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Green jobs eligible for wage subsidy

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A new Career Focus Green Jobs program is offering wage subsidies to help employers with an environmental focus hire new graduates, a federal release says. The program targets small- and medium-sized businesses to help reduce the cost barriers of hiring new graduates by subsidizing their salary by 50 per cent to a maximum of $13,500 […] Read more
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Data mining: love at first byte

Storing data in the cloud can help you get the most from your farm equipment

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Clouds used to be as welcome on the farm as the tax man, since they both have a knack for raining on your parade. These days, however, more desirable clouds — the high tech kind — are heating up farm profits by providing something valuable: information. Those “desirable clouds” refer to cloud computing. That is, […] Read more
Grainews UTV Challenge
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The UTV reviews are in

Grainews judges report their findings from the summer UTV Challenge

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We’ve accepted many assignments over the years in order to bring you, our readers, useful information about farm equipment, but I don’t think we’ve ever had more fun doing that than when we set to work evaluating side-by-side UTVs at the Grainews UTV Challenge last July. Our objective was to put them to work doing […] Read more
Communicate better with your farm lawyer
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Communicate better with your farm lawyer

Lawyers have lots of experience and wisdom but they can’t read minds

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Lawyers are the brunt of many jokes, but if you want to have a great succession outcome you better have a great communication plan with your farm’s lawyer! Ontario lawyer Sarah Jacob shared her experiences at a CAFA (Canadian Association of Farm Advisors) update. Would you like to save time and money in front of your […] Read more
There are three outcomes of alcoholism: jail, insanity and death. Get help for yourself or someone you love.
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A sober message about sobriety

Eat, drink, be merry, but there are some times when we need to get serious

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It was about 30 years ago this fall I drove a good friend to an alcohol treatment centre in Indian Head, Sask. I didn’t even know at the time he had a drinking problem. But he did and his employer did. So he went for a 28-day, dry out, get-your-head-on-straight treatment program. Pine Lodge is […] Read more
Solving problems with life insurance
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Solving problems with life insurance

Life insurance, combined with fixed value corporate shares can solve succession problems

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This month, I asked the experts a very direct question: “Can my incorporated farm business pay my personal life insurance premiums?” The answer was reasonably clear: Certainly, your farm corporation can pay your personal insurance premiums, but in general you will pay personal income tax on the premium amounts because they are a personal benefit to you. […] Read more
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Get the most from your accounting

Tax Planning: Accrual financial statements provide the best for management decisions

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Accrual is the way to go with farm financial statements, according to a farm accounting specialist. “Cash accounting only measures cash, and that has nothing to do with profitability,” says Beverly Johnson, a partner at KPMG Enterprise in Saskatoon. Accrual accounting is the measure of profitability, she says. Johnson has been a farm accountant for […] Read more

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