The Editor's Desk

The sacker

I plopped down on a chair in the outdoor bar at Bobby O’Brien’s pub on King Street in Kitchener, Ontario. I was feeling a little verklempt after dropping off my younger son at the University of Waterloo. Game one of the National Football League season was on all of the TVs, including a massive screen...
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Feature

Carbon Chaos: A primer on carbon markets

A swirling bore atom model that shows dollar signs and C symbols on it.

The carbon market is like a black box. Is agriculture, in general, missing a big opportunity to make more money from carbon? Will carbon “farming” become a bigger and bigger part of our lives?

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Farmer Panel

Asteroid Incoming

A mock asteroid falls towards the earth and starts to make impact.

What are you worried could have a major impact on the farm business
in the near future? And how will you plan for that “asteroid strike”?

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The Editor's Desk

Productive = healthy

A person crouches near freshly tilled soil. They are sifting through a handful of brown dirt.
Productive soil is healthy soil. If farmed soil is not productive, it needs help. The soil health equation doesn’t need to be more complicated than that. Cornell University, in its Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health, provides a long list of potential soil health indicators, including 17 physical, 11 biological and 15 chemical. Physical indicators include...
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