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Grandson Curtis Lappage joins Robert and Betty Green in a farm family meeting. A major focus is to build a framework so young members develop leadership.
Features, Management

How to prepare for business meetings

Getting serious about family meetings is helping this farm score current and future gains

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Reading Time: 6 minutes During family farm meetings it’s important for everyone to take off their family hat and address each other in a professional manner. Follow these tried-and-true tips and tricks for successful family business meetings. – April Stewart, CG Associate Editor At one of their first business meetings on their farm, Betty Green served coffee and cake […] Read more
File photo of an Alberta wheat field. (ImagineGolf/E+/Getty Images)
General, Machinery, Weather

Coalition seeks farmers, ranchers to join climate change forum

Farmers for Climate Solutions aims to gather diverse viewpoints

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A farmer-led group is hoping to cut through the politics surrounding climate issues by bringing together a diverse group of Prairie farmers and ranchers for discussions around sustainability. “There’s a number of loud voices that tend to dominate the conversations,” says Ian McCreary, a grain and cattle farmer from Bladworth, Sask. McCreary is co-leading the […] Read more
“The first thing we do is lay out the communication strategy,” Lisa Jenereaux (standing on tractor) says. “We sit down and agree on the type of meetings we need to have, who needs to be at those meetings, and how long they should be.”
Guide Business, Management, Succession strategy

A plan for successful farm meetings

The Spurrs are driving even more growth and efficiency by continuing the family meetings that helped them get to a transition plan

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Reading Time: 9 minutes The story gets repeated time and again. A farm family invests time and money in a professional farm advisor to help them sort out a transition plan and how to implement it. Finally, almost incredibly, after a series of family meetings that started out nervous but eventually get surprisingly productive, everybody gets on board with […] Read more
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland waits to enter a ballroom at an event in Ottawa on Dec. 9, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)
General, Markets, Reuters

Freeland, U.S. and Mexican officials to meet to pin down trade deal

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Washington/Mexico City | Reuters — The Trump administration, Mexico and U.S. Democrats on Monday closed in on a deal for labour-related changes to a languishing North American trade pact that may soon allow it to proceed to a vote, as the window for passage this year quickly narrows. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and White […] Read more
Rear view of speaker giving a talk on corporate Business Conference. Audience at the conference hall. Business and Entrepreneurship event. Panoramic composition.
Crops, Livestock, News

Your winter agricultural conference scheduler

Get set to build your priority list of too-good-to-miss opportunities at 2017’s meetings and winter conferences

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Every year, as farmers begin turning their attention to the planting season, you can feel their sense of optimism start to grow. Yet before the first fertilizer spreader spreads its first tonne, and before the first shank sinks into the soil, or before the first planter drops the first seed in a furrow, there’s the […] Read more
Leap into 2016 with these agricultural meetings and conferences
Crops, Livestock, News

Leap into 2016 with these agricultural meetings and conferences

There are great learning opportunities in the meetings, conferences and information sessions early in the new year, so here’s help to maximize your take-homes

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Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s no secret that margins, timing and opportunity are all pretty tight these days. Quite simply, there’s more riding on your performance, both in the office and in the field. That’s why the winter season, with its multitude of offerings for meeting, networking and learning has become so important. It’s also why Country Guide is […] Read more
In Saskatchewan Trena and Myles find their peer group injects not only fresh ideas and new thinking, but a drive to achieve more too.
Guide Business

Sometimes the best advice…

Going a distance to talk business with similar farmers injects fresh thinking and insight into these operations

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Farmers love to talk to other farmers, as anyone who has ever spent five minutes in a country coffee shop knows. But it’s not always easy to have productive discussions with your peers if they are also your neighbours, and if you’re competing with them to rent or purchase land, or to sell grain at […] Read more

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