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Hanson Acres: Fire threatens the farm

“It’s moving east too,” Jeff said, and everyone knew what that meant

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Harvest was finished at the Hanson farm. No longer needed out in the field, Elaine finally had time to get the books back up to date. She had been doing the Hanson’s bookkeeping for years since her mother-in-law had turned the software over, and she hated getting too far behind, especially with year-end coming up.  […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Who’s that driving down the lane?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Compare the yard and buildings outside your back door with that tired old stretch of Main Street in your nearby town. It’s obvious where you’d rather do business. Or is it?  It’s rarely wise to generalize in agriculture, so let me put this generalization down in print right away and we can move past it.  […] Read more
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Hanson Acres: On the farm, it matters what you keep your eye on

There’s magic in this farming life

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Elaine kept a close watch on the combine header as the canola fed in, glancing over to check the moisture reading on the screen every few seconds. The combine’s night lights lit up the dust floating over the field. It was only a little after eight-thirty, but already dark enough that, outside the circle of […] Read more
Tackling a problem is not just about recognizing that you have a problem, it’s figuring out what sort of problem you’re dealing with.
Columns, Guide Business

The problem with solving problems

Bright Ideas: We all think we're great at solving problems on the farm. The truth is, it isn't so hard to get a lot better

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Reading Time: 5 minutes There are right ways and wrong ways to solve problems. This is a fact. It’s real. Fortunately, though, problem-solving is a learnable skill. We can all get better at it. The Oxford dictionary defines a problem as “a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome.” Meanwhile, […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Roll that window down, breathe some good Prairie…

Sometimes it’s best when life on the farm doesn’t go exactly to plan

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Reading Time: 5 minutes When they’d finished discussing their harvest plans for the day, everyone on the Hanson farm had got up and set their coffee mugs in the second-hand dishwasher Jeff’s wife, Elaine, had bought for Father’s Day. Then they all set out for the field. “For the love of God, don’t break anything,” Jeff Hanson had called […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: More than a crystal ball

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Reading Time: 2 minutes In all of Canada’s history, will this be the most important winter ever for scoping out what you’ll need your farm to look like in five and in 20 years?  I’m always saying that the thing consumers don’t know about farming is that it’s a life of decision- making.  When you factor in the value […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: “How did they know that we’d be here?”

Jeff was exhausted. Elaine was fed up. It was time to escape

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Some guys go to the beach. Some guys go camping in the mountains. I just keep on spraying.” Jeff Hanson was talking to himself as he walked out to the dugout to load the sprayer at 4:30 in the morning. Ever since the Hansons finished seeding, anytime it wasn’t windy, Jeff or the Hansons’ employee […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: A test to restore faith in the farm

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Two questions keep many farm families awake at night. Can your next generation be reasonably expected to preserve and grow the farm’s net value? Could you do it, facing what they face? As I wrote some four years ago in this space, “Fortunately, science can help.” Every issue of Country Guide deals with this issue. […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: A valuable change in our thinking

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reinventing the farm can feel like a concept that’s being pushed down the throat of today’s agriculture. Instead let’s call it what it really is: “reinventing the farmer.”  Change is never simple on the farm. It’s so much easier to keep doing things the way you’ve always done them than adopt something new.  “Easier, and […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Coming home isn’t always just as you imagined it

Fresh off the plane from Germany, Donna takes another trip when she sees the house

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Reading Time: 5 minutes After nearly a month in Germany helping her daughter take care of a new baby, Donna Hanson was happy to see her husband at the bottom of the airport staircase when she arrived at the Regina airport. It was good to be home. Until Dale shouted up, “Welcome home, Grandma!” Donna was mortified. She looked […] Read more

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