The printing of the WP has shifted to Edmonton, which has led to some delays in getting the papers delivered through the postal system. The late-March snowstorm didn’t help.
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We’ve heard you — and we’re working on it
Delays have plagued deliveries to some of our subscribers
VIDEO: Changes to the Western Producer aim to keep farmers first
We’ve made some changes to the Western Producer. You may notice the paper’s dimensions are slightly smaller. That’s because we moved to a new printer in Western Canada that can print the paper more efficiently on this smaller size. The subscribers I talked to at the last year’s Ag In Motion farm show who caught […] Read more
Newspaper journalism has faced a digital tsunami
The internet and social media are cool, but the right-side/wrong-side journalism it has created are a curse
When I showed up at The Western Producer in November 1994 I was handed a Macintosh laptop and shown how the company email system worked. That was pretty cool. Instead of being shackled to a boxy desktop computer, I could take my sleek laptop wherever I was reporting from, plug into a phone line and […] Read more
Farmers’ attitudes and realities evolve over a quarter-century
(And so does the observer)
Farmers sure have changed in the past 25 years. Or have I changed in the quarter-century I’ve been covering farmers and farming for The Western Producer? Do the same things just look different to my older, more experienced and physically degraded eyes? It’s probably a bit of both, but looking back over these 25 years […] Read more
Lots changes, but much remains the same, in both farming and journalism
In 25 years of reporting on farming, everything seems both different and the same
How do you find a farmer? Finding farmers and getting their views has always been a core part of my job. It wasn’t easy to do 25 years ago, when the internet was a just-beginning thing, almost nobody had a mobile phone and most farmers lived far from the cities I was living in. Fortunately, […] Read more
It’s important to rotini and rotelle
If you’ve got a hankering for pasta, this Sunday might be the time to indulge. Oct. 25 is world pasta day, so designated to raise awareness of pasta and its base ingredient, durum wheat. Canada is the world’s biggest producer of durum used in pasta. More than half the durum in the world — four […] Read more
