family on the boat.
A week ago I took advantage of low fuel prices and pulled the boat out to top up the fuel tank, I stopped the pump at $175.00 @ 265 litres and it gave me 7/8’s of a tank and now god only knows when I’ll be able burn that fuel. There now my boat sits in my shop with ethanol fuel for which it never has had. Not even sure how many containers of Seafoam I’m going to have buy???
On the farming side of things, the farm life is starting to ramp up. The last two weeks the beef cattle have started giving birth. Today we had our second set of twins, bringing newborns up to 9 calves. I’m still bottle feeding one of the first set of twins as the mother has abandoned it but still protects it.
Another flock of 4-5 hr old chicks arrive Monday morning, 22,500 of them. With the temps up and rain stopped the fields have been drying up and so I’ll get on the land to spread manure (4-6 days spreading) and working the land soon.
With this Covid 19 we hear all about businesses, jobs closing down and all the restrictions that has been placed upon us.. There isn’t much said about the farming industry.
For what Im familiar with in the chicken farming and diary farm, I’ll shed a little insight on how they are feeling the impact of this virus. As for the chickens, the eggs are in incubation now with 28,000 chicks scheduled to be shipped on Monday morning. With cut backs handed down we will receive only 22,500.
As for the diary farmer I know very well, he is forced to dump over 8000 litres of milk into the manure pit along with other diary farmers as well. Operating costs still remain the same.
to catch pike ?
