Mixed farmer with a cow habit.When I talk to my cows they call me compassionate and something else when I talk to the crops.Grad of Olds College and UofA.

Joined March 2013
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You can fret over how #harvest19 isn’t happening or take a Sunday funday and show the family a new trail. Life is short choice is yours😎
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Someone asked what I used for swath grazing, just a little of everything
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CYLE LARIN TIES THE GAME FOR CANADA!
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Replying to @MarcNixon24
According to Canada’s Food Price Report 2026, a family of four is projected to spend over $17,500 this year; for your information that’s $1,464 a month…. StatCan’s household data is lower because it includes singles, but real families are feeling far more pain than his $800 a month figure suggests. @MarkJCarney has no idea how Canadians live. Or struggle.
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Branding first bunch tomorrow. Hopefully.
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So much truth in what she said

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Statistically, at what time does the highest number of fatal heart attacks occur? A) Friday night (after heavy drinking/eating) B) Monday morning (between 6 AM and 10 AM) C) Wednesday afternoon (peak stress) D) Sunday evening (anticipatory anxiety) Bonus: WHY does your cardiovascular system suddenly fail at this specific time?
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"Bacon contains nitrites and nitrites cause cancer." A 100g portion of bacon contains roughly 5.5 mg of nitrate. A 100g portion of spinach contains roughly 741 mg. Spinach has approximately 130 times more of the substance bacon is being prosecuted for. Around 80 percent of dietary nitrate in the human diet comes from vegetables. The leafy salad your dietitian recommends is, by mass, a nitrate delivery system that makes a rasher look like a rounding error. The standard rebuttal is that vegetable nitrates are different. They are not. The exact same molecule, absorbed in the exact same gut, recirculates through the exact same salivary glands, gets reduced to nitrite by the exact same bacteria on the back of the tongue, and ends up in the exact same stomach. The pathway is called the enterosalivary circulation. It is how your body makes nitric oxide. It is the basis of every beetroot pre-workout product on the shelf. The absolute increase in colorectal cancer risk from 50g of processed meat per day is roughly 0.7 percentage points over a lifetime. One in twenty-five becomes one in twenty-one. Only if you eat that much, every day, for the rest of your life. The molecule isn't the problem. The framing is. Eat the bacon.
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The post conflates nitrites and nitrates. Bacon is cured with nitrites, which react with meat proteins when cooked to form carcinogenic nitrosamines. Vegetables contain nitrates alongside vitamin C and polyphenols that inhibit nitrosamine formation. food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene… pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC74…
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If Mr. Saturday Night scores in game 6 vs Buffalo, we are giving away an official jersey! Follow @thesickpodcasts, retweet and comment "SICK" to enter! #thesickpodcast @TonyMarinaro
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Slafkovsky sets up Suzuki with an incredible one hand backhand assist!! This is why it’s important to work on arm/wrist strength!
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I need help! Looking for someone who has seeded canola in the Calgary area and would be willing to let me use the field as a Canola School filming location on May 21, any ideas?
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Every year it seems I pickup a reminder of those who farm the land before me🤠
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Rest in peace to one of the most important people in the history of country music, the outlaw, David Allan Coe.
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Nevermind. She couldn’t keep track of both. Cows aren’t meant to have two. Anyone know what bottle calves actually are selling for in Alberta?
No bites. Guess she will keep both.
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Sure. The chart cites OECD/IMF data for Q1-Q3 2025 inward FDI flows per capita (Canada at ~$1,231 USD). Nuance: ~55% came via mergers & acquisitions (mostly U.S. buyers), concentrated in trade/transport, manufacturing, and management/holding companies—not greenfield builds or resources. Full-year 2025 inflows hit C$96.8B (highest since 2007). Impact: Injects capital, can create/ sustain jobs and tech transfer for growth. Downsides include potential foreign control of existing firms, profit repatriation, and less “new” capacity than the headline suggests. Per-capita edge partly reflects Canada’s smaller population.
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On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox, accompanied by his friend Doug Alward, dipped his right leg into the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It began the Marathon of Hope and turned Fox into a Canadian hero and icon. This is the story. 🧵 1/15
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Morgan Klaiber is born and bred from the ranches just outside of Medicine Hat, Alberta and she is in the running for SiriusXM’s “Top of the Country” contest. I think we should give her some help! So please head on over and cast your vote for her: topcountry.siriusxm.ca/morga…
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In 1969, Walter Chell of the Calgary Inn wanted to create a signature drink for the Inn's new Italian restaurant. The drink he created became Canada's national cocktail. Today, 350 million Caesars are consumed each year in Canada. This is the story. 🧵 1/11
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Jean Francois "Jim" Chatenay heartlandfuneralservices.com… Today many will gather to remember Jim as a family man, farmer/cattleman. Yet Jim's biggest accomplishment was the start of marketing freedom and the end of the monopoly of the CWB. Job well done Jim, time to rest. I thank you!
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BREAKING: Alberta introduces a bill restricting MAiD to cases where natural death is reasonably foreseeable within one-year Mental illness is not an acceptable case for MAID Danielle Smith is leading the country in Common Sense. WELL DONE I fully agree with this decision
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