Soil management 101
I see farmers who were huge proponents of no-till for 10 years or more now doing tillage with chisel plows or elaborate cultivators.
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Basic food prices still a bargain
One of the perks of writing columns is getting mail, emails and occasionally visits from readers who appreciate what I write about. I sometimes reminisce about the past which readers enjoy very much.
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Signs that summer’s over
Now for those with a keen eye to see signs in nature as summer morphs into autumn, what do you notice besides trees starting to change colour, the sun setting earlier and the nights being cooler?
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The Lazy Farmer plants alfalfa
The Song of the Lazy Farmer provided many chuckles for rural readers in the 1950s and 1960s when I was a boy.
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Milk quotas and more
However, prior to 1965 there was a lot of chaos for milk shippers. Most farmers will agree that the creation and existence of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board has been the salvation of all milk producers in Ontario.
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Security on the Hill
The Hill Lobby Day provides a great opportunity for farm representatives to bring key messages directly from grassroots members to the federal leaders.
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Grain marketing challenges
Marketing grain can be a very complex business, and it depends on a few factors.
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Ask a farmer
A century ago, over half of Canada’s population was farmers. Most folks understood farming as it was done then because it was fairly simple. Today people are so far removed from agriculture that they have a hard time understanding the scary stuff they read about – growth hormones, steroids, genetically modified organisms, medications, pesticides and the like.
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