Reading Time: < 1 minute Working on the farm with various family and non-family members means you might receive a lot of advice from a lot of people. But sometimes this unsolicited advice can make you feel like you’re still an inexperienced kid. So, how should you best respond to advice that you don’t agree with or when you’re not […] Read more
VIDEO: Responding to advice, whether you wanted it or not
VIDEO: Sharing your final wishes with family
Reading Time: < 1 minute Are you the child who knows more about what your parents have written in their wills? Are you worried that you’ll be the one left to explain your parents’ wishes to your siblings after your parents have died? If you want to avoid being the bearer of bad news, Patti Durand walks us through what […] Read more
Where to get Country Guide during a postal strike
Reading Time: < 1 minute Delivery of our magazine may be disrupted as of May 23 by the ongoing labour dispute between Canada Post and its unionized workers. Country Guide will continue to bring you the stories you’ve come to expect through our e-newsletter and digital editions while we wait for postal deliveries to be restored. Look to our e-newsletters […] Read more
VIDEO: Taking awkwardness out of farm family discussions
Reading Time: < 1 minute Country Guide and Patti Durand from Brightrack Consulting are excited to bring you AwkwardAg! Patti will be here all summer to answer your questions about those awkward family business conversations you’ve been meaning to have but are hesitant to start. She’ll offer tips and tricks for how to say the right thing, when to say it […] Read more
What do you want to know before voting in Canada’s federal election?
Looking for answers to the questions that concern you the most? Let us know
Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia is dedicated to covering the 2025 federal election with your interests as farmers as our lens. Our team of reporters will be speaking with politicians across Canada during the five-week election campaign. What do YOU want to ask them? Have your say below and we’ll update this page with your responses at bottom. […] Read more
Podcast with Lindsay Lake Farms
Reading Time: < 1 minute We sat down with Christiane Teerling, co-owner of Lindsay Lake Farms, to catch up on what they’ve been up to since we featured them in 2022. In March 2020 they were set to move their farm from Germany to Nova Scotia, but it turned out to be quite the modern pioneer adventure. You can listen […] Read more
The Country Guide Podcast
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Summer Series: Podcast with Mark Brock
Reading Time: < 1 minute For the last instalment of our Summer Series podcast, we spoke with Mark Brock, an Ontario grain and sheep farmer and Nuffield scholar, about what drives his business decisions and how he treats farming not only as a lifestyle, but as a business. Listen to this episode and past episodes at country-guide.ca or on Apple […] Read more
Summer Series: Podcast with Julie Maw
Reading Time: < 1 minute Julie is the owner of Mooremaw Farms along with her husband and three sons. She’s also a Grain Farmers of Ontario director and operates a seed dealership. In this episode, she chatted with us about how she got on the path to agriculture, what it’s like to navigate farm growth, best advice she’s received throughout […] Read more
VIDEO: Summer Series: Brooklyn and Harley Siemens
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this last instalment of our summer video series, we spoke with fourth generation Manitoba egg farmers, Brooklyn and Harley Siemens, about how they make everything count: business decisions, opportunities, and advancing the industry and their community.
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