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Editorial

May/June 2013 – The Smash Club

The Smash Club How to work hard without destroying hard In terms of production, the greatest haying crew we ever assembled was in 2011. Six strong young men were at the core of the group, augmented by the same number of other young men who came and went. The core group included Danny, who could [...] MORE


Previous Editorial Articles

  1. March/April 2013 – Martha Stewart vs. Joe Goodenough

    Is it worthwhile to do a job well?

  2. Jan./Feb. 2013 – Wasn’t it a party?

    23 market hogs, 400 lbs of apples, 4 bins of bread and 8 hours to whoop it up

  3. Nov/Dec 2012 – On Firearms

  4. Sept./Oct. 2012 – Ode to the Crock

  5. July/August 2012

  6. May/June 2012 – Open for business

    The conflicting opportunities of operating an on-farm retail store

  7. March/April 2012 – Agricultural redaction

    Is secrecy the new tool in agriculture?

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

  9. The future of farm machinery

    Of old tractors, new combines & achievable efficiencies

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

  11. Sept/Oct 2011-Farming bits & pieces

    Count ‘em—eight landlords!

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

  13. May/June 2011 – Regarding unpaid farm labour

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

    Better to change business by degrees rather than direction

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

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

  17. Sept./Oct. 2010 – Shout: Bogus!

    Shirttailers are riding on the farming’s good name

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

  19. A co-operative endeavor

    One example of a successful equipment & crop-sharing program

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

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

  21. Jan/feb 2010 – Calling all inventors

  22. Nov/Dec 2009 – The swine!

    With pigs the opposite of everything is true.

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

  24. July/August 2009 – Advice to Young Farmers

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

  26. March/April 2009 – Other Measures of Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  34. Sept/Oct 2007 – From Hogs to Hyundais

  35. July/Aug 2007 – Holding Up Our End

  36. May/June 2007 – Who Weeds?

  37. March/April 2007 – With the Grain

  38. Jan/Feb 2007 – Rhymes With Useless

  39. Nov/Dec 2006 – Animal Intelligence

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

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

  42. May/June 2006 – Thinking Big

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

  44. Nov/Dec 2005 – Urgent and Important

  45. Sep/Oct 2005 – Staples

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

  47. May/June 2005 – Away

  48. March/April 2005 – Of Hunches and Numbers

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

  50. Fall 2004 – Old Ideas, New Breed

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

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