Outstanding in His Field

Every year between Christmas and New Years, farmers gEt serious about winter. If they have not already received the first winter cold snap, it will arrive between Christmas and New Years. It’s during the first winter cold snap when water

Christmas time is always the happiest time of the year. As a kid, writing to Santa was always stressful because the letter had to be in early so Santa could make, or find and deliver exactly what I asked for.

When I attended my first regional milk meeting 50 years ago I complained about the cardboard milk container that had been in use for two decades then. I told the president of the Quebec milk board, “If I had to

Have you ever been lost in the woods while hunting? Have you been a farmer going through a severe drought, like we had in 2012 or 1964, financially distressed enough to walk down the road kicking stones and wondering if

While enjoying a 4-H banquet which was planned, organized, emceed and fully managed by 4-H members, the oldest of which was still a teenager; I reminisced and was amazed how these kids who started attending at age six could develop

I recently had the opportunity to have supper at one of Montreal’s best restaurants. Being raised a true farmer, I ordered roast beef. I always had a theory that good beef could be cut with a fork. Not only could

I have been a farmer all my working life. I graduated from one of Canada’s most respected agricultural colleges and grew up to accept all technical information printed or disclosed by top scientists and agricultural colleges in the world. As

When mad cow disease was discovered 16 years ago in England it was only a year later that an animal was found in western Canada with the same disease. You, the Canadian consumer, never stopped buying and eating Canadian beef.

As we drive around our communities, we notice more and more empty barns where farmers kept animals for generations past. A few of these old barns have been repurposed as machine sheds or even cleaned up and adapted as places

Only twice in my life have I had the privileged opportunity to listen to people who have allowed me to have a real “Reality check” on what is important in life and what a farm really is. We had just