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1 month ago | 
manitobacooperator.ca | Bruce Dyck
We need to stick together to prevent the annexation of Canada by the U.S. That means sharing the burden of the trade war equally across all sectors and provinces.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
I’ve never been one of those people who are obsessed with getting a deal. If it means driving across town to save $4 on a toaster or three cents a litre on gas, I’m not interested. After all, my time is valuable and isn’t to be expended frivolously. Read Also Coal mine proposal risks water, health effects On Nov.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
Growing up on a farm meant we didn’t have the same access to the dense rows of neighbourhood candy distribution outlets (houses) as did my city friends at Halloween. Read Also Agriculture’s policy risk clear as mud The Canadian agriculture and food sector has many things going right.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
I must confess that I have mixed feelings about the time of year in which we currently find ourselves. Read AlsoSales pitches on new varieties can be misleadingHarvest is barely complete and marketing campaigns are already underway to sell new and improved seed varieties for next year…. Fall is probably the prettiest of the seasons, although the beauty is tempered somewhat by what’s lurking right around the corner.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
There’s something about animals that many humans find therapeutic. Read AlsoRanching has vital role in Prairie conservationBorn and raised in Calgary, we took many family camping trips into the Prairies. I was always awed by the…Well, maybe not a grizzly bear charging out of the tree line, but lots of other animals. Many people find animals so calming that they have been incorporated into formal therapy programs.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
A familiar name to Western Producer readers has left the building. Read AlsoInjuries, health problems worsen labour shortageI texted a neighbour at the farm asking if he could help me out. We work back and forth a…Ed White, who has been reporting for the paper for 30 years, has taken another job. His last day with us was Sept. 30. Ed brought with him a passion for journalism that couldn’t help but spread to his colleagues.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
In the 1974 movie The Conversation, Gene Hackman plays a paranoid surveillance expert who specializes in wiretapping. Read AlsoChickpea acres prepare to mount a comebackWith harvest in the home stretch in southern regions, thoughts turn to cropping plans for next year. In the typically…A case goes wrong, and Hackman’s character ends up being the eavesdropped instead of the eavesdropper. The movie ends with him tearing his apartment to pieces as he desperately searches for listening devices.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
A bee died in front of my very eyes this summer — or at least I think it did. Read AlsoProducer profitability wanes in the grain sectorEach year, every farm has successes and failures and grain prices always fluctuate, but the good times appear to be…I was sitting on our deck one evening and noticed a fat bumblebee flitting from flower to flower. It would stick what I’ll call its nose in one flower, dig around in there for a couple of seconds and move on to the next one.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
Regular readers of this column will know that I have spent the last year writing about old editions of the Western Producer as part of this paper’s year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary. Read AlsoCorporate merger approvals need new approachWill Canada approve, deny or put conditions on Bunge’s proposed takeover of Viterra? We don’t know yet, but on…Starting with the Aug.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
producer.com | Bruce Dyck
A great way to tell a culture’s story is through its food, something that the staff at the Western Development Museum certainly recognizes. Read AlsoWhere’s the listeria outbreak outrage? The reaction to the recent Silk and Great Value plant-based dairy recall has been perplexing, to say the least, despite…A display in the museum’s front entrance focuses not so much on what rural Prairie residents ate over the decades as o n how this culinary knowledge was preserved.
