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As a farm owner it’s not only your personal resilience that matters during times of challenge and change, you also need to consider the resiliency of your business.
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A ‘real’ solution for managing change

Resilient people don’t let their imaginations run away with them. They train themselves to see their problems as challenges, not worries, and they get real about fixing them

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Change and challenge affect everyone differently. Even so, research by the American Psychological Association shows we can get better at handling life-changing and stressful situations over time. We can acquire coping skills, a.k.a. resilience. As farmers, we’ve experienced repeated setbacks and we’ve been able to explore our resilience boundaries over the last few years (COVID-19, […] Read more
Shawn Moen at McLaren Vintners, a large-scale winemaking facility specializing in professional custom and contract production. McLaren Vale, South Australia.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Business connections

[Change Management] Planning a new venture? Keep close to other innovative and entrepreneurial minds

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Of course farmers are proudly independent, and of course there are huge advantages in fixing your own problems and setting your own direction. But if diversification might be on your agenda, or if you’re dreaming of launching an innovative new business, there can be big costs too. Today, there’s even more proof that mixing with […] Read more
Shane Conway, researcher in the Rural Studies Centre at the University of Galway.
Features, Succession strategy

Summer Series: You forgot who?

[Change Management] When Mom and Dad feel they’re being pushed out of the way, all sorts of bad things happen

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The Irish government thought it was such a great idea. The year was 2007, and in Ireland, as in the Canada of that time, few farms were setting up formal transition or succession plans. The Irish government had also begun asking itself what would happen when age or ill health finally pushes all those farmers […] Read more
Research shows exercise and a healthy diet are important factors for both longevity and quality of life.
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Summer Series: Make retirement your best years

[Change Management] Live more, spend more. Don’t abandon the habits of lifetime, but be generous to yourselves

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Reading Time: 4 minutes With recent increases in land prices, farmers exiting agriculture will realize an influx of cash. But after a lifetime of saving for lean years and re-investing profits back into the farm, some retiring farmers will have difficulty increasing their spending accordingly. Retirement professionals have a name for this phenomenon. When actual spending is less than […] Read more
No matter how long the farming parents have been married, they can set an example for the next generation by signing their own agreement.
Features

Summer Series: What is a cohabitation agreement?

[Change Management] Better ideas on prenups that will protect the farm from broken relationships

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Although most of us know them as prenuptial, “prenup” or interspousal agreements, the legal term most often used in Canada is a cohabitation agreement. Within the Canadian legal system, a cohabitation agreement is used to describe a written contract between two people entering a common-law relationship or marriage. Other jurisdictions may use other terms, but […] Read more
Maintaining a rolling cash-flow forecast can give you piece of mind over your cash position.
Features, Guide Business

Summer Series: Assessing your farm’s financial horsepower

[Change Management] It’s going to pay to keep your financials in order in 2024, and beyond

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Every year, we go through harvest with our grain. Then there comes a harvest season of a different sort — the bookkeeping and the accounting that needs to get caught up to “close the books.” Unfortunately, some accountants can get backed up like grain terminals in winter. Farm files trickle in until eventually the accountant’s […] Read more
Australia’s XAG promotes on-farm drones, confidently calling the machines the “agrifuture”.
Equipment, Features

Summer Series: Drone spraying

[Change Management] Farmers really don’t care who is to blame for the delays. They just want the regulations changed yesterday so they can spray tomorrow

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Reading Time: 8 minutes The off-label application of pesticides in Canada is going to increase exponentially over the next few years. This is what I believe and expect, and I expect too that it will pit farmers, government regulators, pesticide companies, equipment manufacturers and environmentalists against one another. In fact, the blame game has already started. At issue is […] Read more
An expanding range of retrofit products offers producers the opportunity to upgrade older equipment and get some of the latest digital features without paying the cost of a new machine.
Features, Machinery

Summer Series: Old machines,new technology

[Change Management] Can retrofit kits mean it’s cheaper and smarter to say no to trading in?

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Reading Time: 7 minutes One of my first jobs was working as a mechanic’s helper at a farm equipment dealership in the late 1970s. Among my duties was using an F-250 Ford pickup and gooseneck deck trailer to pick up and deliver equipment. I even recall delivering a combine on that unit. Granted, it was a smaller, older machine […] Read more
Summer Series: Podcast with Cody Snyder
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Summer Series: Podcast with Cody Snyder

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Cody Snyder is a seasoned traveler who found his way back to the family farm. In this episode, Cody tells us how travelling the world has changed his outlook on business and his career. Listen in at country-guide.ca. If you missed our last episode where we featured Cody’s dad, Graham, you can catch up on […] Read more
“Seeking help to sort through thoughts and feelings and taking positive steps is nothing to be ashamed of. Make that the norm.” – Beverly Beuermann-King.
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Summer Series: Stress in a volatile world

[Change Management] When the world spins so erratically, can you stop yourself spinning too?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes “There is nothing left in the tank,” says Beverly Beuermann-King. She sees it regularly. “People get tapped out … One more thing can throw them over the edge.” The phenomenon is what Beuermann-King works on as a resiliency and stress expert, and even if that sounds like a trendy new specialism it has actually been […] Read more

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