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Winnipeg-based pumpkin grower 13-year-old Milan Lukes is eagerly awaiting the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth Weigh-Off on October 3 to find out if he’s got a winning entry this year. This is his third year growing giant pumpkins.
Opinion

Editorial: Ag in a (pumpkin) shell

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Some kids are just born to grow. Our front page recently featured Milan Lukes’ journey into the world of giant pumpkins (see above) as he prepared for this past weekend’s 25th annual Roland Pumpkin Fair. One one hand, it’s a story about a pretty impressive 13-year-old who has converted his family’s suburban backyard into a
Editorial: Let’s face it
Opinion

Editorial: Let’s face it

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It was a hot, humid day near Saskatoon last summer when I noticed a man helping out at the ticket booth at the inaugural Ag in Motion outdoor farm show. This man was sporting a big, bushy white beard and wearing bib overalls, thrusting his hands deep into those pockets as he rocked back and
dutch sow
Hogs, Opinion

Editorial: Pork sector making progress

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A recent survey suggests the Manitoba pork sector is making incremental but important gains in repairing its relationship with the general public. A survey of 1,000 households conducted by Probe Research recently found 56 per cent favoured loosening the restrictions the Manitoba government has placed on new barn construction. Thirty-two per cent favoured leaving those
grain bag
Opinion

Editorial: Keep talking about farm safety

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We’re going out on a limb here to say the farmers featured in this week’s front-page story are courageous, not because they survived their harrowing ordeal, but because they are talking about it. The father and son duo made a mistake that could have ended tragically. Joel Dewitz admits to feeling pretty sheepish about the
Editorial: The votes that matter
Opinion

Editorial: The votes that matter

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There was a field day a few years back where organizers asked the 20 or so people in attendance to introduce themselves by sharing something they’ve learned about agriculture in the past year. “Be careful what you say about the competition, because tomorrow you might be working for them,” piped up an employee for one
canola plant
Oilseeds, Opinion

Editorial: We might need 100-bushel canola

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The Canola 100 Agri-Prize for the first to achieve 100-bushel canola makes for an interesting challenge. Despite a favourable lingering PR image as the “Cinderella crop,” a look at the numbers suggests canola is showing signs of middle age. A few patches in a good growing year might even approach 80 to 90 bushels now,
Opinion

Editorial: Just print your food and eat it?

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Those of us who still garden have a rather quaint view of food and technology. We plant seeds, help them grow, harvest and eat (cooking optional). Meat or other sources of protein are a bit of an afterthought compared to the taste of those first seasonal bites of melt-in-your mouth potatoes, beans, beets and carrots.
Doug Wray is among several Alberta cattle producers experimenting with adding a variety of forages to feed his cattle. The mix adds important nutrients to the cattle’s diet, but also increases the diversity on the land.
Forages, Opinion

Editorial: Increasing your farming options

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Even in June, you could feel a drought in the making as we tramped across the bone-dry paddocks of Doug Wray’s ranch north of Calgary. Far from the lush, succulent feel of the pastures here in Manitoba, the grasses there rustled and crunched underfoot. Conditions haven’t improved — in fact, the situation out west has
Editorial: The green world’s breadbasket?
Crops, Opinion

Editorial: The green world’s breadbasket?

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Jeff Rubin, the former chief economist for CIBC World Markets turned bestselling author, knows all about adaptation. His first book, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller grabbed international attention with predictions that world oil prices would climb to more than $200 a barrel by 2012, forcing a rethink of almost

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