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20 pages, March 18, 2014 Bryan and Lee-Ann Zimmer of Bry-Ann Farms, of Daysland, discuss business with Battle River Credit Union Manager Matt Danko.
We admire you for your vision, your resilience and your fortitude. We recognize that farming is a way of life, a passion – but it’s also business. Often big business. With farming comes risks. Reliance on Mother Nature, exposure to dangerous chemicals, the potential for disabling injuries. And those darn insects! (Not the mosquitoes that bug golfers while they’re putting!) It doesn’t seem totally fair that you should be so susceptible to the moods of the markets. While we realize you might have a very good year when prices of grain, livestock or poultry are high, it’s also clear to us there are trying, frustrating years when, through no fault of your own, you suffer emotionally and financially when world prices are down for the products you grow and raise. We admire you for your entrepreneurial spirit – you have no union leader to complain to because you have to get up in the middle of the night during calving season. You have no one to talk to about having a day in lieu of the Sunday morning you missed because you were pulling a stump out of the innermost bowels of your combine. Thank you for being you! As farmers, you support the businesses in our small rural communities. You come to Camrose for many of your large purchases. You have a major impact on our economy. You faithfully read the information we send to your mailbox each week! And lest we forget, thank you for the blessings of the food we eat. Without you, where would we be? That’s something, as Albertans, we’d rather not think about!
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