Maybe these strategies will keep more of us from repeating the tragic ’80s
Human Resources: When a young employee left their farm to look for a job that could become a career, Kris Mayerle asked, ‘Why can’t that be here?’
Farmers like Mossbank, Sask.’s David Nagel are linking equipment technology and agronomy
Massive irrigation projects are likely in Sask.'s future
Canada has enormous potential to increase irrigation in Saskatchewan. So why is so little happening?
The farmers in Prairie Fresh Food Corporation are transforming the world’s breadbasket (at least a part of it) into their own salad bowl by getting as business minded as grain growers
It used to be mainly the East’s hort sector. Now, red tape over foreign workers is causing red ink for farmers in the very heart of the country, like Saskatchewan’s Mark Knox
Reading Time: 6 minutes Mark Knox is a beekeeper. He and his wife Janice have been keeping bees and harvesting honey for over 25 years now in Saskatchewan, where bees are serious business. The Knoxes are serious too. With 3,500 hives, the Knoxes are among the 10 largest operations in the province. They run that business northeast of Nipawin, […] Read moreWhile it looks like free money, it takes discipline and lots of record-keeping to get the new carbon credits. Still, if there’s a cheque, and it’s got some zeroes…
With more farmers on the prowl to create new revenue streams, this might be the right time to take a look at an invisible commodity that farmers create simply by doing what they’re already doing.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Alberta has only 10 per cent of Canada’s population, but 40 per cent of our national carbon emissions. With those statistics in mind it isn’t surprising that in 2007 Alberta was the first province to introduce greenhouse gas legislation targeting utilities and other regulated companies known as large final emitters. These businesses can comply with […] Read more
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