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Jamie Anne Vaughan, owner of Westwood Strategies.
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The story behind the story

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Country Guide was surprised to learn that the Lindgrens had hired a PR agent. Sure, everyone wants to make a good impression on social media, but most of us aren’t willing to pay for it. But then I learned how and why the Lindgrens had started retailing seed and crop protection products, it all made […] Read more
Felippe Karp is a a PhD candidate from McGill University doing fieldwork at Olds College of Agriculture & Technology. Through a McGill, Telus and Olds College joint project, Karp is studying how to bring together multiple layers of farm data to support agricultural decision making.
Equipment, Features

AI for data analysis

[AI for the Farm] Farms are building giant heaps of data. Somewhere in them is something valuable, call it a star of hope. But how do you pick out the useful stuff? It looks like artificial intelligence will help

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Your conversation starts with a text on your device: FARMER: “Farmbot, please make me a prescription map.” BOT REPLIES TO FARMER VIA TEXT: Would you like to do variable rate seeding on field 10?FARMER: Seed costs are higher, so yes.BOT: Would you like me to produce a rate map for you?FARMER: Yes.The Bot provides the map […] Read more
Country Guide Podcast: Olivia Riddoch
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Country Guide Podcast: Olivia Riddoch

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Reading Time: < 1 minute In Episode 2 of our Better Advice series, Country Guide spoke with Olivia Riddoch of Fairwind Farms, where she shared the career change that brought her back to the family farm and how she’s now managing crop protection on over 4000 acres. Tune in at country-guide.ca or subscribe on Apple or Google.
Country Guide Podcast: Mark Lumley
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Country Guide Podcast: Mark Lumley

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Reading Time: < 1 minute In the first episode of our NEW Better Advice podcast series, Country Guide sat down with Mark Lumley of Fairwind Farms to chat about the evolution of his family farm and how he keeps on when it isn’t always easy. Tune in at country-guide.ca or subscribe on Apple or Google.
“What we will be in three, four, five years will be unrecognizable,” says APH’s Nelson Gibson.
Features, Guide Business

If you really want it

Can Canada’s farmers launch better business ventures by following Nelson Gibson’s lead at APH?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Two minutes into the conversation, you begin to see the parallels between Nelson Gibson’s job and the job that more Canadian farmers see ahead for themselves. On the farm, that job is ahead partly because of how the land market is curtailing farm expansion plans, and partly too because of the new levels of equity […] Read more
Ryan Hofford grows conventional wheat, pulse crops and canola with his wife Amy and their children Aubree, 11, and Ronan, 7.
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Never stop asking questions

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Since Ryan Hofford started converting his organic grain farm north of Swan River, Manitoba, to a conventional operation in 2021, he’s made dramatic changes to the way he farms. Along the way, he’s needed a lot of information and advice.  There are lots of workshops and websites helping farmers convert the other way — from […] Read more
Steven Snider.
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Farm advice for his ‘younger self’

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Steven Snider was Alberta’s Outstanding Young Farmer in 2003. Twenty years later, he’s still running a successful farm near New Norway, Alberta, growing organic heritage grains and organic pulse crops for the organic milling and food processing industries. He also runs Little Red Hen Mills. Looking back over his career, we asked Steven Snider what […] Read more
Stephen Vajdik and Adam Gurr run an Agrifac sprayer, made in the Netherlands, mounted with a Bilberry optical system. The sprayer has industry-leading features they wanted, including a recirculating boom, individually controlled nozzles and stable suspension.
Equipment, Features

How optical sprayers do a whole lot more

[Better Advice] Optical spraying systems can pay off if used only for pre-seed burnoffs, but with a little pushing of boundaries, these farmers are finding they can also use the technology to target fungicides and pre-harvest desiccants

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Early adopters are buying optical spraying systems to greatly reduce the amount of herbicide required for pre-season burnoff of weeds. This alone is often enough to justify the cost for larger farms that cover thousands of acres per year. But pre-seed burnoff — seeing green weeds on brown ground and spraying them — is just […] Read more
“The next person is going to be different than who I am,” David Hansen says, who is convinced this is a good thing. “It wouldn’t make any sense to hire another me.”
Features, Management

Planning the pullback

[Better Advice] Learning from David Hansen’s graceful exit from Canterra Seeds

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Note: On October 2, 2023, Canterra Seeds appointed Brent Derkatch as its new president and CEO. Derkatch has been working with Canterra since 2001, most recently as the director of the pedigreed seed business unit. When a key employee leaves your farm operation, how much notice is best? If they leave too abruptly, you might […] Read more
The constant input of farmers has been key to the program, which recently finished its third cohort of attendees.
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Training fills the gaps between agriculture and technology

Program aims to match tech specialists with farmers and industry employers

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Say there’s trouble with the automated GIS and mapping features on the tractor, but you can’t find a tech with enough knowledge to offer help. It’s a simple example of the kind of employment gaps that keep farmers up at night, and that prevent their adoption of new technology, said the manager of an […] Read more

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