Andrew Cummings anga achirima mbatatisi hupenyu hwake hwese, asi haasi kurima sezvaiita vabereki vake.
Kwemakumi emakore, mhuri yemurimi wechizvarwa chechishanu Andrew Cummings yakanga yashanda munda payo mhuri purazi pedyo neJohnville, NB Andrew akanga atanga kurima pachake achiri mudiki uye nekufamba kwemakore aishuvira kuwedzera purazi, asi ivhu rakanga risingawanikwe munzvimbo iyi - muna 2016, izvo zvakashanduka. “Ndakawana mukana wekutenga rimwe purazi. Iri kure nemakiromita makumi mana kubva kwandakakurira. Ndakazopedzisira ndatengesa purazi repamba pangu ndikatama,” anodaro Andrew muhurukuro parunhare.
He had been running late to a grower meeting for McCain Foods when he got talking to another grower who was also running late. The man mentioned he was looking to retire, one thing led to another, and a few nights later the two met. A plan was quickly made for Andrew to buy the retiring growers’ farm in Bloomfield, N.B.
That wasn’t the only farm Andrew bought. He also bought a neighbouring farm, and in the end, was able to double his potato acreage and triple his contract volume with McCain Foods. Some changes had to be made though. On his old farm he had raised beef cattle, but the new farms didn’t have the infrastructure for livestock, so the cows were sold.
“I’ve moved to an area with better-quality topsoil than I had where I grew up. The ground is better, and I do have a neighbour here that is a large dairy farmer. I swap ground with them,” he explains. Andrew now plants 450 to 500 acres of dryland potatoes annually with rotation crops of soybeans, wheat and hay. He mainly plants processing potatoes for McCain Foods, but he also grows his own Russet Burbank mhodzi.
“We grow between two and three different varieties depending on the year — the Russet Burbank being like 85 per cent of what we grow. So, we grow that seed but if we grow Shepody’s or Innovators or something else that (McCain) wants us to try, we buy that usually from them,” he adds. His father James was the one who started growing seed on the farm. At the time, Andrew had just joined the farm full time and James saw there was opportunity for them to expand their production into seed growing.
"Vamwe vanhu vaizviita panguva iyoyo uye akaita seakasimudza, uye akanzwa kuti ndaida kurima mbatatisi kuti nditange," anodaro Andrew.
Baba vaAndrew vakarega basa, asi vachiri kubatsira papurazi dzimwe nguva. Mwanakomana wake Evan anoenda kuYunivhesiti yeNew Brunswick achishanda chirimo chirimo papurazi, nepo mudzimai wake Dale aine basa repapurazi asi anoita zvemabhuku epapurazi zvakare. Mwanasikana wake Claire, ari kuchikoro chesekondari, anobatsira panguva yekudyara nekukohwa papurazi. Vanopinza basa vana kana vashanu vashandi vemwaka mumwaka wekurima, vane gumi nevashanu vanobhadharwa kuti vakohwe.
Munguva yechando apo basa romumunda rinononoka, vanotema huni dzechigayo chematanda munyoro. “Tinewo huni dzakawanda, harisi bhizimusi guru kwatiri asi tinogara tichitema huni muchando chega chega,” Andrew anowedzera kudaro. "Isu hatisi mugadziri kana chero chinhu, zvinongotipa chimwe chinhu chekuita kuti isu vaviri tirambe takabatikana."
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