July 3, 2019

Numerous times over the course of this past year, number one daughter’s first year in high school, we, her parents, have implored her to take a backpack to school. You ...

June 5, 2019

A recent incident in British Columbia has to have farmers more concerned about both the security of their farms and just how quickly things can get out of hand when it ...

May 22, 2019

The canola export issue between Canada and China is not going away. Frankly I don’t see a solution cropping up for several months. It is likely the Chinese have secured ...

March 20, 2019

First, I should have made myself a bowl of popcorn before listening to the Jody Wilson-Raybould testimony before the House of Commons Justice Committee on February 27. For ...

February 27, 2019

Last week I drove the kids to school almost every day, as opposed to Spencer walking three blocks to school, or Katrina walking half that distance to the bus stop. Are ...

February 20, 2019

In recent weeks, being just a little bit of a latecomer to the party, I have discovered eBay. I made three purchases in one evening, for a total of four over the last 12 ...

February 19, 2019

Trying to fully understand the intricacies of the economics of world trade is not surprisingly like figuring out how to unravel the Gordian Knot. So much of trade is ...

February 6, 2019

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did his town hall session in Regina on January 10, you could expect there would be a few nutbar questions, and, indeed, there were. One ...

January 30, 2019

With the new year off and running farmers can begin in earnest to plan what they will plant this spring. Actually in today’s agriculture much of the planning in terms of ...

January 23, 2019

The biggest problem with protests isn’t necessarily the protesters but how we react to them and their message. This has clearly been the frustration for pipeline ...

January 17, 2019

When farmers look back on 2018 there is little doubt one memory will linger longest, at least among prairie producers, and that will be the seemingly never-ending fall. ...