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When you think about your current situation, what’s the ideal outcome or end game?
Features, Succession strategy

When farm plans fail

If you’ve been talking for years about planning something for the farm, maybe it’s time to look at why you’re stuck

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Reading Time: 3 minutes “It’s been 10 years, and we still don’t have a plan.” If this sounds like something you’ve said to yourself, have you also asked, “Why don’t we?” Ten years talking about making a plan but still not having it written down, or not making any real changes in the way your farm operates, can be […] Read more
Morgan Smallman, J and J Farms.
Features

Ten years on the farm

Canadian producers share the biggest lessons after a decade of farming

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Ten years. It breaks down into 3,652 days, or over 87,000 hours. In that way, 10 years can seem like a lot of time. Yet in others, such as when managing a busy farm, it can pass in the blink of an eye. And that decade is certainly filled with vast knowledge acquisition, unexpected surprises […] Read more
There are a number of long-held beliefs that can create barriers for the farm transition process.
Features, Management

Beliefs your farm could be better without

Why don’t farm transition plans advance over time? Usually because families fall into one of these thinking traps

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Beliefs, or “the rules we live by,” deeply influence our choices and assumptions. They show up in our day-to-day lives and we treat them as respected “facts,” when that may not be the case. We tend not to question or consider whether these beliefs are true. These rules are often learned in the household in […] Read more
Man in a field of ripe wheat holding a laptop in his hands
Features, Guide Business

2022-Level Farm Profits are Over. What’s Next?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes It looks like 2022-level profitability is over for farms in Western Canada. The decline of commodity markets combined with ever-increasing costs is pressuring 2025 farm budgets. So, if grain farming is back to squeaking out a profit for the foreseeable future, what can we do about it? 1. Confront the facts, but don’t lose faith […] Read more
Ted Cawkwell
Features, Guide Business

Dreamer versus Doer: Harnessing creativity in farm businesses

Connecting your internal dreamer with real-world doing can lead to big wins on the farm

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Is the world really made of up “dreamers” and “doers”? And if so, which one comes out ahead? Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow believed that “One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.” Dreamers, who are more inclined towards imagination, creativity and possibilities, are in stark contrast to doers […] Read more
Silhouette two road bike cyclist man cycling in the morning, and Cowboys riding across grassland with mountains behind, early morning, British Columbia, Canada.
Beef Cattle, Features

The math checks out

A theory once applied to cycling can help your farm make big gains

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Reading Time: 10 minutes What happens if you squeeze a few extra drops out of an orange while making juice? One small extra sip, of course. But what if you squeezed out a few extra drops from 1,000 oranges? You’d get a lot more orange juice at no extra cost. Could the same be true of food production? Why […] Read more
“Instead of asking yourself, ‘How can they think that?!’ ask yourself, ‘I wonder what information they have that I don’t?’”
Features

Turning tough farm conversations into soft landings

How can you discuss the things that matter most without everyone blowing their lids, and you blowing yours too?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Are you even a real farmer if you haven’t had any tough conversations on the farm? All kidding aside, running a business with family and often non-family employees can involve some difficult and emotionally charged conversations. Country Guide searched out three books written by professors, corporate trainers and members of the Harvard Negotiation Project for […] Read more
Farm succession planning is a journey, not a destination.
Features

More owners at your farm table

Bringing more siblings and cousins on board can strengthen your farm, but be sure to do it right

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Through history, most farms ended up sold or split between siblings. Today, however, we’re seeing a big change. Rather than splitting the farm, family farm groups made up of siblings and cousins are increasingly sticking together. Sometimes these groups become active farming operations. In other families, they hold the land. While good for the continuity […] Read more
Even in this digital era, it's still important to build a good relationship between you and your advisor.
Guide Business, Management

Get more from your farm advisors

Boost the returns from your investment in advisors’ fees with these tactics

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Hiring business advisors and consultants is becoming a top habit on Canada’s most profitable farms, as identified in Farm Management Canada’s Dollars and Sense study. Whether it’s in accounting, law, human resources, succession planning, agronomy, livestock nutrition, communications or marketing, advisors are filling in the gaps in the farm team’s expertise. It turns out, though, […] Read more
Often the benefits of having an advisor are clear. But what if you have one and it’s just not working out?
Features

6 signs it’s time to change farm advisors

Are you getting what you need from your farm advisor? When is it time to break up?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes The right farm advisor can help a business improve efficiencies, optimize performance and grow revenue. They also provide support to overcome challenges, but despite these benefits, the number of farmers using advisors has declined from 32 per cent in 2015 to 23 per cent in 2020, according to Farm Management Canada’s Dollars and Sense Study. […] Read more

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