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James Hargrave will be missed

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I was sorry to hear this week that eastern Alberta rancher James Hargrave was killed when the water truck he was driving was in collision with another vehicle and rolled into the ditch. Hargrave, a volunteer fire fighter with the Cypress County Fire Services, was helping battle a raging grass fire that had spread from […] Read more
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Define it

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This week I’ve been working on putting together the annual review of what’s new in tractors, which will appear in a few of Glacier FarmMedia’s (our publisher’s) magazines across the country. As I assembled all the information about what each brand had to offer and double checked what has been making news in the ag […] Read more
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The heart of the deal

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Most people will have heard of Donald Trump’s book, titled “The Art of the Deal”. I suppose those people who’ve actually written books might object to me calling it his book, because it and others credited to him were apparently written for him. I remember reading the book when it first came out. Although, I […] Read more
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Movin’ on

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A few years ago, one of my cousins, who was also my neighbour, succumbed unexpectedly and very rapidly to cancer. Because he was a bachelor, the task of organizing his affairs fell to another cousin and me. Winding down a farm that had been in the family for generations was no easy task. Despite some […] Read more
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The ultimate in swag

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Over the years my wife has made a practice out of going through my side of the hall closet in our house to thin out the ever-growing herd of branded ball caps crammed in there. On my desk, I have an ample supply of pens provided by the various equipment brands from those product launches […] Read more
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The first thing in the morning

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This Amazone field day was one of three international press events in northern Germany last week It caused a round of hearty laughter among the handful of people standing in a group. “Did you hear what he said,” one person asked me. “He said tractors are the first thing he thinks about when he gets […] Read more
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Who’s in your cab?

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As harvest operations kick into gear, there has been no shortage of farmer postings on social media sites. There are now recent images and video of every conceivable harvesting scene you could imagine. But in looking at some of them, one thing stood out to me: there are an awful lot of posts proudly showing […] Read more
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What does the future hold for the swather?

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To swath or not to swath: when it comes to canola, that’s been the debate among prairie farmers for more than a few years. By and large, producers have opted to keep a swather in the farm fleet and put it to use. On many prairie farms cutting canola is the only job a swather […] Read more
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In the cab at Case IH

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  Last week Case IH invited us ag media types down to Iowa to see what they had in store for 2018. Using their pavilion on the grounds of U.S. Farm Progress Show in Boone, the marketing staff not only let us see what machines they were introducing, we actually had a chance to drive […] Read more
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So long AIM — it was another good run

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It’s all over now except for the crying, folks. Ag In Motion (AIM) 2017 is history. And really the only crying that might be done, is by the dedicated volunteers and employees of the show who stay on the AIM grounds near Langham, SK for another 10 days to two weeks to clean up and […] Read more

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