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Jeanine Moyer and Allan Wallace surrounded by 2024 Farm team members, speaking up for agriculture.
Features

Agriculture takes a ride to the city

Looking for a way to talk to urban consumers about how farmers produce food? Jeanine Moyer takes farming right to the heart of Toronto

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Reading Time: 6 minutes For the second time this past spring, Jeanine Moyer and her father Allan Wallace were phoning their rural Ontario neighbours, tracking down just the right animals to take to Toronto. They wanted docile animals, and, equally important, trusting owners — the kind of owners who would let Moyer and Wallace take their livestock on an […] Read more
“Let life intrude,” says Stephanie Craig.
Features, Guide HR

Target: work-life balance

Life can be better. Even on the farm, real balance can be achieved

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Reading Time: 6 minutes The struggle to find work-life balance may be “the single most important thing in your life to get right,” says Weyburn, Sask. farmer, Jake Leguee. “It’s also one of the hardest things any of us will ever do.” Farming presents unique challenges for achieving work-life balance. While technologies like robotic milkers and birthing cameras in […] Read more
Jeff Rowe is CEO of the global Syngenta Group. He was recently combining corn at his family’s farm in Illinois.
Features, Management

In the combine

Syngenta leader Jeff Rowe talks about being prepared for leadership and the importance of listening to people

Reading Time: 3 minutes Jeff Rowe, CEO of the Syngenta Group, doesn’t often get home to his farm near Princeton, Illinois. He’s usually operating from his base in Basel, Switzerland, instead. But when he does get back to the Midwest, you might catch up to him running a planter in the spring or the combine in the fall, just […] Read more
In order to consider if growth is possible, it requires solving the growth formula for your farm.
Features, Management

The formula for farm growth

Capital + Risk + Execution = Farm SUCCESS

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Reading Time: 3 minutes “Change is inevitable, growth is optional.” That’s how John C. Maxwell said it, and he might have said it best. It’s easy to look around the ag industry and see changes in the landscape. Suppliers, competitors and customers are consolidating and growing. Yet growth is often met with more scorn in farming than in these […] Read more
Finance 101 – What is a business plan?
Features, Management

Finance 101 – What is a business plan?

There’s more at stake this winter, and more than ever to gain

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Reading Time: 5 minutes A business plan is like a road map for your farm. You can plan your route, set a destination and track progress. But without a map or a plan, how does a farm business owner know what success looks like, or even what you’re capable of achieving? Or, most importantly, how do you know when […] Read more
The Davis family had learned how much interest their sunflower fields could attract almost by accident.
Features, Marketing

Ontario growers bring ‘sun and fun’ to agri-tourism market

Could agri-tourism boost your farm income? The Davis family has some advice — “You gotta love, love, love people.”

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Agri-tourism is trending. For farmers, agri-tourism is a way to diversify, to create new revenue streams and to capture more profit by selling direct to consumers without necessarily having to expand the land base. It can also be a way to make room for additional family members to join the farm business, easing the transition […] Read more
CG spoke with Kreg and Lee Anne Alde of Broken Tine Orchard about their value-added journey.
Features

Discovering ways that your farm can do more

The value-added journey can look like a fast track to success. But as roads go, this one may not be so straight or level

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Reading Time: 15 minutes When they start planning for transition to the next generation, many family farms recognize they have to increase revenue if the farm is going to support everyone full-time. But in today’s agriculture, the farm can’t always turn to the old tried-and-true solution, adding acres. So it’s little wonder they begin asking how they might raise […] Read more
Saskatchewan’s Kevin and Melanie Boldt looked at their farm and they looked at their own skills and strengths. Was it time to transform the business?
Features, Succession strategy

Diversifying the farm helps build a new business

Who has time to manage a bigger, more diversified farm? The Boldts found how to say, “We do!”

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Reading Time: 11 minutes When Melanie Boldt pivoted her business from a grain farm to the first vertically integrated meat producer and market in Saskatchewan, she took a “just do it” approach and leaned into the challenge to change, diversify and expand her family farm. That was 26 years ago, and looking back, Boldt says she’s not sure she […] Read more
Rosemary Wotske, owner of Poplar Bluff Organics, has a longtime partnership with local farmer, Cam Beard, that has been mutually beneficial to both.
Features, Fruit/Vegetables

‘Partner up’ to help diversify your farm

Rosemary Wotske and Cam Beard need new rules. Do you?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Farm partnerships are taking a new direction today. Of course there are still traditional arrangements — formal or informal — between farmers, like those that share the cost of equipment, and there are contractual arrangements, too, like those between a crop processor and a farmer delivering specific specs. More and more, though, farmers are partnering […] Read more
Many farming operations are run through one or more corporations, which adds additional layers of complexity for transferring the underlying assets.
Features, Succession strategy

Legal considerations when transferring farm assets

Every farming operation is different and poses its unique challenges and considerations

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The transferring of the land, buildings, equipment and quota that make up the farming operation can be thought of as the “meat and potatoes” of transition planning. Typically, once a plan has been developed for succession, there are assets that need to be transferred from one generation to the next. This can take the form […] Read more

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