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Rolling forward
Tom Steve examines farmer
ownership and simplifies the
dizzying array of information.
Tall wishes
The future of Canadian farming
must involve farmers. Yes, this
means you.
She said, three said
You win some, you lose some.
Learn what these farmers exper-
imented with on the farm this
past year.
Market monitor
With a year full of degrading
factors, does it make more sense
to sell domestically or into other
markets?
From lab to field
The UN named 2015 the ‘Inter-
national Year of Soils,’ so why
not learn how little we know
about what we’re standing on?
Capital gains
Farmers are plagued by many
voices outside of the industry,
but there’s light at the end of the
tunnel.
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Grain Science News
for wheat
If you thought the barley genome
was big, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Grain Science News
for barley
Scald doesn’t stand a chance
against improved plant genetics.
Winter
2015
grainswest.com
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ARTICLES
Dan Black
Dan Black has lived in Texas, Utah and Minnesota, and
currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. In 2002, he started
Landland, a two-person design and screen print op-
eration, in his apartment. Landland is now a full-blown
studio whose main output is hand-printed tour posters
for bands such as Phish and The Black Keys.
Stan Blade
Dr. Stan Blade is dean of the Faculty of Agricultural, Life
and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta.
His research has focused on plant breeding, crop di-
versification and farming systems in Canada and Africa.
Blade is a cyclist and contributor to social media, as well
as a member of the
Edmonton Journal
advisory board.
Andrea Hilderman
Andrea Hilderman has been involved in the western Ca-
nadian cereals business since she completed her mas-
ter’s at the University of Alberta in 1990. She’s worked
in Alberta and Manitoba. Her work has been published
in
Country Guide
,
Grainews
,
Growing Soybeans
and
the
Business Agronomist
, among others.
Jessica Seamans
Jessica Seamans is a self-taught illustrator and artist
originally from rural Minnesota, now living in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. She’s been working alongside Dan Black as
the other half of Landland since the early 2000s. When
she isn’t illustrating, you can often find her playing rac-
quetball. She appreciates all types of weather.
Jeremy Simes
Jeremy Simes is a journalism student at the University of
Regina. His work has appeared in the Regina
Leader-Post
and Saskatoon
StarPhoenix
, covering everything from
provincial politics to community life. Simes grew up in
Calgary and loves writing about agriculture, telling farm-
ers’ stories through the human lens.
Twitchy Finger Photography
Husband-and-wife duo Bryan and Becka Heck are
commercial and wedding photographers with a studio
in downtown Red Deer. They’re known travellers and
lighthearted risk takers who look for new ways to photo-
graph life. Always up for an adventure, the Hecks can be
found with cameras in hand.
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