[AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?

Sat Aug 21 05:21:37 PDT 2010

Just about the same size and temper as a deer fly but with a bright yellow 
body rather than dark like a deer fly.

The land over on the beaches and along the sound and river shores was 
selling like hot cakes for the last 15 years or so up until the recession 
hit but the area where that farm is would require a significant amount of 
infrastructure improvement to build on.  The flies and mosquetoes could be 
controlled but the land is highly organic and damp.  The water table is 
usually just a foot or two below the surface.  Septic tanks generally don't 
work.  Houses that locals build in that area have to have mound systems 
(mounds of sand somewhere in the yard above normal grade for septic drain 
fields) and septic tanks that are sealed and use pumps to push the effluent 
to the mound.  The deer, bear, bob cats, opossums, raccoons, turkeys, quail, 
and occasional panthers would just as soon the houses stay away too.

Charlie

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Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?

> That makes sense Charlie, I didn't think about it being low land. Usually 
> being near the ocean = $$$. But I can certainly appreciate the mosquitoes; 
> not familiar with yellow flies, but if they are anything like what we call 
> deer flies here in Michigan, I can feel the pain. I can get a pretty good 
> workout in just swatting at them. Mike M
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:35:33 -0400
>
> Those black areas are most likely water standing in the field.  Mike that
> whole farm is only about 5 to 10 feet above sea level.  It's not unlike 
> farm
> land in Holland really.  It's got the Neuse river to the north, the 
> Pamlico
> sound to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the S/E and South.  I don't
> foresee any of that getting developed for a long time to come if ever.
> There are two fairly large developments in the area, one to the north 
> along
> the river and one to the southwest on another tract of farmland.  So far
> both of them have been a flop.  Not too many folks want to live where a
> extra high lunar tide or a wind tide back up into the grade ditches 
> between
> lots and where the mosquitoes and yellow flies are as thick as hair on a
> cats back.   The farm actually belongs to folks from Italy.  They bought 
> it
> 20 years or so ago.  In recent years the son that runs it has gotten his 
> US
> citizenship.  I've tried to talk to him before but I don't speak any 
> Italian
> and he doesn't speak enough English for me to know what he's talking 
> about.
> All of the guys that work there are locals though.
>
> Charlie
>
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> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 5:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?
>
>> Charlie, that looks like some pretty prime real estate being that close 
>> to
>> the ocean, when I zoomed in on the fields I could see some black areas,
>> they didn't seem to have any pattern, any idea what they are? Mike M
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?
>> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:55:04 -0400
>>
>> Ralph,  most of our land is in small cuts between creeks and rivers with
>> towns and big woodland tracts all around but there is one farm about 40
>> miles from me that is 30,000 + acres all in one cut.  Here's a link to
>> google maps.  You will not have any problem finding it in the photo.
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.848403,-76.504618&z=10&t=h&hl=en
>>
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>> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
>> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:14 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?
>>
>>> Mattias, I'm not sure what you mean by the combines not cutting the
>>> straw.
>>> I'm guessing you refer to the fact that the combines sometimes pick up a
>>> "swath" of grain rather than direct cutting the standing crop. We don't
>>> see
>>> as much swathing now as we used to. Now most cereal grains are direct
>>> cut,
>>> sometimes desiccated prior to harvest although I prefer to just let
>>> nature
>>> do it's own desiccating.
>>> Canola is almost always swathed as the pods will shatter if left 
>>> standing
>>> until they are dry enough to harvest.
>>> And my fields would be considered small by local standards. I think the
>>> biggest is 130 acres on my farm but I know of one in the area that must
>>> contain well over 1000 acres of canola. Of course he has 5 big New
>>> Holland
>>> combines to harvest with.
>>>
>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Mattias Kess�n" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
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>>> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 8:48 AM
>>> Subject: [AT] Ralph, do you only have one enormous field in Canada?
>>>
>>>
>>>> It looks so strange when the combines don't cut the straws.
>>>>
>>>> Mattias
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