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Philip d

Philip d

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A friend of ours took a picture of our home place today so I thought I'd share it. My cousins farm is the one on the left where my Dad grew up.
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That's the Northumberland Strait. It separates PEI from New Brunswick. You can see the lights of a town called Bouctouche from here on a clear light. I've been told it's 9 miles across. Good fall season lobster grounds too.
 
Thank you. We were mostly potatoes with dairy a few pigs and some Holstein steers many years ago. Everyone here back before warehouses stored their potato crops in their basements. We're only dairy here now milking 60-65 cows. We grow 50-60 acres of silage corn along with hay/grasses and barley but we do rent out some land to potatoe growers.
 
Really nice pic of your homestead. Looks like a great place to live. Thanks for the airial perspective.
It looks much like what I enjoy watching on the Smithsonian channel's "Arial America"
Loren
 
There's 2 in a field of ours up the road and one across the road on the fence line with a neighbour.
 
Very nice Philip! I will need to get out my map and see just where you are. You are very close to water for sure! I'm guessing heat stress on the cows isn't much of a problem!!


Very cool!

John
 
They've been up since 07 with the last of them being completed in 09. There's 55 V80's on the wind farm. They're working out well for the most part. Most years they average $7500/site. They get really snotty when you spray your fields near where they're working though. They like at least 24 hours notice before spraying anywheres near any windmill or their shop.
 
Haha were in West Cape on the corner of O'leary road and rt 14. It really hasn't been an issue till the last few summers. We installed some basket fans and are putting more up over the winter. If it's hot humid and 0 breeze it gets really bad for them without fans.
 
Nice spread! Turbines here on average pay about 15k per year, and they get out of our way for farming practices. 2.2 MW units. Ben
 
I just looked at it on google earth. Looks like those fields between the road and the coast would just be to valuable to farm. As the other poster mentioned ocean front property is high price land. Beautiful for sure. I am betting it gets cool there in the winter.
 
It gets really dreary here in the dead of a bad winter lol. There's a few spots here and there where it's good cottage property. Our place has fairly high capes,maybe 30'+. The lots along Mill River are the really valuable ones in this area.
 
Phillip D you have a beautiful place! I'd say not to many people get to farm and be that close to a large body of water. I may have missed this in another post but what kind of potatoes do you grow there? Does the other potato farmers around you also grow the same type? We have a few acres of sweet potatoes and some Irish potatoes around me here in Tennessee.
 
I really enjoy good fiddle music and get Fiddler Magazine. They have some stories of PEI fiddlers, also some from the "mainland" provinces nearby. Good stuff. Do you happen to fiddle or know some fiddlers?

Great picture of your area.
 
Thank you! We stopped growing ourselves in 86. I'm not up on the current varieties ,I've heard guys talking about Norcoda's,Russet Burbanks,Netted Gems,Shepody's. They're always switching varieties depending on yeild and disease resistance.
 
Thank you! No I never picked up a fiddle before,every June they have what they call the "Festival of Small Halls" lots of local talent in different locations all over the island. It's one of our busiest times so we never got to take any in.
 
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