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Canadian farmers view Argentina as a global powerhouse – one of the world’s top exporters of soybeans, corn and wheat. But talk to Argentinean farmer David Hughes and you get a radically different perspective. In fact, Hughes says Job No. 1 for him is “surviving our...
Being bold and visionary sounds exciting, but at Hillside Gardens it meant stuffing filing cabinets with pieces of paper – lots and lots of paper. When the owners of the fourth-generation Ontario vegetable farm and packing plant decided a decade ago to implement...
It’s hard to say what’s more surprising about Ruth Klahsen: That 1,000 of her customers loaned her a half-million dollars to build her own cheese plant, or her blunt assessment of her wares. “Our cheeses aren’t good enough yet,” says the plain-spoken proprietor of...
It seems like a mystery: Studies show joining a farm management club boosts your bottom line, but the vast majority of farmers don’t belong to one. There’s a simple reason for that, says Richard Boonstoppel, a New Brunswick dairy farmer and current chair of...
After more than a decade of organic farming, Pat and Larry Pollock have become accustomed to the jokes from their conventional colleagues. “If we go to the coffee shop, and the tables are full of conventional farmers, they all pooh-pooh organic – ‘It’ll never work,...
Farmland values have rocketed in the last few years, and now that grain and oilseed prices are falling, there will likely be more than a few cases of buyers’ remorse. But Ontario farmer Dwight Foster won’t be one of them. In addition to cash cropping and raising...
