Should you teach your kids to hunt?
Teaching young people to hunt is an important rural tradition in Western Canada and teaches responsibility and love of nature, columnist Tim Sopuck writes. 
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Leadership effectiveness critical to farm success
Technical competency and a good work ethic are no longer enough to be a successful farmer. Farmers need to develop personal and leadership capacity, Kelly Dobson told the Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference. Hard work and skill are “actually the minimum standard,” said Dobson, a certified executive coach with Leadershift, and a farmer from Fairfax, Manitoba. “Who
December 21, 2020Smoking out Canadian honey fraud
[UPDATED: Dec. 21, 2020] The newest numbers are in on Canadian honey fraud, although beekeepers say they don’t fully capture the reality of the sector. The most recent bout of official testing did see less honey fraud compared to similar surveillance the year before, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). In a report
December 18, 2020Synergy Seeds a local success story
Kristie Walker remembers calling her parents the day she quit her job to start a seed retail business. She remembered “the phone just kind of going quiet,” she told her virtual audience at the Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference. She told her parents, “Well I kind of have a plan, but not really, and no
December 16, 2020Small businesses face not-so-happy holiday due to pandemic
It’s been a rough few weeks for Tyler Kilkenny of Russell. Kilkenny, who owns coffee shop and gift store TinHouse Designs and Coffee Co. with his partner, Todd Sawyer, would normally expect to make enough this time of year to cover a good chunk of their first quarter in 2021. Like most retailers, November and
December 15, 2020One-man play portrays peril of Ukrainian settlers at Patterson Lake
An impoverished Ukrainian farmer is wooed to Manitoba, only to find his family and fellow settlers in grave peril from the elements, disease and discrimination in a new one-man play from playwright and musician Norman Nawrocki. Nawrocki broadcasted the play via Facebook and YouTube on November 21. Performing from his Montreal apartment, Nawrocki — in
December 9, 2020Some cattle producers have a beef with fake-meat labelling
Glacier Farmmedia – Plant-based protein. Simulated meat. Alternative protein. When it comes to labelling fake meat, what’s in a name? Well, it depends on who you ask. Some say using words like ‘burger’ or ‘sausage’ to describe vegetarian fare is misleading. “To me, it’s obvious we’re producing the best meat product, because everybody else wants to call theirs ‘meat,’”
December 9, 2020