Reading Time: 5 minutes If you are a North American with celiac disease, you’ve heard of and likely depend on Kinnikinnick Foods, North America s largest producer of gluten-free foods. Kinnikinnick supplies products to 10,000 stores and hundreds of restaurants across North America, and is currently expanding into multiple overseas markets. It s hard to believe that Kinnikinnick started […] Read more
Build A Better Cookie
Breaking Through
Reading Time: 4 minutes Dan Doner s eyebrows jump when I mention May, 2003. Eight years later, the reaction is still there, and it s still easy to understand why. That May, a Canadian animal first tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), taking control of Doner s business life just as it did for thousands of other livestock […] Read more
Pull The Trigger
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you feel that marketing is getting tougher all the time, you aren t alone. Volatility in grain and oilseed pricing has increased dramatically, so it s no wonder farmers are having an even harder time pulling the trigger. The more volatile the markets, the more paralyzed with fear farmers become, says Scott Irwin, chair […] Read more
Today Is Already History
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the heart of the U.S. farm belt, Michael Boehlje looks around him and knows that what he sees is fast disappearing. The future is almost here. What will the future look like? More important, how can you build for success in that brave new world… or decide if you should just get out of […] Read more
Can We Get There From Here?
Reading Time: 9 minutes If all the Canadian Wheat board did was sell wheat, it would be so much easier to figure out where you go from here. Not that it would be easy even then, of course. the board’s marketing clout has been felt across Canada and around the world, making it arguably the single most powerful institution […] Read more
Fix ’Er Up
Reading Time: 6 minutes There’s a whole lot of impatience going around. With strong commodity markets, no one wants to wait for yield. We want it now. So it’s little wonder all the good-quality, high-efficiency farms seem to get snapped up before they even hit the market. So, which is your smarter strategy — to sit on the sidelines, […] Read more
Something About The Weather
Reading Time: 7 minutes “Upon closer inspection, recent temperature trends strongly suggest that Saskatchewan is not getting much hotter, but rather ‘less cold’: there has been a larger increase in daily minimum temperatures (as opposed to maximum) and the largest warming has occurred during winter and early spring, resulting in a longer frost-free period and more growing degree days.” […] Read more
Going For The Dream
Reading Time: 5 minutes Yvonnick Jambon knows the danger point. You start with an iconoclastic new kid on the block like Nufarm. It’s highly entrepreneurial, it grows fast, and it generates an enormous amount of its energy out of its biggest asset — the fact that it isn’t the other guys. At first, growth looks sweet. But then comes […] Read more
The Competitiveness Fallacy
Reading Time: 6 minutes If only it was true. According to today’s competition mantra, as long as we’re more efficient, productive and low cost than anyone else, the future is ours, both as individual farmers and as Canadian agriculture as a whole. Instead, it’s becoming clearer that getting competitive isn’t enough. For most of us, in fact, it won’t […] Read more
More Horses
Reading Time: 5 minutes It was the shot that re-ignited the horespower war. Back in 2005, Winnipeg-based Versatile launched its HHT line with a flagship tractor boasting an unheard of 535 horsepower. That gave it 35 more horses than either John Deere’s 9620 or Case IH’s STX500, which were among the leaders until then. But it was hardly the […] Read more
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