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BIG IDEA Taking Ownership

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Reading Time: 6 minutes We all love technology. From the shiniest new tablet computer to the genes that power your crops, we’re all benefiting every day. Of course, the companies that develop these technologies say they deserve to benefit too. They say that intellectual property rights — from patents and trademarks to plant breeders rights — are crucial to […] Read more
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Bump Up Asset Values – for May. 31, 2011

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Reading Time: 2 minutes This year Canadian accountants will move to the international financial reporting standards (IFRS) for public companies. Meanwhile, private companies can choose one of two options IFRS or Accounting Standards for Private Enterprise (ASPE). The acronyms seem bureaucratic, but the impact for farmers can be real. About two million private businesses operate in Canada, and although […] Read more
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Succession: How Do We Start?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes I was 22 and I had somehow scraped up enough courage to ask my parents about the possibility of succession. It’s a moment carved in my memory. There I was sitting in the kitchen of the farmhouse with my soon-to-be husband, my Dad and our provincial ag rep. The ag rep asked what we wanted […] Read more
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Fair Treatment

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Reading Time: 6 minutes ith land values climbing across the country, farming children can no longer expect to inherit all their parents’ farmland. Nonfarming siblings will almost certainly be in line for at least part of the farm. The dollars are just too big to give them all to only one of the children. The question is: Does that […] Read more
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A Brand New Game

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Back in the 1960s and ’70s, Massey Ferguson’s higher-horsepower tractor production was centred in the Detroit area. The facility there churned out a lot of machines. But then came the dark days of the late 1980s. A perfect storm of low farm commodity prices, high interest rates, declining farm machinery sales, and a variety of […] Read more
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The Final Frontier

Reading Time: 5 minutes While Canada’s farmers rub their hands dreaming about all those potential sales of beef and pork to Asia’s booming middle class, farm equipment makers are positively drooling at the prospect of selling tractors to Chinese and Indian farmers. It turns out the economic power of many farmers in those countries is growing at least as […] Read more
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Tough Call

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Reading Time: 6 minutes If they think of it at all, many Canadian farmers think of custom combining as something for Americans. North of the border, the conventional wisdom is, you can’t rely on custom. Time’s too short during harvest. You need to own your own machine so you can use it whenever you need it. But there are years […] Read more
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Bump Up Asset Values

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Reading Time: 2 minutes This year Canadian accountants will move to the international financial reporting standards (IFRS) for public companies. Meanwhile, private companies can choose one of two options — IFRS or Accounting Standards for Private Enterprise (ASPE). The acronyms seem bureaucratic, but the impact for farmers can be real. About two million private businesses operate in Canada, and […] Read more
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Basis For Change

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In these volatile times, cost control is essential. Unfortunately, there’s a whole category of costs that are hard for growers to manage. They’re post-harvest costs, including elevation, freight, inspection fees, storage costs, and other grain-handling fees, and on most grain sales, they’re virtually invisible. Instead, they’re blended into just one catch-all — the basis — […] Read more
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Fuel Fight

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The high-price executives at the big companies don’t always read the public mood very accurately. So inevitably, their million-dollar ad campaigns can go splat, despite all the big promises that they’ll win market share. It’s happened before. Ford’s gambit to become the safety leader with its cars in the 1950s is a case that comes […] Read more

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