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Jacques Laforge Grand Falls, N.B.

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Reading Time: 4 minutes WHETHER HE’S MANAGINGthe diversification and self-sufficiency goals of the family farm or advocating for supply management on behalf of Canada’s dairy farmers, third-generation farmer Jacques Laforge knows that balance is key. Since Laforge took over the family farm with his wife Patricia in 1980, he has been balancing a career of farming with his involvement […] Read more
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Cross-Border Croppers

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Sometimes you just don’t know where a thing is going to end up. When Richard and Robert Reesor started their sweet-corn business over 20 years ago, it wasn’t really a business at all. It was just a few acres along the road out front, plus a roadside stand and two brothers putting themselves through school. […] Read more
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“Strategically Assertive”

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Reading Time: < 1 minute To my mind, the thing that differentiates farmers such as the Reesors is attitude and aspiration. Attitudes determine how we see the world around us and what this represents in terms of opportunities and challenges. It also determines how people use their present skills, and what skills they seek to acquire. Attitude also determines who, […] Read more
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Business Planning With The Hut Principle

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Is this finally going to be the year you put your business goals and strategies down on paper? This is an important question to ponder in light of volatile commodity prices and input costs, along with ever-increasing land values and cash rents. Others may have reservations about business planning due to current business, family, and […] Read more
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Splurge &Purge

Reading Time: < 1 minute After more than a decade, ethanol hasn’t rescued Canada’s agriculture. For good and bad, it’s just made it more volatile. Country Guide writers Maggie Van Camp and Gerald Pilger explore what it all means to Canadian agriculture, and to you.
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Is The Party Already Over?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes The Canadian ethanol industry was full of heady promise when it splashed out of the labs in the ’90s, touted as the saviour of the environment, a breakthrough in green energy, and an enormous new market for grain farmers. After decades of low crop prices, farmers were desperate for a shot of good news, and […] Read more
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Are You Better Off?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Finding a new use for any product will make its price go up. That’s just what ethanol has done, and grain producers especially in the U.S. are currently cashing in. University of Missouri economist Ron Plain predicts that because of ethanol, U.S. corn prices will average over $4 per bushel for the foreseeable future. Plain […] Read more
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The Boom In Succession

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Reading Time: 10 minutes Meet The Family It’s one thing to know you need to do a better job communicating. But how do you actually get started? When I ask her to tell me a skill that families need to manage succession, Tamara Fraser’s answer is researched and personal: “Communication is the most important thing.” Fraser studied farm succession […] Read more
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The New Oil

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Farmers in southern Alberta have always talked about water as the fuel that powers the quality, quantity and diversity of their crops. Now, however, competition is heating up for water. Towns, businesses and industries all want more, and in many cases they’re ready to pay for it. Water isn’t just a crop input anymore. It’s […] Read more
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Ready To Sell – for Oct. 11, 2010

Reading Time: 5 minutes It s a bedrock of car advertising. Maybethebedrock. If an ad is going to sell cars, it has got to show sheet metal. A lot of sheet metal. Not surprisingly, this has also been the bedrock of farm machinery marketing too. A flip through any farm magazine will prove it. Now, Case IH s new […] Read more

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