Atlantic Farms - Micheal Sweenson

Tuesday we headed out in pouring rain, very busy traffic, and pretty dodgy maps of our destination. I was glad not to be the driver! We made it through the busy city and out onto the open road to visit Atlantic farms. Here they grew Soy, Corn, Wheat, Barley and also processed grain into stock feed in small bags and also had an oil crushing plant. They cropped 10,000ha’s, and had 3800 different land titles they were renting. The paperwork was a nightmare for them!

We were able to tour the plant, where local farmers delivered grain and it was processed into small bagged stock feed. We also got to look around the farm, and check out some soybeans being harvested. It was really great to get out into the field and have a look around.

I got to have a go in the drivers seat, and we drove for a couple of hours to arrive at our hotel for the night at 8.30pm. The others have headed out for dinner, but I am giving the belly a rest and staying in! Looking forward to seeing some more farms tomorrow.

Atlantic Farms - Grain Recieval site, trucks unload on the side, and rather than having a hoist, the whole grid tips up like this?

Sheds at Atlantic farms, these are remnants of the old communist farms, they're are many of these large old shed area's around the countryside, broken down and derelect.

Harvesting soybeans , beautiful countryside!