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Corn performed well at the Resilient Rotations test site in Carman, Man., in 2020. The crop’s excellent performance was a key driver of net returns in the Red River Valley region in Manitoba.
Crops, Features

Crop rotations and the bottom line

Prairie researchers examine how different crop rotations affect net economic returns

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – When it comes to on-farm decision making, the bottom line for most farmers is often, well, the bottom line. A 2019 survey of Manitoba farmers bore that out. The survey, conducted on behalf of the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, asked farmers which factors were important to them when planning their crop […] Read more
“I fundamentally believe in farmers and ranchers and their ability to make the world better.” – James Rebanks with son Isaac, Lake District, U.K.
Features, Livestock

U.K. author explores regenerative practices on farm

James Rebanks’s first novel celebrated traditional practices, but since publication, he’s been looking for better ways to farm

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – James Rebanks is proud of his farming heritage — in fact, he wrote a best-selling novel featuring traditional farming practices in the U.K. But he wants to do better. Rebanks is from the Lake District of the U.K., an area popular with tourists because of the rolling mountains inset with sapphire-blue lakes. […] Read more
Peter VanderZaag has taken all he’s learned about soil health and applied it to his Sunrise Potato Storage endeavour.
Crops, Features, Potatoes

A potato producer’s commitment to change

Embracing soil health and new technologies helped Peter VanderZaag build a successful potato business. Like most farmers these days, he’s faced with having to do more with less

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Every farmer knows that change is inevitable. New markets beckon, new technologies emerge, end-user tastes, preferences and opportunities shift, and it’s often the primary producer who’s one of the first to react. Peter VanderZaag has spent much of his farming career investing wisely in new equipment, securing contracts and growing his Sunrise Potato Storage business […] Read more
“It’s a place where you are welcomed,” says retired farmer John Wiebe. “Everyone accepts everybody because we are all on the same page.”
Features, Guide Business

In the Men’s Sheds

Men’s Sheds are helping rewrite the old idea that farmers have nothing to look forward to in retirement

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Reading Time: 9 minutes John Wiebe raised cattle for 45 years, growing grain with his two brothers at Amaranth, near Lake Manitoba. That part of his life was much like that of any other farmer. But for more than 30 years of it, Wiebe also got in the habit of spending any spare days at Minnedosa, a town of […] Read more
“Food is going to be worth a lot of money, energy is going to be worth a lot of money,” Logan says. “Both of them are money.”
Features, Guide Business

Everywhere he looks: How does this Alberta farmer find so much opportunity?

“There are opportunities everywhere,” says Alberta farmer Glenn Logan. “You just have to pick and choose what might work for you.”

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Reading Time: 13 minutes Glenn Logan has two projects on the go that are taking a pile of his energy at a time in his life when many farmers are happy with what they have already accomplished. And once again, his projects are raising eyebrows. Partly, that’s because the Alberta farmer has decided to take 920 acres out of […] Read more
John Cote is co-owner and head distiller at Black Fox Farms and Distillery.
Features, News

What it takes to make gin on the Prairies

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Reading Time: 3 minutes On June 11, gin enthusiasts and distilleries — the latter including Saskatoon’s own Black Fox Farm and Distillery — celebrated World Gin Day. After spending an afternoon out at Black Fox, Liam O’Connor, for Glacier FarmMedia, spoke to its co-owner and head distiller John Cote about what the secret is to making a good Prairie […] Read more
The Steppler family team. Andre (center) says that strong teamwork has always been a requirement for family farms.
Features, Guide Business

The new farm team

Katie and Andre Steppler are both running the show at Steppler Farms

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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s the biggest business day of the year for Katie and Andre Steppler. Bull sale. Standing on the sales block at their annual bull sale every March, the Stepplers run a perfectly orchestrated show in front of an audience of 200. Many more watch online. Amid the booming flow of the auctioneer’s chant, a bull […] Read more
Jeanette Heffernan (left) and Katie Sherratt (right).
Features

Soil sisters

Guide Canada: When people assume that Jeanette Heffernan and Katie Sherratt are sisters, the pair don’t bother to correct them. They’ve learned it’s better to tackle one stereotype at a time

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Reading Time: 8 minutes The two young women at Tipsy Willow Farm break a lot of preconceptions about farming. That’s true on many farms, of course, especially where the next generation is in their early twenties and they’re introducing new concepts to the family farm in order to launch their own farming careers. But it’s even more true here. […] Read more
An aerial view of modern farming, solar power generating field in Southern Ontario.
Features, Guide Business

Is farming on the cusp of being redefined?

The future could be much better than today. But will we decide that we want it?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Farming has been described as the backbone of civilization. Without the domestication of crops and livestock, society as we know it would have been impossible. So, since it’s so important, everyone knows what farming is, right? If you ask a random group of people what farming is, and what role farmers play in society, you […] Read more
John Smith and Laura Laing of Plateau Cattle Company in Alberta, Canada.
Features

Wild Rose Country is like nowhere else

Guide Canada: With their incredible blend of the traditional and the cutting edge, the ranches in Alberta’s foothills are unique not only for their lifestyle, but for their approach to business too

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Reading Time: 3 minutes In the articles below, we travel to southwestern Alberta to hear first-hand what it’s like to ranch in the foothills, a region that’s every bit as romantic as it sounds, dominated by scenery, wildlife, unbelievable weather and pristine glacial rivers that feed Canada from the Rockies all the way east to Hudson’s Bay. For conservationists […] Read more

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