Reading Time: 2 minutes By and large, Canada’s farmers have adapted to all the changes in farmland renting over the past several decades. This is very good news because a lot more change is coming. Not everything is perfect in today’s rental markets. There is never enough land, for one thing. And there’s never a perfect way — or, […] Read more
Editor’s Note: meet the new renters
Editor’s Note: Leadership – yes, it is a science
Reading Time: 2 minutes So often when we’re putting the finishing touches on your next Country Guide, I find myself pausing and thinking, “If only we could get this issue into the hands of every Canadian… Imagine the impact if they leafed through even just this one issue and saw farmers as we see them all the time.” In […] Read more
Editor’s Note: The sweet spot
Reading Time: 2 minutes We know that our January 2, 2024 issue of Country Guide only begins to explore the “sweet spot” questions that you ask yourself every day. This was inevitable, we all know, because questions about right-sizing have moved to the forefront for today’s farm management… right-sizing the farm, right-sizing the equipment inventory, right-sizing the amount of […] Read more
Editor’s Note: Who deserves today’s farm?
Reading Time: 2 minutes The word “entitlement” gets tossed around a lot in agriculture. “Oh,” somebody has always said, “the kids act like they’re entitled to the best truck money can buy.” Or, “Oh, he acts like he’s so entitled to a voice in how this farm is run.” In 2023, we’re sensing the entitlement charge is getting bigger […] Read more
Editor’s Note: Will winter really be so quiet?
Reading Time: 2 minutes In its way, this may be the biggest surprise of 2023. It’s that there are so few voices out there promising to tell us exactly what the future of agriculture is going to look like and exactly who the winners and the losers will be now that land prices and net worths are so high. […] Read more
Editor’s Note: A journey for us all
Reading Time: 2 minutes As you visit the new Country Guide homepage, we hope you’ll get a taste of the changes we will be bringing to Canada’s national farm management magazine in coming months. These will be our most significant changes in 15 years, the year we adopted “Strategic. Business. Thinking.” as our tagline. We now think of that […] Read more
Editor’s note: Making the most of 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was wrong about the bull run that made grain prices soar beginning in 2008. Will I get it right on the 2020s’ surge? More to the point, will you? Of course there’s that old saying that we’ve all heard too many times. The worst decisions get made in the best of times, it says. […] Read more
Editor’s Note: It’s here. We can’t go back
Reading Time: 2 minutes Actually, it’s more than that. It isn’t just that we can’t go back. It’s that we can’t even want to do it. The past is gone. It’s over. And while the future is full of challenge, it’s popping with excitement and opportunity too. It sounds so trite to say that the future is here. What […] Read more
Editor’s Note: Another historic year for the farm
Reading Time: 2 minutes The future of farming seems obvious. At least, it can seem like that if we don’t look very hard. The only thing that’s certain is this: Farmers keep passing every test they face. A decade is such a short time. Most farmers expect to be at the top of their game for something like four […] Read more
Editor’s Note: If you were steering the ship
Reading Time: 2 minutes Country Guide is taking a hard look at where we’re heading and how we’re getting there. Are we getting the job done for you? Is it the right job? How can we make a bigger difference? It’s a healthy thing. Here at Country Guide we’ve launched a kind of performance review over the past several […] Read more
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
