Reading Time: 3 minutes Everyone knows about cholesterol. A lot of us also know about high density lipoproteins (or HDL) and low density lipoproteins (or LDL), but a third type of cholesterol is often overlooked; the triglycerides. Cholesterol is a waxy substance that accumulates in blood vessels. There, it can cause the narrowing and blockages that increase the risk […] Read more
Guide Health: The importance of triglycerides
Cardiovascular disease is associated with high triglyceride levels
Watching a new world order unfold
How much damage is 2022 doing to global supply chains for equipment manufacturers?
Reading Time: 6 minutes I remember watching the start of the 1970s BBC series The World at War. The screen showed the wreckage of a French village. Over it, Lawrence Olivier entoned, “Down this road in 1944, the soldiers came. When they left, a community which had lived for a thousand years was dead.” If such a documentary was […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Who knows what a day will bring on the farm?
When it comes to land, 'they’re not making any more of it'
Reading Time: 4 minutes As soon as he hung up the phone, Jeff knew he couldn’t make this decision on his own. He called his wife. “Elaine, could you come out to the shop?” “Sure,” she said. “What do you need? Should I put on coveralls?” “I need help, but you don’t need coveralls,” Jeff said. “That’s mysterious,” Elaine […] Read more
Guide Health: Health literacy about more than just literacy
Good health literacy is linked to better health
Reading Time: 3 minutes Literacy is the ability to read and write, as well as to understand what is written. In general, 99 per cent of adult Canadians are considered to be literate, but on closer examination we can see there are different levels of literacy. About a quarter of Canadians have difficulty dealing with printed material; they are […] Read more
More listening, please
We’ve all felt it. When someone listens — really listens — it brings us to life. So shouldn’t we all get better at listening to others?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Being heard feels good. It’s like a massage,” says Cheryl Weber Good. “Our need to be heard is so big … to know that someone is sharing our journey and that we are not alone.” Weber Good, who farms near New Hamburg, Ont., with her husband, serves as a listening companion. “A listening companion is […] Read more
Does your farm plan position you for a summer payoff?
In today’s agriculture, summer is becoming the essential business season of the year. Now, with these five strategies, you can get even more out of it
Reading Time: 9 minutes At Hebert Grain Ventures in Saskatchewan, they actually have a word for it. They call it the “harvest hangover.” It’s those three weeks after the last of the crop has come out of the field when, somehow, nothing much seems ever to get accomplished. “Once the fall season hits, things go out the window,” says […] Read more
A path to better bookkeeping
Are you using the right accounting software for your operation? And, is the right person doing the job?
Reading Time: 7 minutes A few decades ago, most Country Guide readers put the final lid on their shoebox record-keeping systems and made the move to computerized farm books. Maybe it started with a progression from Mom’s hard-copy ledger to a series of Excel spreadsheets. Or was it a transition from spreadsheet hell to a desktop software that the […] Read more
The story of high prices
Return on investment is driving a rise in farmland purchases by non-farmers that looks like it’s here to stay. Is that bad? Or good?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Farmland’s reputation as a safe and profitable asset seems sure to draw more investment dollars into rural Canada, whether farmers are happy about the extra demand for their number one source of wealth or not. A look at Calgary-based investment fund Veripath Farmland Partners and its 90,000-acre row crop portfolio shows why. Farmland is just […] Read more
So, you want to be a farm advisor?
Demand is booming, and you know the industry; Hmmm, is it time to jump in?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Looking for a new career to diversify farm income and provide extra job satisfaction? Maybe you could become a farm advisor. After all, you grew up on the family farm, you have production down to a science, you’ve taken over from Mom and Dad and had to learn all about farm management, human resources, business […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Feed the world, sure, but these three too?
Sometimes life on the farm invites all stragglers to stay and stay…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The truck was empty so Jeff shut the auger off just as his wife Elaine came his way. It was late winter and she had her cross-country skis on, dodging the loose gravel that showed through the snow. Flora, the German shepherd puppy, ran alongside. “Finally finished cleaning the Thompson’s lentil seed,” Jeff said. “Great,” […] Read more
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