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Reading Time: 6 minutes CG:Why are we seeing so much new technology hit the market all at once? Jim Walker:I can only answer from our standpoint, but five years ago the company made a conscious decision to do two things. First and foremost was to assure top reliability in our existing products in the marketplace. Then, second was to […] Read more
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“The Best Family Farms”

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Reading Time: 5 minutes All too often, a farm s success is measured exclusively in economic terms. It s a job we know how to do. Net income, net worth, debt to equity, return to investment, and profitability are great tools to use to determine the financial health of the business. Yet we know that success is defined by […] Read more
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The View From Inside

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Farm Steward Viking Hutterite Colony Viking, Alta. There are approximately 31,000 Hutterites in Canada, living on 340 colonies. Each colony has approximately 18 families working together to farm an average of 8,800 acres, or about 490 acres per family. That is not enough acres per family (farm) to be sustainable with today s machinery. On […] Read more
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Canadians In Russia

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Cliff Suntjens enjoys telling the story. One swelteringly hot day, I was out soil testing with Valery, a Russian agrologist, and our driver, Suntjens tells me. We d been out for hours and were all tired and sweaty when Valery suggested a swim. He directed our driver to cut across country to a large reservoir […] Read more
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Cutting Edge

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Reading Time: 8 minutes In September 2008, Mark Torchia found himself in an operating theatre at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, holding his breath. The Winnipeg-based professor, researcher and medical device specialist was about to see the result of several years of hard work by himself and a team with members from the St. Boniface General Hospital, the University of […] Read more
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Young & In Motion

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Melanie Sommers tears around the corner of her family s free-stall barn, jumps out of the tractor cab and pokes a hand out of her coveralls for a handshake. She s been cutting some fourth cut hay and is rushing to get it done before the fall rain sets in. The pressure is on, but […] Read more
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Four Steps For Managing Your Interest Rate Risks

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Reading Time: 3 minutes As a banker, farmers often ask me, Where are interest rates headed? Increasingly, they are also asking an important second question: What can I do to manage the risks to my operation from interest rate movements? The simple response to where interest rates are going is: They will change. While that is not as concrete […] Read more
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Better Than Gold

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Farmland values are up again across the country, and with strong commodity prices, land prices seem sure to post sizeble gains well into the future. For farmers coming off two decades of tight margins, the strength in the land market is not only helping them sleep at night, it s actually giving them fun options […] Read more
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Reality Check

Reading Time: 4 minutes NOVA SCOTIA Stephen North, farm appraiser in New Minas, N.S. has observed land values in his area increasing from six to eight per cent per year generally, although this rate has slowed recently. Prices tend to be flat for a period then increase rapidly and then flatten out again, rather than rising in a linear […] Read more
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TOO INVESTED

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Reading Time: 8 minutes For years, if you saw the word agriculture in the GLOBE AND MAIL s Report on Business, you could be sure the next word would be crisis, disaster or bailout. But now the story is different. In fact, it could hardly be more different, with ag today being paired with boom, profit and growth. Overnight, […] Read more

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