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In this last instalment of our summer video series, we spoke with fourth generation Manitoba egg farmers, Brooklyn and Harley Siemens, about how they make everything count: business decisions, opportunities, and advancing the industry and their community.

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Travis and Brad Hopcott are third generation British Columbia beef producers, processors and retailers, and grow cranberries for Ocean Spray. They were also a 2023 winner of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers. Country Guide caught up with them just before their win to chat about managing it all, identifying opportunities and how they feel about the progress they’ve made.

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In the final instalment of our three-part series, the Lindgrens talk about expanding the operation to ensure its viability in the future, how they leverage technology, and their process for making decisions. Watch part three now and catch up on part one and part two here.

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In part one of our three-part series featuring the Lindgrens, you heard how this farm family found other ways to diversify their Saskatchewan farm as farmland prices spiked. 

Hear more from the Lindgrens and their farm operation in part two of our three-part video series.

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In a feature article earlier late last year, Country Guide asked why Jordan and Jennifer Lindgren made the choice of making their life as grain farmers so public. The Saskatchewan farmers and past Outstanding Young Farmer winners are aware this approach likely goes against the grain of what most farmers would choose to do, but can it actually pay? “It’s certainly not the reason why I wanted to farm,” Jordan says. “But these days it’s part of the business. You have to build your brand.”

Here more from the Lindgrens and their farm operation in part one of our three-part video series.

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In recent years they have shifted away from traditional methods of agriculture to what we feel are more regenerative and sustainable practices. Find out what they do by listening to the full episode!

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In our latest episode from our Country Guide we speak with Graham Snyder on what hard work means to him and how he farms as a family.

Graham Snyder has been working on farms his whole life. From cash crop farming to tillage and combining the Snyder family does it all. Working as a team alongside his family has changed how Snyder approaches his work. Find out his tips and tricks of the trade in this latest interview. Listen in and find out how he does it!

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Second generation grain producers, Greg and Sarah Stamp, of Stamp Seeds & Stamp Farms from Enchant, Alta., were 2023 national winners of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers. Along with their family they operate Stamp Seeds and Stamp Farms in the Bow River Irrigation District. With 5,000 acres under irrigation and 2,000 acres of dryland farming, they produce pedigreed seed such as wheat, barley, spelt, faba beans, peas, lentils, flax, hybrid rye, grass, and hybrid seed canola. Stamp Seeds retail and wholesale seed, contract grow and multiply stock seed for their 1,500 customers.

Hear from the couple in their own words about how they do it all and what success means to them.

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