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Those awkward conversations about food production
Columns

Those awkward conversations about food production

Talking to urban consumers about food can be more uncomfortable than political debate

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By the time you read this, the 2015 federal election will be history. Maybe you will have even re-friended any politically-obnoxious people you dropped on Facebook in the weeks leading up to the big vote. Maybe. As I write this, before the election, I’m filled with the smug satisfaction of a citizen who already cast […] Read more
Farm Financial Planner: Finding a comfortable retirement
Columns

Farm Financial Planner: Finding a comfortable retirement

Farmers can turn marketing board quota and a modest income into a comfortable retirment

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In southern Manitoba, a couple we’ll call Herb, 63, and Martha, 60, have a mixed farm with most of their effort and capital invested in producing poultry products for a group of grocery stores in Winnipeg. They operate 310 acres of land surrounding their 10-acre yard with an aging farm house, their 35-year old son’s […] Read more
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Columns, Crops

Pastureland gets prepped for crops

With the help of a kind couple, Toban Dyck is investing in 120 acres of new-to-him land

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What was at first a distant possibility, a fragile idea, discussed over scotch and left to simmer has become something much more. It’s now real. It is as real as a custom applicator killing the pasture grass. It is as real as me looking for a disk to break the ground before it freezes. It […] Read more
Install the well. This photo shows a well installed with a cap on top — just loose of course. This was a very clean 11 foot hole so I had to set the top with natural clay from auger leavings.
Columns, Crops

DIY: Installing water table wells

With water in the soil, we can survive on little rain. Learn how to measure what you have

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2015 will go into the books as a very different kind of growing season. In central Saskatchewan we started off with soil completely full of water after a big dump of snow on April 26. My rain gauges showed 2.5 inches of water when it all melted. And then Mother Nature turned of the tap […] Read more
Mike Lamb, left, giving the author some last minute advice on the next well-planned pheasant hunting trip.
Columns

Southern Alberta pheasants can rest easy

Lee Hart is leaving his gun in the cabinet this season, but he still has all those memories

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This is the first October in about 40 years my phone hasn’t been ringing daily to see if I am ready to go bird hunting. Got your gun ready? Got your shells? Got your licence? When are you coming down? (That referred to me leaving Calgary and travelling to southern Alberta). This is upland game […] Read more
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Features, Practical Tips

Six tips for hiring and keeping your farm employees

Farm Management: Thinking of hiring more staff to make sure next season runs more smoothly? Try these hiring tips

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One of the advantages of family farming (and family-owned businesses in general) is working with people who naturally love and trust each other. While there are common frictions and unique difficulties in working with family, it is usually more fulfilling than working with the relative strangers. Unfortunately, as farms get larger and tasks get more […] Read more
Cutaway of Plant and Roots in Dirt
Columns, Crops

The broad basics of your soil’s pH

Soil pH is complex, and has different impacts on the availability of different nutrients

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Farmers frequently ask “What does soil pH really mean?” and “What effect does pH have on availability of nutrients in the soil?” Both are excellent questions! The effects of pH are complex and vary with different nutrients. However, some broad generalizations are useful to keep in mind when understanding soil pH and making nutrient management […] Read more
Riskan Hope Farm barn
Columns

The story of the Riskan Hope barn

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If you’ve driven north on Highway 11, from Regina to Saskatoon, you’ve seen Riskan Hope Farm. The farm name is spelled out on a big red barn between Craik and Aylesbury. I see it at least twice a year, on my drives home from Canada’s Farm Progress Show and Canadian Western Agribition. It’s a milestone […] Read more
The low-down on new canola hybrids
Canola, Wheat & Chaff

The low-down on new canola hybrids

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When making your seed buying decision for 2016, do your homework and check out the latest canola performance data and look at a variety’s entire agronomic package on top of the yield numbers. For my money, your best source is going to be the CPT (Canola Performance Trials), available online and through provincial seed guides, and […] Read more
Keep your eyes on the dollar
Cereals, Columns

Keep your eyes on the dollar

Prairie farmers should care about the current state of world currencies in the world market

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The past two years have seen some major political and economic shifts around the world. The Russia/Ukraine standoff in the Crimean region resulted in economic embargoes and sanctions against Russia. This threw a major kink into trade in that region, causing serious economic hardships. It caused internal inflationary pressures to build, devaluing the Russian ruble […] Read more

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