Bruce Dyck

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. I wrote in this column earlier in the year about an import duty that the United States had imposed on Canadian hogs. In the June 16, 2005, issue, […] Read more

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. The discovery of BSE in an Alberta cow was announced May 20, 2003, and our June 6, 2003, issue was pretty much all BSE, all the time. To […] Read more

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. Last year’s Alberta drought coverage contained many comparisons to the devastation of 2001. In the May 31, 2001, issue, we get to see the beginnings of that catastrophe. […] Read more

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. The Canadian Wheat Board became a major story 10 years ago when Stephen Harper’s Conservative government dismantled its marketing monopoly, but the growing tension was already becoming visible […] Read more

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. The May 15, 1997, issue had a lot of coverage about Manitoba’s Flood of the Century, which was inflicting massive damage in the province. However, stories about the […] Read more

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. Accusations of sabotage were levelled in the May 11,1995, issue as Canadian Federation of Agriculture president Jack Wilkinson accused the provinces of trying to undermine a farm safety […] Read more

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. Weather is a big part of our coverage at The Western Producer, and it’s not just about how Mother Nature can affect agricultural production. Sometimes we also talk […] Read more

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. Astute readers of this column may be wondering about the date of The Western Producer issue I’m writing about this week — April 23, 1992. If you remember […] Read more

For the next year, this column will mark The Western Producer’s 100th anniversary by taking a deep dive every week into a past issue of the paper. The April 20, 1989, issue reminded me of a drive I took last fall with my father through the countryside surrounding Estevan, Sask., including along the reservoir, west […] Read more