Reading Time: 12 minutes GUIDEPOSTS What I hadn’t expected was how easy it would be for a journalist they’d never met to arrange a visit. When I cold-called James Hofer, the hog manager of Starlite Colony, a Hutterite community near Starbuck just 40 minutes from the bustle of downtown Winnipeg, I wasn’t sure how he’d respond. Would a group […] Read more
Plain, NOT SIMPLE
In The Hay
Reading Time: 9 minutes Exporting works best when the extra production and marketing integrate seamlessly into your overall farm management…— Russell and Darren Chapman It started with a vague kind of wondering, not with a turn-on-thelightbulb, eureka sort of moment. Probably, it’s how most success stories in farm exporting get started, based on tying a winning concept together with […] Read more
In The Hay – for May. 15, 2009
Reading Time: 3 minutes Exporting works best when the extra production and marketing integrate seamlessly into your overall farm management& Russell and Darren Chapman It started with a vague kind of wondering, not with a turn-on-thelightbulb, eureka sort of moment. Probably, it s how most success stories in farm exporting get started, based on tying a winning concept together […] Read more
Something Ventured… Much More Gained
Reading Time: 2 minutes Peace River farmers Joe Friesen (l.), Kevin Peters, Russel Friesen and Jason Neudorf say their joint venture makes each of them more efficient, and more profitable. Joint ventures are gaining ground across farm country What were they thinking? After all, it s not like there s a shortage of feed mills in Canada. It s […] Read more
Joint ventures are gaining ground across farm country Something Ventured… Much More Gained
Reading Time: 2 minutes Peace River farmers Joe Friesen (l.), Kevin Peters, Russel Friesen and Jason Neudorf say their joint venture makes each of them more efficient, and more profitable. What were they thinking? After all, it s not like there s a shortage of feed mills in Canada. It s quality in, quality out, says Tim Keet, 47, […] Read more
Trust is no longer enough. When the credit meltdown claims new victims every day, it makes even more sense to use these strategies to ensure the companies you deal with are still financially sound
Reading Time: 6 minutes There isn’t much question that economic times have changed. Following a bull run that could be measured in decades, times have gotten tough much faster than many companies can adjust to them. Overall, agriculture is an economic bright spot, but no one is totally immune in an era where ownerships are so inter-connected and when […] Read more
Young Turk Rural Saskatchewan’s Murad Al-Katib Plots His (And His Province’s) Path As A Global Pulse Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s say your family owns a grain trading house in Turkey. It’s been good business, especially the market you’ve built up over the past 50 years trading pulse crops. But lately, the farmers around you have stopped planting pulses as weather conditions and government programs persuade them to grow other crops. In desperation, at first […] Read more
Rural Saskatchewan’s Murad Al-Katib plots his (and his province’s) path as a global pulse leader
Reading Time: 13 minutes Let’s say your family owns a grain trading house in Turkey. It’s been good business, especially the market you’ve built up over the past 50 years trading pulse crops. But lately, the farmers around you have stopped planting pulses as weather conditions and government programs persuade them to grow other crops. In desperation, at first […] Read more
BEHIND THE COUNTER
Reading Time: < 1 minute Anyone who has been watching fertilizer prices at all closely for the past year probably already has a case of motion sickness. That’s true of farmers. It’s also true of retailers. Yet somehow, the two groups must figure out a way to shake hands on deals they both can stomach. It isn’t going to be […] Read more
In the new world of post-patent crop chemicals, can these next-generation generic companies really help you put more money in the bank?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s the shiny blue oval on the grille that’s the real horsepower behind many farm half-tons, just like it’s the green, yellow or red paint that’s the true heart of their tractors and combines. Farmers are fierce brand loyalists. They know it. They glory in it. When farmers find a product they trust, they stick […] Read more
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