At a New Year’s eve dance a few decades ago, Dalton Hodgins and I were having a chat about all the changes in dairying over the years. We both came to the conclusion that a story about the history of

This is a question that we get asked by our friends in other provinces and by visitors to our county who are thinking of moving to another, more relaxing place to live. Before building a new barn 20 years ago,

January 2023 has been a challenge for most people trying to juggle high interest rates, inflation that now may be starting to cool off, fuel prices that we have never encountered before and high food prices. Many of us are

I once had a teacher who advised the girls in the class, “don’t marry for the money, just go where the money is.” Well, she had it partly right, “don’t marry for the money.” My dad said, “it’s no disgrace

How high can the interest rate go? This is a subject that everyone is wondering about. If you have a million dollars borrowed, then every time the interest rate increases by one percent, it will cost you $10,000 more to

Of all the seven bank accounts of a farmer the one that I enjoyed adding to the most is “continuous education!” Because our family was dairy farming and trying to grow enough crops to keep them healthy and productive, we

Snow, what does it mean to you? To our farmers, snow brings strong but different thoughts to different farmers. To a soybean farmer, it means that any fields with beans still out, he realizes that he should either quit growing

One of the seven bank accounts of a farmer is to keep our politicians informed. At several agricultual conferences, farm meetings and presentations warning us of dangerous changes in climate, past, present and future — soil degradation, absence of planning

An age old saying said: “the only things sure in this world is death and taxes!” Whether it’s a beautiful flower or yourself; death is something that no one can argue about. Taxes are something that can change faster than

When our pioneering ancestors arrived in this wilderness in Western Quebec, and turned it into the homesteads for several thousand strong and proud Canadians, they were confronted with virgin forests of giant trees. After cutting a small clearing and constructing