Finding suitable child care has always been a challenge. It was especially difficult in the 1950s when married women often did not work outside the home and child-care workers were few. Louise Hathaway, my mother, trained as a teacher at age 17 and began teaching in a one-room multi-grade school at age 18. In 1945, […] Read more
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Rescue farm relieved after blind goat returned
A blind goat named Daisy is back home after she was believed to have been stolen from an animal rescue farm south of Edmonton. “It’s been a pretty frantic few days,” said Chantele Theroux, a volunteer with the Farm Animal Rescue and Rehoming Movement near Wetaskiwin, Alta. “We have just been overwhelmed with emotion.” The […] Read more
Rebuilding from the ashes
WATERTON, Alta. — The new posts and shiny barbed wire stand in stark contrast to the scorched earth beneath them. This is fence that will allow ranchers in southwestern Alberta to begin recovering from a devastating wildfire that burned five properties and has eaten an estimated 90,000 acres of ranchland, forest and national park. However, […] Read more
Big sprayer from EU comes up from Down Under
WOODSTOCK, Ont. — Hardi might have crossed its own Rubicon with a step into the front-mount boom sprayer business. Front-mounted boom sprayers have been taking up a greater portion of the market in the agricultural world, especially in high capacity rigs. Hardi has long been known for its air assisted and downdraft boom systems and […] Read more
A rancher’s success story
Ross Macdonald is happy to talk about how he and his wife, Christine Peters, strive to produce quality beef on their ranch near Lake Alma, Sask. Thanks to a series of television commercials, Canadians from coast to coast have now heard their story. It’s about feeding grass and hay, the couple says during the A&W […] Read more
The pros and problems with preconditioning
As ranchers prepare to buy or sell calves this fall, specialists are weighing in on the value of preconditioning and what it means for better beef. They agree that the practice — which requires feeder calves be vaccinated, castrated, de-horned, experienced in eating from a bunk and weaned for 30 to 45 days before sale […] Read more
Short lines feel ignored by new transportation bill
‘This does nothing for us and we have come here to Ottawa several times saying we need some help:’ short-line group head
The House of Commons transport committee is set to examine Bill C-49 clause by clause on Oct. 3. Members were asked to submit possible amendments to the transportation modernization act by Sept. 28, and after a week of testimony from 85 witnesses, it’s likely there will be some. Concerns about long-haul interswitching top the list […] Read moreRussia seeks advice on sale of state grain trader
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Russia has chosen an investment firm to advise it on the sale of a controlling stake in state grain trader United Grain Company, signalling it will press ahead with the privatization despite market uncertainty caused by poor relations with the West. The export of wheat and other agricultural goods from Russia […] Read more
Chronic diarrhea
Q: My friend, who is nearly 80, has been complaining that she is losing weight because “everything goes straight through.” Is this normal in older people? She has not been to see her doctor, but I think this needs investigating. She has no other health problems except for arthritis. A: Old age is not a […] Read more
Saskatchewan agricultural lawyer takes helm of food policy think-tank
One day at the University of Saskatchewan, about 40 years ago, Don Buckingham looked around and noticed something was missing. It wasn’t bell-bottom jeans or sideburns; there was no shortage of those things on campus back in the 1970s. Buckingham, a law student at the time, realized that soon-to-be and practicing lawyers were ignoring an […] Read more
