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Agriculture '98
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corn crop, the Glanvilles
By Janice Becker
Citizen staff
After more than 35 years of con-
ventional farming techniques, the
Glanvilles of McKillop Twp. con-
verted to a no-till operation.
When asked what precipitated
the move, the three men, brothers,
Lorne and Ken, and Ken's son,
Dean, laugh.
"To cut down on the work," said
Ken and Dean.
Though it may seem an offhand-
ed remark, it is one which must be
dealt with by farmers in an environ-
ment in which there are fewer farm
labourers available, larger land
areas cropped by a family and what
sometimes seems like less time to
get the work done.
"We had more land and not
enough help," said Dean. "It was
just my father and I. We were over-
loaded with work, but we wanted to
keep it a family farm."
Dean points out the difficulty of
finding good labour when needed.
"At a recent conference, a large-
acreage farmer from Costa Rica
was telling us about finding work-
ers for $10 a day. We laughed and
said we paid $10 an hour."
However, the decision to go no-
till goes far beyond time con-
straints.
The land on Conc. 10, McKillop
Twp. had been cultivated for at
least 50 years, said Ken. In his time
there, since 1962, he said he has
seen a definite decline in the quail-
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