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