Lees insight

  If you’ve every wanted to go to China, but were afraid of driving there, a long time Southern Alberta ag consultant is organizing his 10th travel excursion to The Far East this coming March. The China Venture Tour 2011 is being organized for March 11 to 28 (almost three weeks) by John Calpas of […] Read more

This looks like a great modification for anyone using an ATV, whether it is for checking cows or roaming the bush looking for elk or deer – a set of quad tracks for the four-wheeler. I haven’t done a lot of ATV riding, but I know they are great little machines, with some limitations. If […] Read more

The strange weather this year, has made for some interesting crop tours and events. In “dry old southern Alberta” I went to a seeding demonstration in June and the big question was, which tool works best in mud? In July I went to a “crop walk” day at Lethbridge and it was so wet the […] Read more

Man, it sure is quiet and lonely here now without Bryce and Joan. Wonder what I will do today. Oh, wait, it isn’t quite 8 a.m. and I don’t even think they have left town yet. Anyway, this may be the final chapter in the Bryce Repair Job blog. The Bostocks are heading home to […] Read more

I have always known that eating works wonders for me, but this may be a case where ice cream is indeed a miracle food. Just this week I witnessed a young man, who has been in hospital for nearly two months recovering from a serious head injury, eat a $9 ice cream cone (who knew […] Read more

I had an email this morning from the head cheese at FBC (Farm Business Communications is the division of our parent company that looks after our family of publications including Grainews, Canadian Cattleman, Country Guide, Alberta Farmer Express and Manitoba Co-operator, New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic – okay, those last three aren’t part […] Read more

  I had a long and sometimes emotional conversation yesterday with Saskatchewan rancher Ken Habermehl. He recently was cleared of any wrong doing in a hearing regarding the shipment of cattle to a community pasture in May 2009, where it was found upon arrival that seven animals did not have CFIA approved RFID ear tags. […] Read more

Today, October 4, me and the Little Mrs. are marking five years of wedded bliss. Oh, we’ve been married for 35 years, I’m just counting ones that were happy. I think that is an old Rodney Dangerfield joke, but I didn’t want my wife to  think I had gone all mushy or something. But, 35 years […] Read more

  A lot of us might think our kids (or someone else in our lives) have a hole in their heads, well for those of you who have followed my reports of injuries suffered by a young man from southeastern, B.C. in an ATV accident, I am glad to say the literal hole in Bryce […] Read more

I had the bjeezus scared out of me Saturday afternoon. I ran into a small fleet of UFOs (Unfamiliar Farming Objects) near Nanton, south of Calgary. There I was out on a beautiful fall day, having a routine look at manure spreading operations – sure, maybe I was a little excited, who wouldn’t be – […] Read more