Reading Time: 2 minutes As you visit the new Country Guide homepage, we hope you’ll get a taste of the changes we will be bringing to Canada’s national farm management magazine in coming months. These will be our most significant changes in 15 years, the year we adopted “Strategic. Business. Thinking.” as our tagline. We now think of that […] Read more
Editor’s Note: A journey for us all
Saskatchewan rancher pleads guilty over stolen ag equipment
Reading Time: 2 minutes A western Saskatchewan cattle rancher has pled guilty on 18 charges over the discovery last year of tractors, balers and other farm equipment reported missing in the region, according to Saskatoon media. Iain Stables, 39, of the RM of Montrose entered guilty pleas in Provincial Court in Saskatoon Monday on 17 counts of possession of […] Read more
Major dairy farm gets six-figure fines in cruelty case
Reading Time: 3 minutes British Columbia’s largest dairy farm has been slapped with a reported $300,000 in fines after entering guilty pleas to charges of animal cruelty, stemming from covert video shot in 2014. Chilliwack Cattle Sales (CCS) and co-owner Wesley Kooyman were convicted Friday in Provincial Court over violations of the province’s Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. […] Read more
FBC earns national, provincial honours for farm coverage
Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg farm publishing house Farm Business Communications has earned 13 national and provincial awards so far this fall for its news and feature coverage of issues in Canadian farming. FBC, an arm of Glacier FarmMedia, earned a total of 10 gold, silver and bronze awards on Oct. 1 from the Canadian Farm Writers Federation (CFWF), […] Read more
Farm Business Communications in online award running
Reading Time: < 1 minute The online arm of Winnipeg ag journal publisher Farm Business Communications (FBC) is representing at this fall’s Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPAs). The COPAs, to be presented Nov. 7 in Toronto, are a juried competition to promote and support Canada’s digital publishing industry, and are operated by Mississauga-based publishing sector magazine Masthead. Finalists for the […] Read more
CORRECTION, June 22, 2015
Reading Time: < 1 minute Due to an editing error, incorrect information appeared in the article “Spreading the blame” (Country Guide, May/June 2015, western edition, pgs. 26-28), an investigation by Richard Kamchen into the growing recognition that the railways aren’t the only ones who deserve their share of the blame for last year’s grain transportation fiasco across the West. Grain […] Read more
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
