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
What’s The Fit For Ag? – for Apr. 14, 2009
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
Young Turk Rural Saskatchewan’s Murad Al-Katib Plots His (And His Province’s) Path As A Global Pulse Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s say your family owns a grain trading house in Turkey. It’s been good business, especially the market you’ve built up over the past 50 years trading pulse crops. But lately, the farmers around you have stopped planting pulses as weather conditions and government programs persuade them to grow other crops. In desperation, at first […] Read more
Laptop Terms Like Business-Rugged, Semi-Rugged, And Fully-Rugged Are Much More Than Advertizing Hype. They’re Technical Standards To Help You Buy The Right Electronics
Reading Time: 2 minutes Panasonic’s Toughbooks 52 and 74 or Dell’s Latitude E6400 ATG are examples of laptops that rank in this group. They will do well in less-than-perfect conditions, like those inside a barn or machinery shop. But as durability rises, so does price. The Toughbook 52 starts at $2,595 and comes with a 15-inch screen. The 74 […] Read more
Every Minute Counts On Today’s More Complex Farms. Our Maggie Van Camp Checks Out The New Office-In-A-Truck Options From Ford, Toyota, Dodge And GM. Each Could Make You More Efficient. Here’s How
Reading Time: 2 minutes If the dog in the back lets you peek in the window of our pickup, you’ll see a farmer s office on the go. The visor is stuffed with invoices, grain receipts, sunglasses, keys, a rent cheque waiting for delivery and a label from some vaccines. The dash is coated with dust, pens, more bills, […] Read more
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