Reading Time: 14 minutes Growing up, I always admired the work that Dad did on the farm,” says Dane Froese, 30 years old and eight years into his plan to become a fourth-generation farmer at Winkler, an hour and a half south of Winnipeg. Froese doesn’t round off the edges. He knows what he wants, And he knows it […] Read more
The view at year 8
Like so many young farmers, what Dane Froese wants isn’t so different from what his parents wanted at his age. But can he find his way there in farming today?
Win, win, win
These companies have found the recipe. What ideas can you borrow?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Like clockwork every May there are big headlines and even bigger press releases from the winners when Deloitte Canada releases its list of the country’s best managed companies. Deloitte’s accolade has to be earned. It takes more than a healthy bottom line. Businesses have to be robust, and resilient. To sort the winners from the […] Read more
Get more resilient
By transforming adversity into resiliency, these strategies build a better you
Reading Time: 5 minutes During the pandemic, trauma counsellor Catherine Clark became intrigued by the idea of creating a Mental Health Resiliency Roadmap to help address the deep emotional pain, anxiety and burnout that families, businesses and communities were experiencing. Based on key findings in neural, cognitive and behavioural science, Clark wanted the resiliency roadmap to help individuals meet […] Read more
The way to retire
Especially on the farm, planning for a happy retirement really does a make a difference
Reading Time: 7 minutes Here’s an unpopular question. When are you going to retire from the farm? This is often a taboo topic because it’s hard to know when you’ll be ready, and just as hard, if not harder, to know what it means to retire. To a farmer, retirement could read like a death sentence. Or does it […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Fire threatens the farm
“It’s moving east too,” Jeff said, and everyone knew what that meant
Reading Time: 5 minutes Harvest was finished at the Hanson farm. No longer needed out in the field, Elaine finally had time to get the books back up to date. She had been doing the Hanson’s bookkeeping for years since her mother-in-law had turned the software over, and she hated getting too far behind, especially with year-end coming up. […] Read more
PHOTOS: Happy travels
Today’s farm life means more business and pleasure trips, so check out these gift ideas
Reading Time: < 1 minute Santa may be able to set off on an around-the-world trip with nothing more than a few carrots for the reindeer and Rudolph’s glowing nose for guidance, but our travels are a little more complex. Below, we’ve shopped the market in search of great ideas for the travellers in your life, whether they are frequent […] Read more
Guide Health: Travelling with medication
Take a copy of your prescriptions. This will help at the border, and also if your medications get lost
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the past several years, no one has been travelling, but now that it seems safer to do so, many people are visiting friends and relatives or just vacationing away from home. For anyone who takes medication regularly, passing through security at airports or even answering border security agents’ questions at a land crossing can […] Read more
Working on a hashtag
It’s happened. Social media is now the leading way consumers learn about agriculture, which might just prove to be great news for farmers too
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the early days of COVID-19, the staff at Farm and Good Care Ontario thought their website had been hacked. Overnight, the hits on their virtual farm tours were up 4,000 per cent. Then, they learned why. “It turns out the Toronto District School Board promoted our website,” says Kelly Daynard, the group’s executive director. […] Read more
Great books to give as a gift for Christmas
Guide Books Review: With the season just around the corner, here are my four ideas for the farm-business reader on your list
Reading Time: 3 minutes Everything is FigureoutableBy Marie Forleo If there’s one thing farming is lousy with, it’s those “head scratchers” that stop you in your tracks until you figure things out. Forleo’s book is based on the premise that every challenge has a solution and that everything is “figureoutable.” Her approach helps you counter the thoughts that act […] Read more
Editor’s Note: Who’s that driving down the lane?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Compare the yard and buildings outside your back door with that tired old stretch of Main Street in your nearby town. It’s obvious where you’d rather do business. Or is it? It’s rarely wise to generalize in agriculture, so let me put this generalization down in print right away and we can move past it. […] Read more
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