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Walter Decker, egg barn manager at the Riverbend Hutterite Colony at Mossleigh, south of Calgary with one of the laying hens in their new barn outfitted with an enriched cage system.

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Let’s open the barn doors

Hart Attacks: Positive changes are coming in the livestock production world

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As I was recently reading about the Canadian egg industry’s commitment to turn its ocean liner around, I figured a motion was in order — if consumers and the food industry are so concerned about animals produced “free range” or in loose housing, farmers should just turn everything loose and then charge four times as […] Read more
Staghead disease is of relatively low risk, but certainly be watching for clubroot.
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Be on guard for clubroot in canola

Hart Attacks: If it’s in your community, be on the lookout for clubroot in your canola fields this year

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I’m using this photo of a flowering crop heavily hit with a pest to make the point to watch out for canola diseases this year — and in particular be on the ball to detect and hopefully prevent clubroot. This southern Alberta farm didn’t expect to be coping with staghead, but it suddenly appeared out […] Read more
These Super Spindle trees help apple growers increase efficiency and production.
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Apples have come a long way, baby

Men cannot live by canola, wheat and barley alone. Put an apple on your plate

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If you ever wonder where apples come from forget the notion they are produced in some lazy looking orchard, with grand, sprawling shady trees that have been growing for centuries under which you can spread a blanket for a picnic lunch before picking the next basket. Get ready for the Super Spindle. That was the […] Read more
I think what the consumer wants, and perhaps mostly demands, is a good-quality product, safe and healthy, hopefully tasty, and available at the lowest price possible.
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What’s with “consumer demand?”

Both retailers and farm groups are using farm practices as a marketing pitch

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I have to admit I am more than a little sceptical of the term “consumer demand.” If I believed every TV commercial, news report, magazine article and corporate pitch talking about consumer demand I doubt I’d be able to leave the house without running into an angry mob rallied in front of some office or […] Read more
White and blue are just two of the new modern pumpkin colours. Who knew?
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Crop diversification opportunities

If you get rich on either of these ideas, Lee Hart wants either fruit or a piece of pie

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With an ongoing commitment to bring farmers new cropping ideas, I have two. The first one I consider a sleeper crop… literally. The second falls into the category of “who knew?” If you are interested in a high value, slow return crop I recommend avocados. It is truly a sleeper, or plant-and-go-fishing, or plant and […] Read more
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Musings on the senate and baptism

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I have to admit I am re-thinking my lifelong dream to be appointed to the Canadian Senate. I may have to settle for just being a governor general or perhaps being knighted. I don’t know what is going on inside the red chamber but me thinks it is a very fishy situation. I might be […] Read more
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Wheat is killing us or maybe saving us

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I can put up with a lot of abuse, but when you start attacking the ham sandwich I enjoy for lunch, I get defensive. Dr. William Davis, a U.S. cardiologist has written a book called Wheat Belly which I understand (I haven’t read the book) describes in great detail how and why wheat and whole […] Read more
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In the life-just-ain’t-fair department

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It has been a bummer of a winter so far. Okay, the spring-like weather across much of Western Canada has been good/great. But the country is well into calving season and seeding season isn’t that far away, and I have yet to be given any awards or titles, been snapped up for a senator, or […] Read more

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