Lees insight

Geez, Earl…this is Canada! There are about 12 million head of cattle in Canada including about nine million head just in Western Canada — they may not be all slaughter ready, but there are plenty — and you’re telling me your buyers have to go to Nebraska to find cattle? And what is this line that your […] Read more

Sports and advertising don’t always have things in common, except when you consider how completely out of whack — out of touch — these industries can be with real life. Take the biggest sporting event in the world (according to the Americans) — The Super Bowl (even though I didn’t see the game). But TV advertising during […] Read more

You really have to know someone to get a recipe in Grainews, so I decided this blog was a good place to post a recipe and also promote the International Year of Pulses too. The recipe below is called Wheatberry and Lentil Salad. It was one that was featured during presentations at the recent Farm […] Read more

Pulse Canada is on the ball. They sent me food in the mail. As part of the promotion announcing that 2016 has been declared the International Year of the Pulses (IYOP) by the United Nations, Pulse Canada sent me an information package and it included a granola bar. Not just any granola bar — a Canadian […] Read more

BY LEE HART Man, if I could remember everything I’ve heard about growing canola I’d be a shoe-in for that 100 bushel Canola Challenge prize, as long as it also rained on the right days during the growing season. I thought the now retired Alberta Agriculture canola specialist Phil Thomas had put everything you needed […] Read more

I certainly can’t and I hope many other people can’t really imagine what Roger and Bonita Bott of central Alberta are dealing with right now as they prepare to bury three of their kids Friday at a funeral service in Red Deer. Their three daughters, Catie, 13, and twins Dara and Jana, 11 died about a week ago from […] Read more

It is the honest truth, the first thing I saw this morning when I walked in my office was this photo from 100 years ago of me interviewing federal Conservative party leader Robert Stanfield during a campaign swing through Cranbrook, B.C. — and I am guessing it was 1974. Bob didn’t win that year either. (Just […] Read more

Nothing kick starts the Thanksgiving holiday weekend like a good Hereford cattle production sale. I was out touring the country last Saturday with brother-in-law Joe — first a stop at Princess Auto, an amazing store that always has a fantastic stock of things I need, even though I didn’t know that walking in the door, then […] Read more

If you think you can do a great job of growing canola and are interested in a prize worth close a million dollars you’ll want to sign up for the recently announced Agri-prize Contest challenging Western Canadian and northern U.S. farmers to break the record on canola production. The Agri-prize Contest announced at Western Canada’s […] Read more

It’s official…corn is coming. With the snip of an inordinately large pair of scissors Wednesday, at a new research centre near Lethbridge, AB, DuPont Pioneer Canada officially re-confirmed its commitment to the development of new and improved — earlier and higher yielding — field corn varieties for Western Canada. The company which has been involved in seed […] Read more