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Kelly Dobson has coached farmers since 2017 through his company, LeaderShift, and through the National Farm Leadership Program. He’s also a farmer on a fourth-generation farm at Fairfax, Manitoba.
Features, Management

Is it time to get a farm management coach?

[The Rent Shake-Up: Leadership] If you've considered this question, Kelly Dobson says, “Congratulations, you’ve self-identified as a leader.”

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s say that you have a good sense of what success would look like for you and you’re pretty sure you’re made of the stuff it will take to achieve it, but it’s just not happening. Could a coach help? Kelly Dobson describes himself as a “professional capital ‘C’ Coach with a graduate degree.” Coaching, […] Read more
Share of rented land increasing
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Share of rented land increasing

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Between the 1975 Census of Agriculture and the most recent, 2021, Census, the share of rented farmland has increased from 30 to 39 percent across Canada. This percentage comes from Census numbers, as the share of “area rented or leased” compared to the total of the “area rented or leased” plus the “area owned.” A […] Read more
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
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The mentorship option

[Leadership] How to know if it’s some great one-on-one insight from someone who has already been there that will help your farm the most

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Reading Time: 7 minutes All kinds of professionals offer farmers advice. Think of accountants, agronomists, bankers, business planners, fitness coaches, marketing experts, soil scientists, succession planners, vets. It can be overwhelming. Even so, when you need someone to help you pull all the pieces of your business and personal life into one big picture, you might be looking for […] Read more
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So, you want to be a mentor?

Here are a few organizations to consider

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Cattle Young Leaders program More than 180 mentor/mentee pairs have completed the Canadian Cattle Association’s annual Canadian Cattle Young Leaders (CYL) program since 2010, including Brenda Schoepp and Jeff Braisher. That’s an impressive track record. Jessica Radau was an ag journalist and a mentee in the Canadian CYL program in 2018. Now she looks after […] Read more
“You have to work together to get a lot of jobs done. You’re going to be there for 12 hours working beside somebody... There’s nothing that makes the job worse than working with a person who doesn’t want to be there.” – Taylor Schmitt.
Features, Guide HR

Next gen talent scouting in agriculture

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Taylor Schmitt, son of company founder Barry, is operations and business manager at Barr-Ag and is in charge of Middle East and domestic sales as well as domestic logistics. Yet it is on the HR side where Taylor has really come into his own. Over the last seven years, Taylor has interviewed 250-plus candidates and […] Read more
Features, Marketing

Right for your farm too?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes As more farms like Jackknife Creek Cattle & Land find success with their direct-to-consumer ventures, many experts believe it’s a good time for others to do the same. Food veteran Jo-Ann McArthur says Canada is ready and waiting. “Is it a good time? Absolutely,” she says. McArthur, president of Toronto-based Nourish Food Marketing, says now […] Read more
Farmer Coach: Reflections on year one
Features, Management

Farmer Coach: Reflections on year one

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Reading Time: 2 minutes When Ryley Richards learned out about Farmer Coach, he signed up. So far, he says, it looks like a good choice. The 41-year-old manages his family farm an hour south of Regina along with father Rod and three full-time crew members, plus a few additional hands at busy times. Over the years, the farm has […] Read more
“There’s legitimate concern around institutional ownership. There are some opportunities within institutional land ownership such as farmers building rental land operations but ultimately there is no ownership in those models, and ownership is control. Farmers need to own the land.”
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Who owns the land?

Farms are consolidating, and non-farmers are getting aggressive

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It isn’t always easy to get a clear picture of how the pattern of farmland ownership is changing across Canada, particularly in the Prairie provinces. In Alberta, land titles data is expensive to purchase and in Manitoba, the provincial government has to give permission for access, even for research purposes, and that can take several […] Read more
For the Van Breugels, the Canadian bonus is clear: farmers here are valued.
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Choosing Canada

For these new immigrants, there’s no going back. Their future is here

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It isn’t just the government red tape and the inevitable mountain of paperwork that comes with it that has driven some European farmers to Canada. It’s also the public’s negative perception of farmers and how it is fueling a lot of the regulations, especially around manure management, fertilizer use and animal welfare. “There is no […] Read more
Han Brink’s advice to other Dutch farmers? Buy what you can in Canada.
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The immigrant farm

Is another wave of foreign farmers headed for Canada?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes [UPDATED: Nov. 21, 2023] Even into the early 2000s, Canadian real estate agents were doing impressive business flying cash-rich and expansion-minded European farmers west across the Atlantic to buy turnkey farms here at prices far cheaper than they could ever find at home. That was then. Today, the flow has slowed to a trickle, not […] Read more

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