This week’s newsletter feels very on point with recent news cycles: the constant spectre of uncertainty and volatility. BUT you’ll also learn in these articles that there are silver linings; opportunities if you know where to look.
And that’s the type of content Country Guide / Farm & Family aims to bring you each week.
For example, in Jeanine Moyer’s article The changing landscape of Canadian food demand, consumers’ eating habits are shifting, which is creating both risks and new opportunities for farmers and processors.
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Jeanine also wrote this inspiring profile story about Janis Harris and her Ontario flower farm. After more than a decade of slowly building a flower-growing side business, Harris left her job as an optician to run the farm full time. Weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic shut the world down. Read the article to find out how she managed to meet this incredible challenge.
Herman VanGenderen’s Investing for Fun & Profit column explains how the incredibly quick rotation from technology to HALOs (which stands for High Assets, Low Obsolescence) demonstrates the importance of diversifying your investment portfolio. He writes, “As money comes out of tech, it’s going into long-forgotten sectors defined by those that are capital intensive, high assets that artificial intelligence cannot make obsolete. Energy, pipelines, utilities, mining and industrials fit that definition.”
And contributor Richard Kamchen tells us how even though farmers are up against an era of unparalleled volatility, they aren’t entirely powerless to mitigate some of the risks. Learn about the economic and political influences guiding decisions on the farm here.
Farm families work together to break new ground and nurture growth. As each member grows, our Farm & Family team wants to know how we can help YOUR farm and family grow further. Share your thoughts with Farm & Family editor [email protected]
