Rachael Proden

Agronomist @ Jonair (1988) LTD/Certified Crop Advisor/Professional Agrologist. Part Time Cow Milker at Verwey Farms.

[Günter Jochum🧢🇨🇦 @gmjochum]

So we have 2 businesses that have a duopoly on transportation and make billions in profit and workers whose average income is more than $134,000/yr shutting down the Canadian economy and everyone is cool with it? #cdnpoli #railstrike

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@CIMRemus @gowancanada Kochia!

[Courtney Remus @CIMRemus]

Giveaway!

Edge is having its 35th birthday this year, & all of us at @gowancanada are extatic!

To celebrate, Edge is 20% off until Aug 31, 2024!

🖤 & 🔃 for your chance to win 1 of 4 of these retro style hats!

Bonus: comment 1 weed you'd love better control of on your farm!

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

Maddy says you can hear the corn growing today!!
Finally some sun & heat, to pair with the constant running of tile drainage.

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

That face you give Grandpa when you get rained out. #plant2024

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@rhofford Not shown, me, the agronomist, frantically trying to keep up with the farmer math like I don’t need my calculator

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@rhofford Way to go Aubree!

[Jason Voogt CCA, PAg @field2fieldag]

No one can say our farmers don’t care about nature when they intentionally avoid a Canada Goose nest with eggs, with the 70ft Bourgault! #Plant2024

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

It takes all kinds of kinds to feed the world!

[Clint Fischer @clintwfischer]

"He's not a REAL farmer."

Someone said this to me when I mentioned I'm working with a guy who just rented his first 25 acres.

That comment fired me up.

I got defensive of him.

There's no all-or-nothing application process in ag to "qualify" as a farmer/rancher.

Frankly, if you have a 1/4 acre vegetable patch and one pig and call yourself a farmer, who am I to judge?

Our goal ought to be to encourage more people with the grit & gumption to chase their ag dreams...

Not call them fake farmers & diminish their standing in the ag community.

-Some folks are able to earn 100% of their living from the farm/ranch.

I applaud them.

-Some have off-farm jobs to subsidize their operation.

I'm happy for them.

-Some just enjoy the country life on a hobby farm and don't expect to make any money.

I respect them.

I will gladly help any one of those people, if I can, because they're all part of the ag community.

So the gist is, we all started somewhere & each story is unique.

And if you're small-time and call yourself a farmer, good for you...

I've got your back.

And I know hundreds of others do too.

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@tara_m_davidson In our area, it’s stagey emergence & compaction that caught us. Fought with wet conditions at the beginning of May, so lots of harrowing/tillage to dry things up and get seeding, then got caught with no rain until June.

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@DEKALB_Canada Our little helper is on the way, arriving in November! Can’t wait for a tractor co-pilot & scouting buddy! #DEKALBLittleHelperGiveaway

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

Is it too early to say ‘get your swathers ready’…? 🥴
Thankful for rain, late emergence is just another challenge to overcome at harvest time!

[Jonair (1988) Ltd. @JonairLtd]

Check out our our Satloc Falcon GPS and our new @CapstanAg Swath pro booms!! One of the first planes in Canada with this innovative technology! All available at @PortageAircraft

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@Jackie_Dudgeon Grandma always has a fan running blowing air on the front door! Between that and very competitive fly swatter operators her house stays pretty fly-less and she’s right beside our calf barn!

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

Annual reminder to slow down and actually look at the ‘pigweed’ when you’re checking fields!

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@rhofford I like Dekalb 82SC, excited to see 83SC this year but know it’s pretty sold out everywhere. No problems straight cutting so far, just make sure you’re ready when the canola is ready!

[Pointrow Pete @MaizeingPete]

Dad and Grandpa always said the way the wind blows on Good Friday sets the stage for the next 40 days. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard and it’s usually right

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@tara_m_davidson Laughing to myself cause my dads farm truck made it in the background of almost every ceremony photo from our wedding, the dirty early 2000s F150 makes them a little more special I think 😂

[Rob Stone 🇨🇦 🧢 @rgstone1]

Hey @JeremyClarkson I consider it a real goal of mine to get you to Saskatchewan (a western Canadian province with 61 millions acres of arable land (38M or so cropped) for a keynote address at a farm conference next winter. We can do some tractoring! Who else agrees?

[Rachael Proden @verweyr6]

@rhofford Don’t they teach you in school to ‘ask the question, because if you don’t know it chances are someone else doesn’t know either’? I’ve learned some great info from reading responses to your Q’s!