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There is a movement afoot in the Canadian beef industry to get all sectors from producers through to retailers singing from the same hymnbook. It may be an oversimplification of what the Straw Man Beef Industry Initiative is about, but the effort is geared at creating a more organized and targeted Canadian beef production system, […] Read more

If you are looking for a great coffee-table book that does a beautiful job of capturing the images of ranch life in Western Canada, Wyoming photographer JoAnne Meeker has just released a new book that speaks volumes in a few words. You may think it is pushing it to consider a photo of a horse […] Read more

Nothing brightens my day faster than a phone call from Ieuan Evans explaining the virtues of copper in wheat production. I don’t know if the micronutrient will actually seed the crop for you or run the combine for eight hours, but other than that it can do just about everything else in helping to produce […] Read more

After a stressful week of being at their best everyone could finally relax late last Friday as two farm couples from Alberta and Atlantic Canada were named winners of the national Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers award in Regina, Sask. Grain and oilseed producers Michael Kalisvaart and his wife Karen Jansen from Gibbons, Alberta and dairy […] Read more

Agriculture needs to show the world it has some great ideas for improving any perceived problems facing the industry, rather than trying to find creative ways to silence its critics, says a leading world consultant and communications specialists. Rather than trying to persuade skeptics that foods produced with genetically modified (GMO) crops are safe, the […] Read more

The B.C Cattleman’s Association (BCCA), working with a major B.C. food retailer, is embracing the concept of producing natural, hormone free beef. It isn’t a statement that natural is any better than commodity or conventional beef, says Kevin Boon, BCCA general manager, it is simply recognizing if the market is there, B.C. ranchers can produce […] Read more