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“I have adopted strategic business management because it allows me to enjoy my time on the tractor, and evenings with my wife.” Cedric MacLeod As a young farmer, I owe so much to my mentors – my father has constantly inspired and encouraged me and I’ve learned a...
When interviewed by FMC in June of 2009, Grant and Justine Keefer were looking at Yellow Point Cranberries with pride, after eight years of successfully restoring a 43-acre farm that had been left to fallow for more than three decades. Raised on his father’s small...
SWEABURG, ON – Three years after talking with Farm Management Canada, Oxford County goat herder Ian Mayberry looks back at one major achievement over that period of time with a genuine sense of pride. “A clean bill of health for our goats was my major goal,” he says....
By any measure, Sharon and Bruce VandenBerg have been hugely successful. So it’s a little surprising to hear Bruce list off a series of things he says they either weren’t suited to or not very good at. Not really cut out for retailing, even though they went into the...
AMULREE, ON – When Ryan Bergman was searching for a name for his new farming enterprise, he, his girlfriend and a close friend chuckled over the concept of Loco Fields. “We were sitting around and thought to ourselves, well you would have to be a little crazy to do...
CAP-SANTÉ, QC– If you were looking for the ideal definition of successful new farmers, the search would likely end at the Holstein breeding operation – Ferme Jacobs Inc. In fact, with three generations currently working at the Holstein farm, the...
