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January 14, 2026

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Chris Judd is a farmer in Clarendon on land that has been in his family for generations.

Chris Judd, The Equity

A.I. hits close to home 

Only a week ago, I received some phone calls from some longtime dairy producers about an article that arrived in their e-mail from a well-respected dairy column that is written weekly by a noted source of up-to-date information about dairy cattle, management, and genetics. It was an article about the life of a very close neighbour, friend, and relative of mine that had recently passed away. As I read the article, I began to see why my dairy farming friends

Oakam

Christmas gifts were different this year. But the animals still came first. Seventy-five or 80 years ago, when I got

Time for a chat with Grandpa

When I started ag college almost 60 years ago, the extensive use of chemicals on the farm was just becoming

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