The Rural Voice, 1992-09, Page 35travelling. He and his wife raise
standardbred trotters and share -crop
140 acres. His wife also raises
miniature Sicilian donkeys.
His farming experience finds its
way into his talk about the benefits of
drainage. Kime says you can tell
from flying over a field from the
height of the crop and in many cases
the colour of the plants where the
runs in the drain are. Corn planted
over the drain is probably the highest
and between the drains it tapers off.
On his own farm, prior to his
draining the land in the mid -
seventies, on parts of the farm if he
got a good crop every second year he
was lucky, despite it being good land.
The problem was excess moisture in
the spring that delayed planting or
excess moisture in the fall that meant
he couldn't always get the crop off,
he says. Yields prior to that might
Drainage more
needed than ever in
competitive '90s
have been 50-60 bushels to the acre.
Now it's not uncommon for the
yields to be 120-130 bushels to the
acre, he says. "I think that's a pretty
good illustration of the benefits of
drainage."
For the agricultural community
"drainage is more important today
than it was 25 years ago," Kime says.
"If we're going to compete in a world
market for the sale of our
commodities, the unit price has to
come down. It's unfortunate but
that's a fact of life. Drainage is
probably the single most important
technological investment a farmer
can make, before he can make use of
the expensive machinery and
fertilizers and the seeds. It's
fundamental to making all the other
technologies successful."
Drainage has been changing over
the years, Kime says. "Originally
drainage systems were installed on a
random basis where the runs
predominantly followed the
undulations in the terrain. Over the
years that changed where systematic
drains were put in ... especially in
Essex and Kent Counties ... where
you have flat land. Spacing might
have been 100 or 120 feet. There was
a period then when those drains were
split, and drains were put in at 50 or
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