If you drive out of Minnedosa along the northern most street that runs west from Main St you will pass a low industrial building on your left, and a gravel parking area on your right ... from time to time the gravel parking area fill with an assortment of bright red farming equipment sitting in neat and tidy rows ... air seeders, bale scoops and other assorted equipment is marshaled there awaiting shipment to distributors across North American and around the world ...For many years Morris Industries has been located in Minnedosa, and its equipment has been used by farmers both near and far ... bringing jobs, income and prosperity to a number of families in and around town ... The familiar red equipment reminds all who drive by that it was farming that opened the West, and it is farming that continues to be the pulse that beats within communities like Minnedosa.
This Thanksgiving Weekend, it is the bounty of the land that feeds us in ways that stretch far beyond a distended belly at a table overflowing ...
By the way, beyond Morris' equipment, punctuating the horizon line like Medieval tower, lies the Mohawk Ethanol Plant that is under going a dramatic expansion to feed the ever growing bio-fuel industry ... more about that another time ...
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