Editorial

July/August 2010 – Fractionalization! What fractionalization?

Several times in the last few months I have heard about fractionalization in the Canadian farm community. If I understand the issue correctly, fractionalization means there are too many competing interest groups, provincial boards and regional organizations to keep agriculture from presenting a unified front. What nonsense. I can assure you that Canadian farmers are united in [...] MORE


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

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  3. Jan/feb 2010 – Calling all inventors

  4. Nov/Dec 2009 – The swine!

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

  6. July/August 2009 – Advice to Young Farmers

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

  8. March/April 2009 – Other Measures of Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  16. Sept/Oct 2007 – From Hogs to Hyundais

  17. July/Aug 2007 – Holding Up Our End

  18. May/June 2007 – Who Weeds?

  19. March/April 2007 – With the Grain

  20. Jan/Feb 2007 – Rhymes With Useless

  21. Nov/Dec 2006 – Animal Intelligence

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

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

  24. May/June 2006 – Thinking Big

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

  26. Nov/Dec 2005 – Urgent and Important

  27. Sep/Oct 2005 – Staples

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

  29. May/June 2005 – Away

  30. March/April 2005 – Of Hunches and Numbers

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

  32. Fall 2004 – Old Ideas, New Breed

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

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