Columns, Agriculture News & Resources

Editor’s Note: It’s too early to say the battle for gender equality is won

By Tom Button March 1, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Agriculture’s progress on the gender front has been uneven. Country Guide’s, I have to admit, has been uneven too. So yes, let’s celebrate women’s gains, but remember that more must be done. I wondered recently if Guide should do an issue where all the farmers and all the business advisors, in fact where all the […] Read more

Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Looking south with stars glittering in their eyes

“I’m not missing another year,” Donna said, and for good measure Dale added. “Don’t worry about us.”

By Leeann Minogue February 18, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes When Dale and Donna Hanson drove home from their winter holiday in Yuma in January 2020, the biggest challenge they’d faced was finding a hotel room along the highway during a sudden blizzard. “Good thing we came back to Canada before COVID-19 hit,” they’d both said many times since then. After spending the rest of […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Who should own the land?

By Tom Button February 18, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Some problems must be solved before they become problems. For Canada, a question that will soon require an urgent answer is, who should own our farmland? There’s a whole world full of things that you and I can disagree about. One thing we can’t, though, is that farmland is an increasingly precious commodity whose management […] Read more

Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: There’s always more room in a farmer’s schedule

If only farming was as simple as everyone seems to think

By Leeann Minogue February 11, 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes Jeff Hanson was next in line at the Co-op grocery store cash register when he ran into his old friend Shawn. “That’s a full cart,” Shawn commented. Jeff had loaded his shopping cart with a week’s worth of food for himself and his two kids. Shawn, still single, didn’t need a grocery basket, let alone […] Read more

John Deere’s advanced See and Spray technology, which can detect and selectively spray only weeds in a green crop, won it honouree status at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Farm machinery scores big in 2022

It used to be that trophies were won with brute strength. Now it’s electronics that score the big prizes and shows us what farming is on its way to becoming

By Scott Garvey February 10, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes When I spent a summer working as a mechanic’s helper at an Allis Chalmers dealership in 1978 as one of my first jobs, I recall a brand marketing rep coming out to hold a customer information session. He brought cut-away examples of some of the features being built into their newest tractors, including the brand’s […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: The best choices in 2022?

By Tom Button January 31, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes We used to say the worst choices get made in the best times. To farmers’ credit, that’s no longer true. But do we know what the best choices this winter will turn out to be? I sometimes think there isn’t a farmer in the country who wouldn’t like to sit in my seat from time […] Read more

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Hanson Acres: Make them forget all about that other time you tried it

It can’t happen twice, Jeff said. Elaine wasn’t convinced

By Leeann Minogue January 28, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes Finally, Elaine thought, life is back to “normal.” Well, almost. She realized she was still wearing her face mask as she drove alone in her SUV, halfway between Prairieland Park and her hotel. She pulled the mask off and tossed it onto the passenger seat. She didn’t love wearing masks, but as long as a […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Big decisions are coming fast in 2022

By Tom Button January 14, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Farming isn’t a business. Oh no, hold on just a minute! Of course it’s a business. How could Country Guide ever say it isn’t? Ask any farmer what’s on their “must do” list for 2022. Right at the top will be production. It has to be. Farming is all about producing more, producing more efficiently, […] Read more

Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Here’s the joy of Christmas secrets

When his sister called, Jeff knew his Mom would be surprised. But not this much

By Leeann Minogue December 24, 2021

Reading Time: 5 minutes “Donna Hanson was beyond disappointed. “I understand,” she told her daughter Trina over the phone. “These COVID travel rules keep changing. Of course you can’t risk having to quarantine.” Trina and her husband Tom had taken job transfers from North Carolina to Germany last year, both working for ag chemical companies. Between the move, and […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: So much rides on finding the best words

By Tom Button December 10, 2021

Reading Time: 2 minutes The real charge I get from editing Country Guide is being able to connect with farmers who know what they want. They generate an energy it’s tough to find anywhere else Most of us have participated in some version of a conversation like the one I had below. (I’ll leave it in gendered terms because […] Read more

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Columns

Editor’s Note: It’s too early to say the battle for gender equality is won

Hanson Acres: Looking south with stars glittering in their eyes

Editor’s Note: Who should own the land?

Hanson Acres: There’s always more room in a farmer’s schedule

Farm machinery scores big in 2022

Editor’s Note: The best choices in 2022?

Hanson Acres: Make them forget all about that other time you tried it

Editor’s Note: Big decisions are coming fast in 2022

Hanson Acres: Here’s the joy of Christmas secrets

Editor’s Note: So much rides on finding the best words

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