Ontario farmers are logging extra hours, as they work into the night during the fall grain harvest.
Farmers don’t have the luxury of clocking in and clocking out at the end of a typical ‘workday’, according to Leo Guilbeault.
“We only have so many days to do this,” Guilbeault told CTV News during an evening of combining soybeans in St. Joachim, just outside of Windsor, Ont.
Guilbeault started combining beans at 11 a.m. and didn’t quit until 1 a.m. because the conditions were perfect, he said.
“Tonight, there’s a nice breeze, so things are staying nice and dry. We’re going to go as long as we can tonight to refill all our wagons,” he said. “Once the wagons are full, we’ll call it a night.”
Guilbeault and his son don’t even stop to unload beans from the combine, perfecting the in-field unload.
Essex County farmer, Leo Guilbeault, unloads his soybeans …