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Inigo Arruabarrena, from Basque Country — travelling the world.
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You never know who’s out there

From a small town in the Basque country to the passenger seat of Lee Hart’s car

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I don’t usually pick up hitchhikers. Partly because I really don’t see that many on the roads I travel, and largely because I usually have so much stuff — snacks, drinks, assorted wrappers, garbage, camera bag, briefcase — piled on my passenger seat that it becomes a major project to make room for someone. But I recently made an […] Read more
The Hiltons operate a fifth-generation farm near Strathmore, Alta.
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From barley seeding to beer sipping

Long-time Alberta farmers tap into vertical integration with malt barley

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The photo above may look like some Alberta grain farmers taking a break in a barley field, but they are really brewery executives collecting inventory for an inter-national microbrewing industry. These are members of the Hilton family (Hilton Ventures) a fifth-generation farm near Strathmore, Alta., (just east of Calgary) and they are farmers having a […] Read more
Landscape featuring a harvested grain field.
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Interesting twist on high cost of farmland

These high prices are great news for sellers, but they leave buyers out of the game

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Just about every farmer I talk to in all parts of the country has a common buyer’s complaint — they want to expand their farming operation but land prices are high. It is difficult for established family farms to grow and new farmers are finding it almost impossible to get into the business on land […] Read more
Colleen and Scott Garries: 
“A generation that is craving a 
sense of community.”
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Tragedy helps us find sense of community

Tragic accident brings back memories of communities, and a new search for them

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With the nation and a good part of the world riveted for a couple of weeks on the tragedy of the bus crash north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, in early April that resulted in the death of 16 members of Humboldt Broncos hockey club, there was one uplifting message: Canadian and, perhaps more broadly, human compassion […] Read more
We’re going somewhere in a handbasket
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We’re going somewhere in a handbasket

We could take the train to get there, but unfortunately there are no rail cars

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The movement and marketing of natural resources vital to western Canadians isn’t that important — oil and grain can wait. Let’s focus on the real priority — getting cannabis into the hands of consumers. And maybe that’s the strategy. Get people high on marijuana and then they won’t really notice that governments aren’t doing anything. […] Read more
Jordan Henkel and his wife, serving up lunch from the window 
of Alberta’s first egg-focused food truck.
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Humble egg raised to new level

Next time you’re in Calgary track down the Crack’d YYC food truck

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Many years ago at a folk festival I was inspired by the message on a T-shirt worn by an old hippie that read — “Beer — so much more than just a breakfast drink.” Some variation of that might be adapted by Canadian egg producers… maybe “Eggs — so much more than just a sandwich […] Read more
Lachie McKinnon is Nufarm’s Canadian manager.
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Nufarm working its way up the middle

Don’t be too hard on the Aussies — 
they have to deal with Canadian winter

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Be ready for the Aussie invasion. Some of them are here now, and more are likely to follow. It is probably a slight exaggeration to say having lunch with the fairly new-to-Canada country manager of Nufarm is really an Aussie invasion, but Lachie McKinnon is the second Australian I have met in the past 20 […] Read more
Cutaway of Plant and Roots in Dirt
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Don’t trust your oats with any secrets

Hart Attacks: You don’t want to know what plants are saying about you behind your sprayer

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Today’s take home message: watch what you say or do out in the buckwheat patch. Plants aren’t exactly seeing, but they could be listening and they are definitely communicating. That’s what Jack Schutlz, a biologist and zoologist at the University of Missouri, whose business card describes him as a chemical ecologist, tells me anyway. Schultz […] Read more
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Armchair critic strikes again

Lee Hart can find something to natter about on just about every news page

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It is almost impossible for me to listen to a news broadcast or skim through any “news” publications without having a million comments. Three of my most frequent observations: “boy that’s stupid” or “some people need to get a life” or “wow, that’s new to me!” In the Calgary news lately, a group of naturists […] Read more
Get your meat hoodie, go to Woolworths
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Get your meat hoodie, go to Woolworths

Hart Attacks: A new Stanford study shows “going green” impacts farming practices

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If you are looking for a conversation starter next time you’re at a vegan dinner party, a friend sent me a link to these attractively designed sweatshirts from the U.S. The Gamiss company makes a wide range of hoodie styles and patterns, but this particular one looks like real meat — unlike some art and […] Read more

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