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How A Young Farm Family Can Succeed

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Farms are unique entities in that they combine a rural lifestyle and a business enterprise at the same location and at the same time. That has its advantages and disadvantages. Family members are always close to the business but the business and all its challenges is always right there also. Both of those parts (the […] Read more
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Understanding Explorers, Developers And Producers

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There are three types of mining businesses: explorers, developers and producers. We should understand which one we are buying before we buy shares in a company. A lot of investors want to hit a home run so they buy penny stocks — these are often explorers. Some make that home run, but many don’t. I […] Read more
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How To Sell A Job To Potential Employees

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Finding and hiring the right person for any job starts with knowing what you need before you go looking. My previous articles emphasized the need for a clear description of the duties and tasks of the job and an estimate of the costs and time required to become an employer. Before you hire anyone, however, […] Read more
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Marketing For Base Hits Vs. Home Runs

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Do you recall the poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer? It’s a story about baseball, yes, but more about the dangers of over confidence. Casey’s team from Mudville is down two runs in the bottom of the ninth. Two unlikely batters make it on base and the crowd erupts as mighty Casey […] Read more
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How Soluble Salts Affect N Uptake

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Some of our agri-coaches are working with farm clients who are farming on soils with high soluble salts in the 12 to 24 inch depth. Soluble salts start to be a concern at values greater than 0.8 (see Table 1). The soil test results below represent a typical condition they are seeing. Their question is, […] Read more
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In Praise Of The Magic Rock

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I just glanced through 7,600 on-line articles talking about the virtues of a crop enhancement product called Nitrozyme. Actually there were 7,599 articles, mostly from the company and user testimonials, describing how beneficial it was for field crop production, greenhouse crops, specialty crops (like marijuana) and other uses. I only saw one article written in […] Read more
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How To Exit Farming On A High Note

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Many people envy our lifestyle. To others, it must seem free and exotic. I suppose it is, as we do spend half the year overseas in Europe and Africa. Just over five years ago we were still full-time grain farmers, like most of our neighbours. We were caught up in the cycle of seeding and […] Read more
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Retiring From The Ranch

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In northern Alberta, Jack Downey (not his real name) farms 1,280 acres. He has a herd of 200 beef cows. The time has come to pass the operation on to his three children, who are in their mid-50s. There is not much time to waste, for Jack is 79 and his ailing wife Mary is […] Read more
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Rising Rates Spell Peril For Bond Investors

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Interest rates are rising around the world. You wouldn’t know it from the stand pat position of the Bank of Canada, which continues to hold overnight loan rates to chartered banks down to one per cent. That administered rate sets the tone and the rate of interest for short bonds and many bank loans. But […] Read more
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Don’t Kid Yourself, YouTube Is Watching

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I think it’s time farmers got tuned in to the environment, adopted good land stewardship and proper animal welfare practices. It’s time to stop pollution of land and water, time to stop growing cancer-causing genetically modified crops and time to stop sticking pins into baby calves and otherwise generally being cruel to livestock. I know […] Read more

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