Reading Time: 4 minutes Marianne Smeaton, from Charlie Lake, B.C., is opening an event centre with a menu featuring her homegrown Wagyu beef after appearing on MasterChef Canada’s finale.
From MasterChef to ‘Barndominium’: Rootstock Ranch fires up the grill
After cracking the top three, Marianne Smeaton is turning her Charlie Lake barn into a Wagyu-lover’s paradise with monthly family-style feasts
How ‘care and compassion’ protocols drive performance at this Alberta ranch
Plateau Cattle Co. says lowering stress in calves using science-based practices leads to higher weaning weights, better health
Reading Time: 6 minutes Plateau Cattle Company says lowering stress in calves using science-based practices leads to higher weaning weights and better animal health.
Exploring agriculture from coast to coast in 2025
Columnist Lee Hart hopes his learning curve continues in 2026
Reading Time: 6 minutes Columnist Lee Hart looks back on what he has learned from farmers and ranchers from coast to coast in 2025.
An unbelievable tale of a lost engagement ring
Nearly 50 years later, a southern Alberta farmer finds her needle in a haystack
Reading Time: 4 minutes After nearly 50 years, a southern Alberta farmer finds her wedding ring in an unusual place.
A great idea for repurposing grain bins
This Southern Alberta ranching operation puts effort and equity into a diversification project
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Morrison family of southern Alberta have transformed old grain bins into unique guest cabins.
I wrote this column myself — or did I?
It’s getting harder to tell what is real or AI generated
Reading Time: 5 minutes It is getting harder to determine what is real and what is AI generated these days, but AI still has a place in the industry
The great food summit adventure
Higher learning experience at the end of an escalator ride
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alberta Farmer columnist Lee Hart attended the Food Leadership Summit in Calgary, where about 400 ag industry players gathered for the new annual conference.
There has to be a world record for something out there
Alberta is home to the world’s tallest steer
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hart Attacks columnist Lee Hart ponders about world records and one Alberta acreage which is home to the world’s tallest steer.
Do I hear hunger knocking on the door?
An empty refrigerator, best before dates and thawing turkeys
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alberta Farmer columnist Lee Hart muses about an empty refrigerator, best before dates and thawing frozen turkeys.
Support needed at all levels for high-value solar projects
Renewable energy project doesn’t take up valuable farm land, it actually enhances it
Reading Time: 6 minutes Renewable energy projects could help farmers diversify their operations and add value to the farm.
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