Every year, Western Producer reporters and photographers and our fabulous freelancers fan out across the Prairies to photograph the harvest. It’s the culmination of a growing season’s worth of work and we like to record it and share it with readers. We find that it helps to have a theme, to help focus our photographers, and this year the theme is Gathering.
So, after many farmers have gathered this year’s crop, or at least some of it, our photographers will gather photos and our editors will gather and sort them into a special feature for our Oct. 8 edition. There are more than we can publish, so we’ll put some on our website too.
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Crop insurance’s ability to help producers has its limitations
Farmers enrolled in crop insurance can do just as well financially when they have a horrible crop or no crop at all, compared to when they have a below average crop
You can probably read more about this in Crop of Photos, the blog elsewhere on this site that is written by my colleague, photojournalist Bill DeKay.
I’ve seen some of the early shots, and this particular photo, taken by DeKay, makes me laugh but also wonder about the life-lesson it illustrates. How many times did people drive around this bale? It is clearly an obstacle to the farming around it, yet for some reason it remains. How many obstacles do we put up with, rather than taking the trouble to address them? Just a philosophical thought for a Wednesday afternoon.
