Reading Time: 7 minutes In the mid-1970s, when David Rolfe made the decision to sell up in rural England and set up shop in rural Manitoba as one of Canada’s newest immigrant farmers, burdensome regulations were certainly part of the equation. It would have been one thing if they had been sensible regulations well-grounded in reasonable desires, which is […] Read more
Are Canadian farmers becoming more European?
Canada’s farmers are getting more and more regulated. Do we have to become just like Europe?
Planning value-add ideas for your farm
In the third of her series, Helen Lammers-Helps talks to farmers about how the time they spent planning their new value-added ventures saved them money and aggravation
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s a business school maxim that says, “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Based on the experience of Canadian farmers, it’s certainly true of value adding. Gary Morton, a Nova Scotia ag business consultant who has helped farmers launch value-added products for more than 20 years, likes to begin talking to those farmers by […] Read more
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