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After watching the horses being brought into the corral, Joseph and James rode their critters around the house mimicking the real roundup.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

A time of Thanksgiving — for a few reasons

Eppich News: Harvest is complete and 2022 will see a new addition to the family

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September 21 we finished the last oats field at Handel. The next day we got everything ready and then took three trucks and then the two combines over to Landis to combine the last field of the year. As luck would have it, the oats were too green. There was a second growth coming, which […] Read more
This grand, four-square house was built in 1918 southeast of Oyen, Alta. The house was moved to Oyen in 1953, where it served the Kuich family until 1982. It was sold and demolished in 1992.
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Catalogue houses – Eaton’s, others and how it all happened

Farmers have never been as rich as they were from 1915 to 1919

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Regular readers will be familiar with my sideline dealing with catalogue houses. I thought you might like to know how my interest in the subject ended up with a book being written and published. I was raised in a large, old, two-and-a-half-storey house with four bedrooms on the second floor and a long hallway that […] Read more
Ergot in a rye crop
Cereals, Columns, Crops

A closer look at ergot

Get your soils tested for copper levels if you get ergot in wheat, barley or oats, and if crops lodge easily and the grain is poor quality

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Let’s get this story on track once and for all. Ergot, as we know it in Canada, is a fungal infection of cereal grains and grasses. The word ergot is derived from the French word argot, meaning a spur. Ergots form within grain heads and displace the developing seed or grain. Ergot size may depend […] Read more
How big are some of these container ships in our global supply chain? Below are a few facts that surprised me.
Columns, Hart Attacks

This pandemic ain’t over yet

Aside from human health issues, other ramifications are just emerging

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Global pandemic or not, I just hope the shelves at either of the Canadian Tire stores within 10 minutes of my house do not go bare over the coming weeks. There are just a lot of things, like perhaps a 250-piece wrench set that complements the 125-piece screwdriver set I bought last year that I […] Read more
While field crops are being combined, James helps his mother harvest the last of the corn from the garden.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Harvest has a few ups and downs

If weather held, combining would be done by late September

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September turned out to be windy with a bit of rain here and there. From September 1 to 5, we had a good run on harvest. In the mornings we would unload the trucks from the night before, service the machines and tend to any minor issues. Joseph, James and I would also usually get […] Read more
An investor should have at least five years of successful stock investing experience, encompassing at least one bear market.
Columns

How I doubled my money in less than four years, Part 4

Cautions around put selling and why it works

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The previous article might have intrigued you on my put selling strategy, so I thought it important to also share cautionary guidelines. Before beginning such a strategy, an investor should have at least five years of successful stock investing experience, encompassing at least one bear market. If past success has been spotty, fixing basic stock […] Read more

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