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It’s a conversation Kerry and Lynn Davison will never forget. “Our daughter Jenna had been working for three years for a company that did integrated pest management,” recalls Kerry Davison. “One day, she came to Lynn and I and said, ‘I don’t think I want to do this...
Being bold and visionary sounds exciting, but at Hillside Gardens it meant stuffing filing cabinets with pieces of paper – lots and lots of paper. When the owners of the fourth-generation Ontario vegetable farm and packing plant decided a decade ago to implement...
It’s hard to say what’s more surprising about Ruth Klahsen: That 1,000 of her customers loaned her a half-million dollars to build her own cheese plant, or her blunt assessment of her wares. “Our cheeses aren’t good enough yet,” says the plain-spoken proprietor of...
There’s no quick way to sum up the operation Ian and Douglas Simmons have created at their farm on the eastern outskirts of Summerside, PEI. There’s Red Bridge Farms, which consists of 14,000 layers, and Kool Breeze Farms, which has a squadron of greenhouses, a garden...
It seems like a mystery: Studies show joining a farm management club boosts your bottom line, but the vast majority of farmers don’t belong to one. There’s a simple reason for that, says Richard Boonstoppel, a New Brunswick dairy farmer and current chair of...
After more than a decade of organic farming, Pat and Larry Pollock have become accustomed to the jokes from their conventional colleagues. “If we go to the coffee shop, and the tables are full of conventional farmers, they all pooh-pooh organic – ‘It’ll never work,...
I was given the opportunity to attend FarmTech in Edmonton when I was chosen as one of the winners from the “Y We Farm” competition. The competition organized by Farm Management Canada consisted of making a one minute video on what your generation as a young farmer...
It was a great opportunity to attend FarmTech 2014 in Edmonton this past January. There was a great selection of speakers to hear from, fantastic food, and great people. Some of the highlights for me included listening to Dick Wittman talk about succession planning...
Ever feel like your instructions are lost in translation? If you employ seasonal migrant workers on your farm, cultural differences, language proficiency, and literacy can make communicating health and safety requirements seem like climbing a mountain. But as a farm...
Rejean Pommainville from Limoges, Ontario, is aging at the same pace as anyone else but he seems to feel it faster, which is painful for his wife Barbara Pommainville too, who can’t do anything to help him. All because of a farm injury. On July 17 2009, the...
