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Reading Time: 4 minutes Kids learn about production agriculture at their parents’ knees. They ride in the tractor cab when the crop goes in, they learn to identify weeds when they go along on scouting trips, and they soon get asked to help feed the calves or milk the cows. Learning to become a farmer on the farm is […] Read more
Guide Life, Hanson Acres

Trouble comes to the farm

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Everything was ready to go. With another week or so of warm weather, the Hansons would be ready to start putting seed in the ground. They planned to seed as much of their 6,000 acres as they could get on to — anything that wasn’t still too wet after last year’s flood. The machinery had […] Read more
Guide Life, Petunia Valley

A farmer’s hierarchy of needs

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Reading Time: 3 minutes In the same way that spring produces the first gin and tonic moments on the veranda and frog songs that waft up from the marsh in the evening, it also produces two famous lists on the fridge: those things which must be done and another that fantasizes what might be done if we had the […] Read more
Guide Life, Hanson Acres

The vision thing

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No one seemed to need one before, but now they say a vision statement can be good for the farm. Dale isn’t sure. Even Donna isn’t convinced, but the kids are already talking...

Reading Time: 4 minutes It was only mid-morning when Jeff and Elaine walked across the farmyard to his parents’ house, but his Mom and Dad already looked exhausted. “We thought you’d never get here,” his dad Dale said with an exaggerated sigh of relief. “Sorry,” Elaine said, setting her laptop down in the kitchen. “We thought about picking him […] Read more
Columns, Guide Life

Reflections, January 2012

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Bert Gillis loved to fly but never earned his pilot’s licence. For most of his life he farmed north of Wynyard, Sask. in partnership with his two brothers and sister-in-law. During the Second World War he was a mechanic in the Air Force. His job was to repair training planes at the air base in […] Read more
Guide Life

Learn to let go

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Retirement always used to be a dirty word on the farm. Retirement meant washed up. It meant useless. Basically it meant you were ready to be carried out of the house in a box. If that’s still your attitude, though, you might be well advised to spend a minute thinking about your better half. Are […] Read more
Guide Life, Health

Managing your headache

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Almost all of us know the symptoms of headache. According to studies, 90 per cent of Canadians have experienced the pain, tightness and ache. Almost all of us also know that the majority of headaches come and then are gone, apparently leaving no lasting effect. Despite being so common, however, there is no one single […] Read more
Guide Life, Petunia Valley

The gleaner

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Many years ago, my wife picked up a cast-iron, hand-cranked corn sheller at an auction, just about the same time Bob Pargeter passed over his cornfield next door with his new combine. I noticed there were all sorts of intact corncobs lying on the ground at the corners of the fields where the machine turned […] Read more
Guide Life

HANSON ACRES

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Jeff gulped. He could feel sweat breaking out on his forehead, but he wasn t about to wipe it off, not with the whole family watching. This had been his idea. But now it seemed like such a big decision. Well? Jeff s dad Dale asked. Are we going ahead with this variable-rate fertilizer or […] Read more
Guide Life

Your Amazing Gastrointestinal Tract

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Almost all of us take our gastrointestinal tracts for granted. We shouldn t. Starting at our mouths and continuing all the way to our nether ends, our GI tracts are amazing, essential systems, that take the food we eat and convert it into energy that our bodies use. The process begins in your mouth with […] Read more

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