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Sing and read with your child

... it sets them up for a life of farming success

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Reading Time: 4 minutes When you play pat-a-cake with your baby, you might think you’re just enjoying a fun game. However, child experts say rhymes, songs, and finger play actually help our children develop early literacy skills and build the foundations for a lifetime of learning. Language and literacy do more than open up the possibility of academic achievement, […] Read more
Are you a ‘one-man show?’
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Are you a ‘one-man show?’

Most farmers are entitled to feel proud. But what happens when your ego won’t fit through the door anymore?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes We were starting into a critical phase of succession planning on a family farm, and the farmer had something he wanted me to know. His son wasn’t cut from the same stuff that he was, Paul told me. “He will never be able to succeed like I have.” Paul’s pride, unfortunately, had reached an unhealthy […] Read more
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Need to get more done?

Fit more into your day with these time-management habits

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Too many of us spend our days frustrated because there is so much to do and so little time to do it in. That frustration can even make us impatient to the point where we dismiss the advice of time-management experts, and we say, ironically, “I just don’t have time to get better at using […] Read more
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Guide Health: When do you know it’s a migraine headache?

Understanding the difference is the first step in approaching the problem with proper treatment

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Migraines affect eight per cent of Canadians, but that estimate may be low because people don’t necessarily report them. They may just wait out the headache or they may self-treat with a non-prescription pain reliever, believing that nothing can really be done for their migraine. Headache itself is a common complaint, and sometimes it is a […] Read more
man on runway with plane
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The flying bishop

As he celebrates his 20th year as Country Guide columnist, Rod Andrews remembers that he only ever wanted to be an Anglican priest. And a pilot

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Rod Andrews knows what it is to be forever connected to a chunk of land and a way of life. There’s a special quality in his voice when he talks about the family farm, on Alberta’s Coal Trail between Delburne and Red Deer. “It was a magic place. I loved to go there,” Andrews says […] Read more
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Farming better through yoga

Set your skepticism aside. Just check out the science and these benefits of yoga on the farm

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Across the country, yoga is catching on as a way to strengthen muscles, reduce pain and increase energy. “Yoga is good for injuries, work-related soreness and tiredness,” says Kate Stevely, a certified instructor who teaches yoga in Stratford, Ont. and surrounding communities. It’s enough to make you think yoga should be universally prescribed on the […] Read more
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Guide Health: Causes of gout, and what you can do to avoid it

Guide Health: The condition is not limited to the rich and famous

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Reading Time: 3 minutes You probably think you need to be royalty like King Henry VIII of England to have gout. Not so! About two per cent of Canadians have gout, and even that number may be under-reported because gout is often mistaken for other types of joint pain, leading many people to just treat it themselves with a pain […] Read more
two farmers watching the sun set
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Avoiding intergenerational conflict in farm families

The generation gap is coming back with a vengeance, and farm families need to watch out

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Reading Time: 6 minutes The concept called the “generation gap” might not have become a buzzphrase until the ’60s, but undoubtedly there have been generational differences as long as there has been history. So why should today be any different? In fact, however, today may be exactly that — different. With the current speed of cultural and technological change, […] Read more
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‘A Bigger Prize’ author ruthless in the race to get attention

Competition isn't everything, differentiation holds the key

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better Than the Competition (Doubleday Canada, 2014, 391 pp.)$ 32.95. It’s the bedrock of economics, and it’s all about how you compete in markets to sell at the best price you can get, and to buy at the lowest price you can pay. Two centuries ago, Adam Smith […] Read more
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Guide Health: Warts – more than skin deep

Applying tree sap under a full moon may not work, but what about duct tape?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’ve ever had a wart, you will know that they are embarrassing and inconvenient, but not usually harmful. All warts are caused by viruses, specifically the human papillomaviruses. There are many different strains, and because these viruses are easily transmitted from person to person, childhood warts are a common result from contact when children […] Read more

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