Insights and Stories on Features

Talking up the job: Creating common ground between farmer and consumer

Aug. 28, 2015 at 12:33 pm CDT

Every farmer has one. For Manitoba’s Rolf Penner, his “aha” moment came a few years back, when he suddenly realized just how hard it is for a farmer to talk to non-farmers about his business. Penner and a farming friend were on a weekend getaway with their spouses. Neither wife […]

For direct-farm marketers, Alberta is a great place to operate

Jul. 3, 2015 at 9:42 am CDT

By Lorraine Stevenson

Farmers want the farm to survive them, but there’s no succession plan

May. 29, 2015 at 8:10 am CDT

By Lorraine Stevenson

Danny Klinefelter, Texas A & M University professor and farm management expert

The “many small things” approach to farm management

Apr. 17, 2015 at 10:21 am CDT

By Alexis Kienlen

Perverse incentives in the system

May. 16, 2014 at 9:56 am CDT

By Lisa Guenther

Network brings local  products to the marketplace

Apr. 25, 2014 at 9:52 am CDT

Rudy Knitel and Corne Mans need to make a living, but neither has expectations of becoming millionaires as they follow a philosophy of bringing quality, locally grown food products to consumers, while being fair to the farmers who produce it. Knitel, 73, has been building the Galimax Trading business out […]

By Lee Hart

Local victory

Mar. 28, 2014 at 12:48 pm CDT

A decade later, it looks like local food has more staying power than anyone imagined It wasn’t exactly launched by a book, although Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon’s best-seller The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating did give a major boost to the local food market in 2007 by shining […]

By Helen Lammers-Helps

A trucker’s memories

Mar. 21, 2014 at 9:29 am CDT

2.4 million accident-free miles was enough for Laurin Dreher The new year marked a milestone for Laurin Dreher who retired after 2.4 million accident-free miles transporting livestock from his home base, Dreher Livestock at Weyburn, Sask., to points across the western provinces, east into Ontario and south as far as […]

By Debbie Furber

Australia tackles herbicide resistance

Mar. 14, 2014 at 12:17 pm CDT

Farmer Down Under are looking to mechanical weed control to deal with herbicide resistant weeds The expensive and time consuming weed control measures most Australian grain farmers are facing should stand as a clear warning to western Canadian farmers not to take the issue of herbicide resistant weeds lightly. Australian […]