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“We live in this landscape,” says Roberts. “It’s not like we visit it for recreation. We have to make a living here.”
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Like Nowhere Else: Mike Roberts

Guide Canada: Waldron Ranch is a grazing co-operative of 261 square kilometres

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Waldron Ranch is 65,000 acres of unbroken foothills wedged between the Porcupine and Whaleback Hills in Alberta’s eastern slopes, and it is one of Canada’s most important ecological sites. These acres are a mixture of deeded, leased and forested areas. In the summertime the ranch is stocked with up to 8,000 cattle at a time. […] Read more
Tanis Cross and her father, John, manage 13,000 acres of native grasslands and 4,000 yearlings.
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Like Nowhere Else: Tanis Cross

Guide Canada: "It’s so important to keep my mind open,” says Cross.

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Reading Time: 3 minutes As you pull up the main drive to the A7 Ranche, you get a feeling there must be real history and tradition at work here, and you’d be right. This ranch been running cattle for 135 consecutive years, back to when Calgary had only been a town for three years. Tanis Cross represents the newest […] Read more
“We are super concerned,” Laura Laing says of the coal controversy, but adds, “it’s created an opportunity to show how we are land stewards.
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Like Nowhere Else: John Smith and Laura Laing

Guide Canada: For Smith and Laing, it has to be the right technology, whether new or old. Often it’s horses. Sometimes it's drones. And it’s always sustainable

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In the same country that’s been ripped open by controversy over a new generation of massive open-pit coal mines, the husband-and-wife duo of John Smith and Laura Laing trail their cattle to pasture the way ranchers always have, by horseback. They could use ATVs but the horses generate less noise and keep the animals’ stress […] Read more
Lobster barns, lobster pots and the fishing boats of New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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Farming in a postcard province

Guide Canada: Prince Edward Island’s agriculture, lobster and tourism industries share a single island — not always easily

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Reading Time: 10 minutes On the first of May every spring, Kevin MacIsaac heads out on the water with his son-in-law, a lobster fisherman, to set the 300 traps they’re allowed under their quota system. For the next month, the pair are back out on the water to empty those traps — daily, at four in the morning.  On […] Read more
Dana Thatcher of Thatcher Farms located in Ontario.
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Value adding, with a flourish

What does it take to thrive with a farm that value adds? The answer surprised Dana Thatcher, and it will likely surprise you too

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Reading Time: 6 minutes When Dana Thatcher started getting compliments from the other teachers at school about the food she was bringing for lunch, little did she know it would lead to a thriving farm, food and agri-tourism business.  “People were interested in what I was eating, and the fact that we had grown it,” Thatcher recalls. “That’s what […] Read more
“Industries with more gender balance and diversity are more profitable. On wafer-thin margins, why wouldn’t you want that?”
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A question for women in 2022

Gender issue? What gender issues? Hasn’t the battle already been fought and won?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Try it yourself. Check it out with women in agriculture who speak about gender issues in the industry. Find them informally via social media or look for them through an ag women’s organization, of which there are several across Canada today. Then ask them what kind of response they get when they talk about gender […] Read more
“We’re in the perfect position right now,” VanderHeide says. Sexism still exists, but the pace of change is quickening as women showcase their roles in the industry.
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A Canadian woman’s experience in ag

On the farm and in her boardrooms, here’s Amy Vanderheide’s story

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Amy VanderHeide had great role models growing up. She was raised on a beef farm that was run entirely by women after her grandfather passed away in 1986. With her grandmother and aunts continuing to operate the farm throughout her childhood, she wasn’t aware of the barriers that existed for women in agriculture. “I didn’t […] Read more
For Laura Lazo and Marijo Patino, immigrating to Canada meant somehow finding new agricultural roots. It’s a story women across the country know all to well.
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Different goals for women in ag

It turns out diversity, equity and inclusion in agriculture are things we can do something about, as this case study proves

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Statistics show that women in agriculture face barriers and are under-represented in the industry. But if you are female AND you weren’t born in Canada AND you didn’t grow up on a farm, imagine how high the barriers are then. But that may be beginning to change. Entrepreneur Laura Lazo, who also serves as chair […] Read more
“You simply cannot let the race beat you,” Louis Baillargeon says after another successful Boston Marathon. As in farming, it’s about refusing to quit.
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A marathon of running, and farming

To run a 26-mile marathon, Louis Baillargeon learned you have to start by taking charge of yourself, just as in farming

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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s so like farming. When you’re at the starting line of a major marathon, everyone around you is there to run too. They’re all focused on the same thing that you’re focused on, just like when you’re a farmer, most of the people you know are also farmers, dealing with exactly what you’re also dealing […] Read more
Millennials want more from their work than just a paycheque.
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Managing millennials

Six tips to help this generation thrive, and boost your farm productivity too

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Reading Time: 5 minutes You’ve heard all of the bad things about the millennial workforce. These “kids” want trophies just for showing up for work. The entire generation thinks it’s somehow entitled. And if they do show up, they have zero work ethic.  The science agrees, to a point. Data do show that millennials (the generation born between 1980 […] Read more

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