The start of a new year gives us the opportunity to plan and dream big for another year. Traditionally the first couple of months into the new year gives us the opportunity to attend county meetings for the various commodity...

Carrying on the family farm has been something that goes through every farm parent’s minds at some point in time. Your children have worked with you through the years, the good and the bad.  For some, you hope that they...

Farming has not always been looked down upon, but it sure seems like we must fight for everything we get. With the demand for housing, the city keeps expanding.  Where does this end?  Farmland is a valuable commodity,...

The urban resident sees a farmer as a man with a straw hat sitting on a tractor driving mindlessly up and down a field of dirt. Sometimes on a Sunday morning drive the same urban resident sees a farmer as the man on the tractor...

Some memories just linger. Back in the late 90’s I was the editor of the then Ottawa Carleton Review in Manotick, a small village just south of Ottawa. The town was surrounded by agricultural land on three sides. This was my...