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From left: Jean-Charles Chapais, Thomas Crerar, Harry Hays.
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Farmers who made our country

As sesquicentennial celebrations get underway, here are three farmers you may not have heard of, but will want to remember

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Reading Time: 7 minutes As Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2017, we’ll hear a lot about how the fisheries of the Grand Banks and the forests and the lucrative fur trade of the interior helped build our nation. We’ll hear less about the unique contribution farming has made to this country, but farmers have played an oversized role […] Read more
Sonia and Gordon Decker
Features, Guide Business

It’s two careers

For Gordon and Sonia Decker, the key to success is to make their roles on the farm into rich, rewarding careers

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Farming demands great decision making. Solid takes on agronomy, machinery, commodity markets and finance are just the price of admission these days. To thrive, farmers must deploy all that knowledge both for long-term goal-setting and also to make countless moment-by-moment decisions in the field and in the office, often under enormous pressure. They must also […] Read more
Craig Wismer, Glen Elgin Vineyard Management.
Crops, Features

Outlook for a Niagara vineyard

With high-tech advisers like Craig Wismer, it turns out farmers and cityfolk can learn to live side by side after all

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Craig Wismer hops out of his pickup at one of the 30 or so vineyards he manages in the Niagara Peninsula. Below him, rows of grape vines fill Niagara’s Vineland, serving up a panoramic view with a gleaming Lake Ontario. Niagara Falls and its river are on the eastern horizon, in the west are Hamilton’s […] Read more
pig barn
Features, Hogs

Ending the moratorium on new hog barns?

Manitoba’s 10-year old ban on new barns means almost half of the province’s pigs still get finished in the U.S.

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Reading Time: 2 minutes People aren’t the only thing Manitoba needs more of. A shortage of slaughter pigs continues to be a nagging problem. Maple Leaf’s Brandon facility struggles to keep a second shift operating at capacity, searching for additional hogs to process, while HyLife has gone outside the province to keep its Neepawa plant at capacity. “We are […] Read more
Ryan Kasko of Kasko Cattle Company.
Beef Cattle, Features

The business of beef in Canada

There’s no such thing as commodity beef anymore, says Alberta feedlot producer Ryan Kasko. It’s an attitude that is transforming the heart of Canada’s beef country

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Reading Time: 13 minutes Canada’s beef industry seems like it’s built on a contradiction. It’s a sector living right on the edge of the future. Every aspect of production is undergoing change. New technology is revolutionizing how herds are raised and managed, and new consumer preferences are raising the bar in their own way too, perhaps faster in beef […] Read more
Farm election 2015
Features, Guide Business

Farm election 2015

Guide Election: Country Guide puts questions to the main political parties for the federal election

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Reading Time: 16 minutes Agriculture has been largely ignored in Election 2015. That is not to say there are not some very important issues facing farmers. However many producers are more concerned with bringing in their crops than worrying about the agricultural policies of the various parties. So I asked each of the political parties 9 questions about their […] Read more
two men leaning on a wooden fence
Features, Succession strategy

Inheriting the family farm as a gift

Succession in Agriculture: High land prices are driving innovation in how to distribute your land

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Farming without some startup help from your family can definitely mean an uphill climb. But getting the gift of a farm inheritance isn’t always such a blessing either. Many farmers will tell you it would have been impossible for them to get started in the business if it hadn’t been for a “hometown discount” from […] Read more
Situations may arise where an employee has not done anything to merit being fired, but the relationship simply no longer works.
Features

Abiding by the rules if you need to fire an employee

Guide Legal: It's best to understand not only the law, but its principles

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The best “strategic business thinking” requires not only knowing the law, but also understanding the policies behind it. Many readers will have had to terminate an employee. In this article, I discuss the principles behind the rules for termination “without cause,” that is, where an employee has not done anything that merits being fired, but […] Read more
Catch-22: The all-out race to grow more high-price corn has damaged Iowa’s soils, making its farms more vulnerable to drought and yield loss
Corn, Crops, Features

Sustainability special: Saving Iowa

Stronger commodity prices are threatening many soils. But not on every farm

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The topsoil of one of America’s largest agricultural-producing states is vanishing at an alarming rate, with wind and water erosion directly linked to the cropping practices and to the fencerow-to-fencerow philosophy that farmers have turned to in order to cash in on high prices for corn, soybeans and other crops. Around Iowa’s western and southern […] Read more

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