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DON CAMPBELL MEADOW LAKE, SASK.

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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
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John Bennett Biggar, Sask.

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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
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COUNTRY GUIDE’S 12 Most Influential Farmers In Canada

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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
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Ian Cushon Oxbow, Sask.

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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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Owen McAuley MCAULEY, Man.

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Reading Time: 4 minutes IN THE WINTER OF 1991,Owen McAuley, who operates a 6,000-acre grain and livestock operation near the western Manitoba village named after his family, was standing on stage receiving a great honour — he’d just been named Manitoba’s Farmer of the Year. As McAuley stood there at the podium, he felt a bit of a fraud. […] Read more
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Don Janzen La Broquerie, Man.

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Reading Time: 4 minutes THIS IS NOT THE STORYof a typical western Canadian farm, especially when you consider that HyLife is producing 1.3 million hogs a year, that it has 1,150 employees, and that it sells its branded pork products on four continents. Yet HyLife (which recently changed its name from HyTek Ltd.) is definitely at the forefront of […] Read more
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PETER HANNAM GUELPH, ONT.

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Reading Time: 4 minutes WITH THE PROMISE OFbiotechnology comes the reality that Canada’s farmers have to wait and hope that the huge multinationals consider the market here large enough to be worth their while, and they’ll put their genes in crops that we can grow. For Peter Hannam, that wasn’t good enough. In fact, Hannam sold the first Roundup […] Read more
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Ben Loewith Ancaster, Ont.

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Reading Time: 4 minutes IN THE LUNCHROOM IS A MAPof the world with pins that show where visitors to the farm are from. The map is covered because researchers and dairymen from around the world flock to the barn to talk with a family of farmers known for their practical intelligence and supreme management. Ben Loewith, his father Carl […] Read more
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Simon Parent Saint-Paul-D’abbotsford, Que.

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Reading Time: 2 minutes IF YOU THINK INFLUENCE COMES WITH AGE,getting to know Simon Parent might help change your mind. At 33, he had already become a key figure in Quebec’s strawberry industry. Then, just a year ago, he became the president of the North American Strawberry Growers Association (NASGA). Parent’s business is strawberry transplants. In 2002, he started […] Read more
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Sway

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Kim McConnell has spent a lifetime exploring why you buy what you buy, and why you think what you think. As a farmer himself and as strategic adviser with AdFarm, McConnell can claim at least as much insight into what actually influences farmers — in contrast to what merely interests you — as anyone else […] Read more

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