Reading Time: 2 minutes Peace River farmers Joe Friesen (l.), Kevin Peters, Russel Friesen and Jason Neudorf say their joint venture makes each of them more efficient, and more profitable. Joint ventures are gaining ground across farm country What were they thinking? After all, it s not like there s a shortage of feed mills in Canada. It s […] Read more
Something Ventured… Much More Gained
What’s The Fit For Ag? – for Apr. 14, 2009
Reading Time: 2 minutes Other sectors use joint ventures much more often. In the construction industry, for example, smaller subcontractors team up to form a larger general contractor that they all perform work for and then bill for their services. In Alberta s oil and gas industry too, companies often partner on projects but maintain their own separate businesses. […] Read more
Wave Of The Future? – for Apr. 14, 2009
Reading Time: 2 minutes Through a company called AgStream, Gary Pike of Calgary s Pike Management Group was among the first to actively court joint-venture arrangements with growers in Western Canada under which outside investors provide operating money to farmers to produce canola, in exchange for a portion of the crop. Pike says growers showed a fair amount of […] Read more
The company that’s most famous for what it doesn’t make tells us why it thinks farmers across Canada will want to watch the next moves it makes in agriculture
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why does the world s largest chemical company want to muck about in the small, fragmented and highly specialized world of Canadian agriculture? The commercials were so offbeat, they instantly broke through the blur of me-too television advertising. At BASF, we don t make a lot of the products you buy, the velvety voice said. […] Read more
Www.Dtnmarketspace.Com
Reading Time: < 1 minute With over 600,000 subscribers to DTN and its magazine PROGRESSIVE FARMER, this web-based company has major market share in the U. S. Midwest and south, and it is also has a huge following across Canada of farmers who live by its ag weather and market reports. Even so, DTN is more than an ag company. […] Read more
Fiddleheads
Reading Time: < 1 minute It s no use to me, it s been there for generations. Nick Secord is telling me about the reaction he got from the previous owner of his land when approached about selling it. It wasn t a surprise, really, because the Port Colborne, Ont. property is a swamp. Then Secord chuckles as he recalls […] Read more
with management accounting
Reading Time: 2 minutes NEXT MONTH How enterprise accounting can integrate with day to day management to rev up the performance of your family farm corporation Over the last five years, Rick Clouston has become an expert juggler. He s had to. Based near Selkirk, Man., S & D Clouston Farms grows 1,800 acres of grain and 500 acres […] Read more
Twice A Year, A Farm Business Consultant Helps Clouston Benchmark His Finances And Production Costs, And To Review His Whole Farm Finances
Reading Time: 2 minutes review his financials is so important, Clouston plans to keep hiring this consultant even after the government stops sponsoring this program. Another way Clouston benchmarks his operations and makes decisions is to compare with a trusted peer. He s involved in a mentoring program sponsored by the provincial government in Manitoba. They match young farmers […] Read more
Taking care of your skin
Reading Time: 3 minutes Men Are Twice As Likely To Have Basal Cell Carcinoma And Three Times As Likely To Have Squamous Cell Carcinoma Dietary sodium or salt is linked to many diseases ranging from kidney problems to high blood pressure, but how do you eat less salt? Salt seems to be everywhere and even if you don t […] Read more
The Wait For Opening Day – for Apr. 14, 2009
Reading Time: 3 minutes My neighbour Vern Bunton doesn t fish very much any more but when he was a kid, he roamed the length and breadth of Petunia Valley with a dog and a fishing pole and a Daily Mail tin full of earthworms. As he grew older, Vern found the wait for Opening Day was worse than […] Read more
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