Bill Doskoch

After almost three decades in business, you’d think an easy retirement and comfortable living would be at hand. But a strange thing happened on the way to success for Garry and Donna Jackson An expanded version of this story will be coming soon to The Farm Crisis for Non-Farmers, a special report on The Western […] Read more

For more than 75 years, The Western Producer has been covering prairie agriculture for farm families. But in the current farm crisis, we thought it would be in the public interest to reach beyond our normal readership and help educate Canadians from coast to coast about the realities of prairie farming in the late 1990s. […] Read more

The miserly federal response to Western Canada’s farm crisis is all about politics, says NDP agriculture critic Dick Proctor. “(There are) not a lot of votes for them (the ruling federal Liberals) in areas where it seems to be hitting worst,” he said, adding, “I don’t even like saying this out loud.” If the Grits […] Read more

Field pea prices jumped last week after news broke that dioxin-contaminated feed made from animal byproducts had contaminated some European dairy, poultry and meat products. But one market-watcher was skeptical this could have a serious impact on pea prices. “It doesn’t take much upward price movement for peas to become noncompetitive with barley and oats,” […] Read more

PAYNTON, Sask. – Every good partnership needs complementary strengths. A low-key ideas person with vision matches well with an outgoing person to sell the business’s public face. That combination has worked well with the Dutton family of northwestern Saskatchewan, with David managing the farm and Vicki managing Western Grain Cleaning and Processing Ltd., located about […] Read more