Reading Time: 2 minutes All year, Country Guide has published content highlighting the conversations that drive farm families, their businesses and the industry forward. Here are the top 10 stories that caught the attention of readers in 2024. 1. Numbers toolkit Designed with all agricultural sectors and all business sizes in mind, the worksheets, checklists and flowcharts included in […] Read more
Country Guide’s top 10 stories of 2024
GUIDE WEATHER – for Nov. 22, 2011
Reading Time: 2 minutes BRITISH COLUMBIA Nov. 27-Dec. 3:Seasonal to cool. Fair but snow on a couple days inland with coastal rain. Dec. 4-10:Unsettled, windy on a couple days with rain and wind west, snow east. Often cold. Dec. 11-17:Fair skies interchange with rain west, snow east, possibly heavy. Seasonal to cold. Dec. 18-24:Heavier precipitation at times with seasonal […] Read more
Fair Versus Equal
Reading Time: 12 minutes Even with professional help, half the families that farm adviser Don Forbes meets can t get past what is emerging as an ever bigger obstacle in farm succession planning. How do you treat farming versus non-farming children? Ironically, while the issue has always been fraught, it used to be easier to deal with it when […] Read more
GUIDE WEATHER – for Oct. 18, 2011
Reading Time: 3 minutes BRITISH COLUMBIA Oct. 23-29:Generally fair but with some coastal rain changing to occasional rain or snow elsewhere. Seasonal to cool and blustery at times. Oct. 30-Nov. 5:Variable temperatures from mild to colder. Some rain in western zones this week turning to snow in the north and east. Chance of heavy snow in the mountains. Nov. […] Read more
Guide Weather – for Sep. 20, 2011
Reading Time: 3 minutes BRITISH COLUMBIA Sept. 25-Oct. 1:Variable conditions this week from fair and mild to wet and cool. Chance heavy rain west. Occasionally windy. Some snow and frost north. Frost threat interior. Oct. 2-8:Expect seasonal to occasionally cool temperatures. Frost areas inland. Blustery winds at times. Often fair but intermittent rain in the west turns to snow […] Read more
Bump Up Asset Values – for Sep. 1, 2011
Reading Time: 2 minutes This year Canadian accountants are moving public companies to international financial reporting standards (IFRS). Private companies by contrast 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 all […] Read more
GUIDE WEATHER – for Feb. 1, 2011
Reading Time: 2 minutes ONTARIO Jan. 30-Feb. 5:A few brighter days are interspersed with heavier snow and blustery winds this week. Seasonal to occasionally cold temperatures. Feb. 6-12:Sunny on a couple days, otherwise expect snow, at times heavy, on two to three occasions. Risk of rain in the southwest. Variable temperatures with blustery winds. Feb. 13-19:Minor thawing occurs in […] Read more
One Can’t Be Enough – for Oct. 11, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes In other industries, the names come instantly to mind. In music, of course, there s Lennon and McCartney, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Simon and Garfunkel. In science there s Watson and Crick, in politics there s Marx and Engels, and in engineering there s Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard messing about with bits of wire […] Read more
Four Myths Of Value-Adding – for Oct. 11, 2010
Reading Time: 9 minutes Nearly everyone has climbed on the bandwagon, including economists, extension agents, consultants, policy advisers, and every level of government. They all see value-adding as the solution to the economic and social problems facing primary agriculture. David Bressler at the University of Alberta goes as far as stating, Value-adding is the ONLY solution to problems faced […] Read more
On Camera – for Oct. 11, 2010
Reading Time: 9 minutes I m doing a television show right now, Jamie Reaume says over the phone. And I m filming tomorrow as well. Then, Reaume suggests, why don t I come out to the farm and watch anyway. Heck, it could hardly get more nuts. When I ask again to make certain, because tomorrow I d have […] Read more
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