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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...
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...
“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...
August for Debra Pretty-Straathof, means seeing cattle on pasture, third cut hay being baled, and the dark green corn producing long, slender cobs of grain. Unfortunately for her and her Eastern Ontario neighbours, the few millimetres of rain this summer has stunted...
“Implementing an Environmental Farm Plan is one of the easiest programs that a farmer can use to ensure sustainability and communicate good farming practices to the public,” says Bruce Christie. A new report, Growing from strength; Farmers enhancing productivity with...
