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With a busy family and career life, Andrea McKenna admits it was a challenge to find time for her MBA. But there was also a payoff. “I see lots of opportunity for growth.”
Guide Business

Time for school?

Could an MBA or an advanced business program be worth squeezing into your schedule? Country Guide asked two recent graduates

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Andrew Lovell and Andrea McKenna have a lot in common. They’re both farmers on Canada’s East Coast — Lovell in New Brunswick and McKenna on P.E.I. — and they’re both insanely busy. When Country Guide first reached Lovell, for instance, he hopped off his tractor and continued doing chores wearing a hands-free headset to keep […] Read more
A supplied aerial photo of vehicles blocking through traffic on Feb. 1, 2022 at the Canada-U.S. border crossing between Coutts, Alta. and Sweet Grass, Montana. (Photo courtesy Alberta RCMP)
Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Alberta RCMP to start unclogging major border crossing

Blockade 'not a peaceful assembly,' Mounties say

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Reading Time: 4 minutes A major supply chain corridor connecting Alberta and the U.S. is expected to be cleared of protestors and reopened to traffic on Tuesday, Alberta RCMP have warned. Protestors in vehicles formed a blockade Saturday on Highway 4 leading to the province’s only 24-hour Canada-U.S. border crossing, at Coutts, Alta., about 100 km southeast of Lethbridge. […] Read more
“My parents are finding it very hard to hand over the business,” says Ryan Galbraith. “It’s like another kid to them.”
Guide Business, Succession strategy

Young, and (not) feeling stuck

You’ve gone back to the farm. You’re eager to make real decisions. You feel ready for it too, if only Mom and Dad would let you. 
So how do you convince them?

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Reading Time: 8 minutes We begin with a happy story. It was 3 a.m. and 18-year-old Ryan Galbraith was sitting in a seeder in a field in the middle of Western Australia when he realized all he wanted was to be a farmer. “It was one of those moments — you’re just out there enjoying it, you’re tired but […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: The best choices in 2022?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes We used to say the worst choices get made in the best times. To farmers’ credit, that’s no longer true. But do we know what the best choices this winter will turn out to be?  I sometimes think there isn’t a farmer in the country who wouldn’t like to sit in my seat from time […] Read more
hanson acres
Hanson Acres

Hanson Acres: Make them forget all about that other time you tried it

It can’t happen twice, Jeff said. Elaine wasn’t convinced

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Finally, Elaine thought, life is back to “normal.”  Well, almost. She realized she was still wearing her face mask as she drove alone in her SUV, halfway between Prairieland Park and her hotel. She pulled the mask off and tossed it onto the passenger seat. She didn’t love wearing masks, but as long as a […] Read more
Some buyers still prefer to go the traditional real estate route, although that process is definitely more complicated than it used to be.
Guide Business, News

New ways to buy and sell farmland

These options are putting a lot more power in the hands of sellers. They’re also changing how the real estate industry works

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, farmers don’t buy land with a handshake over the fence, as Grandpa and Grandma, or even Dad and Mom might have done. Selling methods like sealed tenders and online auctions are becoming ever more prevalent, and the key is finding which one best fits the size, type and circumstance of the farming operation. “There […] Read more
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Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Study finds no data to show change in butter consistency

Not enough data to link to palm supplement use, either

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Updated, Jan. 24 — A panel tasked with reviewing complaints of changes in Canadian butter’s consistency has found there’s not enough data out there to support those complaints — nor to support the allegation that palm byproducts in cows’ rations were the cause. The Expert Working Group on Feed Supplementation, set up by Dairy Farmers […] Read more
Tom Button
Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Note: Big decisions are coming fast in 2022

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Farming isn’t a business. Oh no, hold on just a minute! Of course it’s a business. How could Country Guide ever say it isn’t?  Ask any farmer what’s on their “must do” list for 2022. Right at the top will be production. It has to be. Farming is all about producing more, producing more efficiently, […] Read more
Sea surface temperature anomalies over the equatorial Pacific Ocean for the week centred on Jan. 5, 2022. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)
General, Reuters, Weather

La Niña likely to continue into spring, U.S. forecaster says

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — La Nina conditions are likely to continue during the Northern Hemisphere spring, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. The La Niña weather pattern, characterized by unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, has a 67 per cent chance of persisting from March through May this year, the National Weather Service’s […] Read more
“We’re in the perfect position right now,” VanderHeide says. Sexism still exists, but the pace of change is quickening as women showcase their roles in the industry.
Features, Guide Business

A Canadian woman’s experience in ag

On the farm and in her boardrooms, here’s Amy Vanderheide’s story

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Amy VanderHeide had great role models growing up. She was raised on a beef farm that was run entirely by women after her grandfather passed away in 1986. With her grandmother and aunts continuing to operate the farm throughout her childhood, she wasn’t aware of the barriers that existed for women in agriculture. “I didn’t […] Read more

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