An old farming friend of mine once said, “There are three things certain in life: death, taxes and things will change!” Every time you attend a funeral or pay your taxes, you are reminded of the first two. When we

The first weeds of spring are here and they are quite visible. When we drive to town we see them on lawns, in hay fields and lots of them are growing close to the road where residual road salt residue

I have known several economists over the past 50 years and a few actually had some long range thought and common sense. The first economist who touched my life was an agricultural economist who taught at McGill. He was also

We don’t like to class ourselves as animals but when we pass the bar on Saturday night and occasionally see the boys in a brawl in the parking lot it reminds me of young bulls fighting in a pasture. Humans

One time, while sitting around relaxing and talking about some big changes in bygone years someone asked, “What can we expect to see in the future?” My old friend (Roly) replied, “I quit predicting the future but it will be

Throughout my 50 some years as a farmer, I have attended dozens of auction sales. At every auction sale I have attended, I have heard or been asked,“Why did they sell?” Often close friends and neighbours know several reasons why

Ninety years ago when the dirty thirties struck our community many households in our town owned a cow. These “town cows” pastured in one of the community pastures that surrounded our town. Each household that owned a cow sent someone

On Easter Sunday, the choir emotionally sang “Ten Thousand Years.” Although the song inspired us to think about the future and where would we be, because I was never good at predicting far into the future, our faith takes on

No one is sure of when maple sugar or maple syrup was invented. The Indigenous people of eastern North America had harvested sap from the maple trees during the maple moon and boiled it down into syrup or sugar for

We have all entered a dark room and shouted, “Turn on the light!” Sometimes, there is no light to turn on. Every year our farmers work in situations where there is no light. When we look at what soil is