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The new year always brings its usual projections and forecasts and is an appropriate time to look at future opportunities and challenges. To help you focus business on the most important issues to Canadian agriculture, here are the top five economic drivers that we...
Benchmark assesses a farm’s machinery investment. Going back to 1998, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development’s Business Management Specialist Ted Nibourg has been tracking grain crop farmers, and cattlemen’s investments in farm machinery. He uses a benchmark ratio...
Co-operative provides unique opportunity for Ontario farmers to collectively store, process and market organically grown products. For almost 25 years, Organic Meadow Co-operative Inc. has helped local organic farmers market grain, dairy and eggs. Today, Organic...
BATTERSEA, ON – It wasn’t until Ian Stutt headed off to university – where he got his degree in development studies – that he began to consider a career in agriculture. “I grew up in the west island of Montreal in suburban Beaconsfield, not in a rural area,” he...
Lakeside Dairy diverts 1200 ton of drywall from landfills to reduce their environmental footprint and improve soil sustainability. Drywall in bedding and compost isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about sustainability on dairy farms, but that is...
It’s sometimes said (rather sarcastically) that economists are really good at explaining tomorrow what happened yesterday. In early 2012, we provided a list of the top five economic drivers producers and agribusinesses should monitor. As the year draws to a...
