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Shawn Moen at McLaren Vintners, a large-scale winemaking facility specializing in professional custom and contract production. McLaren Vale, South Australia.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Business connections

[Change Management] Planning a new venture? Keep close to other innovative and entrepreneurial minds

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Of course farmers are proudly independent, and of course there are huge advantages in fixing your own problems and setting your own direction. But if diversification might be on your agenda, or if you’re dreaming of launching an innovative new business, there can be big costs too. Today, there’s even more proof that mixing with […] Read more
Reg Steward works with farmers and ranchers to help business owners build safety into their everyday processes.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Smarter training

[Change Management] Even the best employees are only as good as they know how

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Training new and existing employees about the ever-changing tasks on the farm is essential if you hope to build and maintain a great farm team. But how much should you invest in training? Are you already there, or could your farm make big strides in its efficiency if you stepped up your training initiatives? Such […] Read more
“If you learn how to manage money and people and time, then you can manage any business.” – Kristjan Hebert.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Your next decision

[Change Management] Can you take the same path as Kristjan Hebert? Should you even try?

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Agriculture already has so many buzz phrases meant to show you’re smart. There’s “Do more with less,” there’s “Work on the business, not in it,” and, of course, there’s “What got you here today won’t get you to where you want to go tomorrow.” It isn’t that they’re wrong. It’s that they’re too much like […] Read more
“We are fortunate to have some good people around us.” – Michael Carter.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Long-distance farming

[Change Management] For Michael Carter, when a family can make the right changes at home, their odds of success with expanding across provincial borders and hundreds of kms away go up and up

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Reading Time: 9 minutes The idea sounds right for the times. If you can’t expand at home, either because land is so expensive or because there just isn’t any for sale, look further afield. Maybe two hours away, maybe four, maybe even in a different province and so far away you basically have to set up a whole new […] Read more
Financial success is easy to measure and it is also helpful for a very good reason.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Measuring success on the farm

[Change Management] We talk a lot about farm success. But how do we know if we’re getting there?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes When asked to define “success,” most farmers will tell you it’s about more than money. Family often comes up. High yields and good soil health are top of mind too, and health, safety and employee relations can be as well. We know these non-financial factors are important. Still, when the farm team gathers at the […] Read more
Opportunities ahead
Features, Management

Opportunities ahead

What’s in store for Canada’s farms in 2024? The news is good, mostly

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Reading Time: 10 minutes Land is up. Inputs are up. Commodities are volatile. And that’s just a start. Climate change is getting real. Interest rates are too. And the international scene is chaos. Does it all add up to good news for your farm in 2024? Bad news? And what can you do to keep your farm on the […] Read more
"You have to be pretty progressive," says Jolene MacEachern, "but I think it’s possible."
Features, Management

Summer Series: 7 trends in agriculture for 2024

[Change Management] The long term is clear. The world will need Canadian farmers to feed a global population expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. But what about the short term, like next summer?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes High interest rates, skyrocketing input costs, labour shortages, climate change … the exact mix varies from country to country but farmers around the world are facing threats to their ability to grow more food, which means farmers everywhere are looking for opportunities to improve production, preserve profits and protect the environment. What does it all […] Read more
There will be peace in your life once you start delegating well, says leadership consultant Lyndsay Gillon-Seafoot.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Grow your farm manager

[Leadership] Leaders are made, not born. That much is clear. But how exactly do you make such a concept pay off on your farm?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s only so much time in a busy farm owner’s day. Here’s how can you help your farm manager develop their leadership skills, so you can focus on the big stuff.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor Dr. Stephen Brown says: “You are not a leader until you have produced a leader who can produce another […] Read more
Young farmers in soybean fields before harvest
Features, Management

Summer Series: Characteristics of highly effective leaders

[Leadership] Part two in a series on leadership

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Reading Time: 4 minutes “Solutions to the greatest challenges and opportunities are not found in strategy or quick fixes, they are found within the people who have problems.” These are the 12 characteristics effective leaders learn and practice to influence their farm’s ROI.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor In my last article I described six characteristics of highly effective […] Read more
Women are very effective at bringing people together and bringing out the best in individuals.
Features, Management

Summer Series: Farm CEO: Women farm executives

[Leadership] “Women are showing up in business, and what they are doing is working. It should be seen as a model for all of us.”

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Studies show that women have a lot to offer in terms of executive decision-makers on the farm – and there are plenty of lessons agriculture can learn from them.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor Women make great farm CEOs. Did you hear that, Dad? Studies are showing that women have a lot to offer as […] Read more

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