Reading Time: 6 minutes Efforts to find alternatives to oil are slowly gaining momentum, pushed on by fears about dwindling reserves and global warming. Indeed, sometimes it seems that every newspaper you pick up has a story about one new answer or another, such as biogas, biodiesel or hydrogen among others. Yet no single fuel has emerged as the […] Read more
After Oil
MORE THAN JUST GOOD TIMING
Reading Time: 2 minutes Jason Skotheim and his partners couldn’t have known it at the time, but their fledgling business was about to get a shot in the arm from events entirely beyond their control. It was late winter 2007 and Meg Smart, professor of small animal nutrition from the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine, recalls […] Read more
COUNTRY GUIDE’S Influential Farmers Most 12 In Canada
Reading Time: < 1 minute In Canadian agriculture, farmers do the pulling. Farmers are the ones taking the risks, dealing directly with the repercussions, sharing their first-hand experiences and applying new technologies and business models. Leadership grows on every farm, as it does in other business sectors too. What sets farming apart is how farmers excel at finding the extraordinary […] Read more
Kee Jim Okotoks, Alta.
Reading Time: 4 minutes KEE JIM HASN’T ALWAYS BEENthe most popular person in the Canadian livestock industry, but he is well known and respected. He’s a relatively young big-picture thinker, and over his 27 years of developing a successful feedlot consulting service, he has never shied from controversy. In fact, as the hint of mischief in his smile suggests, […] Read more
John Kolk Picture Butte, Alta.
Reading Time: 4 minutes THE INDUSTRY IS ALLOWINGits problems to define it rather than its opportunities,” says John Kolk, getting immediately to his point. As a third-generation grain farmer from southern Alberta, Kolk says agriculture’s brand is eroding, and there is a growing public perception that whiney “poor me” farmers are always looking for some form of government bailout. […] Read more
Flo Price Acme, ALTA.
Reading Time: 4 minutes IT’S WHAT MOST MOTHERS DO.Flo Price worked to instil a sense of independence in her children, plus a spirit of co-operation, a good work ethic and a desire to do well at all the tasks they took on. After all, those were the values she’d been raised with, and they were the values that Price, […] Read more
DON CAMPBELL MEADOW LAKE, SASK.
Reading Time: 3 minutes SEVERAL TIMES EACH WINTER,Don Campbell and his wife Bev leave the ranch they operate with their two sons and daughters-in-law in northwestern Saskatchewan. Their goal is to empower other producers like themselves to make positive choices. Their message to the farm families who attend their six-day workshops is that to be successful, you need to […] Read more
John Bennett Biggar, Sask.
Reading Time: 4 minutes IT WAS ON HIS FARMin the early 1980s that John Bennett first came to stare the reality of soil erosion in the face. It had been a wet season and rain throughout July had already saturated his soils. Then came one of those fierce summer storms that the Prairies are famous for, unleashing a torrent […] Read more
COUNTRY GUIDE’S 12 Most Influential Farmers In Canada
Reading Time: < 1 minute In Canadian agriculture, farmers do the pulling. Farmers are the ones taking the risks, dealing directly with the repercussions, sharing their first-hand experiences and applying new technologies and business models. Leadership grows on every farm, as it does in other business sectors too. What sets farming apart is how farmers excel at finding the extraordinary […] Read more
Ian Cushon Oxbow, Sask.
Reading Time: 3 minutes THERE IS A LONG LISTof reasons why organic farming has grown so fast on the Canadian Prairies, yet not many of those reasons are actually pro-organic, at least at first blush. For instance, there was the decades-long crunch in commodity prices that forced many farmers to consider something new, plus the undeniable reality that the […] Read more
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