American farmers and ranchers are losing out as the USDA pegs the cost of its country’s multiple trade actions against it at about US$12 billion.

Comment: Another war to end all wars

No one knows when — or even if — the ongoing and looming trade wars will end

This year marked 100 years since the end of the First World War, which U.S. President Woodrow Wilson called “the war to end all wars.” Wilson saw himself as a historic peacemaker; instead he became an ironic phrasemaker. The Great War never brought an end to war, or even an end to that war. The

Luc Persyn displays some of his more recent findings, among them an unexploded bomb and a hand grenade.

Iron Harvest: Farming on deadly ground

One hundred years after the fact, Europe’s battlegrounds can still yield a deadly crop

October 19, 2014 was a warm and sunny day and West Flemish farmer Luc Persyn needed to do a little plowing. Little did he know that would almost kill him. When Persyn first heard the thump beneath his tractor he assumed he’d simply hit a rock, but then the cab slowly began to fill with


world war 2 department of labour notice

Victory in Europe, economy on the homefront

Our History: October & November 1945

The Second World War had ended with victory in Europe declared in May and in Japan in August of 1945, but the lingering effects were still clear in our fall issues of 1945. This advertisement in the Oct. 1 issue advised how armed forces personnel could apply to be released for farm work. Economizing was

Beverley Anderson sitting at her computer

Remembering Canada’s veterans

MacGregor woman creates book to honour those who served


The RM of North Norfolk (the MacGregor and Austin area) will soon have a new resource for history buffs, or for those interested in details of the various wars in which our citizens have fought. Remembering Our Veterans is a limited edition book to be published this fall. The brainchild of Beverley Anderson of MacGregor,