A brand new John Deere seeding outfit from Western Sales makes a tight turn while seeding canola for Davidson’s community farmland project. Proceeds from the sale of the crop support recreation in Davidson and the Davidson Kinsmen Club. It is a joint initiative among the town, the Kinsmen and Western Sales, which provides the equipment, manpower to seed and harvest the crop as well as agronomy services. Other local businesses and companies support the project by providing crop inputs and fuel. Their efforts are recognized on a sign in the AGT Centre. Over the years the irrigated land project has raised a total of $201,777. This season the project has added another 90 acres of land. This land is of better quality, so yields and returns to the community are expected to be better. This additional land brings the total acres up to 260 with 230 acres seeded land and 30 acres in grass. This year’s crop was seeded with a John Deere 9620RX tractor, 1870 76-foot drill and C850 air cart.

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AYLESBURY—Canada geese are known to build their nests on somewhat elevated ground, but a goose has taken her nest to new heights at the Riskan Hope Farm north of Aylesbury.

For the second straight spring a goose and her gander have been nesting on top of a large round hay bale that is on top of a shed beside the iconic red barn on Highway 11.

The goose was incubating her eggs last Thursday.

Farm owner Dave Luther said the goose and her gander arrived about ten days ago.

It’s an unusual spot for the nest.

Luther said they put the bale of hay on top of the shed to hold plastic sheeting on its roof until they could get around to tinning the shed.

Luther said last year, after the eggs hatched, he could see the little goslings in the nest and he wondered how the goose was going to get them down. He wanted to watch the process. He left the farm for about an hour to go eat dinner and when he returned, the goose and the goslings were gone.

“She knew how she was going to get them down,” he said, suspecting she was waiting for him to leave so she could do it in private.

He missed his chance last year, but he may get another chance to observe the procedure this time around.

The female Canada goose chooses an elevated spot to build her nest so she may have an unobstructed view of predators.

Luther said he hoped it was a sign that the dry spell is coming to an end. “Maybe floods are coming,” he said.