Pondering farming’s future, 6½ lbs. at a time

Opinion

The New Year was hardly a day old when we welcomed grandson Andrew Daniel Huston into the family and into the world, at 6:25 p.m. on January 2. He tipped the scales at a healthy 6 lbs., 8 oz., surprising his mother (my daughter) Alicia and his dad Mark with his speedy delivery. Maybe he was in a hurry to farm. Andrew joins his three-year-old brother Henry as the eighth generation of Hustons on the family farm, in Kent County, Ontario near Thamesville. The Hustons began farming there in 1830, even before Canada was a nation. And now, as we’re…