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Hanson Acres: Putting it out in the open for all to see

Sometimes, you know it instantly. No one will ever forget what you've just done.

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Jenny and Connor were ready and waiting, backpacks on over light fall jackets. Outside, Flora, their grandfather’s dog, started barking. It was an urgent, loud bark, as if she was alerting the Hansons to an emergency. “Bus is here!” Connor shouted, grabbing the door handle. “Bye!” his little sister Jenny called, running after him. Their […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: A different start for a different world

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s agricultural colleges and universities deserve loud praise for the energy they have poured into re-imagining post-secondary ag education. But not everything is new. In fact, the whole farm education sector has responded impressively at a time when it must seem that everything is in constant change.  Technology has changed how programs can be delivered, […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: It never rains but it pours somewhere

What can you say when a truckload of 4-H’ers catch you in the act?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes “We never should’ve gone to the lake,” Jeff grumbled. Way back in August, the Hansons thought they would be finished harvest in record time. After a long stretch of hot, dry days with no breakdowns, they surprised even themselves by shutting down early one day to spend an afternoon and evening at the lake. But […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: An opportunity to move on for 2022

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Reading Time: 2 minutes It isn’t the only lesson from 2021, but it’s potentially among the most important: Our farm organizations will only grow more valuable the further we get into this decade. I pointed out once before in this space that there are two questions we almost never ask in our Country Guide interviews. What farm organizations are […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Keeping a weather eye on the family too

Sometimes you have to take what the season will give

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Reading Time: 4 minutes By the beginning of September, the Hansons were nearly finished harvest.  “Not that getting done fast is anything to brag about,” Jeff said. “This is the worst harvest ever.”  Jeff’s father Dale, with his fully detailed recall of 1988, insisted that 2021 wasn’t anything like the worst harvest in Hanson history, but it was still […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Getting real about what 2021 means

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The worst thing about agriculture is that it goes in cycles. Or so an uncle used to say. “And the worst thing about cycles,” he said, “is that wherever you are in one, it feels like it’s going to stay that way forever.”  So maybe Uncle Lyle wasn’t as scientific as Bonnie Whitehead, who launches […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Summer on the farm, a time to remember

“You’ve got to come and see this,” Jeff said. But that was only the start of the story

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Reading Time: 5 minutes “We’ve been walking forever!” Six-year-old Jenny had started to gripe a few minutes earlier, and now she was breaking out in a full-fledged whine.  Jenny’s mother Elaine rolled her eyes. “It’s only been 10 minutes.” “But it’s soooooo hot.” Jenny pretended to stagger, as if she couldn’t possibly keep up the pace.  Elaine couldn’t argue […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Farmers to the rescue

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada is hungry for heroes. Statues are tumbling, poverty is intractable, our country is more racist than we knew, politicians falter. Who can lead us to the Canada we dream of?  You can tell what people value because values are motivators. They show in what we pursue.  Do farmers value Canada?  There’s a better way […] Read more
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Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: “Remember the guy who was out here Monday morning?”

In a heartbeat, the Hansons’ year takes an unhealthy turn

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Reading Time: 4 minutes After they spent the first few days of the spring seeding season working out the kinks, the Hansons had things well underway by the beginning of the second week. Until late Friday morning when Jeff’s cell phone rang. Jeff was in the tractor seeding canola, just about to break into his lunch cooler.  “Hey,” Jeff […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Can you see it from here?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Farming is breaking through. It always used to be said — with justice — that most bad decisions on the farm get made in good times. Not anymore. In fact, it’s the exact opposite Of course, you can’t say anything in agriculture that’s absolutely universal. So, while I’m optimistic that on most farms the coming […] Read more

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