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Ryan Hofford grows conventional wheat, pulse crops and canola with his wife Amy and their children Aubree, 11, and Ronan, 7.
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Never stop asking questions

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Since Ryan Hofford started converting his organic grain farm north of Swan River, Manitoba, to a conventional operation in 2021, he’s made dramatic changes to the way he farms. Along the way, he’s needed a lot of information and advice.  There are lots of workshops and websites helping farmers convert the other way — from […] Read more
Steven Snider.
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Farm advice for his ‘younger self’

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Steven Snider was Alberta’s Outstanding Young Farmer in 2003. Twenty years later, he’s still running a successful farm near New Norway, Alberta, growing organic heritage grains and organic pulse crops for the organic milling and food processing industries. He also runs Little Red Hen Mills. Looking back over his career, we asked Steven Snider what […] Read more
“All the areas you have to know as a farmer are getting more complex.”
Guide Business, Management

Prepping the next generation for success

Are they ready to take over the farm? Here’s how one firm says you can get them there

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Any farm family going through the transition process will tell you it’s far from simple. There are so many moving parts. It takes time and energy to work out all the changing roles and the new responsibilities, and also to scrutinize the legal agreements and to figure how these are going to affect family dynamics […] Read more
“We’ll go out and search for some business opportunities for them,” says Brent Metcalfe with Backswath Management.
Guide Business

Finding your farm’s niche

In today’s farm economy, business advisors are hunting new investment opportunities for their farm clients. Here’s how one plans to find them

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Let’s say you’re pretty content with the way things are. You feel reasonably successful and you’re at a stage in your farming life where you don’t feel any great need to expand the operation. The value of your assets — especially your land — has been increasing pretty impressively and your balance sheet is a […] Read more
Four generations of Hopcotts, with parents Bob and Debbie, left, Jennifer beside her mom, Brad (centre, top) and Travis beside him.
Guide Business, Management

All in it together

Canada’s next-gen farmers are evolving a management model that adapts to every scenario. Not sure? Well, check out this Vancouver farm

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Reading Time: 11 minutes Travis Hopcott and his siblings Brad and Jennifer might tell you they have been flying pretty much by the seat of their pants since each of them came back to their family farm at various times over the past 20 years. That is sometimes how they have felt. But, in reality, what they have been […] Read more
“As farms grow in size there’s certainly room in the Canadian market for such a role."
Guide Business, Management

Farm managers take to the field (2)

Professional farm managers control huge acres south of the border. Are they coming to Canada too?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Across the U.S., the title “Accredited Farm Manager” is among the country’s fastest growing professional designations, driven by the surge not just in rental acres but also in absentee landowners and in non-ag investors. The question is, are we going to see more farms run by professional managers in Canada too? In fact, the farm-manager […] Read more
“It’s important for women to be a visible part of the industry and set the tone for equality ... We all need to work together and for each other.”
Guide Business, Management

A woman’s voice at the money table

More women own farms and have key management roles running them. So why are women still ignored when the talk turns to finance?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Heather Little farms with her husband in Amaranth, Ont., and is a realtor with Royal LePage. She recalls the treatment she received from lenders when she bought her first farm with her husband nearly 20 years ago, a time when the lenders she dealt with were predominately older males and insisted they deal with her […] Read more
Educational opportunities are often available on-demand online and could include micro-credentials which certify the learning outcomes of short-term learning experiences.
Guide Business, Management

HR ideas right for 2023

Six progressive strategies to attract — and retain — the employees you need

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Faced with a deepening labour shortage, farm businesses that tailor their jobs, their benefit packages and their work environments to what employees are seeking can expect more success and their choice of the best employees. The question is: is that a realistic goal? Clearly, the nature of farming does impose limitations on what can be […] Read more
“It is just as important to maintain our family relationships,” says Sheldon Walsh.
Guide Business, Succession strategy

Bold strides: Moving forward by stepping back from the farm

In the final instalment of our five-part series featuring farm families leading change, we hear from the Walshes — how they build a strong business by focusing first on a strong family

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In the final installment of our five-part series featuring farm families leading change, we hear from the Walshes — how they build a strong business by focusing first on a strong family Earlier in the series we highlighted families who have made bold strides through their business operations and family planning initiatives (you can find […] Read more
“More landowners and families are looking for ways to preserve the farm legacy while continuing to collect a profit from the farm.”
Guide Business, Management

Farm managers take to the field

Huge chunks of American farmland are getting farmed by professional, accredited managers who work for families who don’t want to farm anymore, but also don’t want to sell

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Professional farm management is serious business south of the border. Now, based on today’s trendlines, most insiders are predicting it’s only going to grow and spread. Will it grow in Canada too? Country Guide will look into that question in our next issue, but it’s worth pointing out that the share of farmland that’s rented […] Read more

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