Marriage is finding out your wife has two settings: absolute angel or mildly homicidal, and the switch is usually flipped by hunger, hormones, or your breathing.

In southwestern Ontario’s snow belt, we call this a Tuesday… @WxOntario1

Very good read. Applies to many organizations, especially board led ones. Comfort over courage: The cost of playing it safe in agriculture realagriculture.com/2025/11/…

Hey #ontag. Our son is heading to @UofGuelphOAC Bsc this fall, but not into residence. Anyone else in the same boat needing a housemate? Any referrals on an available house/apartment?

Update. Feeling like I’m in Bruce cnty now…

Dad always says winter doesn’t start till the 21st. So we’re just getting some moisture right now instead. @Shawridgefarm

Almost daylight out here with this harvest moon. Couldn’t ask for a better week in September for harvest. #harvestmoon2024

I’m not expert, but gut feeling says silage is will be going full blast this week in Huron/Perth/Oxford… and no rain in the forcast! #winning

Unfortunately, Canada is falling into the same trap. Poor gdp per person. It’s a longer post but explains it well.

A global map of soil quality. What stands out?

So the better half would like some lamb/sheep for the pasture. Anyone out there want to sell us some? Looking for about 15-20. We’re located in the st. Marys area. #ontag #sheep

Canada is in trouble. This is the ninth budget in a row that depends heavily on excessive borrowed money managed by an obesely bloated federal bureaucracy that is now 40% larger and 68% more costly than when the Liberals took power in 2015. Unwilling to live within the tax revenues produced by the national economy, this government has borrowed more money in 8 years than all other Canadian governments combined since the nation was founded in 1867. This recklessness has doubled the national debt and created interest payments that are breaking all records – last year over $46 billion dollars and this coming year over $54 billion dollars. That is more than the federal government spends on the military, or healthcare. All of it taken from taxpayers to pay bondholders instead of being spent on public services. Now, the centrepiece of their new budget is a capital gains tax targeting the few Canadian individuals and firms who invest in Canadian ventures or assets. This investment is what creates the new businesses and jobs and productivity the nation so badly needs. It is bizarre to watch a morbidly obese and fiscally incompetent government propose - in the name of ‘fairness’ - to justify taking productive capital away from Canada’s small but critical investor class and hand it to the same bureaucracy that has for almost a decade shown they will only waste it. The track record is anything but ‘fair’: inflationary reckless borrowing, uncompetitive taxes, an obesely expanded bureaucracy and debt, underperforming public services, runaway interest payments and a regulatory state that kills industrial expansion and economic momentum. The world is noticing. The OECD now measures Canada dead last of the world’s 38 advanced economies for per capita GDP productivity modeled to 2030 - and 2060. Since that 2021 analysis, the nation has lost ground on GDP productivity for another 6 of the last 8 quarters. On a purchasing power basis, Canadian GDP per capita is down to 76% of the USA. That’s with outlier Alberta raising the national GDP numbers significantly. On a provincial basis, 46 of the 50 US states are now wealthier than Ontario, and if Quebec was a US state it would be the 49th poorest, only marginally ahead of Mississippi. The government needs to ask itself how fair it is to add another $39.8 billion in debt this coming year as they lose over $54 billion dollars in interest payments to bondholders instead of spending it on public services? The real social injustice in this budget is the borrowed money that is killing the opportunity society Canada is supposed to be - and that the next generation deserves. By avoiding hard decisions - and taxing investors instead of cutting their own reckless spending - this govt is creating a future of forced austerity for our kids. You can call that a lot of things, but it isn’t ‘fairness’.

This chart from @rko2milk post back a 2 mths ago hit it home. The USA is back to pre sexed semen levels of heifer inventories and still dropping… With prices of dropped Xangus calves over $1000, I don’t see the trend slowing down. x.com/rko2milk/status/175339…

That’s an interesting Trendline! We invest in land. It’s something we can control, improve on, and crop to feed our livestock. Never got into stocks. That said, in our location, land never cash flows, but it’s an awesome spot to park profits.

This is a reason why productivity per capita has flat lined. We need more S&M Businesses to be started.

I wonder if anyone has a chart/data like this about agriculture/farm land pricing?