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Every day, in places around the world, people walk into restaurants and are told they’re in for a special treat because they’ve ordered Heritage Angus Beef. In southern Ontario, putting Heritage Angus at the centre of its marketing campaign has fuelled the success of...
For years, Tom Cox’s life was full of the kind of excitement you don’t get growing corn and soybeans. It started back in 2002, when he and other farmers and residents of Brant County, Ont., boldly announced they were going to raise $86 million and build an ethanol...
A lot of judges were scratching their heads when Brett Sheffield showed up at the ‘Central Canada’ finalist of a major competition for young entrepreneurs. How had a young farmer from Pilot Mound, Man., managed to beat out hundreds of entrants, including MBA students...
You could call Tobin Schlegel’s goats a sideline, but that wouldn’t do justice to their powerful role in the development of his farm, or Schlegel himself. The 29-year-old can now joke that when he and wife Erin first started farming, they would have “made more money...
“One of the most pleasing things about this is that we’ve built this network of positive, innovative producers who are out-of-the-box thinkers.” Those words were uttered by Christoph Weder, but could have come from Tom Cox or Tobin Schlegel, two...
For more than three decades, Raymond Levallois has been telling farmers that production excellence alone is not enough. It’s taken a long while, but the message is getting through – at least to some. “Today, even enterprises that are succeeding well from the technical...
