February 2, 2020

I have always been impressed with the Malanka celebration. Impressed because it seems the Ukrainian people have gone to great effort over the years in preserving their ...

January 26, 2020

Playing cards was a focal point of cultural activity in my house as I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. It was such a known pastime that some high school kids in the area would...

January 22, 2020

If there is one thing I am rather confident in when I look toward the future of agriculture, it’s that producers will face more and more rules and regulations in terms of ...

December 24, 2019

No, pickleball is not the “savior sport” for seniors nor was it sent directly from God. However, it is “player friendly” for seniors. One is able to play it at many ...

December 10, 2019

When is a senior a senior? This is an often asked question these days. It may be for a discount on a product or the big 65 so that one can collect OAS (Old Age Security)....

July 9, 2019

Over the past week to 10 days, at least in the Yorkton region, we have received what my grandfather would have termed a million-dollar rain. For grain producers, ...

June 25, 2019

Being a rather long-in-the-tooth reporter of things agricultural on the Canadian Prairies, some three decades now, there have of course been some constants to what makes ...

June 11, 2019

The impact of government interference in agriculture markets is most certainly in full swing again. With China flexing its political muscles by using trade as a chip in ...

May 21, 2019

The canola export issue between Canada and China is not going away. Frankly I don’t see a solution cropping up for several months. It is likely the Chinese have secured ...

May 14, 2019

Agriculture has always been a business that by its nature tends to merge with being a way of life. As such it can be a highly stressful vocation because the farmer never ...

April 30, 2019

Inhabitants of the city of Siroki-Brijeg, Bosnia, with its approximately 26,000 Croatians, have defended their Catholic faith through ancient Muslim invasions and the ...