
Author Archives

Managing more, working less
For Lauren and Ryan Maurer, it’s the challenge of 2021. How do they keep from getting personally overwhelmed as the farm gets bigger and more complex?

Selling the corporate farm
Darren and Carmen Sterling made the hard decision. 2019 would be their last crop. Then they would retire. But that’s when the real work began

A question of equity
Ag corporations are making strides toward gender equity. What will it take on the farm?

Why aren’t farm women fighting harder?
It’s time to win back the ground we've have lost in the past 30 years

Into the daylight
“I can’t be your shadow,” Leigh Rosengren explained to her husband Colin. “It isn’t enough for me.”

The ever-changing landscape of farmland rentals
The risks are growing. So is the pressure to lease more land. What does a smart rental strategy look like as we head into 2020?

Their joint venture
The way Doyle Wiebe and Mark Thompson work together is beginning to look like the future for a big chunk of Canada’s farms, especially in succession

That little blue elevator

Shortline prospecting
Shortline railway companies are creating new opportunities for farm commodities, and for farmers too

Finding your farm self
How one farm is using innovative business strategies to fuel its passion
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