Free, fair, managed, annoying trade. What the heck can we do?
I've spent the last week dealing with a succession of puking children (my three little girls), who…
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The irony of beauty in farming
The other day, as I toured the flood zone around the Shoal Lakes with flooded farmer Orval Procter,…
One market you shouldn’t take for granted: dynamic prairie people
It's been amazing to see the rush of moral support from Manitoba's provincial government for the…
Will canola’s bloom tarnish this year? It’s likely
Farmers have gotten frighteningly comfortable with high canola prices.
The crop has had high…
Is the gestation stall ban movement just a fad, or a trend?
If you're a farmer facing a multi-million dollar decision in a few years when you need to rebuild…
Gestation stalls done? Seems like it
It seems to me like you might as well stick a fork in its butt and turn it over: the gestation…
More wheat? Less canola? More oats? What are farmers really planning to plant?
The Statistics Canada seeding intentions report is out. It says farmers at the end of March planned…
We’re so used to them being twisted, perverted, distorted and contorted, our ag markets seem normal to us
I was flipping back through my notes from the past month and a common thread appeared when I saw…
Too darned Canadian
Canucks are just too darned nice and polite in the brutal business of the world grain…
Maggie, me and the CWB
My grandmother always referred to Margaret Thatcher as "that horrible woman."
That attitude…
