Editorial
May/June 2012 – Open for business
The conflicting opportunities of operating an on-farm retail storeAfter 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
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March/April 2012 – Agricultural redaction
Is secrecy the new tool in agriculture?
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jan/Feb 2012 – The Future of Farm Machinery
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The future of farm machinery
Of old tractors, new combines & achievable efficiencies
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Nov/dec 2011 – What it means to be a farmer
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Sept/Oct 2011-Farming bits & pieces
Count ‘em—eight landlords!
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July/August 2011 – Shipping David’s coop to Dr Dan
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May/June 2011 – Regarding unpaid farm labour
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Mar./Apr. 2011 – The questionable benefits of new
Better to change business by degrees rather than direction
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Jan/Feb 2011 – Yes, we have no piglets for sale. An open letter to our farm customers
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Nov./Dec. 2010 – (Engineered) food for thought
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Sept./Oct. 2010 – Shout: Bogus!
Shirttailers are riding on the farming’s good name
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July/August 2010 – Fractionalization! What fractionalization?
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A co-operative endeavor
One example of a successful equipment & crop-sharing program
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March/April 2010 – Reliability a precondition of farming
A commitment to the long-term is needed to make leasing work
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Jan/feb 2010 – Calling all inventors
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Nov/Dec 2009 – The swine!
With pigs the opposite of everything is true.
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Sept/Oct 2009 – One potato, two potato
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July/August 2009 – Advice to Young Farmers
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May/June 2009 – What farmers can learn from publishers
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March/April 2009 – Other Measures of Success
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Jan/Feb 2009 – Uncomfortable on the Pew, Uncomfortable off the Pew
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Nov/Dec 2008 – Food Safety and Safe Food
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Sept/Oct 2008 – Spelling Tests, Good Hay & the Bilemmas of Farming
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July/Aug 2008 – Rural & Agriculture Make Strange Bedfellows
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May/June 2008 – 65 million, 30 & 7
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March/April 2008 – Middlemen Are Not the Answer to Local Food Exhaustion
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Jan/Feb 2008 – A 10 Per Cent Solution
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Sept/Oct 2007 – From Hogs to Hyundais
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July/Aug 2007 – Holding Up Our End
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May/June 2007 – Who Weeds?
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March/April 2007 – With the Grain
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Jan/Feb 2007 – Rhymes With Useless
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Nov/Dec 2006 – Animal Intelligence
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Sep/Oct 2006 – Items in the Lesser Farm Crisis: Farm Names
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July/Aug 2006 – Freedom From, Freedom To
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May/June 2006 – Thinking Big
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Jan/Feb 2006 – The No-Sxx-Please-Free Range-Thinking-of-Going-Organic-But-Not-Sure-Part-Time-Grassfed-Sustainable-Mixed-Livestock Small Farmer
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Nov/Dec 2005 – Urgent and Important
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Sep/Oct 2005 – Staples
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July/Aug 2005 – Your Calls, My Calls
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May/June 2005 – Away
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March/April 2005 – Of Hunches and Numbers
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Jan/Feb 2005 – Throwing Out the Baby Beef with the Bathwater
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Fall 2004 – Old Ideas, New Breed
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July/Aug 2004 – Will Someone Open A Window?
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May/June 2004 – Thanks Darcy, Ruth… Hello Readers



