I guess Ron Gover would be the teacher for me. His farm was across from my mothers family farm so I knew him and his dad. Ron ran a dairy farm on a shoestring budget for years then got out and raised holstein bull calves and worked in a factory. For years I did his chores when he took a day off. He was an excellent manager and cowman but never had the capital or borrowing capacity to really succeed.Later he helped me get into the factory where he worked where I became his leadhand for awhile.We both worked steady nights and rode together for years.He was generous with his advise learned the hard way.
Ron's family moved to the farm during the depression from the city.Ron's grandfather worked for the railroad and Ron's dad learned to farm from my great grandfather who was considered a skilled farmer and dairyman.
He qualified for a review of his operation through some sort of program and implemented most of the recommendations and passed on the findings to me. The review said he could buy his corn as cheap as growing it 7 years out of 10 and he rented out the farm and found the advise to be true.
Sadly he died of pancreatic cancer much too young.Incidentally the same year I lost my father and maternal grandfather. Through Ron I learned something about farming and life every night on the drive to work including some of my great grandfathers wisdom I would not have otherwise known. His son became on electrician and moved out west to the oilsands. I have left a flower on Ron.s grave on fathers day the same as for my father and grandfathers.
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