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Seven summer financial bottlenecks

By Maggie Van Camp April 18, 2018

In biz-speak, a bottleneck is a point of congestion that causes delays or inefficiencies, leading to higher costs. It’s a perfect metaphor for farm finances at a time of year when the bottle we’d rather be thinking about might have something cold in it, with us sitting on a dock. Yet summer is a too-good-to-miss[...]
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Guide Business, Opinion

Advisor vs. adviser

Are you sure you should trust the person who is advising you on your financial future?

By Gerald Pilger April 5, 2018

Reading Time: 7 minutes Life, business and farming are all becoming increasingly complicated. As a result, individuals in every walk of life, including farmers, are turning to advisers for help. The public has an expectation that these advisers are highly trained, that they are experts in their field, and that they will work in the best interests of the[...]
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Guide Business

Step two to value adding: Preparation

What you should know before you open your farm gate to the public

By Helen Lammers-Helps April 3, 2018

Reading Time: 6 minutes Direct marketing and value adding can be the logical next step on the path to farm expansion. Whether it’s growing strawberries to sell through your own retail outlet, or hosting dinners in the old bank barn, or any of the 1,000 other possibilities, such opportunities can help the farm capitalize on its investments and expand[...]
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Crops

The FarmLead revolution

The grain marketing portal eases the task of buying and selling grains and oilseeds by expanding your network

By Ralph Pearce March 21, 2018

Reading Time: 6 minutes “In an ideal world…” We’ve all heard it, and probably said it too. “In an ideal world, corn prices would be $5 a bushel or better,” or “In an ideal world, a one-pass glyphosate application would be all that’s needed.” Obviously, this isn’t an ideal world, particularly in agriculture, where market realities challenge farmers on[...]
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One of RME’s new outlets, which shows the building design the company hopes to eventually have at all its locations.

Guide Business, Machinery

Farm equipment sales evolve for 2018

Rocky Mountain Equipment exec Jim Wood talks about Canadian ag machinery sales trends

By Scott Garvey March 21, 2018

Reading Time: 4 minutes As U.S. and Canadian farm equipment dealerships wrestled with their hangover from the half-decade of hyper sales activity that ended a couple of years ago, the job of finding new homes for a large number of used machines may have been their biggest problem. For the most part, that trouble has now faded from view,[...]
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Are Canadian farmer’s machinery choices influenced most strongly by what’s on offer at their favourite local dealer?

Guide Business, Machinery

The heart of the deal

How significant is the local dealer in determining what you buy?

By Scott Garvey March 14, 2018

Reading Time: 5 minutes One evening a year or so ago I sat in a hotel lounge in rural England with a couple of other ag machinery writers. We were gathered there for a machinery event and were all staying in the same hotel. We spent part of that evening discussing the differences between farmer perceptions of machinery in[...]
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Opinion

Editor’s Note: One more question for mid-size farms

For almost a decade, mid-size farms have been the winners in Canadian agriculture, growing their equity without taking extravagant gambles. Can that continue?

By Tom Button March 14, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve just been rereading an editorial I wrote 10 years ago. Such things happen to all of us from time to time when we stumble across a note in a drawer or a friend we knew at the time. If nothing else, it teaches humility. The editorial had to do with the contradictory signals farmers[...]
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Guide Business

Step one to value adding: Evaluation

You’ve got a great idea for a new product. Or maybe not

By Helen Lammers-Helps March 13, 2018

Reading Time: 5 minutes There are many reasons why farmers are drawn to value adding. You might have excess capacity in the field or the barn, for instance, or maybe if you milled grain into flour, you could retain good staff by providing year-round positions. Or maybe you’re wondering if an on-farm market could solve your problems by creating[...]
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For Oke and Tesar, farming vegetables on a relatively small scale is the only affordable path into farming. Besides, they love it.

Fruit/Vegetables, Guide Business

Unconventional

Maybe it’s time to take Canada’s new crop of non-conventional farmers a lot more seriously

By Madeleine Baerg March 12, 2018

Reading Time: 7 minutes Change is coming to Canadian agriculture, and judging by the numbers, it’s coming fast. Our country’s food supply, our rural landscape, much of our GDP and a major part of our national identity all depend on Canadian farmers. But the average age of those farmers has now reached 55, with more farmers over 70 years[...]
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John Deere added the 6230R and 6250R to the top end of its 6R line in Europe. Expect to see them become available here soon.

Machinery, Machinery Guide

Deere strengthens its tractor promise

More models and a unique fuel guarantee to boost Deere’s European presence

By Scott Garvey March 8, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes Several years ago, John Deere was one of the earliest brands to give the digital component of its equipment a strong emphasis. Without a doubt they were ahead of all the major brands, which have since recognized the growing importance of that technology. Now, Deere is again getting ahead of curve by using the data[...]
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