Reading Time: 4 minutes Having trouble hiring? Worried about employee retention? Here’s a new approach to consider: mission- focused employment. There’s been a shift in today’s workforce. Employees are increasingly looking for career opportunities with like-minded employers who match their personal values, like health, the environment and animal welfare. Attracting potential employees to employers that align with their values […] Read more
Sustainable HR
Ag businesses aren’t the only ones using sustainability to attract highly motivated employees in a tough market. Farms are too
The equitable farm
Being fair and equitable to women on the farm has to start much closer to home than most of us are aware
Reading Time: 12 minutes Women in agriculture span the career spectrum from hands-on farm owners and managers to the unpaid extra pair of hands that runs to get parts or takes a turn checking the cows at calving time. Women fill all those roles and more, and almost without exception, they juggle that work with all the other balls […] Read more
Brandt to build trailers at new Saskatchewan plant
Equipment maker aims to free up space in Regina
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ag and industrial equipment manufacturer Brandt plans to start making its lines of utility trailers at factory space it owns in Moose Jaw, Sask., freeing up its factory floors in Regina to expand other product lines. The Brandt Group of Companies announced Tuesday it expects to start production of its trailer lines late this summer […] Read more
Sask farmers, ranchers get cash for water management
Reading Time: < 1 minute Saskatchewan farmers and ranchers have $700,000 flowing their way from the Water Security Agency (WSA), in an effort to improve responsible agricultural management projects such as watersheds. The pilot program is being labeled as the Agricultural Water Management Fund. “Effective water management may be one of the most important factors driving Saskatchewan’s growth in the […] Read more
Indigo Ag to roll out first tranche of farm soil carbon credits
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters – U.S. farm technology firm Indigo Agriculture on Wednesday said its carbon farming program has produced 20,000 tonnes in soil carbon credits that it will sell as emissions offsets to buyers including JPMorgan Chase JPM.N, Barclays BARC.L and The North Face. They are the first agricultural soil carbon credits to be verified […] Read more
Look beyond ag to re-imagine your farm
Bright Ideas: Where are you going to get your next great idea?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Innovation and reinvention are the cornerstones of any industry, helping them survive over the long haul. Their role is crucial in Canada’s agriculture sector. However, sometimes we rely too heavily on insider data knowledge. This approach can make us stale. It becomes repetitive, eventually costing us our originality and objectivity. So, where can our agriculture […] Read more
Speaking of success
A new cohort of farmers has never farmed with rising interest rates. Same goes for bankers. So what does retiring RBC vice-president Gwen Paddock see ahead?
Reading Time: 5 minutes As she closes the book on a career spanning regional and national leadership roles at RBC, Country Guide asked Gwen Paddock about the level and pace of change she sees in cutting-edge farm businesses. Size, sector and location aside, what traits do the owners of these farms have in common? How do they stay on […] Read more
Hanson Acres: When it isn’t only the weather that changes overnight
"Let’s get this show on the road,” Mark said, not realizing what road it would turn out to be
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jeff Hanson stood in the May morning sun, eyeing up his seeding crew. “This is going to be something else,” he muttered. Mark Edwards, the Hansons’ farm employee, winked at Jeff. “Let’s get this show on the road.” Normally, Jeff, his wife, his parents and Mark worked together to get the crop in the ground […] Read more
Making impossible conversations possible
Guide Books Review: How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide
Reading Time: 3 minutes How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical GuideBy Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay (Da Capo Lifelong Books) If you have never had a difficult conversation, you are not human. Whether it’s with parents, siblings or kids, or even with those distant family members you only see once a year, it just happens. No one […] Read more
GM CEO says ‘we are selling every truck we can build’
Rising fuel prices not seen undermining big truck demand, yet
Reading Time: < 1 minute Detroit | Reuters — General Motors CEO Mary Barra said on Monday the automaker is “selling every truck we can build” and expanding North American truck-building capacity, even as U.S. gasoline prices hit record highs. Barra made her comments during the automaker’s annual shareholder meeting. GM is pursuing a two-track strategy: Investing heavily in electric […] Read more
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