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Knowing exactly where you’re starting from, and with what resources, leads to more efficient decision-making.
Features, Guide Business

How to use a situational analysis to set farm goals

Consider a situational analysis in order to set goals for your farm

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Knowing exactly where you’re starting from, and with what resources, leads to more efficient decision-making. Here’s a tool to help you plan for a new process, project or product on the farm.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor Stories in Country Guide often explore the latest, the most innovative and sometimes the boldest in on-farm business […] Read more
Kelly and Christi Friesen (center) and their children at Rebellion Farms in the Peace region of Alberta.
Features, Guide Business, Management

Summer Series: Building a new farm

[Best Advice] There’s always good luck and bad. For the Friesens, though, building the farm is too important to stop

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Forced to pivot as they were starting up their farm, the Friesens did what most farmers excel at: finding solutions, workarounds and innovative approaches. Read on to find out what the rest of us can learn from their story.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor It was the summer of 2015 and Christi and Kelly Friesen […] Read more
A joint venture can be a great way to test a business relationship.
Features, Guide Business

Summer Series: What is a joint venture?

[Best Advice] Practice becoming increasingly useful for getting the next generation started

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A joint venture can be a great way to test a business relationship. It can also be a way to help the next generation get started. Follow this best advice for setting up and running a successful joint venture.– April Stewart, CG Associate Editor Corporations, partnerships and joint ventures are the three most common business […] Read more
Deep listening is harder than many of us think, says a mediator and farm family coach.
Features

Summer Series: It Pays to Listen Better

[Best Advice] Know somebody who’s missing out on great advice because they don’t hear what they’re told? Could it be you?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Being a good listener is harder than it sounds. And some of the ways we respond to others prevent us from being present and truly connecting with them. Active listening is a high-value risk management tool, partly because listening is such a big part of conflict resolution. The good news? With practice, you can learn […] Read more
‘Giving unsolicited advice is a minefield. And how you react when you’re on the receiving end is often just as bad.’
Features, Guide HR

The art of giving and seeking advice

How good are you at giving advice? Better yet, how good would your family and your farm connections say you are at taking it?

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Reading Time: 6 minutes We all like to know the answer, so when a farm discussion comes up and it’s obvious that a family member, employee or partner is struggling, it feels good to help, especially if the solution seems clever or obvious to us. But if you value those relationships and if you value your reputation, the experts […] Read more
Kelly Dobson has coached farmers since 2017 through his company, LeaderShift, and through the National Farm Leadership Program. He’s also a farmer on a fourth-generation farm at Fairfax, Manitoba.
Features, Management

Is it time to get a farm management coach?

[The Rent Shake-Up: Leadership] If you've considered this question, Kelly Dobson says, “Congratulations, you’ve self-identified as a leader.”

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s say that you have a good sense of what success would look like for you and you’re pretty sure you’re made of the stuff it will take to achieve it, but it’s just not happening. Could a coach help? Kelly Dobson describes himself as a “professional capital ‘C’ Coach with a graduate degree.” Coaching, […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: The sweet spot

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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
Farmer Coach: Reflections on year one
Features, Management

Farmer Coach: Reflections on year one

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Reading Time: 2 minutes When Ryley Richards learned out about Farmer Coach, he signed up. So far, he says, it looks like a good choice. The 41-year-old manages his family farm an hour south of Regina along with father Rod and three full-time crew members, plus a few additional hands at busy times. Over the years, the farm has […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns

Editor’s Note: Who deserves today’s farm?

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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
Tom Button
Columns

Editor’s Note: Will winter really be so quiet?

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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

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