Reading Time: 5 minutes Establishing meeting ground rules can help a farm family find ways to communicate that work for the business and the family.
‘No agenda, no attenda’: How to professionalize your family farm meetings
For better business results learn how to shift from talking and listening to each other as family members to making decisions together as business partners
Part 4: Financial disagreements between farm siblings
This six-part series explores the challenges of sibling conflict and the effect it can have on the farm
Reading Time: 3 minutes A six-part series that looks at the challenges sibling conflict can have on the farm business and family business relationships.
The forced Japanese-Canadian farmers of the Second World War
Reading Time: 6 minutes Manitoba’s sugar beet farms drew on displaced Japanese-Canadians from B.C. during the Second World War
Rebalancing the workload
Unfair division of labour takes its toll on farm couples
Reading Time: 5 minutes Even though more than 80 per cent of women now work outside the home, the bulk of child care and household chores still fall to women. The most recent stats show that women are doing twice as much child care and one-and-a-half times as much housework as men. Is it really so different on the […] Read more
Guess who’s coming to dinner
Brian chuckled: 'You must have missed a meeting, Dale'
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last year the Hansons had invited way too many relatives to Thanksgiving dinner. The immediate family had snuck out to the shop to eat pie standing up and get away from the chaos. This year they promised: “just us.” So Dale was confused when he ran into Brian Miller at Tim Hortons. After the usual […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Who’s behind that wheel?
Nobody better tell Grandpa about this.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Donna had done her best to pass her position on the farm to her daughter-in-law gracefully. First, she’d passed on her role as bookkeeper to Elaine, going so far as to move the filing cabinet from the spot in Donna and Dale’s house where it had permanently crushed the carpet to Elaine and Jeff’s new […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Interpret this!
When the busload of Chinese farmers arrives on tour, they see more than any of the Hansons had planned
Reading Time: 5 minutes Dale’s shift running the swather was finally over. He’d never been so glad to see a truck pull into the field. He was shirtless when he climbed down from the cab to switch off with his son Jeff. “I had to strip down to stand it in there,” Dale said, wiping sweat from his forehead […] Read more
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