#Farm secretary big farm mobile harvest serial#

In the four years that came next-four years that cost Canadian beef producers at least $400 million-the Thordarsons’ farm has lost $90,000, leaving the brothers stumbling through 1978 with a brand-new $100,000 mortgage strapped to their backs. That, however, was the only happy chapter. Evans, now 37, and his brother Robert, 30, had purchased the homestead from their mother for $50,000 and shortly, during the last good return on beef, had it entirely paid off.

#Farm secretary big farm mobile harvest serial#

It ran in a sad serial from the death of his father more than five years ago. Saskatchewan, farmhouse with his hands folded over a cultivated belly, his big thumbs spinning like gears in his lament. The cow probably had been in full labor as he sat in the living room of his Mozart, Thordarson pulled off his cap and scratched in a reminder not to miss the next birth. He slugged his bulk over the side of the stall, reached down quickly, ran a concerned hand along the mouth and nostrils where the membrane lingered, brushed it away, then stood back and smiled proudly. JustifiablyĮvans Thordarson had come so close that the amount of time by which he’d missed could be measured in the fading steam of the birth.