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FROM QUILTS TO THE GREY CUP

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Volunteering to help with setup at the 18th annual Heritage Park Festival of Quilts in Calgary last weekend brought back a few memories — or was it a nightmare — involving quilts. I was probably 6 or 7 years old when my mother took me to a neighborhood quilting bee at Erita Gallinger’s house.  I […] Read more
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“Canadian Beef Is COOL”

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I know the powers that be have put in a lot of effort trying to convince the U.S. government to reverse its stand on country of origin labeling on Canadian meat products, but I think it is time to forget about the dark cloud and focus  on the silver lining. It isn’t a new concept […] Read more
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IT ALL STARTED WITH THE DEATH OF A CHICKEN

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A couple things to ramble on about….. First, I was shaking my head the other day over a recent event at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. In April, one of the art students thought it would be cool to kill and pluck a chicken in the school cafeteria as part of a […] Read more
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Gas- and plasma-cutting equipment contest

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If you use any of Victor Technologies’ gas or plasma cutting equipment, you could get your picture into their 2014 corporate calendar and win some new tools in the process. Victor Tech. has just announced two contests as part of the celebrations of it’s 100th year as a company. Take a picture of yourself using […] Read more
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“One-day rancher” has completed his shift

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There I was this past weekend being the “One Day a Year Rancher” at my brother-in-law’s place at Fort Steele in  southeastern B.C.  It was the annual weekend to process the cows and calves at Kootenay River Ranch before they head out to pasture, hopefully sometime in the next week or so. They had a […] Read more
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Getting a boost

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Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000167 EndHTML:0000005195 StartFragment:0000000481 EndFragment:0000005179 Consider this: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield was able to exchange tweets recently with Queen Elizabeth II from the International Space Station, but many Canadian farmers can’t make a cell phone call from their own farmyard. It doesn’t seem quite fair, does it? But according to manufacturers of cell phone signal […] Read more
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Farming is farming whether it’s catfish or canola

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And I thought the debate over the Canadian Wheat Board was deep. I have been getting emails lately from Gavin Gibbons of the National Fisheries Institute, which represents many fish companies in the United States and it is all about a pending decision on whether to eliminate the U.S. Catfish Inspection Program. Now, obviously they […] Read more
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Another tale about a horse named Chester

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Cecil Orr of Sifton, Manitoba also had a horse named Chester at one time. Cecil called me after he read a column I wrote in Grainews in February about a horse named Chester that I had back in the late 70s. Mine wasn’t much of a tale, other than I owned Chester, rode him for […] Read more
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UNCRATING THE HOG INDUSTRY

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I read recently that Calgary Co-op food retail chain, then national hog processor Olymel, and mostly recently Tim  Horton’s restaurants are among the latest companies to make it known that hog producers have to change their production practices. These companies, and others have set deadlines where they will no longer accept pork from operations using […] Read more
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Why a company-owned equipment dealership?

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According to a report in a reputable European magazine, Germany-based farm equipment manufacturer Claas is preparing to open a network of 14 company-owned dealerships in the northern part of its home country. The stores are said to open sometime in 2014. Apparently, the brand is discontinuing its relationship with the 19-outlet dealership chain that had […] Read more

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