October 10, 2018

It is common these days to find news outlets that run features under headlines like: “A look at what didn’t happen this week.” Journalism never used to worry about what ...

October 3, 2018

Recently I was doing some net surfing to pass the time, and ended up visiting a number of sites related to the hobby of keeping pigeons. While city dwellers may look at ...

September 26, 2018

It’s not exactly fair to say politicians have the wrong priorities. Politicians’ priorities are generally focused on what the people need. However, they tend to be a ...

September 19, 2018

There’s very little we can do about the trade problems at the international level that are so critical to us. The best we can hope for is that these problems are not made...

August 29, 2018

In this space it has often been suggested one of the biggest challenges for farmers in terms of making a profit is maneuvering through the varied roadblocks created in the ...

August 22, 2018

In North America a lot of people are wanting agriculture to take a step back to its past. The idea of organic farming, with a reliance on more tillage, greater crop ...

August 15, 2018

It has been the tale of two seasons. We had such a dry start to spring in the province that RMs and even municipal governments implemented fire bans in their representative...

July 11, 2018

Last week an event was held in Regina which was a signal there is still a good future in terms of farming on the Canadian Prairies. As part of the Canadian Farm Progress ...

July 4, 2018

Recently I was on one of the more notable social media sites and there was a post that was drawing a lot of attention, most of it citing disgust. The post was about ...

May 30, 2018

Over the years there have been many stories of European farmers pulling up roots and moving to Canada. There have generally been two motivating factors in the decision to...

April 19, 2018

This week, after having been responsible for the editorial content in about 1,950 issues of the Kamsack Times, I retired from the job I’ve more or less enjoyed for more ...