Bruce Hill

Managing Agricultural Records for Success (MARS)
Email: thefarmhand@farmbooks.com
Web Site: http://farmbooks.com

Bruce, an Agricultural Technologist with the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists, graduated from the U of S in 1971. Following that, he worked selling and designing homes for Lindal Cedar Homes and in promotions for several years while attending the College of Agriculture before returning home to the family farm in 1976. There he joined his father, uncle, and brother in a family corporation that operated a mixed grains/livestock farm at Imperial, Saskatchewan. They became seed growers' and opened a certified cleaning plant that is still operating.

Outside of farm management, Bruce has been keenly interested in Emergency Medicine and worked as an EMT in his community for 14 years. Volunteerism has been a big part of Bruce's life. He began to be interested in community through his participation with 4-H as a youth (Beef & Light Horse) including provincial and national selections. He sat on various Boards and committees including the Saskatchewan (Road) Ambulance Association executive, the Emergency Medical Planning Committee for SIAST, and most recently spent two years on the Regina Health District Board. He brought to Imperial one of the first EMT courses that SIAST delivered to a small rural community and saw the development of the regulations that brought in the modern day Ambulance legislation that placed Saskatchewan second to none in Canada's emergency care. He has been involved in EMO disaster planning, evaluating, and training. He chaired the InterPhase Saskatchewan conference (the longest running and most successful Emergency Medical Services conference in Canada) for several years as well as sitting on the Board for several other years. He has also chaired the local Recreation Board and School Board. He has and is involved as coach and trainer for his sons' baseball and hockey teams respectively. He is currently a co-leader with the Mountain View 4-H Beef Club.

Like his partners he delivered various farm management courses during the winter months. Farming to Win (Focus on Planning) is where he got his start and team taught with Larry. Then he assisted in the development of Double Entry Accounting and Records (DEAR) and delivered that program for several years along with Bernie. He has also taught marketing and the pre-cursor to the current FBMInet when it was a BBS. He assisted Larry and Bernie as they developed a resource manual Better Utilization of Land for Livestock. He co-chaired the Information Technology subcommittee of Agriculture and Agri-Food Innovation Fund. In 1998, he lead the team that developed the Managing Agricultural Records for Success (MARS) CD. Currently he leads the development of On-Line Web Learning programs. Bruce is a Certified Consultant for Settler Agricultural Software.