While the crops farmers surrounding us are working long hours for a few days to get harvest done our work with crops and livestock is pretty much unremitting. October is the time when the demands of harvest add to the necessity of getting winter feed lined up, buildings and livestock equipment repaired and things generally buttoned up so that we can get our work done this winter.
What this shows is a general human tendency that when there is more work than time to do it, routine maintenance gets left. We prove to ourselves every year that someone to fix, repair and build is an important asset on this farm, because every October we see too much of the planned repair and renovation undone. This will make our winter tasks harder and less satisfying to do.
Farm income must cover the support of the farm's staff.
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