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The gender-neutral farm
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The gender-neutral farm

What can you do to remove gendered barriers and build a stronger, more resilient industry?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes There have been a lot of conversations about women’s roles in agriculture over the past few years. You’ve read many of them in these very pages. Here’s my conversation starter: if we had gender-neutral farms in Canada, what would that even look like in practice? Would it generate more and better opportunities for women? Would […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: When it isn’t only the weather that changes overnight

"Let’s get this show on the road,” Mark said, not realizing what road it would turn out to be

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Jeff Hanson stood in the May morning sun, eyeing up his seeding crew. “This is going to be something else,” he muttered. Mark Edwards, the Hansons’ farm employee, winked at Jeff. “Let’s get this show on the road.”  Normally, Jeff, his wife, his parents and Mark worked together to get the crop in the ground […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns

Editor’s Note: Making up your mind in 2022

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It’s what people who aren’t business leaders rarely understand. Leadership means knowing how to make big decisions when you don’t have full information, like this year

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been asking myself this question all spring. I’m sure you have been too. Five years from now, when we look back at 2022, who are we going to say made the best decisions? Who pulled the right levers? What choices turned out to be the right decisions? Which turned out to be not […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Who knows what a day will bring on the farm?

When it comes to land, 'they’re not making any more of it'

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Reading Time: 4 minutes As soon as he hung up the phone, Jeff knew he couldn’t make this decision on his own. He called his wife. “Elaine, could you come out to the shop?” “Sure,” she said. “What do you need? Should I put on coveralls?” “I need help, but you don’t need coveralls,” Jeff said. “That’s mysterious,” Elaine […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Who can say you don’t deserve it?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The black swans of 2022 have helped reveal the true value of our farms and of the products they produce. The questions that this raises have an easy answer Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about agriculture is how rarely we stand back in awe of it. For instance, in the paragraph on top, I shouldn’t […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Feed the world, sure, but these three too?

Sometimes life on the farm invites all stragglers to stay and stay…

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The truck was empty so Jeff shut the auger off just as his wife Elaine came his way. It was late winter and she had her cross-country skis on, dodging the loose gravel that showed through the snow. Flora, the German shepherd puppy, ran alongside. “Finally finished cleaning the Thompson’s lentil seed,” Jeff said. “Great,” […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: New friends, great food, and then a long road home

No matter your age, sometimes there’s a twist at every turn

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Reading Time: 5 minutes “Good game!” Dale said as he and Donna and their new friends Phil and Marlene took seats around the plastic table next to the pickleball court.  Dale and Donna’s first three weeks in Yuma had been a bust. Trouble with the furnace back home. Good friends not returning for the winter. They found out their […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: What will you read tomorrow?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes It rarely gets said in print but it’s true. One of the things Canada gets right about its agriculture is its farm media. We did it well 100 years ago. I’m convinced we still do. Now we’re asking, where do we go from here?  I’m not talking only, or even mainly, about Country Guide when […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Summer in the new Canada

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Reading Time: 2 minutes When COVID-19 first struck, who could have guessed that the biggest lesson it would teach us is how dangerous it is for Canadians to stop interacting with and appreciating each other.  It’s being called the winter of our discontent. What name will we give to its summer?  What, individually, are you going to do to […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Standing in line, waiting, waiting, waiting…

Worrying about spring long before it arrives

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Reading Time: 4 minutes When he went inside to change into some “going to town” jeans, Jeff heard his eight-year-old daughter Jenny complaining. “This Rice Krispie cake doesn’t taste right,” Jenny was telling her mother. “Did you use the wrong recipe?” Jenny wasn’t usually whiny, but she’d had a lonely week at home. She didn’t have symptoms, but her […] Read more

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