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A decade or two—or maybe three—ago, tillage slowly became a dirty word on the prairie. I can remember hearing many farmers in the 1970s express a the-more-passes-the-better opinion when it came to cultivation. But that coffee-shop wisdom was flawed. In fact, serious erosion of prairie soils was making magazine headlines at the same time many […] Read more

Nominations have now closed on the Farmer’s All-Time Favourite Machine competition, and your submissions were handed over to the judges, who were charged with the task of selecting three finalists in each category. Picking those finalists was no easy task. We said at the start of this competition that the judges would take a few […] Read more

As prairie farmers wait impatiently for the first sustained period of seasonal-average temperatures since 2013, the prospect of another delayed spring now seems almost a certainty. That kind of trouble is bad enough for those seeding the usual canola, wheat and other cereal crops, but it has to be weighing heavily on those who have […] Read more