Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve never actually seen a barn-raising. And if the other women in my neighbourhood are holding quilting bees, they’re certainly not inviting me. The olden days are long gone. Yet farmers are still getting together to share information, news, ideas, and even work. These relationships are generally casual, undocumented, flexible and, well, just downright neighbourly. […] Read more
Good Neighbours
She Said, What!?!
Reading Time: 7 minutes Even the most business-minded farmers see their work as also a way of life, not just a job. But this somehow gets put on the backburner when it’s time to make some of the farm’s most important decisions. When it comes to succession planning, for instance, the temptation is to simply hope the logistics of […] Read more
The Right Storage Decision
Reading Time: 5 minutes It might not always be the investment that makes every farmer’s heart beat faster, or the key decision on every farm. But admit it, grain storage is usually the first thing you notice about a farmyard. Maybe they’re new super-sized steel bins, or lines of hopper-bottom bins, or older wooden sheds. And maybe they’re spread […] Read more
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