(click the links below to access each Short Takes story)
- Better Farming - May 2009
- Behind The Lines - May 2009
- Short Takes - May 2009
- Cover Story - May 2009: WOMEN’S CHANGING ROLE ON THE FARM – from helpmate to full-time manager
- Sidebar 1: Carmina Halstead, 25, Norfolk County
- Sidebar 2: Alice Uher, 52, north of Blenheim (Municipality of Chatham-Kent)
- Sidebar 3: Trudy Reid, 29, District of Thunder Bay
- Sidebar 4: Cathy McKay, 55, South of Port Perry (Durham Region)
- Sidebar 5: Laura Kivits, 32, Dalkeith (Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry)
- Sidebar 6: Carolynne Griffith, 66, Lambton County
- Beef: Alberta moves to bring in voluntary price insurance program
- Better Decisions: Direct farm marketing proves a hit with consumers
- Seedbed: What are those partial stands of red clover worth?
- CROP SCENE INVESTIGATION – 19: What caused Roger’s aphid infestation?
- CROP SCENE INVESTIGATION – 18 SOLVED: What’s been eating Bert’s seedlings?
- Crops:The Lynch File - Spray your weeds early to reduce yield loss
- Weather: We must be careful to pick the right climate change measures
- The Hill: Provinces buy into the Gerry Ritz vision of agricultural policy
- Letter from Europe: Small is still beautiful for some family dairy farms