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The statistics suggest one story. Young farmers tell another. The latest Census of Agriculture found the number of young farmers continues to plunge – with the percentage of farm operators under age 35 down nearly 60 per cent in the last two decades (8.2% in 2011...
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...
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...
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...
Pat Dunphy didn’t take a ‘kid takes over from dad’ route into agriculture. But the PEI farmer’s unconventional career path may soon be more common. Dunphy earns a salary running a farm owned by outside investors while slowly building up his own operation on the side....
The world is watching the wind-up to the American presidential election, to be held on November 6. Whichever candidate prevails, election day marks the beginning of a critical eight-week period for the U.S. economy. Economic uncertainty and farm policy are just two of...
