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. A story in the Feb. 2, 1967, issue provided a good example of how politicians can sidestep a controversy simply by ignoring it. It’s a skill many modern […] 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. One of the big stories in the Jan. 28, 1965, issue was about a significant wheat sale to China. The Canadian Wheat Board was reporting that the Asian […] 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. In last week’s column about the Jan. 12, 1961, issue of The Western Producer, I wrote about a war of words between prairie farm groups and the Canadian […] 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. There was a little bit of everything in the Jan. 8, 1959, issue, from freight rates to farm aid and from stormy holidays to sales records. The paper […] 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 Royal Commission on Agriculture and Rural Life in Saskatchewan was the big news in the Dec. 19, 1957, issue. The commission, which had completed its report, held […] 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. Regular readers of this column might remember Joe Phelps from last week, when the Saskatchewan Farmers Union president got into a verbal dust-up with one of his retiring […] 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. A fight broke out in the Dec. 10, 1953, issue. Actually, the donnybrook took place at the Saskatchewan Farmers Union annual meeting but eventually made its way into […] 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. I have been waiting for two things ever since I began making my way through back issues of The Western Producer, and they both happened in the Nov. […] Read more