Reading Time: 2 minutes Go hard. Then go even harder. Expand fast, then expand some more. This is the moment that farmers have been waiting for. There are so many more mouths to fill, so many more consumers who want more meat on their plates, and so many more gas tanks that only farmers can fill. Or, go slow. […] Read more
Go Fast, Go Slow
Big Plans
Reading Time: 5 minutes ” The most important question we can ask ourselves is where our goal posts need to be in five or 10 years.” — Steve Denys Steve Denys fires back his answers before the questions are out of our mouths. “How much time do you spend on planning?” we ask. “Four to five months a year,” […] Read more
Growing Better
Reading Time: 2 minutes “ We make our development program relevant both to our employees and to where we are going as a business,” says DuPont’s Doris Steimel. ”We don’t just tick boxes, we think it through.” If you work for DuPont, you know what it takes for the company to succeed. You can read all about it — […] Read more
Garry Bentham Has ONE BIG QUESTION: Why Can’t A Farm Be More Like A Condo?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Clearly, it’s working in our cities. Across the country, 12 per cent of today’s homes are actually condominiums. That’s twice as many as a decade ago, and it’s just a start. Condos accounted for an astonishing 20 per cent of all housing units built in 2008. The reasons will look familiar to farmers everywhere. Land […] Read more
The bell is set to ring. Five minutes is all you get to make the first impression that might end up making your farm. Care to dance?
Reading Time: 8 minutes GUIDEPOSTS They’re standing-room only, virtually every time. Whether you’re in Alberta or maybe in Ontario, wherever local-food organizers put on speed-dating events, they’re jam-packed. Even better, the mix of “girls and boys” is exactly what farmers want, with eager food buyers outnumbering the farmers often by three to one, and sometimes more. Marlene Abrams of […] Read more
Speed dating
Reading Time: 3 minutes They re standing-room only, virtually every time. Whether you re in Alberta or maybe in Ontario, wherever local-food organizers put on speed-dating events, they re jam-packed. Even better, the mix of girls and boys is exactly what farmers want, with eager food buyers outnumbering the farmers often by three to one, and sometimes more. Marlene […] Read more
Why should you care about Monsanto’s new Genuity brand? Move Over Roundup Ready
Reading Time: 4 minutes Monsanto can justly c laim to know a thing or two about branding. After all, it was three years ago that Roundup surpassed John Deere to become the most recognized ag brand in the world. Now, the biotech giant says its new Genuity brand is going to be even bigger. Even for Monsanto, the Genuity […] Read more
The company that’s most famous for what it doesn’t make tells us why it thinks farmers across Canada will want to watch the next moves it makes in agriculture
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why does the world s largest chemical company want to muck about in the small, fragmented and highly specialized world of Canadian agriculture? The commercials were so offbeat, they instantly broke through the blur of me-too television advertising. At BASF, we don t make a lot of the products you buy, the velvety voice said. […] Read more
AGCO grows up
Reading Time: 2 minutes “ Our goal is to take market share away from the green guys, the blue guys, the red guys…” — Martin Richenhagen It’s clear we aren’t talking about yesterday’s AGCO. While in Atlanta for the launch of the world’s first all-AGCO tractors, global president and CEO Martin Richenhagen sat down with COUNTRY GUIDE to tell […] Read more
When it’s where you farm that counts
Reading Time: 2 minutes We’ve tried hard not to tell you what to think about each of our three cover stories this month. There are, of course, loads of other people who’d be more than happy to tell you what your opinions should be, but our philosophy here at the new Guide is simply to bring you stories and […] Read more
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