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Reg Steward works with farmers and ranchers to help business owners build safety into their everyday processes.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Smarter training

[Change Management] Even the best employees are only as good as they know how

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Training new and existing employees about the ever-changing tasks on the farm is essential if you hope to build and maintain a great farm team. But how much should you invest in training? Are you already there, or could your farm make big strides in its efficiency if you stepped up your training initiatives? Such […] Read more
‘By creating spaces where individuals feel supported in both their work and their personal lives, employees are more inclined to stay working at the farm rather than accepting a better offer.’
Features, Guide HR

Summer Series: Bringing DEI to the farm

[Change Management] Building diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives into your farm pays off. Here are five tips for getting it right

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Farm leaders know that in a tight labour market, policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) will help them attract and retain the best talent. Those not making headway on these critical issues will be left behind. That, by the way, is from a business prof, not a sociologist, and in addition to his […] Read more
“If you learn how to manage money and people and time, then you can manage any business.” – Kristjan Hebert.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Your next decision

[Change Management] Can you take the same path as Kristjan Hebert? Should you even try?

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Agriculture already has so many buzz phrases meant to show you’re smart. There’s “Do more with less,” there’s “Work on the business, not in it,” and, of course, there’s “What got you here today won’t get you to where you want to go tomorrow.” It isn’t that they’re wrong. It’s that they’re too much like […] Read more
Summer Series: Podcast with Graham Snyder
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Summer Series: Podcast with Graham Snyder

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Reading Time: < 1 minute “It’s not a job it’s a life” In our latest episode from our Country Guide we speak with Graham Snyder on what hard work means to him and how he farms as a family. Graham Snyder has been working on farms his whole life. From cash crop farming to tillage and combining the Snyder family […] Read more
This was no overnight success,” Greg says. “It took us 15 years to get here.” It also took he and Cheryl learning how to combine their skills to set and achieve their goals.
Features, Guide Business

Summer Series: Pivot, and then pivot some more

[Change Management] Why would this family abandon mainline commodities, and then dig in even deeper

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Reading Time: 11 minutes Just making one of these moves would be a huge step for any farm, let alone both of them. First, the Haskett family switched their farm from hogs to goats. Then, years later, they pivoted their market strategy too, launching their own new brand. In this article, we dive deep into how the family made […] Read more
"We know we don’t have to get it perfect, we just need to move forward." – Karri Munn-Venn.
Features, Guide Business

Summer Series: What are they thinking?

[Change Management] Like the Munn-Venns, those new small-acreage farmers down your road may have a surprisingly sophisticated approach to decision-making

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Reading Time: 11 minutes This isn’t a typical Country Guide scenario. Three years ago, Karri and Trefor Munn-Venn saw a 25-acre vineyard in Quebec’s picturesque Outaouais region and they bought it lock, stock and barrel — despite having zero farming experience. For established farmers, it could look as if the Munn-Venns had turned their backs on sensible decision-making the […] Read more
Preparing a business plan for your farm
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Preparing a business plan for your farm

Whether the change you’re looking at is big or small, the experts insist a business plan will make it more successful

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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 what you’re capable of achieving? And, most importantly, how do you decide which changes […] Read more
“No one is shy about bringing ideas to the table,” says Jolene. “For our family, that is a big positive.”
Features, Marketing

Summer Series: Their new family plan

[Change Management] With their direct-to-consumer venture, this farm is welcoming the next generation back home

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Reading Time: 6 minutes For Nora Paulovich, as for farmers all across Canada, farm success means two big things. It means nurturing the land, and nurturing the family too, building and preserving the farm for future generations. And as on other farms, Paulovich and husband Bob Noble’s adult children see their parents’ dedication and it inspires them. They want […] Read more
“We are fortunate to have some good people around us.” – Michael Carter.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Long-distance farming

[Change Management] For Michael Carter, when a family can make the right changes at home, their odds of success with expanding across provincial borders and hundreds of kms away go up and up

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Reading Time: 9 minutes The idea sounds right for the times. If you can’t expand at home, either because land is so expensive or because there just isn’t any for sale, look further afield. Maybe two hours away, maybe four, maybe even in a different province and so far away you basically have to set up a whole new […] Read more
Organic farming was a relatively low-cost way for the Hoffords to get on their feet in the beginning stages, and they also saw it as a lower-risk enterprise.
Crops, Features, Guide Business

Summer Series: Manitoba couple reinvents their farm

[Change Management] What does it take to survive when you run into a production problem so serious it threatens your whole farm? The Hoffords were about to find out

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Reading Time: 11 minutes At first, going organic seemed the perfect choice for Ryan and Amy Hofford, a young couple intent on taking over the family farm after the early passing of Ryan’s father. Organic had everything going for it. The young couple could cash-flow its low-input approach, they’d excel at its hands-on marketing and they’d be on a […] Read more

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