That’s according to a delegation of students from the University of Manitoba’s agriculture diploma program. The students pitched a successful resolution during the Keystone Agricultural Producers annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb. 3.

The resolution called on the farm group to lobby government to expand Roads and Transportation Association of Canada (RTAC)-rated roads, particularly in high-production areas where heavy equipment and full loads cannot be moved year-round.

The diploma student group argued that gaps in RTAC-designated routes (which are rated for heavier traffic, even during conditions like the spring melt) increasingly limit farm efficiency, safety and competitiveness.

Bryce Visscher, Carter Driedger, David Pauls, David Wiebe and Francis Sundell made up the delegation.

WHY IT MATTERS: Limited RTAC road access can force longer hauls and partial loads, raising costs and safety risks for Manitoba farmers.

The students cited the yearly headache of seasonal weight restrictions. During that window, when normal hauling corridors are curbed, gaps in RTAC access often force farmers to haul partial loads or take longer routes. That means more fuel cost, more labour time eaten up and even increased safety worries during busy seasons, they argued.

Visscher and Pauls pointed to challenges moving grain and fertilizer during spring weight restrictions, while Driedger said the lack of continuous RTAC routes can mean travelling miles out of the way to reach approved roads. Wiebe described detours caused by weak or restricted bridges that prevent modern seeding and hauling equipment from using direct routes.

North-south routes lacking

Concerns about RTAC access, particularly on north-south routes, are not new. During spring flooding in 2022, the lack of unrestricted north-south corridors in parts of southwestern and central Manitoba forced loaded trucks into long detours, increased shipping costs and, in some cases, temporarily cut off practical access to export markets altogether while east-west routes were closed.

“Between Brandon and Portage, between Highways 1, 2 and 3, there’s nothing for north-south roads,” said Driedger.

Sundell said the problem will not be solved through one-off repairs or short funding cycles, arguing instead for a long-term infrastructure strategy.

“It’s not going to be one year of funding,” Sundell said. “It’ll be continuous funding to build roads in the future. You’re not going to build four or five RTAC roads in one year in Manitoba. It has to be a long-term plan.”

He added that, while upgrading roads to RTAC standards carries higher upfront costs, ongoing repairs, grading and patchwork maintenance on underbuilt roads can add up over time. Long-term investment is more cost-effective.

During discussion on the floor, delegates noted that Manitoba already has an RTAC network in place, but that gaps remain and that road designation and approved access can be as much a challenge as construction itself.

Speakers also cautioned that, without clear priorities, upgrades may not always occur in the areas most critical to agricultural hauling.

Young voices at KAP

The student presentation aligned with KAP’s broader emphasis on youth engagement and member-driven policy.

KAP leadership has pointed to increased student participation as part of efforts to connect long-term infrastructure and policy challenges with the next generation of producers and agricultural professionals.

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To be fair, it’s prime time for it — the season of frost boils, weight restrictions and ruts from vehicles and machinery on gravel roads that are still firming up.

Even by the standards of spring, though, it feels like it’s been hard to drive any distance in the last few months without at least one wince, flinch or vague worry about mechanics’ bills when you inevitably hit a surface break you were trying to avoid.

Nor is it limited to a single bad winter. Much of the frustration expressed over social media has built up over months or years of unfinished repairs or neglect.

It’s irritating. For those who have damaged vehicles, it’s expensive.

For agriculture and the overall economy, poorly maintained highways and gaps in the network of RTAC routes (those built up to handle heavy truck traffic even while other highways are under weight restrictions) are bad for business.

In spring 2022, overland flooding cut off agribusinesses in communities such as Holland from getting their goods to Winnipeg. In reality, that disruption was caused by limited flooding on a single highway, PTH 2. Although the road map implied several options for a detour, none of those routes were RTAC-rated. The lack of properly rated north-south options forced those businesses to add hundreds of kilometres to each trip until their main trade artery reopened.

The incident raised an outcry about the lack of north-south RTAC routes in the area and the state of local highways in general.

Among the complaints, residents pointed to the deteriorating shoulders and monster potholes on PTH 34 and rough driving on the neighbouring PTH 5, both of which, they noted, significantly impact farmers who bring loaded grain trucks or semis down them.

Governments from both sides of the political spectrum have noted the need for robust road systems.

In 2021, the Progressive Conservative government proposed an expanded network of RTAC routes. Once done, 36.5 per cent of the province’s all-weather roads would have been part of that trade and commerce road network.

In June 2022, following a rash of water-damaged roads, the same government promised $1.5 billion for a three-year highway improvement plan.

The latest budget, tabled by the NDP, noted the need to invest in trade corridors, including roads, if Manitoba businesses are to stay competitive and make their mark on the world stage.

It laid out $500 million in capital investment “to repair and rebuild Manitoba’s highways and public infrastructure to spur economic development opportunities.”

The province’s 2024-25 Strategic Infrastructure Investment Plan, in the back half of the budget document, noted $506 million for airport runway and highway investment (compared to $563 million in the 2023 budget and $429 million in 2022), while highway infrastructure maintenance was slated for $139 million (compared to $137 million in 2023 and $145 million in 2022).

But the same budget was highly critical of the last government’s tactics on capital investment.

“The choice to borrow more at higher interest rates for 2023/24 capital projects is a significant contributor to provincial debt and debt servicing costs,” the NDP said, later adding that “Projects were continued or even accelerated, leading to increased borrowing and debt-servicing cost that will be felt for years to come.”

There is no question that provincial governments must strike a balance between the projects we would like to do and the resources available to do them.

The NDP argues that they’ve got that balance. Their five-year rolling infrastructure plan (2024-2029) “targets financially responsible levels of growth, support for the economy, and meaningful state-of-good-repair investments in public infrastructure.” They’ve “launched a blue-ribbon panel to ensure that investments in roads and highways are informed by local leaders and municipal officials and are in the best interests of the public.”

How the theory meets reality once bills start to come in has yet to be seen.

In the meantime, I know a highway or two that could stand a little TLC.

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The continent is facing its worst food crisis ever, with more than one in five Africans — a record 278 million people — facing hunger, according to United Nations estimates.

A major theme of the three-day summit in the Senegalese capital Dakar was that African countries need to boost their food production capacity rather than relying on imports that have left them vulnerable to price spikes and shortages.

The meeting brought together African leaders, development banks and international partners including the United States, the European Union and Britain to mobilize funding and political commitment.

Around 40 countries from across the continent presented agricultural development plans to the bank and other partners, who pledged support for the plans over the next five years to enable the countries to increase food production.

“We’re going to invest in markets, we are going to invest in infrastructure, energy, we’re going to invest in roads, we’re going to invest in storage, all the things that you need to make agriculture work,” African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina told Reuters in an interview.

“We must make sure that agriculture allows people to feed themselves. That’s the core of what we are doing here. It’s embarrassing that Africa is not able to feed itself,” Adesina said.

Heavy debt burdens from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which raised prices of fuel, grain and edible oils, have added to long-term causes of food insecurity such as climate change and conflict, experts say.

The Ukraine war also disrupted the supply of fertilizer to the continent, pushing prices beyond the reach of farmers.

The bank last year reached a deal and got assurances from fertilizer manufacturers on the continent including Nigeria’s Dangote and Indorama, and Morocco’s OCP that Africa will not be marginalized in the fertilizer supply chain, Adesina said, adding that the bank had made investments in the manufacturers.

“I think we will not have a fertilizer crisis in Africa. The challenge we’re going to have is affordability problem,” he said, adding that governments would have to put support measures in place to make fertilizer affordable for farmers.

— Bate Felix is Reuters’ bureau chief for West and Central Africa, based at Dakar; writing by Nellie Peyton.

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The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), citing attacks on North American health facilities and a U.S. pipeline, said the scale and scope of ransomware operators represented both security and economic risks to Canada and its allies.

Ransomware and related cybersecurity issues took on added significance in the agriculture and agribusiness sectors following attacks on U.S. ag input and grain handling operations and multinational meat packer JBS earlier this year.

“Ransomware operators will likely become increasingly aggressive in their targeting, including against critical infrastructure,” said a report issued by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, a unit of CSE.

The agency said it knew of 235 ransomware incidents against Canadian victims from Jan. 1 to Nov. 16 this year. More than half of these victims were critical infrastructure providers.

In 2021, the global average total cost of recovery from a ransomware incident has more than doubled to $2.3 million.

“Ransom payments are likely reaching a market equilibrium, where cybercriminals are becoming better at tailoring their demands to what their victims are most likely to pay,” CSE said.

The agency reiterated previous statements that actors in Russia, China and Iran posed a major threat.

“Russian intelligence services and law enforcement almost certainly maintain relationships with cybercriminals, either through association or recruitment, and allow them to operate with near impunity as long as they focus their attacks against targets located outside Russia,” it said.

— Reporting for Reuters by David Ljunggren in Ottawa.

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While no valuation was given in the announcement, the deal values Ports America at over US$4 billion, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The transaction comes amid heightened interest in logistics, with supply-chain disruption in focus as the global economy recovers from the paralysis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

“There are lots of tailwinds for logistics assets writ large, but our approach is for the long term and so this type of strategic ports asset will be important to the U.S. for decades to come,” Scott Lawrence, head of infrastructure at CPPIB, said in an interview.

Under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close by the end of the year, the Canadian pension manager will take full ownership of Ports America.

CPPIB had previously held a 9.4 per cent stake in Ports America. The pension fund also owns a 34 per cent stake in Associated British Ports, as well as stakes in toll roads, utilities and digital infrastructure providers in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia, according to its website.

Alternative asset manager Oaktree has controlled Ports America since 2014, when it acquired Highstar Capital and the infrastructure-focused investor’s funds, which included the Jersey City, N.J.-based ports operator.

“Ports America’s growth, track record of innovation and strong financial profile have positioned the company for success in today’s cargo management and terminal operations environment, and we fully expect the business will only benefit from this new ownership structure,” said Emmett McCann, managing director and co-portfolio manager of Oaktree’s Infrastructure Investing strategy.

Founded a century ago, Ports America has operations in 70 locations across 33 ports in the United States. It currently handles 13.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) annually, which includes 10 million tons of cargo, 2.5 million vehicles and 1.7 million cruise ship passengers.

In the bulk/breakbulk sector — which handles commodities including grains, vegetable oils, raw sugar and refrigerated products, among other non-food cargoes — Ports America operates facilities at 24 U.S. ports.

In the containerized cargo sector, which includes pulses and specialty crops among other goods, Ports America provides services at 28 terminals across 18 U.S. ports, which it said gives it about a one-third share of the container market in the country.

— Reporting for Reuters by Sohini Podder in Bangalore and David French in New York. Includes files from Glacier FarmMedia Network staff.

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For KAP, this includes setting up staff to work from home and hosting webinars.

“All these things have additional costs, which for a small organization was unexpected,” said Patty Rosher, KAP’s general manager. “We want to continue to provide our services to our members and so we were really grateful for the federal government for the support to help us do that.”

Melanie Joly, the federal minister of economic development, on Thursday announced just over $2.8 million in funds for organizations providing business support services, according to a news release.

The money comes from the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund, which the federal government established to reduce pressures on businesses caused by COVID-19.

KAP received $27,000 in funding, of which $8,000 will go to PFGA, Rosher said. They applied for the funds in June, she said.

The money will pay for an online ordering and booking system PFGA set up for members for the 2020 picking season. The system worked well for them, PFGA executive director Angie Cormier said.

“We definitely had to work through some kinks but have worked through those now in the off season and it will be even better for growers next year and going forward,” she said.

“We don’t see COVID going away anytime soon,” she added. “Our growers are preparing that this coming picking season in 2021 will be much like 2020 — very busy, with a high demand for fruit.”

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The Alberta and federal governments on Friday announced a total investment of $815 million — including repayable CIB funds, provincial support and irrigation district contributions — going to “modernize irrigation district infrastructure and increase water storage capacity” in the province.

The federal government had pledged irrigation support as part of a three-year, $10 billion CIB-backed infrastructure plan it announced the previous week, and federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said at the time that the West could expect “the lion’s share” of the irrigation money.

Provincial Ag Minister Devin Dreeshen, in a release Friday, hailed the “visionary investment” made possible by partnership between Alberta’s government, the CIB and irrigation districts.

The province announced it will put up $244.5 million while the eight irrigation districts — Bow River, Eastern, Lethbridge Northern, Raymond, St. Mary River, Taber, United and Western — will contribute a total of $163 million.

The resulting expansion, he said, “will see hundreds of kilometres of pipelines built, contribute about $436 million annually to Alberta’s (gross domestic product) and create over 8,000 jobs.”

In all, he said, the work is expected to bring irrigation to more than 200,000 more acres of Alberta farmland.

A memo of understanding and agreement in principle call for the CIB investment to be paid back by the irrigation districts, in what the federal and provincial governments described as “an innovative approach to financing a unique asset class.”

The projects to be funded will focus on “increasing water conveyance efficiency and allowing more acres to be irrigated with the same amount of water,” the governments said.

Modernizing and building new irrigation infrastructure, they said, will increase irrigated acreage, primary crop production and water storage capacity, improve water use efficiency, enhance water security and provide “flood protection to support long-term value-added processing activity.”

The Western Irrigation District, in a separate release, said the funding will allow it to “modernize our canals and pipelines in the coming months and years, sooner than we would have otherwise.”

“We will expand irrigation while increasing water efficiency,” WID chair Dan Shute said. “And with the savings we gain by becoming more efficient, we can make the service we provide to our water users even more secure.”

Increased flow

In related news, the province also announced Friday that flows on the Milk River within Alberta will increase “early next week” as repairs have been completed on a damaged diversion canal in Montana.

A concrete drop structure had failed on the St. Mary Canal in northern Montana on May 17, interrupting diversions to the Milk River, which runs through southern Alberta.

That interruption affected irrigators in Alberta in late July, but had no impacts to drinking water or household use, the province said.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which owns the structure in question, began Thursday diverting water from the St. Mary River to the Milk River by way of the newly repaired canal, the province said.

The canal is expected to operate through the rest of October, then go through its usual winter shutdown. — Glacier FarmMedia Network

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday launched a three-year, $10 billion infrastructure plan aimed at five different sectors, including agriculture. The $1.5 billion is expected to result in 700,000 acres of irrigated land.

Federal Liberals said the investment, to be funnelled through the Canada Infrastructure Bank, will create 60,000 jobs.

The $1.5 billion for agriculture is to target major irrigation projects, and the “lion’s share” of that will go to the Prairies and the West, Bibeau said, a region where she sees “opportunities for investment in this sector.”

The bank, she said, “has already started significant discussions with the provinces, the municipalities, the private sector to see how we could move forward.”

Bibeau didn’t mention specific projects, but Saskatchewan’s $4 billion, 10-year Lake Diefenbaker irrigation project is a top candidate to receive federal support.

The province in early July announced plans for a project expected to allow farmers to irrigate 500,000 acres.

Western Economic Diversification Canada, a federal department, last month recommended Ottawa help fund the Diefenbaker irrigation project, contending the completed project would add $85 billion to Canada’s GDP and $20 billion in tax returns back to government.

While targeted to the agriculture sector, the project is also expected to be beneficial for the potash industry.

Adding to the likelihood of federal support is the role former Liberal cabinet minister and Saskatchewan MP Ralph Goodale continues to play within party circles. A long-time advocate for the project, Goodale remains a highly respected voice in the party.

Scott Moe, currently running to continue serving as Saskatchewan’s premier, said he was given a heads-up on the announcement.

“I hope this is positive news. There is some money earmarked for the irrigation project, irrigation projects,” he told reporters in Regina. “We have a significant irrigation investment that will be coming here in the province of Saskatchewan.

“We will be looking at the details of this very soon,” he said, adding he hopes it is an investment rather than a loan through the infrastructure bank.

Ottawa’s announcement also contained a $2 billion commitment to expanding high-speed broadband access. In its Sept. 23 throne speech, the government said it wanted to improve internet access in rural and remote communities.

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture said in a release Thursday it’s “encouraged” by the infrastructure funding announcement, noting rural broadband has been a long-standing issue for farmers and rural communities.

“With the arrival of COVID-19, many services pivoted to become entirely online, highlighting the fact farmers’ lack of high-speed connectivity puts us at a significant business disadvantage,” CFA president Mary Robinson said in a statement.

“Rural broadband is not only necessary for today’s farmers to conduct business and take advantage of cutting-edge technology, it is also critical to attracting new, young farmers into the industry. We know younger generations see high-speed connectivity as essential to everyday living and business.”

The infrastructure bank will be rolling out these investments over the next 24-36 months, Robinson said, and the CFA “anticipates these investments will help accelerate the government’s promised timeline of connecting all of Canada by 2030.”

As for the irrigation funding, she said, “these types of investments will have positive impacts for years to come, helping mitigate the impacts of erratic weather events.”

Increased irrigation, she said, can help farmers grow higher-value crops and more crops per acre, while also making water usage more efficient.

— D.C. Fraser reports for Glacier FarmMedia from Ottawa.

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In an interview Thursday, Bibeau pointed to her minority Liberal government’s pledge in the throne speech to further support the food value chain.

That could mean a review of food infrastructure across the country, according to Bibeau.

Specifics aren’t yet available because the government is in “early steps” on such policy, she said, but added that the government has “realized even more” that the COVID-19 pandemic has made such discussion necessary.

“I want to have this discussion even more with the sector across the country to see what we can do to depend less, in some cases, on exports — but let’s be clear, Canada will remain a big producer and a big exporter of food,” she said.

“But I think there’s space for a bit more food autonomy and to be a bit more resilient, even if we are already in a good position, we can always do better,” she said. “We’ll see how it goes and what form of support it can take, but this is something that we do acknowledge and want to see how we can support it.”

The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) has previously shown the sector had turned a $1.1 billion trade deficit into a $2.7 billion trade surplus between 2015 and 2018, while highlighting how accelerating regulatory approval and simplifying and modernizing taxes while also addressing labour shortages could further unlock the potential of the industry.

Given the chaotic nature of global trade and several countries abandoning rules-based trade, at the same time as frustrations over the outcome of recent trade deals have resurfaced, it makes sense Bibeau’s government is exploring how to make Canadian food more self-reliant.

Bibeau also continues to focus on making the industry more inclusive for women.

While she regularly hosts roundtables of women when she travels, COVID-19 has prevented her from doing so. Her very first digital roundtable of women involved in agriculture was held Sept. 18.

“It was really interesting. We had women from across the country, representing different sectors and generations so it was interesting to see the different challenges that they raised,” she said. “Many of them mentioned the importance of mentorship and networking.”

Too often, she said, women stay at home looking after the kids while husbands or fathers attend networking opportunities.

“They miss opportunities to network and to meet with other people or other women, to find a mentor who will be able to support, to give advice. This is something they miss a lot, and it’s a reality not only in the ag sector,” she said. “That’s why I was so impressed with the success of our initiative with Farm Credit Canada.”

Launched in March 2019, the FCC Women Entrepreneur Program was designed to offer financing and resources to women in the sector.

Originally given $500 million over three years, the program has since approved loans for 1,391 women at a cost of $994.5 million. Additional loaning capacity given to FCC this spring will be used to keep the program open.

— D.C. Fraser reports for Glacier FarmMedia from Ottawa.

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He had just turned onto the gravel road after working up one of his fields near Somerset in mid-May. He was going slow, still folding up the wings of his cultivator.

“I felt the tractor hit the soft spot in the road and I’m thinking, ‘Gee, I better be careful with that,’” he recalled. “As I turn around to look over my shoulder, I hear a big thud and that was the one tire exploding as it tried to turn upside down inside the frame of the cultivator.”

The incident tore off the shaft holding the wheels in place and twisted the frame of the cultivator.

Why it matters: Many of the same producers fighting to get onto the field this spring had another enemy to contend with, frost boils.

The soft spot adjacent to McEwan’s field was one of many checkerboarding roads in Manitoba this spring, yet another legacy of the wet fall in 2019.

The RM of Lorne, in which McEwan lives, reported road repairs still ongoing as of the first week of June. Well over 40 sections of municipal road suffered enough damage to warrant patching, officials said.

“I would say (it’s been) somewhat worse,” municipality reeve, Aurel Pantel said. “It wasn’t a complete disaster, but this spring was really bad for the sinkholes.

“For the most part, our roads in (the RM of) Lorne are pretty good,” he added.

Pantel pointed to the wealth of precipitation the area received last fall.

Along with fall rains, the region was among those hard hit by the early-October snowstorm that dropped up to 75 centimetres of snow.

McEwan is far from alone. Farmers in southwestern Manitoba have bemoaned poor road conditions this year, including sections of Highway 23 west of Swan Lake, which was closed to all but local traffic earlier this year.

According to the province’s highway information, that highway is now reopened, although drivers are cautioned about surface breaks “caused by spring breakup.”

Similar cautions have been attached to portions of Highway 22 and Highway 5, both also in southwestern Manitoba, as well as highways north into the Parkland.

Dave Kreklewich, head of council for the Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa, says repairs have been, “constant,” on the municipality’s gravel roads this spring.

“They’re worse and then, at the same time, farmers were anxious to get out and they couldn’t get out and then all of a sudden all of them were out, so there was a lot of traffic on the roads,” he said.

Kreklewich estimates the municipality won’t be done road repairs for at least a month.

The municipality is creeping up on half of its road repair budget for the year, Kreklewich said, although a relatively dry winter has provided some relief. The municipality has been able to move some money from planned snow removal to road repairs, although the spring is, “stretching,” current financial plans, he said.

The spring damage has created more challenges for producers, many of whom were already fighting a challenging spring. Farmers in the southwest were significantly behind in seeding progress going into June, agronomists and provincial extension staff noted in late May.

On May 26, the province estimated that only 55 per cent of seeding was complete in the southwest, compared to many reports of over 80 per cent seeding completion elsewhere in the province.

Aaron Hargreaves, who farms south of Brandon, noted frost boils as one of his main challenges in a year where his farm was already late to start seeding.

“Equipment is just sinking in the sidehills and hilltops and there’s just no way to see them, no way to avoid them,” he told the Co-operator in late May. “It’s been a really hard year on equipment, for sure.”

Hargreaves was echoed on social media.

Scott Perkin, who farms near Souris, described the state of roads and yards in his area as, “an utter disaster.”

Other producers, noting the same, have added that the local municipalities are doing all they can to keep up to road repairs, while yet others have also noted the poor state of Hwy. 23.

Curtis Borduzak, vice-president of fixed operations with Rocky Mountain Equipment, said the company has noted an uptick in service calls this spring, although he could not tie that to frost boil damage, such as McEwan experienced.

He has not heard specific complaints about damage from moving equipment over poor roads, he noted, adding that producers have also faced challenges trying to complete harvest from last year while also trying to farm in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kreklewich, likewise, said he has not heard of farm equipment damages, although there has been one incident of a resident damaging a passenger vehicle after hitting a section of poor road. Most poor sections are marked, however, he noted.

McEwan, meanwhile, noted that traffic trends in his region have not helped spring road conditions.

“The number of frost boils on this road seems to be increasing with the size of the farms and the size of the equipment we’re running over it,” he said. “There’s a lot more semis running over that gravel road in the spring now than there used to be, and with the high water table, there’s going to be problems.”

The damage to his cultivator did not significantly slow down his spring operations, he noted, although it did take out his high-clearance cultivator of choice, so chosen because he, like many of his neighbours, was unable to complete field work last fall.

“It’s an older machine,” he said. “It’s not worth a lot of money in terms of ag equipment but, you know, it was one I had set up to do the things the way I wanted and I was a little peeved that it got twisted up.”

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