May/June 2012 – Open for business

The conflicting opportunities of operating an on-farm retail store

After trying a number of ways to retail our farm products, including farmers’ markets, we have settled on selling from what we grandly call our farm store which is, in fact, one half of the two car garage attached to our house. The store consists of three freezers, holding pork, lamb and chicken, and two [...] MORE

Previous Editorial Articles

1. March/April 2012 – Agricultural redaction

   Is secrecy the new tool in agriculture?

2. jan/Feb 2012 – The Future of Farm Machinery

3. The future of farm machinery

   Of old tractors, new combines & achievable efficiencies

4. Nov/dec 2011 – What it means to be a farmer

5. Sept/Oct 2011-Farming bits & pieces

   Count ‘em—eight landlords!

6. July/August 2011 – Shipping David’s coop to Dr Dan

7. May/June 2011 – Regarding unpaid farm labour

8. Mar./Apr. 2011 – The questionable benefits of new

   Better to change business by degrees rather than direction

9. Jan/Feb 2011 – Yes, we have no piglets for sale. An open letter to our farm customers

10. Nov./Dec. 2010 – (Engineered) food for thought

11. Sept./Oct. 2010 – Shout: Bogus!

    Shirttailers are riding on the farming’s good name

12. July/August 2010 – Fractionalization! What fractionalization?

13. A co-operative endeavor

    One example of a successful equipment & crop-sharing program

14. March/April 2010 – Reliability a precondition of farming

    A commitment to the long-term is needed to make leasing work

15. Jan/feb 2010 – Calling all inventors

16. Nov/Dec 2009 – The swine!

    With pigs the opposite of everything is true.

17. Sept/Oct 2009 – One potato, two potato

18. July/August 2009 – Advice to Young Farmers

19. May/June 2009 – What farmers can learn from publishers

20. March/April 2009 – Other Measures of Success

21. Jan/Feb 2009 – Uncomfortable on the Pew, Uncomfortable off the Pew

22. Nov/Dec 2008 – Food Safety and Safe Food

23. Sept/Oct 2008 – Spelling Tests, Good Hay & the Bilemmas of Farming

24. July/Aug 2008 – Rural & Agriculture Make Strange Bedfellows

25. May/June 2008 – 65 million, 30 & 7

26. March/April 2008 – Middlemen Are Not the Answer to Local Food Exhaustion

27. Jan/Feb 2008 – A 10 Per Cent Solution

28. Sept/Oct 2007 – From Hogs to Hyundais

29. July/Aug 2007 – Holding Up Our End

30. May/June 2007 – Who Weeds?

31. March/April 2007 – With the Grain

32. Jan/Feb 2007 – Rhymes With Useless

33. Nov/Dec 2006 – Animal Intelligence

34. Sep/Oct 2006 – Items in the Lesser Farm Crisis: Farm Names

35. July/Aug 2006 – Freedom From, Freedom To

36. May/June 2006 – Thinking Big

37. Jan/Feb 2006 – The No-Sxx-Please-Free Range-Thinking-of-Going-Organic-But-Not-Sure-Part-Time-Grassfed-Sustainable-Mixed-Livestock Small Farmer

38. Nov/Dec 2005 – Urgent and Important

39. Sep/Oct 2005 – Staples

40. July/Aug 2005 – Your Calls, My Calls

41. May/June 2005 – Away

42. March/April 2005 – Of Hunches and Numbers

43. Jan/Feb 2005 – Throwing Out the Baby Beef with the Bathwater

44. Fall 2004 – Old Ideas, New Breed

45. July/Aug 2004 – Will Someone Open A Window?

46. May/June 2004 – Thanks Darcy, Ruth… Hello Readers