A REAL COUNTRY STAR
Country music stars do sing songs about riding green tractors, walking through fields of wheat and having a hectic harvest, but not many live that life outside the recording studio. Drew Gregory, a co...
FARM LIFESTYLE CONNECTS LAND AND LOVED ONES
Brian Sewell's first entrepreneurial venture was anything but what you’d expect from a teen who’d decided from day one to take up the family business. But for Army of Darkness Skateboards (AOD for sho...
MOISTURE MATH
With certain pockets of Western Canada being dealt losing hands at harvest year after year, grain drying is moving from a “nice to have” to a “need to have.”...
THE LAST OF THE BUFFALO SLOPED BIN ELEVATORS
Part of the Alberta Wheat Pool network for more than two decades, evolving technology, economics and grain-handling efficiencies caught up to the Buffalo Sloped Bin (BSB) grain elevator. The first of ...
FROST BEATERS
Spring wheat is Western Canada’s most significant crop. In the northern Prairies, though, much of the wheat grown for bread ends up being downgraded due to frost damage. This creates difficulties for ...
A KNOWING GLANCE AT 2019
“… because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; this is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also ...
GRAB LIFE BY THE TIRES
Darcy Goossen has been farming full-time for more than two decades, but he’s been an inventor his whole life. The Ferintosh farmer can’t even count the number of “handy dandy farm tools” he’s made, bu...
OPPORTUNITIES IN A GROWING SECTOR
According to five agriculture professionals, pursuing a career in seed may be a rewarding path for recent high school graduates as well as those further along in their studies or now employed in other...
PLAYING THE LONG GAME
Kevin Auch is looking for one more crop to complete an ideal rotation on his 5,500-acre farm near Carmangay. He’s working with a pretty decent five-crop rotation right now, and each should comprise 20...
THE COMPLEXITY BENEATH OUR FEET
In 2019 the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences (ALES) will celebrate a century of teaching and research in the discipline of soil science. It is fitting that we will also celebra...