Adding another crop such as faba beans to the canola-cereal rotation may not make buckets of money this year, but it offers benefits down the road.

Faba beans could help ease rotation pressure on canola

There has been little export demand, but new, safer varieties are expected to open doors in the domestic food market

Eric McLean, who farms near Oak River, Man., thinks farmers should avoid the “easy button” approach to crop production.“We have to keep trying different things. Honestly, that is the solution, to have that diversification in the crop rotation.”

Pelvic rocking (yoga mat optional).

Maintain your pelvic floor function

Fit to Farm: These muscles help keep our posture and vital organs where they belong

An often-overlooked source of common complaints like back pain, hip pain and fatigue lies in the hard-to-access soft tissues of our pelvic floor — the soft tissues within the inner bowl of our pelvic bones.





A Kubota C2501F high-speed compact disc.

Kubota to continue shortlines’ brand names

For Great Plains and Kverneland, the names remain the same

“We intend to respect the distinctiveness of the brands, trademarks and operational strengths. Doing so will allow employees, dealers and customers to do business with the same great companies they have come to know and trust.”



A late spouse’s will may call for farmland to be divided to all children, even non-farm heirs, but a surviving spouse will need to consider new circumstances that have appeared in the meantime.

Grandma, stop hurting your family’s farm transition

Seeds of Encouragement: Hard commitment to a late spouse’s wishes may not align with what’s now happening in the business

The situation: A mom is not willing to consider that her dead husband’s wishes — which she wants to honour – may not be the best direction for the farm or the family in the current situation of 2025.

Cooking Canadian, part 1: Rediscovering cabbage

Cooking Canadian, part 1: Rediscovering cabbage

First We Eat: As Canadian food staples go, cabbage is cheap and plentiful

Cabbage and its bitter cousins — brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and broccoli — can be eaten raw, roasted, grilled, braised, stir-fried, steamed or simmered, best with something equally pungent, like garlic and onions, or salty, like anchovy or bacon.