{"id":31560,"date":"2022-10-07T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=31560"},"modified":"2022-10-07T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:02:31","slug":"help-for-a-young-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/10\/help-for-a-young-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Help For A Young Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climbing into a combine is not easy. It&#8217;s even harder without the use of your legs. A life-changing quad accident two years ago challenged young Saskatchewan farmer Levi Jamieson\u2019s dreams of one day taking over his family\u2019s farm. But Merle Malin, a retired farmer is helping Jamieson &#8220;rise above&#8221; that challenge by gifting him a hydraulic lift for getting into equipment on the farm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A life-changing quad accident when he was in Grade 9 challenged lead to the loss of<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0the use of his legs two years ago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jamieson said he pushed through the moments he felt he would not be able to farm by doing his best to try to help his parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merle Malin, a retired farmer saw a photo of Jamieson in the local newspaper with a mobility assist.\u00a0 Malin wanted to gift Jamieson with a hydraulic lift chair he has to help him on the farm. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He has been in a wheelchair for nearly thirty years and knows the challenges it can bring. As you can imagine,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Levi was excited to see and try out the new piece of equipment, which usually costs $50,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Merle was in hospital years ago, a surgeon told him there was no way he would farm again.\u00a0 &#8220;I strongly believe in don&#8217;t let people tell you what you can&#8217;t do. It&#8217;s not a &#8216;Can&#8217;t do&#8217;, it&#8217;s a &#8216;Try it'&#8221;, said Malin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jamieson said Malin is someone he can talk to when he needs to and the friendship &#8220;means a lot&#8221; to him. He said it has made him a more independent farmer and he does not need as much help from his parents when getting in and out of farm equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 00:16:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/10\/help-for-a-young-farmer\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31566,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31560\/revisions\/31566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}