Options can enhance an investor’s returns — but should only be considered after significant and successful experiences with stocks, including a vicious bear market, Herman VanGenderen writes.
Columns
How we combine stock and option strategies
Investing for Fun and Profit: Options are not an option for the novice investor
Run the farm with its people in mind
Farm Family Coach: Developing skills in HR management is especially valuable on farms with employees or a multi-generational workforce
Learning the human resources side of management and leadership is particularly helpful if your farm business has employees or a multi-generational workforce, farm family coach Lydia Carpenter writes.
Quads have uses on the ranch, but nothing beats a horse with a heart
A Little Bit Western: Rhonda the red quad is a new addition to the ranch, with positives and negatives
Lonesome Dove Ranch recently acquired a quad, but it’s no replacement for a good ranch horse, says rancher Tara Mulhern Davidson.
What’s the best form of exercise?
Fit to Farm: We benefit from some form of resistance training at all levels of our biology, through our daily chores or otherwise
For farmers at any season of life, it’s more important to find ways of exercising that feel practical and attainable, rather than force yourself through some form of exercise that simply doesn’t fit or feel good, athletic therapist Kathlyn Hossack writes.
Beef cattle more prone to trace mineral deficiencies
Animal Health: A recent study showed connections between some trace mineral deficiencies and disease
The trace mineral status of our cows and calves is a significant challenge for western Canadian producers and veterinarians.
Putting down roots, part 1: Beets
First We Eat: Taking us back to lands left behind, beets today are the closest we get to eating a mouthful of minerals
Densely textured, richly coloured and earthy even in their seed form, beets are reminiscent of dirt for Saskatchewan writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith.
Why not a Prairie sheep sector?
Practical Research: We have demand here for lamb but the supply, for now, is mainly elsewhere
If Wales can raise 10 million sheep, why can the Prairies, at 100 times the area, only raise around 300,000? The demand for lamb is there, whether for domestic or export purposes, Ieuan Evans writes.
Editor’s Rant: Resistance is not futile
It was a rough September for errors
A recounting of errors from the September 2025 print editions of Grainews, details of which are painful to the editor.
Rodent showdown: how one squirrel evicted the mice from my henhouse
Practical Research: Next time you see a squirrel running around your chicken flock, barn, house or garage, consider your course of action carefully
Discover how a single red squirrel helped one farm eliminate mice from the henhouse, greeenhouse and garage. Practical rodent management insights.
Smashes and setbacks line the path to a successful investment portfolio
Investing for Fun and Profit: The personal portfolio quadrupled in the equivalent of eight years, despite numerous mistakes
Herman VanGenderen looks back into the various mistakes and successes in his portfolio, with the goal of helping readers out there actively managing their own off-farm investments.
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
