Reading Time: 6 minutes Columnist Lee Hart looks back on what he has learned from farmers and ranchers from coast to coast in 2025.
Exploring agriculture from coast to coast in 2025
Columnist Lee Hart hopes his learning curve continues in 2026
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.
The forced Japanese-Canadian farmers of the Second World War
Manitoba’s sugar beet farms drew on displaced Japanese-Canadians from B.C. during the Second World War
AgTalk, an online “coffee row” for farmers, has been renewed for two more years
Online support group brings connection to farmers
Reading Time: 4 minutes AgTalk, an online support system for farmers, has been renewed through 2027.
Alberta Milk’s Farm to Table campaign highlights Namao dairy farmer
Dairy farmer and local chef share the importance of local food in short film
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta dairy farmer Jason Crozier was the subject of a short film in Alberta Milk’s awareness campaign entitled Farm to Table, which gives consumers an inside look at what happens on the farm.
More training needed for trades and financial management: farmer survey
Government programs for farm income insurance and subsidies top priority for farmers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Someone who manages a Canadian farm in 2025 needs different skills than someone who managed a farm in 2005.
Farmers juggle mental health in face of Trump tariffs
Tariff uncertainty may be worse for mental health than if farmers knew for sure that Donald Trump’s tariffs were coming, experts say
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tariff uncertainty may be worse for mental health than if farmers knew for sure that Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada were coming, experts say
PHOTOS: People who make a difference and enrich us all
Reading Time: < 1 minute This section of our website is called Heartland but it could be called Snapshots — for it is only able to offer glimpses of a few of the people who enrich the province’s farm community. Some devote their time and energy to raise funds for a good cause in their hometown or communities on the […] Read more
Farmers know the true cost of producing real food
In a fast-food world, farmers and ranchers understand the hard work necessary to get food on the table
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our farm is deeply personal to us. It is more than just where we work and where we live. This is our life’s work; our land and animals become our life’s masterpiece. Taking care of the land, raising healthy animals and educating the next generation of stewards on our land will be our legacy. The […] Read more
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