Reading Time: 2 minutes Detroit | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. on Tuesday took the wraps off the latest version of its Super Duty pickup, providing a look at how the U.S. automaker will manage one of the biggest challenges confronting Detroit. The problem: How to modernize the largest combustion pickups to keep demand strong and profits flowing, without […] Read more
Ford, GM upgrade their heavy-duty pickup profit machines
New features aimed at business productivity
Hanson Acres: “How did they know that we’d be here?”
Jeff was exhausted. Elaine was fed up. It was time to escape
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some guys go to the beach. Some guys go camping in the mountains. I just keep on spraying.” Jeff Hanson was talking to himself as he walked out to the dugout to load the sprayer at 4:30 in the morning. Ever since the Hansons finished seeding, anytime it wasn’t windy, Jeff or the Hansons’ employee […] Read more
Get the best and brightest
Attracting new employees is tougher than ever, but there may be lessons to learn from other sectors
Reading Time: 4 minutes With job vacancies in a growing number of economic sectors across Canada far exceeding the pool of people available to fill those jobs, businesses are running harder to recruit and retain staff. It’s turning into a marathon. “We anticipate the employee-driven labour market will continue in the next few years,” says William Howard, director of […] Read more
Get a better sleep
Take this sleep advice at night to be more productive through the day
Reading Time: 5 minutes You can’t fall asleep. You lie there tossing and turning. You look at the clock and you think, “Uggh … I have to be up in a few hours. I’m going to be so tired tomorrow.” Sound familiar? You are not alone. Surveys indicate as many as half of us struggle with insomnia. Surveys, such […] Read more
Wild horses face unruly storms as Fiona nears East Coast
Damages feared to buildings, utilities, crops
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — Shaggy, long-maned wild horses grazing freely on the sandy grasslands of the crescent-shaped Sable Island in the North Atlantic are expected to come under the swipe of a powerful storm forecast to hit Eastern Canada this weekend. Hurricane Fiona, tracking northward after carving a destructive path through the Dominican Republic and […] Read more
One-third of China’s land protected under ecological ‘red line’ scheme
Authorities crack down on farm encroachment
Reading Time: 2 minutes Shanghai | Reuters — Nearly a third of China’s land is now off-limits to development under a scheme known as the “ecological protection red line,” a senior official said at a news briefing on Monday, bringing the country in accord with global biodiversity targets. China first proposed its “red line” scheme in 2011 to put […] Read more
Guide Health: Sweating. Not pleasant, but necessary!
Sweating plays a critical role in regulating body temperature
Reading Time: 2 minutes We all sweat during hot weather, especially if the humidity is also high. In fact, though, some of us do sweat more than others. Should you be concerned? On average, individuals have two to four million sweat glands made up of a combination of eccrine, apocrine and apoeccrine glands depending upon the body location. Children […] Read more
The Farm Whisperer
Guide Books Review: Secrets to Preserving Families and Perpetuating Farms
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Farm Whisperer: Secrets to Preserving Families and Perpetuating FarmsBy David Specht, with Taneil SpechtAdvising Generations LLC If you’re comfortable with whatever plan the government might have in store for your farm business in the event of your untimely death, or if you don’t care whether the farm stays in the family, of if you’re […] Read more
Editor’s Note: A test to restore faith in the farm
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
Acute food insecurity now touching 345 million worldwide
Reading Time: 2 minutes Baghdad | Reuters — The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, Corinne Fleischer, the WFP’s regional […] Read more
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