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It doesn’t take much to make some people happy. Just a look is all they need. Young Bryce, who has been in a medically-induced coma for the past few days, following a serious accident Saturday, awoke briefly from this prolonged sleep shortly after 12 noon Wednesday and recognized his family. And minutes later as that […] Read more

I spent most of the Sunday of the Labor Day weekend in the intensive care unit (ICU) waiting room at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary joining family members from south eastern B.C. in a vigil for a young man, who just a few hours before was a vital, living-the-moment teenager, but now lay hooked up […] Read more

I know many Canadian beef producers have been reluctant to consider the concept of supply managed beef production, but there may come a day when egos have to bite the bullet and seriously look at that option. I understand the last rancher who used the words “supply management” at a producer meeting mysteriously ended up […] Read more

A quick trip from Calgary to Saskatoon, last week, cross country through Hanna then to Kindersley and Rosetown, to Perdue and then Saskatoon, gave me a 110-kph snapshot of what’s happening with crops in that part of the world. I wasn’t driving. There was everything from some excellent wheat, canola and pea crops north of […] Read more

The canola crop may be in bloom, but if the flower petals look small or pale instead of that nice vibrant yellow, the crop may be suffering from sulphur  deficiency, says a soil fertility specialist. The window to correct the deficiency is closing quickly, says Elston Solberg, a senior Agri-Coach with Agri-Trend Agrology, but if […] Read more

The Calgary Stampede may hand out more than a million dollars in prize money to cowboys, but it also handed one of its most persistent critics a significant propaganda gift following the death of six horses at the 2010 event. While one group in California is calling for a boycott of Alberta in memory of […] Read more

Even while waiting for fields to dry out, farmers are reluctant to complain about too much moisture. Particularly producers in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan say too much moisture isn’t great, but there have been many years when they face the hardship of too little moisture. At an indoor “crop walk” in Lethbridge this week about […] Read more

  Due to the fact that southern Alberta has water up to its proverbial boot tops, the AgTech Centre seeding demo near Lethbridge, AB scheduled for this Wednesday has been postponed until June 30. With 10 to 15 inches of rain over the past 10 days and more rain forecast for this week, organizers had […] Read more

What’s the best seeding system you can use? The answer to that may always remain a personal preference. But you can get an excellent idea of how six of the leading air seeders and drills compare at a southern Alberta field day coming up Wednesday, June 23. Alberta’s Ag Tech Centre is staging a seeding […] Read more

I think it is important that North American cattlemen keep those livestock numbers up to avoid the risk of another Ice Age. I’m still on the fence when it comes to issue of Global Warming – is it happening? Why is it happening? And so on…  But a recent article I read says it was […] Read more