"It didn't matter if there were 5 acres left in the corner or 500 acres". #shorts #GRDC #farming

Name: "It didn't matter if there were 5 acres left in the corner or 500 acres". #shorts #GRDC #farming
Uploaded: 2024-05-12T08:35:21+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Gerri the NVT Guru
Description: A short first-person monologue (YouTube #shorts) in which the speaker contrasts Canadian and Australian farmers, arguing Canadian farmers prioritized…

12 May 2024 · 1 min

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A short first-person monologue (YouTube #shorts) in which the speaker contrasts Canadian and Australian farmers, arguing Canadian farmers prioritized family time and leisure over continuous work—stopping farm work for weekends regardless of how much remained. The speaker reflects that this cultural valuing of time with family was a key difference.

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The one thing that I now realise, what the Canadian farmers did far better than any Australian farmer that I ever knew was value. Value their time with family and value their weekend times. And life wasn't all about work. So, you know, it'd be nothing for me to just knock off from the tractor on a Friday afternoon and be demanded not to go back on a Saturday or Sunday. Didn't matter whether it was five acres left in the corner or. Or 500 acres. You just stopped and you went fishing and camping and whatever it was that kept you busy over there. So they prioritized that. And I now look back on that and see that that's the one point of difference that I think that the Canadians had.