Reading Time: 5 minutes The influence of tariff and trade uncertainity on farm business decisions.
Producers aren’t panicking over tariffs and trade threats
In the face of extreme market uncertainty, protectionist tariffs and global geopolitical risks, Canadian producers aren’t rushing to change their plans, but they may put some major purchases on hold
Riding the tariff roller-coaster
What are producers doing to minimize the risk created by ongoing trade uncertainty?
Reading Time: 3 minutes What producers are doing to minimize the risk created by ongoing trade uncertainty.
It doesn’t have to be the end for your farm
For farmers without a successor, it can seem like it’s the end of the line for that operation. But that doesn’t always have to be the case
Reading Time: 4 minutes Options for farmers without successors to pass on the farm.
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?
Reading Time: 5 minutes What motivates some farmers to make a succession plan while others don’t seem worried.
How salmon farming transformed a remote First Nations community
How salmon farming transformed a remote First Nations community
Reading Time: 7 minutes Salmon farming at Kitasoo Xai’xais territory, BC.
Manitoba agronomist and farmer reflects on career in agriculture
Summer Series 'Making the Future': Exploring the perspectives and experiences of young up-and-comers in various sectors of Canada’s agriculture industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the final instalment of our Making the Future series Country Guide spoke with Beth Martel from St. Leon, Man. (Click here to read part one, part two, part three and part four.) Beth Martel grew up in Wales, U.K., and moved with her family to Manitoba in 2001, where they purchased a mixed cattle […] Read more
Making space for a new generation of ideas in Canadian agriculture
Summer Series 'Making the Future': Exploring the perspectives and experiences of young up-and-comers in various sectors of Canada’s agriculture industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes In part four of our Making the Future series Country Guide spoke with Eugénie Officer from Hemmingford, Que. (Read part one here, part two here and part three here.) Officer grew up on a small apple farm in southwestern Quebec. After studying history and agriculture at the University of Guelph, she joined Farm Credit Canada […] Read more
Encouraging people from outside agriculture to come on in
Summer Series 'Making the future': Exploring the perspectives and experiences of young up-and-comers in various sectors of Canada’s agriculture industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes In part three of our Making the Future series, Country Guide spoke with Emily McGovern from South Surrey, B.C. (Read part one, here.) McGovern, 24, works on developing special content for marketing projects for Glacier FarmMedia, the parent company of Country Guide. She has a BA in linguistics and publishing from Simon Fraser University and […] Read more
Youth focused on keeping Quebec’s dairy industry strong
Summer Series 'Making the Future': Exploring the perspectives and experiences of young up-and-comers in various sectors of Canada’s agriculture industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes In part two of our Making the Future series, Country Guide spoke with Béatrice Neveu from Rawdon, Que. (Read part one, here.) Twenty-two-year-old Neveu is a dairy farmer who milks 60 (mostly) Jersey cows alongside her dad, Steven. After completing the three-year Farm Management and Technology program at Macdonald College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., she returned […] Read more
Youth motivated to find answers to today’s agricultural challenges
Making the future: Exploring the perspectives and experiences of young up-and-comers in various sectors of Canada’s agriculture industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the first in a series of articles exploring the perspectives and experiences of young people who are finding their passion, flexing their skills and contributing their insights and innovations to various sectors of Canada’s agriculture industry. They shared with Country Guide what excites them about the industry, what they think about its future […] Read more
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