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Seven tips for successful pulse and soybean crop disease management

Is your farm transition on-track?
As farms grow in value, it gets tempting to think succession planning is too risky to consider. It’s why only eight per cent of Canadian farms have written plans. But maybe there’s a way after all
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Stretch your horizons
Here’s why taking an agri-tourist vacation might be your business’ best investment all year
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Can you perform your own on-farm research? Yes you can
If anything, research is simply improving on the understanding of the world around you
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Time to talk: Building teamwork
In this pair of articles, we find all this talk about communication is more than a trend gone wild. It really does pay
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Time to Talk: Creating opportunity
Yes, you can talk your farm to a better bottom line
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A cut ahead
With farm support, here’s how this young couple beat the odds to open a successful short-line abattoir
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Turning girls into farmers
Should you raise daughters differently to succeed at farming? This mother, daughter and granddaughter know their answer
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Down on the farm
Farming is a mental health challenge. It isn’t your fault. The numbers prove it. So maybe this is the right moment to talk about whether you’re one of the many who would benefit from some help
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Their big idea
As Mike Kosaka and Adriane Skaros are learning, it takes determination, toughness, and plenty of smarts to succeed as a local-food startup. How many smarts? Well, read on
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