UK farmers succeed in Canada
By Trevor Bacque
Life events often come in a series of three. For Richard and Annette Arnold, this was the absolute truth. In 1994, the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stepping out of the comfort zone
By Trevor Bacque
An unspoken goal of many farmers is to take what their parents created and try to make it better than when they...
Shoot for the Stars
By Natalie NobleIn January of 2023, two urban-dwelling students enrolled in agriculture technology programming at Olds College will receive the first Robert Saik AgTech...
Hope On The Horizon
By Natalie Noble
With all the challenges facing Canadian agriculture today, more and more farmers are expanding business to improve stability and security. Grant and...
