Trail Blazer
By Natalie Noble
As major pulse processing plants are increasingly seeing the value in setting up shop in southern Alberta, agriculture and economic opportunities are...
Stuck on You
By Trevor Bacque
A visit to any Prairie farm often doubles as free admission to a one-of-a-kind museum of invention. Farmers are plagued by unique...
Raising Breeding Standards for Heifers
By Angela LovellLance and Karyn Neilson had always thought there had to be a practical way to turn an average heifer into a better...
Opportunities in Adversity
By Natalie Noble
At the turn of the century, nine-year-old Kevin Steeves sat at his desk in the fourth grade classroom at Bluffton School, planning...
Returning to His Roots
If you live in Canada, Western Canada in particular, the name Jim “Jimmy” Pattison is no doubt very familiar. Patriarch to one of the...
Making the Old New
By Myrna Stark LeaderIf one Manitoba farmer’s vision of the future comes true, the province his Ukrainian grandparents immigrated to will be the largest...
Pan for Gold
By Trevor Bacque
Trevor
Scherman can’t sit still. He’s had that problem ever since he was a youngster,
tinkering with items around the family farm in northwest...
What’s the Worst that Can Happen?
By Angela LovellThat’s the question brothers Bud and Ron Michel have asked themselves (and each other) many times before making decisions about any major...
Entrepreneurial Drive Runs Deep
By Natalie Noble
In 1918 Arthur (Art) Wildfong, traveled west to Saskatchewan from Ontario as part of a threshing crew. Although likely not yet on...
Prairie Preservation
By Trevor Bacque
For Garnet Martin, his rural life is best summed up with three words: family, farming and finances, with family being the unshakable...