Frank Watts

On the farm side of the business, we work roughly 1500 acres of ground planting wheat, oats, barley and soybeans. This includes maintaining six tractors, a combine and multiple field implements. On the trucking side of the business, we operate four highway trucks hauling both dump trailers and a large flat deck. We haul a variety of commodities including all of our crops to market throughout the Maritimes as well as gravel and heavy equipment. Both sides of this business has given me a lot of experience doing both regular maintenance and emergency repairs whether that is in the shop, a field or on the side of the highway.

Maintained the storage yard and building for one of the largest agricultural dealerships on the island. Which included everything from snow removal to re-organizing the equipment as inventory was purchased and sold. Also loaded and unloaded incoming and outgoing freight both new and pre-owned. My job at the dealership also included delivering farm equipment all over PEI, as well as everywhere between Cape Breton and Eastern Quebec. During these jobs I was also in charge of maintenance for multiple trucks, trailers and forklifts with the addition of scheduling deliveries and pick ups for myself and other drivers.

Operated and maintained all equipment involved in planting, spraying and harvesting potatoes for one of the largest potato operations on PEI. Kept records of fertilizer usage in both planters and prayers as well as records for weather conditions and fertilizer mixtures while spraying. This job also sent me on the road driving a water truck which tended to two sprayers, in the water truck I was in charge of transporting/mixing and loading sprayers with the appropriate water to chemical mixtures which included liquid fertilizer, herbicide and fungicides.