Lees insight

A lot of companies and associations have “great websites and great web tools”  to keep people informed and make life easier. And sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. But, one recent website/software I was pointed towards, which I think is just a great idea is called Savvy Farmer. It costs $199 per year to […] Read more

With snow persisting across much of southern prairies this week, probably the last thing farmers want to read about is wetland management. If ducks can’t find a prairie pothole to nest beside this year, they shouldn’t be out there reproducing anyway. I suspect for many, the challenge will be to find a dry spot to […] Read more

Arrived home yesterday from the two-day Alberta Institute of Agrologists (AIA) meeting in Banff, where I was made an honorary member. Not sure if they are trying to “buy” the media with this award, but I can’t be bought. However, I can be rented at a very nominal rate. So feed me lunch and give […] Read more

I was just reading the Vancouver Humane Society newsletter which announced its Raising the Barn awareness program (www.raisingthebarn.ca) aimed in part at getting consumers to stop or at least reduce meat consumption. The campaign focuses on pretty well every type of meat production — beef, chicken, pigs — and is pushing for five freedoms in […] Read more

I work for the most inane, whiney, inarticulate, editor who can barely put two words together, and doesn’t have a clue about agriculture (have you seen her pathetic excuse for a garden), and keeps everyone guessing on her true hair color and on top of that I craft these near-genius and compelling articles that generate […] Read more

Not sure where you might be buying gas this morning, but fuel prices in Calgary, yesterday, jumped to $1.12 to $1.14 per litre depending where you shop. That’s a nine or 10 cents per litre hike. I know there is a conflict happening in Libya, and I understand the importance of that. Along with having […] Read more

There will be six one-day workshops across Alberta in early March bringing together cow/calf producers to better understand the beef markets, to discuss insurance price programs, and to identify market opportunities. Cow-Calfenomics 2011–Strategies Moving Forward is a one-day workshop that looks at beef trends, explains some available tools for risk management, and helps cow/calf managers […] Read more

There are three meetings and workshops coming up in southern Alberta farmers should note. March 3, 2011 – The Southern Applied Research Association holds its annual meeting at Bully’s Grandstand, third floor, at Exhibition Park in Lethbridge. The meeting gets underway at 8:30 and runs until 11:30 am.  Agenda items include various SARA reports, a […] Read more

I saw on the news last night where Toronto is in a lockdown mode and may call in the military for assistance after someone found ungraded eggs at a grocery store. I am sure crisis counselors will be brought in to help distraught consumers cope. These eggs were so bad that some even had bits […] Read more

The Saskatchewan Stockgrowers Association has four more zone annual meetings planned for mid-February through to mid-March. This week, Thursday Feb. 17, the Zone 7 annual meeting will be held at the Beechy Community Hall. The annual meeting gets underway at 4 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $20. Speakers on the program […] Read more