Features
The slow evolution toward real-time variable rate fertilizer
Variable rate fertilizer to apply the best rate for each acre has merit, but the cost and the hassle to make it work does not appeal to many farmers. The return does not seem to justify the work required. Can we change that with a real-time on-the-go system?
Sharing your farm’s story with the next generation
Share your farm’s history and stories about your own early years to give succession a boost
Setting up your retirement goals
Decisions to make in your 40s, 50s and 60s
How to get started on your farm succession plan
Travelling for the sake of your farm
For soon-to-be farmers, a gap year of ag-focused travel — and the insights they get from it — can make for a great start
Finding the right peer group for you
The right peer group can be a great way to gain insight into your business numbers and your management options. But where do you find that ‘right’ group?
Building a farm succession plan for the whole family
Today there’s more opportunity than ever to write or tweak a succession plan to drive the success of your entire family. But there’s still a lot of opportunity for it to go off the rails too
How the farm succession landscape is changing
Eighty per cent of Annessa Good-Hassard’s clients come to her today wanting to gift or leave their farmland to non-farming children. And that may not be the biggest change in the new succession planning
Farm succession fundamentals
Despite all the social media and all the press stories, when it comes to succession, you’re still in the driver’s seat
How selling local works for these farmers
For smaller farms, local can seem the only option. Now, a decade of real world experience from farmers like Troy Stozek and Michelle Schram points to a better way to do it