Reading Time: 5 minutes What motivates some farmers to make a succession plan while others don’t seem worried.
Are you ready for farm succession?
There’s a panoply of resources and professional advisors to help farmers with succession planning. Yet many farmers still do not have a succession plan. What’s holding them back?
Sensing the soil: Root cell research finds ‘stress hormone’
Scientists discover how roots sense and respond to soil stressors, cell by cell
Reading Time: 8 minutes Research into how root cells react to soil stressors could help plants better adapt to changes in their climate.
Five pieces of unconventional wisdom that can help you reach your goals
Looking for options and solutions to challenges can sometimes come from offbeat sources
Reading Time: 4 minutes Using unconventional wisdom to achieve new year goals on your farm.
Farmland values: assumptions and realities
Expectations about future farmland values look different depending on what chair you’re sitting in — and what decisions you need to make
Reading Time: 3 minutes Where farmland values are headed and what decisions farmers should make
A season of trial and colour
Following a Saskatchewan flower farm through the growing season
Reading Time: 8 minutes Following a Saskatchewan flower farmer through the seasons.
What to consider when setting up farm-related business ventures
A growing number of Canadian farmers are thinking about new ventures, but whether on or off the farm consider these things first
Reading Time: 3 minutes Things to consider before launching a farm-adjacent side business.
The Secret Sauce of Sibling Run Farms
Sibling business partnerships can offer a farm business unique advantages
Reading Time: 4 minutes Working with family can be difficult, but successful sibling agricultural operations seem to leverage the unique advantages of their relationships to create growth for their farms.
Risk management for the farm means considering people, too
The idea of human-centred risk management for family-owned farm operations might not be well known — but it should be
Reading Time: 5 minutes Wheat fields in New Brunswick, Canada.
How to talk about your farm succession plan
Estate planning is never easy — and more difficult still is the conversations you need to have with your family. But these conversations can be a great opportunity to teach the next generation about money, family relationships and how to make decisions together
Reading Time: 5 minutes You’ve worked hard your whole life and lived within your means. Now, you want your estate to help the future generation succeed — not create problems or heartache for your family. But if you want your estate to create a legacy of positivity, you’ll have to proactively communicate your wishes through an estate plan. Like […] Read more
The farm transition trial
Transitioning the farm from one generation to the next is often fraught with challenges and can be an adventure into the unknown. But a focus on the bigger picture can help keep everyone aligned and form the basis for important decisions
Reading Time: 8 minutes For anyone affected by cancer, they have likely heard the adage that “a person doesn’t get cancer, the family does.” When 45-year-old grain farmer KR Vreeling was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2009, he and his wife, Tammy, realized they needed to expedite their farm transition plan or, at the very least, that they needed […] Read more
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