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Geena Luckett says one of the most popular wines at Luckett’s Vineyard, near Wolfville, N.S., is a vintage known as Phone Box Red, in recognition of her dad Pete’s British heritage. In the centre of the vineyard is a red phone box, such as those commonly found in England. The phone within is operating, and visitors can call anywhere in the world for free.
Features, Grapes

Geena Luckett

Outstanding Young Farmers 2024: The glamour in the wine takes hard work among the vines

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Owning and operating a vineyard isn’t quite as glamorous as Geena Luckett imagined during her university days, as her dad was establishing Luckett’s Vineyard in Nova Scotia’s Gaspereau Valley, not far from the Bay of Fundy. After starting out as an events manager at the winery, then learning about all other aspects of the business, […] Read more
Quebec OYF nominees Alison Blouin and Simon Plante among the strawberries on the Polyculture Plante farm.
Features, Fruit/Vegetables

Simon Plante and Alison Blouin

Outstanding Young Farmers 2024: Its acres capped by geography, this market garden operation seeks to grow more per acre

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Increasing production on the same land base, which in turn will help make more marketing opportunities possible— that’s the goal of a young Quebec farming couple heading up a second-generation fruit and vegetable operation near Quebec City. Investing heavily in new production technology on the family-owned Polyculture Plante, located at Sainte-Pétronille on Île d’Orléans, is […] Read more
DJ Wassenaar (left) and business partner Matt Bergman have developed a diversified farming operation at two locations in Ontario, along with off-season non-farm work.
Crops, Features

DJ Wassenaar and Matt Bergman

Outstanding Young Farmers: How they put diversity in their rotations, cropping systems, equipment use — and growing regions

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Watching for and developing diversification opportunities is certainly an important part of how partners DJ Wassenaar and Matt Bergman built their farm businesses in Ontario. Growing up on their respective farms in southwestern Ontario, they both started farm businesses at an early age. DJ grew up on a beef operation and started a custom farming […] Read more
The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)
Corn, Markets, News, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Trio of events loom over U.S. soybeans, corn

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The trade's initial reaction to the re-election of former United States President Donald Trump was bearish for soybeans and corn on the Chicago Board of Trade on Nov. 6. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate announcement on Nov. 7 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's supply and demand report on Nov. 8 are likely to have a bullish effect on those commodities, said Allendale Inc. president Steve Georgy.

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