Opinion, Agriculture News & Resources

Editor’s Note: More than a crystal ball

By Tom Button October 4, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes In all of Canada’s history, will this be the most important winter ever for scoping out what you’ll need your farm to look like in five and in 20 years? I’m always saying that the thing consumers don’t know about farming is that it’s a life of decision- making. When you factor in the value […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: A test to restore faith in the farm

By Tom Button September 8, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Two questions keep many farm families awake at night. Can your next generation be reasonably expected to preserve and grow the farm’s net value? Could you do it, facing what they face? As I wrote some four years ago in this space, “Fortunately, science can help.” Every issue of Country Guide deals with this issue. […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: A valuable change in our thinking

By Tom Button August 16, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reinventing the farm can feel like a concept that’s being pushed down the throat of today’s agriculture. Instead let’s call it what it really is: “reinventing the farmer.” Change is never simple on the farm. It’s so much easier to keep doing things the way you’ve always done them than adopt something new. “Easier, and […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Who can say you don’t deserve it?

By Tom Button April 19, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes The black swans of 2022 have helped reveal the true value of our farms and of the products they produce. The questions that this raises have an easy answer Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about agriculture is how rarely we stand back in awe of it. For instance, in the paragraph on top, I shouldn’t […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: What will you read tomorrow?

By Tom Button March 30, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes It rarely gets said in print but it’s true. One of the things Canada gets right about its agriculture is its farm media. We did it well 100 years ago. I’m convinced we still do. Now we’re asking, where do we go from here? I’m not talking only, or even mainly, about Country Guide when […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Summer in the new Canada

By Tom Button March 17, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes When COVID-19 first struck, who could have guessed that the biggest lesson it would teach us is how dangerous it is for Canadians to stop interacting with and appreciating each other. It’s being called the winter of our discontent. What name will we give to its summer? What, individually, are you going to do to […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: It’s too early to say the battle for gender equality is won

By Tom Button March 1, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Agriculture’s progress on the gender front has been uneven. Country Guide’s, I have to admit, has been uneven too. So yes, let’s celebrate women’s gains, but remember that more must be done. I wondered recently if Guide should do an issue where all the farmers and all the business advisors, in fact where all the […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Who should own the land?

By Tom Button February 18, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Some problems must be solved before they become problems. For Canada, a question that will soon require an urgent answer is, who should own our farmland? There’s a whole world full of things that you and I can disagree about. One thing we can’t, though, is that farmland is an increasingly precious commodity whose management […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: The best choices in 2022?

By Tom Button January 31, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes We used to say the worst choices get made in the best times. To farmers’ credit, that’s no longer true. But do we know what the best choices this winter will turn out to be? I sometimes think there isn’t a farmer in the country who wouldn’t like to sit in my seat from time […] Read more

Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Big decisions are coming fast in 2022

By Tom Button January 14, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Farming isn’t a business. Oh no, hold on just a minute! Of course it’s a business. How could Country Guide ever say it isn’t? Ask any farmer what’s on their “must do” list for 2022. Right at the top will be production. It has to be. Farming is all about producing more, producing more efficiently, […] Read more

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Editor’s Note: More than a crystal ball

Editor’s Note: A test to restore faith in the farm

Editor’s Note: A valuable change in our thinking

Editor’s Note: Who can say you don’t deserve it?

Editor’s Note: What will you read tomorrow?

Editor’s Note: Summer in the new Canada

Editor’s Note: It’s too early to say the battle for gender equality is won

Editor’s Note: Who should own the land?

Editor’s Note: The best choices in 2022?

Editor’s Note: Big decisions are coming fast in 2022

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