Answering The Acres Question

How much land do you farm? For some reason, it’s socially acceptable to ask a farmer this question. Asking a business person a comparable question about financial capacity or asking a person on a salary or wage about their income level might seem like prying into a personal matter. But, as farmers we tend to

U. S. Meat, Dairy Prices To Rise In 2010

U. S. hog and dairy prices are forecast to rise in 2010 from their current money-losing levels, but the outlook depends in part on an overall economic recovery, a University of Missouri think-tank said Aug. 18. In a mid-year update, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute lowered its forecasts for farm gate prices for


A Rural Champion

A few years back, as the list of rural responsibilities assigned to one cabinet minister in a particular federal government grew longer than could be comfortably stated without pausing to breathe, reporters took to unofficially referring to him as the “minister for everything in between the big cities.” In some ways, it was symbolic of



Corporate Farming Arrives On The Prairies

“This industry has been looking for additional capital… Agriculture is a great place to be.” – LARRY RUUD, ONE EARTH FARMS Aone-million-acre grain and cattle farm planned by Sprott Resource Corp. represents a fork in the Prairie road for Canadian agriculture, but the super-farm’s president and chief executive says family farms have more to gain