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Organic Divide

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Reading Time: 13 minutes Three years ago, organic grain farmers could have been forgiven for thinking they’d found nirvana. They were the darlings of an ever-growing environmental movement. They were swooned over by consumers eager for safe and healthy food. And they were getting paid up to three times more than conventional. With wheat at $25 and $30 per […] Read more
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Lease Longer, Lease Stronger

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Canadian farmers know how to rent land. In fact, in 2006, they rented close to 65 million acres, and paid an estimated $2.6 billion for the privilege. Now, however, the buzz is all about long-term leases — which can make the standard one-year rental agreement look like child’s play. Long-term leases can have lots of […] Read more
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Five Paths To A Fair Rent

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Recent tax interpretations have reaffirmed that most retired farmers can cash rent without jeopardizing their estate and succession plans. That’s taken the wind out of crop-share agreements, but it has also created an opportunity for farmers and landlords to look at newer and better ways to establish fair rental rates. A generation ago, crop-share agreements […] Read more
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Up, Up And Up!

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Remember 2008? Farm commodity prices skyrocketed, and right on cue, machinery sales jumped too. The 2008 bump was so big, farmers bought equipment even faster than manufacturers could build it. It was proof that commodity prices are all it takes to drive machinery sales. Or so it seemed. Optimism was everywhere that year. All the […] Read more
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All Over The Map

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Reading Time: 6 minutes The odd thing is that machinery costs are very similar for farms across Canada, averaging 14 to 15 per cent of crop revenue. But if you pick any one locality — including yours — the costs of owning and operating farm equipment are all over the proverbial map. Machinery costs vary much more from farm […] Read more
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What’s Your Strategy?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The advice sounds like bizspeak. I’m being told that if you want to make high-quality decisions about your machinery inventory, you need to think “strategically.” As if you wouldn’t ordinarily think about the health of your farm when making such big decisions. But Dale Kaliel means something more. Kaliel is senior production economist with Alberta […] Read more
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The Power Of Parity

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Reading Time: 6 minutes “Completely unprecedented,” is how Kevin Tink sums it up. “We’ve got a Canadian dollar that continues to bounce around parity, and the commodity prices are strong in virtually every category, even live cattle prices.” Tink is senior vice-president with Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers, and you’d think with surging commodity incomes and the new buying power of […] Read more
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The Choice

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Because machinery decisions have such a huge impact on cash flow and solvency, we tend to forget that these are actually decisions about per-acre production costs. Or if we do think of them as costs, we don’t think of them as rigorously as we think about other inputs, such as seed or cop protection. It’s […] Read more
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The Heart Of Your Farm(2)

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Reading Time: 5 minutes RECOVERY Recovery is more than “getting back on your feet.” It means psychological and physical adjustments, and there will be have to changes for the family and spouse too. “A heart event affects the entire family,” says nurse Kendra Ulmer. “One of the most important things you can do to speed recovery is to accept […] Read more
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BIG IDEA Paying The GMO Cost

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably formed an opinon about NDP agriculture critic Alex Atamanenko and his doomed private members’ bill on biotech crops. The bill itself wasn’t complex. At under 100 words, it couldn’t be. But it was big, calling for “an analysis of potential harm to export markets” prior to […] Read more

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