Reading Time: 2 minutes NEXT MONTH How enterprise accounting can integrate with day to day management to rev up the performance of your family farm corporation Over the last five years, Rick Clouston has become an expert juggler. He s had to. Based near Selkirk, Man., S & D Clouston Farms grows 1,800 acres of grain and 500 acres […] Read more
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Why has it taken so long? Finally, websites are here where farmers can sell their grain and oilseeds to a multitude of buyers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Now across the country, millions of dollars of online deals are being brokered between farmers and buyers online. And this is still just the […] Read more
How enterprise accounting can integrate with day to day management to rev up the performance of your family farm corporation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers today run large operations, often with multiple enterprises, and many of us work off-farm. Juggle, juggle, juggle. Farming demands a higher level of science, marketing know-how, technology and financing than ever before. Juggle, juggle, juggle. Since it s easier, we lump all our assets and costs together into a whole farm statement, but what […] Read more
The manufacturer’s view from the cab
Reading Time: 3 minutes Negotiating the economic fluctuations of the last few years in manufacturing has been like driving a combine on hills. The tops can be sparse, turning is tricky and sometimes you just try not to flip the damn thing. Six months ago, equipment manufacturers couldn’t keep up with orders. Employee hours, overtime, facilities and suppliers were […] Read more
Bidding For Business
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ritchie Bros. plans to sell even more to farmers as it revels in its role as the world’s biggest equipment auctioneer It’s so huge and full, you can’t see the far end. Transports, pickups, massive payloaders, dump trucks, all sorts of excavators and even a fire truck are lined up for inspection. We’re on the […] Read more
With low rates, more farmers are looking to renegotiate their mortgages. Should you?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite globally tight credit, farm borrowing is still on the upward trend. Compared to last March, Farm Credit Canada’s total volume of loans is up 14 per cent. At the same time, interest rates are lower, with the prime rate down 275 points, almost 23 per cent lower than last year. “There’s a lot of […] Read more
Robert Latimer has nearly finished the 10-year sentence for his part in his daughter Tracy’s death. Meanwhile, there’s been little improvement in the rural health care system that also played its role
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the end of 2009, Bob Latimer will have served his full 10 years and the government will effectively say that he has now been reformed. The question is: Has rural health care been reformed too? Whatever your view of Robert L a t ime r, ma n y farmers across the country had hoped […] Read more
Every Minute Counts On Today’s More Complex Farms. Our Maggie Van Camp Checks Out The New Office-In-A-Truck Options From Ford, Toyota, Dodge And GM. Each Could Make You More Efficient. Here’s How
Reading Time: 2 minutes If the dog in the back lets you peek in the window of our pickup, you’ll see a farmer s office on the go. The visor is stuffed with invoices, grain receipts, sunglasses, keys, a rent cheque waiting for delivery and a label from some vaccines. The dash is coated with dust, pens, more bills, […] Read more
‘ Bucking’ the Roundup Ready trend
Reading Time: < 1 minute It comes down to bucks per acre, say Luke Carnaghan (R.) and Steve Grove. Farming today has to be about increasing their income per acre instead of continually increasing their acres It s a crisp mid-winter morning and we re talking in the shop, but the discussion isn t about commodity prices and it isn […] Read more
Pre-inoculant Choices
Reading Time: 2 minutes In November, our farm ordered a few bags of pre-inoculated soybean seed to try. Harold, our local seed dealer, said the long-lasting pre-coated inoculation is new this year. What is this stuff and is it worth the extra cost? If you re one of the 60 per cent of Ontario soybean growers who inoculated your […] Read more
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