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Is The Recovery A V Or W?

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The remarkable rise in the Canadian and American stock markets since they hit lows on March 9 raise the question: Where do they go from here? Let’s consider the numbers. Major stock indices are reporting strong recoveries. For example, the S&P/ TSX Total Return Index, which includes dividends, was up 23.7 per cent for the […] Read more
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Buy A Quarter Before Age 30

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There is often the mistaken assumption that the incoming generation will automatically possess the skills required to run a farming business and yet they are rarely tested in this area until the outgoing generation has departed. In addition, farming is now a much more demanding, complex business that requires as many skills in the office […] Read more
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Do You Dare Go On The Terror Trail?

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There’s nothing like a pitch-black poplar bush to make you feel uneasy. Out in the middle of a Prairie pasture, miles from the closest town, it suddenly dawns on you that no matter how loud you scream… no one will hear. Maybe it’s the vastness of the surrounding fields, or the denseness of the trees, […] Read more
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From Broken To Beautiful

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Although the population of Swan Hills, Alberta is only around 2,000, artist Jan Black says the community support she receives is phenomenal. Working out of her garage, Jan calls her home-based enterprise Broken Stone Mosaics. Using pieces of broken tile, usually floor tiles, she creates pictures that are used in a variety of ways. So […] Read more
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Give Your Banker A Call

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Whether it is good times or lean times, financially speaking, Prairie producers are urged to keep in touch with their lenders, says an ag lending specialist with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) in Alberta. With a mostly cool, dry growing season on the crops side, and poor markets in the livestock sector, it could […] Read more
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How To Build A Money Machine

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In our accounts, dividends are the smallest source of income. Selling calls is the biggest. Often times the money we make from selling covered calls on a stock is as much in a month as dividends are for a year. I wish someone had shown me how to build a money machine when I was […] Read more
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10 Steps To Good Management

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Look at hiring people from outside of the organization if the skill set for the position is not available within the family or among the people currently working on the farm. In most family farms, the parents are the leaders of the organization and the children take a management position, as they are required. This […] Read more
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U. S. Citizenship Complicates Retirement

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Want Help? Grainews is looking for farmers with troublesome financial questions. We will protect your privacy. We insist on examining real situations, but we DO NOT use real names or even identify your hometown. You do not have to pay to participate in this article. If you have a financial question, send your name and […] Read more
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Horse Trainer Loses Barn But Not Hope

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When Cain and Roberta Quam surveyed the aftermath of the July 27 fire that destroyed their entire horse-training facility, the Kendal, Saskatchewan couple thought that life as they had known it for the last 11 years was officially over. “Initially I thought, ‘I’m done, I can’t do this again,’” said Cain, one of Canada’s top […] Read more
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Nutrition For Which To Be Thankful

Not only do we have food in abundance, we rank among the top countries in spending less of our expendable income on food. With Thanksgiving on our doorstep, it makes me realize that we have a lot to be thankful for, not just in the realm of nutrition but for almost everything that our country […] Read more

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