Reading Time: 3 minutes I love farming and I love the challenges, but I have no romantic notions about it. It is a business a big business. Steve Vandervalk Like any farmer his age, Steve Vandervalk already knows a thing or two about steep learning curves. When we meet in mid-fall, he is renovating an older farmhouse that s […] Read more
At 32, when most farmers say they’re too busy growing their farms to serve on boards and associations, it’s clear they haven’t talked to Steve Vandervalk
Outstanding Young Farmers named for 2009
Reading Time: 2 minutes Vegetable producers from P.E.I. farming about 150 acres, and a grain farming couple from Manitoba cropping about 13,000 acres, were named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2009 at the national awards ceremony in Ottawa on Dec. 4. Greg and Tania MacKenzie operated MacKenzie Produce at Stratford, P.E.I., southeast of Charlottetown. Grant and Colleen Dyck grow […] Read more
Making it REAL
Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers hear it from every input supplier: “Our success hinges on your success.” Here’s how one bold Alberta company plans to go beyond the clichés Bruce Schmaltz knows he isn’t the only person ever to have said it: “We have to continually ask ourselves in this business ‘what can I do to make the farmer […] Read more
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