Reading Time: 3 minutes Rural smartphone sightings are already on the rise. As the saying goes, though, you ain’t seen nothing yet. In the next 18 months, the North American farm landscape is going to start looking like a scene from “Star Trek,” with chirping devices on every belt. Smartphones are putting more management power in farmers’ hands, wherever […] Read more
Got Your Smartphone Yet?
Yes, there’s life after farming. It’s just that it’s a lot more expensive than you think
Reading Time: 10 minutes Nearly all farmers get it wrong. In fact, Len Davies, a farmer and succession planner from Muirkirk, Ont., figures that 80 per cent of farmers underestimate how much cash they’ll need to pay their bills after they’ve retired, let alone pay for vacations or those new motorcycles. It’s the same in the West, says Don […] Read more
PDAs emerge as Canada’s favourite grain-marketing tool
Reading Time: 3 minutes Market analysts and brokers see the trend to BlackBerry marketing picking up even more steam now that it has reached a critical mass of farmers. “You sit around with a group of farmers now and three-quarters of them have a BlackBerry or text messaging,” said John Duvenaud, publisher of the Winnipeg-based Wild Oats Grain Market […] Read more
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