Reading Time: 4 minutes Henry Mintzberg may be Canada’s most famous business thinker, but his thinking about farming sounds at first very unbusiness-like. Farmers, he believes, will do a better job of managing if they not only see their farm as a business but also embrace the lifestyle that comes with it. In fact, much of what Mintzberg preaches […] Read more
Management
What Cargill says
More eyes are on Cargill with the looming end of the CWB’s single desk. In this exclusive, Cargill national grain marketing manager Tyler Russell shares the company’s hopes, and its advice for growers
Reading Time: 6 minutes While some farmers are heralding the end of the CWB single desk, others are now dreading selling wheat and barley into an open market. But what all farmers need to realize is that the fundamentals of wheat and barley marketing have not changed. End-user demand for wheat and barley in the world has neither gone […] Read moreA long way to go
Mobile technology is paying big time for Gary Sanocki. The challenge is, he wants it to pay even more
Reading Time: 8 minutes Here’s a question that your iPhone can’t answer. With all the phones and tablets out there, how much value can you expect mobile technology to add to your farm, and how much cost can you expect the learning curve, the program limitations, and the lack of connectivity to your PC to add to your farm? […] Read moreMeet the family
Reading Time: 6 minutes The joke used to be that if you want to hold a meeting on the farm, all you really need is a mirror. But you don’t hear that joke so often anymore. And even when you did hear it, it was never as true as the joke tried to make it seem. Farmers may not […] Read more
Sell it now
When you’ve got equipment to move, follow these rules to sell it fast and generate the best net outcome for you and your farm
Reading Time: 4 minutes We all love that new-cab smell. As great as it feels to take a new farm machine home, however, one thing is inevitable. Some day you’ll have to figure out how to get rid of it. That raises the question, how and when should you sell equipment after you retire or cease farming operations? It […] Read moreA new way to rent
Could the American “cash with bonus” system be the best way to rent land when commodity markets are so volatile?
Reading Time: 6 minutes A new type of American land rental agreement is gaining ground across the Midwest and may soon cross the border into Canada because it appears to offer advantages both to farmers and landowners, especially with 2012’s economic forecast. Called “cash rent with bonus,” the lease is being praised for helping farmers reduce risks in volatile […] Read moreThe Lean Startup
Reading Time: 3 minutes How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to CreateRadically Successful Businesses You can tell that Eric Ries has a lot of experience as an entrepreneur when he sums up his two decades in business by saying, “Our productive capacity greatly exceeds our ability to know what to build.” You can also tell that his will be […] Read more
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