Covid-19 sheds light on the importance of health on the farm – by Katelyn Duncan
Farmers have always been connected to several aspects of a healthy lifestyle. As food producers, we’re closely connected to the entire lifecycle of food, from field to fork. We’re also early pioneers of the concept of community, which happens to be a primary...
Let’s change it up – by Terry Betker
By the time you are reading this article, 2020 will completely be in the rearview mirror. There will be lots written about 2020, most notably the pandemic and including how things have changed and how things will continue to change into the future as a result. This...
Transition planning forward – by Terry Betker
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so the saying goes. There will be a great many of us that prefer the status quo. Change typically brings with it the unknown. We’ve not done that before. Or the other way of saying it … this is the way we’ve...
Thoughts on transition – by Terry Betker
I read some statistics on farm succession planning the other day. It caused me to think about a conference I attended in 1999. It was about succession planning. People and presenters quoted statistics about the average age of the Canadian farmer being about 57, if...
Find your thing – by Scott Kemp
What is your “thing?” What is it that you look forward to doing when given a few minutes of free time? That thing that makes you wish you had a few more minutes of free time so you could continue doing? Does your thing include any kind of movement or physical...
