Technology for Flock Management

Innovative sheep producers develop technology tools to improve management and profitability. With a goal of continuous improvement of their high performance breeding flock, sheep producers John and Eadie Steele of Norwood, Ontario have developed and invested in new...

Capturing Value Locally

Unique healthy apple snacks to be produced in new Ontario processing facility. Martin’s Family Fruit Farm of Waterloo, Ontario has grown to become one of the larger growers, packers, and shippers of apples in Canada over the past 40 years. They grow their own apples...

Organic Success Based on Equal Parts Philosophy & Business

For Mark and Sally Benard, their farm is not just about a business opportunity, but a big picture philosophy. “Both need to be an equal priority when in organic production,” says Sally from their Prince Edward Island farm located between Summerside and Charlottetown....

Succession advice: Just do it

Before he started succession planning, Kevin Olson first got pretty good at avoiding it. “The hardest part is getting started,” says the 50-year-old farmer from Plenty, Sask. “It’s easy to talk about it in generalities, but then you all kinda go back and start working...

Succession Planning: Preparing for Your Future

To grow the farming business you have today, you’ve invested years of your life and the bulk of your financial assets. But sooner or later, it’s inevitable that someone other than you will own and run your farm. Perhaps you’ll transfer your operation...

Young BC Couple Mastering Dairy Farming

40 cows, 40 acres and 40 000 broilers. That was what Peter and Nicole Tuytel of Elmbridge Farms in Chilliwack, British Columbia started with in 1996. The problem with this small farm was the fact the Tuytel’s didn’t see any land near by coming up for sale, the dairy...