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jan/Feb 2012 – The Future of Farm Machinery

Of old tractors, new combines & achievable efficiencies Herewith a few thoughts on farm machinery, past, present and future: Tractors—end of an era? No matter how much our farming friends sing the praises of their 1970s vintage Masseys and International tractors, I can not believe this equipment will remain viable for yet another generation. Either the parts will [...] MORE


Previous Editorial Articles

  1. The future of farm machinery

    Of old tractors, new combines & achievable efficiencies

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

  3. Sept/Oct 2011-Farming bits & pieces

    Count ‘em—eight landlords!

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

  5. May/June 2011 – Regarding unpaid farm labour

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

    Better to change business by degrees rather than direction

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

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

  9. Sept./Oct. 2010 – Shout: Bogus!

    Shirttailers are riding on the farming’s good name

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

  11. A co-operative endeavor

    One example of a successful equipment & crop-sharing program

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

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

  13. Jan/feb 2010 – Calling all inventors

  14. Nov/Dec 2009 – The swine!

    With pigs the opposite of everything is true.

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

  16. July/August 2009 – Advice to Young Farmers

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

  18. March/April 2009 – Other Measures of Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  26. Sept/Oct 2007 – From Hogs to Hyundais

  27. July/Aug 2007 – Holding Up Our End

  28. May/June 2007 – Who Weeds?

  29. March/April 2007 – With the Grain

  30. Jan/Feb 2007 – Rhymes With Useless

  31. Nov/Dec 2006 – Animal Intelligence

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

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

  34. May/June 2006 – Thinking Big

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

  36. Nov/Dec 2005 – Urgent and Important

  37. Sep/Oct 2005 – Staples

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

  39. May/June 2005 – Away

  40. March/April 2005 – Of Hunches and Numbers

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

  42. Fall 2004 – Old Ideas, New Breed

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

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

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