Editorial

March/April 2010 – Reliability a precondition of farming

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

If you’ve attended a farm meeting or conference lately chances are you’ve seen an earnest young man or woman stand up and complain that the price of land is keeping them from farming. Their point is valid, but only if ownership of land is considered an essential prerequisite of farming. As Treena Hein points out [...] MORE


Previous Editorial Articles

  1. Jan/feb 2010 – Calling all inventors

  2. Nov/Dec 2009 – The swine!

    With pigs the opposite of everything is true.

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

  4. July/August 2009 – Advice to Young Farmers

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

  6. March/April 2009 – Other Measures of Success

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  14. Sept/Oct 2007 – From Hogs to Hyundais

  15. July/Aug 2007 – Holding Up Our End

  16. May/June 2007 – Who Weeds?

  17. March/April 2007 – With the Grain

  18. Jan/Feb 2007 – Rhymes With Useless

  19. Nov/Dec 2006 – Animal Intelligence

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

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

  22. May/June 2006 – Thinking Big

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

  24. Nov/Dec 2005 – Urgent and Important

  25. Sep/Oct 2005 – Staples

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

  27. May/June 2005 – Away

  28. March/April 2005 – Of Hunches and Numbers

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

  30. Fall 2004 – Old Ideas, New Breed

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

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