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To help insulate a farm business in unpredictable times it needs internal strength, but what does that look like?
Features, Guide Business

Summer Series: How fit is your farm business?

[Best Advice] Financial fluency helps the farm prepare for anything

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Financial fluency can help your farm prepare for anything. To protect your business in unpredictable times it needs internal strength, but what does that look like? Here’s how to understand the dynamics of your business and to find out if it’s fit enough to handle risk.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor A growing number of […] Read more
Too few farmers have succession plans, even among high performers, says one chartered professional accountant.
Features, Management, Succession strategy

Summer Series: Do sweat the details

[Best Advice] Accounting advice to get more competitive

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Reading Time: 5 minutes When it comes to farm accounting, it’s increasingly about the details and it’s the farmers who notice them who come out on top. Here are the top four tips to get more competitive.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor Blair Sanderson sees it time and again. “The difference between a good producer and a great one,” […] Read more
A joint venture can be a great way to test a business relationship.
Features, Guide Business

Summer Series: What is a joint venture?

[Best Advice] Practice becoming increasingly useful for getting the next generation started

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A joint venture can be a great way to test a business relationship. It can also be a way to help the next generation get started. Follow this best advice for setting up and running a successful joint venture.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor Corporations, partnerships and joint ventures are the three most common business […] Read more
Grandson Curtis Lappage joins Robert and Betty Green in a farm family meeting. A major focus is to build a framework so young members develop leadership.
Features, Management

How to prepare for business meetings

Getting serious about family meetings is helping this farm score current and future gains

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Reading Time: 6 minutes During family farm meetings it’s important for everyone to take off their family hat and address each other in a professional manner. Follow these tried-and-true tips and tricks for successful family business meetings. – April Stewart, CG Associate Editor At one of their first business meetings on their farm, Betty Green served coffee and cake […] Read more
April Stewart, Country Guide Associate Editor.
Features

What’s your ‘best advice’ for the farm?

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Reading Time: < 1 minute The theme of our Summer Series for May is best advice – and what a pair of loaded words! Because what seems like “good” advice to one person might feel outdated or unapplicable to another. And advice taken in good faith from someone you respect and admire might not turn out as you had hoped.  […] Read more
Farm family coach Elaine Froese says identifying values is a crucial exercise for young farmers and she encourages them to think about how to explain these to the older generation.
Features, Succession strategy

Summer Series: Top transition tips for young farmers

[Best Advice] How the next generation can help farm transition be successful

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Reading Time: 3 minutes How can the incoming generation help farm transition be successful? Follow these top transition tips below!– April Stewart, Associate Editor Glacier FarmMedia – Transitioning management and ownership of a farm business from one generation to the next can present many challenges. While there are numerous resources to support farm founders in assessing their business and […] Read more
In 2026, experts warn that increasing farm automation is creating a "new front line" for cybercriminals, leaving unprotected herds and data at risk.
Features, Guide Business

Summer Series: A practical guide to writing your farm business plan

[Best Advice] This eight-point plan can help put you on the right path

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Farm business planning is always a popular topic of discussion among advisors and management gurus. But statistics still show a slow uptake by farmers. Those using a written business plan, however, are reaping the benefits. Follow the eight steps below to get started.– April Stewart, Associate Editor. If you’re an avid Country Guide reader, you […] Read more
Deep listening is harder than many of us think, says a mediator and farm family coach.
Features

Summer Series: It Pays to Listen Better

[Best Advice] Know somebody who’s missing out on great advice because they don’t hear what they’re told? Could it be you?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Being a good listener is harder than it sounds. And some of the ways we respond to others prevent us from being present and truly connecting with them. Active listening is a high-value risk management tool, partly because listening is such a big part of conflict resolution. The good news? With practice, you can learn […] Read more
Associate editor April Stewart and a pair of her furry pals.
Features

Welcome to our Summer Series!

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Are you headed to the field? So are we! Country Guide is all digital, all summer.  We’ve got stories from farmers across the country who share their insights about how to meet the challenges and opportunities of today’s agriculture industry.  We’ve got advice from Canada’s top ag experts on topics to grow your business.  We’ll […] Read more
Mike Sharman: “Don’t give up.” Persistence is a winner.
Features, Fruit/Vegetables, Guide Business

Advice for Young Farmers

If there was one piece of advice you wish somebody had given you (and that you had listened to) when you were just starting out on the farm, what would that be?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Once they’ve been in the biz for a few years, some farmers wish they hadn’t followed certain advice. Others wish they had. And others are happy with what they’ve accomplished based on advice they’d still follow if they had to do it all again. Here, a few farmers share what they’ve learned and offer their […] Read more

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