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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s mainline farm organizations are struggling for your support. They deserve another shot. That’s not based on past performance. We all have questions about one policy or another or about one political connection or another. Instead, it’s because of the scale of the challenges ahead, and because the past decade has done so much to […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes We still read about baby boomers, naturally. And of course there are generations X, Y and Z. Now, too, there’s Alpha, and we’re even told the first baby born this coming New Year’s Day will usher in a new group that, whatever their feelings about the matter, will have to wear the label “Generation Beta” […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes I admit I can hardly believe it. When I first signed on with Country Guide more than a decade ago, I used this space to ask a question that I honestly wondered about. The question? Can farmers grow their business productivity as fast as their crop yields? In fact, farmers have grown their professionalism at […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes We like to draw straight lines. It’s nothing to apologize about. We all like to look around us at how things stand, then we latch onto what we see as the big trend lines and draw them out into the future, thinking that’s how to predict the world of 2030 or even 2050. It’s nothing […] Read more