Jason Desrochers
@desrochersfarm
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Raising quality animals in cattle country, Northern Ontario. Married to the strongest person I know. Father of 2 beautiful girls.
Val Gagné, Ontario
Joined February 2014
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Ok, i know woodsplitters can be dangerous. But i showed my daughter the dangers and tought her how to do it properly. Helped me for 4 hrs today splitting and piling. To be honest I am more scared of raising lazy kids than i am of the woodsplitter.She is always helping on the farm
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Snowmobiling with my nephew today. Wow, not like my sled!
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10 and 12, the girls are learning how to weld with dad. 3 nice welds from my oldest!
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Trying to find some agricultural content on twitter.Not a lot of success.I miss seeing frozen water tubs, clean tractors, broken machinery, and livestock! I don't believe federal or provincial government or their party is dividing this country,social media is.
#letstalkag
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One of my group of steers at todays sale. Very happy with prices!
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Welcome home, buddy. Our new Lewis bull is looking good.
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Underseeded peas and oats going in next year on this not tile drained land
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After being ran for a few days buy wolves, and the wolves taking one if them down, we finaly see the calves calmed back down to normal this morning.
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Calves are coming good now, appreciate the nicer weather. Less mud!
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Moving cows closer to the bush to break the wind. Feeding a mix of good baleage and 2 year old dry hay leftover from last year.
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730 bales of peas/oats baled and wrapped in 2 1/2 days. Back to dry hay.
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I've never seen so much hype over a winter storm? Warnings everywhere, people panicking. Calling for a foot of snow over 3 days doesn't seem that odd to me for Canada. It's winter!
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199 of our Calves made it safe and sound to Keady thanks to Rostar trucking. Hope to see a lot of people at our
@StockerSale
on Friday.
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Taking them home to weigh, then going somewhere this week. Keeping some replacements.
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Girls took a day off from online learning to help dad.
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I don't usually have too many favorites, but this replacement heifer calving for the first this April is becoming one of my favorites. None of these 28 girls ever had grain in there lives and they look great.
#homeraised
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These calves will get weaned next week. 3 weeks later than normal. But there is nothing normal about this years weather so far.
#nosnow
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Last group to move today. Calves moving to the bush for the rest of the winter.
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I had 1 scew, a drill, and an empty water bottle (which I picked up on the side of the road) in my truck. Good enough for tonight.
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These calves selling April 26th in Keady at our
@StockerSale
. I can guarantee these calves are going to take off on grass or in the feedlot. We just frame them out on baleage and hay, lots of exercise, pure muscle. They will do nothing but gain.
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175 cows and 175 calves vaccinated tasvax, and bovishield. Started at 8am done at 5pm. Good crew helping out today.
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These calves are selling in Keady
@StockerSale
April 29th. There is a lot of uncertainty in Agriculture, but one thing is certain, these calves are going to take off when they hit grass. Forage only diet all winter, no implants.
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Told dad he should relax today on his 79th Birthday. He looked at me like i had a 3rd eye, lit up his smoke and said "We got straw to haul" They don't make many like that anymore.
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Finally have all of the gates installed and welding done on the new portable calving shelter. Figured we would put tin on after we saw how it twisted while pulling. Not much twisting at all. Pulls nice. Start installing tin on tomorrow
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We are done planting canola today. Please tell me I am not the only farmer doing this job after planting is done?😬
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My brother is tiling another 100 acres. He might not have cows but he is a huge part of our farm. Cropping with him and renting his land have made it possible for me to follow my dream and be full time beef farmer. Very thankful.
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First purebred
#simmental
to calve 2023 this morning from a heifer I purchased from
@riverpointcc
this fall.
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As promised, a better look at our calves selling in the Norther Select Stocker sale
@StockerSale
this spring. And yes, my camera hand was frozen after taking this video this morning. Brutal wind!🥶😄
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Horses are inside to make sure they start for tomorrow. Cattle round-up, weaning calves. Usually with snowmobiles but no snow.
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Hard to believe that the same people who chose to pave over all of this prime farm land and live here have strong opinions on how we manage our farm land up North. I think we are doing a fine job😉
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Got my coffee table welded up this week. Wood is also from the farm.
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Got the second bin up today. They are not big but we have a total of 4 now and it will work for us small time croppers.
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These calves going to
@scott_kuhl
@StockerSale
in Keady on April 29th. 200 head, all vaccinated, dehorned, castrated, age verified.
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Cold morning moving cows home to sort a few culls and move to wintering area. Warmed up this afternoon. Nice winter so far.
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Second bale of used bale wrap. Happy they are being utilized to make something useful. They are being recycled to make patio stones.
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Last load of canola heading south. A bit of straw and pods but considering the weird growing and harvest season, just happy it's harvested.
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Any farmers or ranchers actually own one of these calf catchers? Any good? Worth their money?(They are expensive)
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18 calves in 24hrs. I would say bulls were doing their jobs! Much nicer day today.
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These 3
#simmental
calves are a few weeks old. Went through some -38 last week no problem and looking spunky today.
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May 18th. Oats, Barley and Canola all in. Only 300 acres. Not sure how people do large scale? I am fed up already. Just have 90 acres of underseeded peas and oats to go. Back to more cow things soon.
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Maintenance on the old girls before harvesting our grain.
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The two drivers today were talking with each other calling my calves "westerns". (Said they were similar to
#westerns
). I took it as a compliment but politely corrected them and told them they were "Northerns".
#ontariobeef
#beefnorth
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Cold but all is good this morning. Week old heifer looking spunky.
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Last group of cattle today. 508 head of cattle (cows, calves, replacements and bulls) through the handling system to get processed last 3 days. Good feeling being done.
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All three waterers a frost free on this cold morning 😊
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Making more pasture. Logg, shear blade, feed cows. Grass in 2 years.
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After chores this morning, 3 hours of fishing 15min from home. 14 pike 1 walleye. Awesome day!
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This pasture has a good supply of well water being pumped with a 48v solar system.
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All done
#harvest21
Finished up in the last field that had 20 acres of lodged canola. Went slow but well.
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This is our first home raised
#Simmental
bull. He is a "G" bull. Wintered outside no special treatment. Hope the future bulls I am raising turn out like this one. Very thick bull (can't see in this pic)
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270 bales of green feed baled, hauled and wrapped.....(still wrapping) record day for us. Another 56 bales of dry hay. Tomorrow bale the rest of the rained on dry hay before it gets rained on again.
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Last night here for these guys. Keady bound tomorrow.
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All done, weaned and dehorned (5 calves with horns)
#lovepolledbulls
Gonna be loud for a few days, good time to head south for a
@BeefFarmersON
meeting.
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Trying hard to keep these calves clean for the
@StockerSale
April 26 in Keady after a couple days of mud making weather.
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Replacement heifers with the limo bull out of the bush for a change. They hide in the shade most of the day on these hot days.
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Last drink for these 2 purebred
#Simmental
bull calves wean tomorrow. Born mid and late February 795lbs and 785lbs
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Seperating replacements from the calves before the calves get any ideas. Heifers are starting to show.
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Cow checking day after a long week of harvesting grain.
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Still ice on the Lakes but seeding undrained land, weird times. Still snow in the bush. 70 acres done today 210 more to go.
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Ivermectin and vaccines for calves and ivermectin for cows today on 1st group. 4 more groups to go tomorrow and Saturday. Calves put on a lot of weight with the later frost.
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This 18 acre corner of my brother's property was bush a few years ago. Cropped it a few years. First year making hay. Including 2 cuts, averaged 12.75 bales an acre.
Same on another 28 acres averaged just under 12 bales an acre. Lots of feed this year!
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All done feeding, heading home for soup! Beautiful sunny day.
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Everyone around talking about the Mennonites bringing in corn on the rail. . I stopped by to talk to them and found out that they are actually bringing in plastic resin to make tile drainage weeping tiles and not corn.😁
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Slow going on this Canola. Stocks are big and green. Plants didn't die yet. Too much water, not enough frost.
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@BeefFarmersON
1st annual
#NorthernSelectStockerSale
is a go!
April 30th at Keady Livestock Market.This sale will feature a select group of top quality cattle born and raised in the Northeastern Ontario and 1 producer in North Western Québec.1000-1200 head of vaccinated cattle.
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My wife made this display for the foyer at her school today. 😊 She is excited to get back in the classroom. I would like to wish all the teachers a healthy and productive year!
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Finally have our kill frost up here. This is by far the latest we have ever seen.
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Yes, it is still winter up here. Yes, those are my 4x5 hay bales under the snow. Tough winter up here. Planting grain in May or June?? Time will tell, but things need to start changing here in a hurry, and forcast not looking too promising.
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I was fencing in way way out back today. I wear a size 10 boot, that is a big bear track.
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New tile drainage pipe manufacturer in Val Gagné and new Abbatoir in the last year. Things are moving up here.
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Me trying to make fence today with all the deer and horse flies.
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My dad,my uncle and myself came to check out our old hunting camp. My grandfather skidded the logs with his horses when they built it.
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