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Agco has its sights set on being the market leader in technology and autonomy that can be retrofitted onto multiple machines from all OEMs.

How Agco is striving for tech dominance

Agco looks to dominate the precision farming landscape and deliver products in a new way

By Scott Garvey September 17, 2024

Speaking to a group of ag and investment journalists in late June, Agco CEO Eric Hansotia said his aim is to take Agco to a dominant market position in precision farming offerings. In a meeting of senior management several months ago, the decision to pursue that goal was made, he says. Now the company is […] Read more

John Deere drill specialist Logan Wemyss explains some of the features of the aftermarket opener parts offered by Aricks Australia through Thunderstruck Ag Equipment here in Canada.

Crops, Equipment, Machinery

Is your John Deere drill working to peak efficiency?

Thunderstruck Ag offers upgraded parts and free advice from a service specialist

By Scott Garvey August 20, 2024

Like all farm equipment these days, seed drills offer a much higher level of precision in the field than older machines. But that enhanced performance comes from significantly more complex systems, which aren’t always easy to understand or maintain correctly. “That’s where I come into the scene, with 16 years of accumulated knowledge at Aricks,” […] Read more

Our questions and thoughts can create great conversations — if we let them.

Columns, Farm Life

Watch your words

Seeds of Encouragement: Self-defeating language can kill transition conversations and affect your mental health

By Elaine Froese July 31, 2024

Recently in one of our amazing membership coaching calls a farmer sighed loudly about his transition frustration and said, “It is what it is.” This sparked a lively conversation about how we handle our mental well-being, which is often bathed in waves of frustration as we try to navigate the needs and wants of founders […] Read more

In the case of farmers such as Herb and Fred who have separate assets, there may be adverse tax consequences in transferring land from one to the other at book value.

Columns

Two brothers want to merge two farms, simplify ownership

Farm Financial Planner: Maximizing the proceeds from their estates for the benefit of charities will take some planning

By Andrew Allentuck July 24, 2024

In south-central Manitoba, two brothers who we’ll call Herb, 75 and Fred, 60, have farmed for more than 40 years. They’ve raised cattle and produced mixed grains. Neither has married and there are no children or other obvious heirs. In their four decades of farming the brothers have built up substantial off-farm assets. There’s enough non-registered […] Read more

farm kids gathering sheaves from swath in field

Wheat & Chaff

Farm kids not immune to farm stressors

CASA on Farm Safety: New study shows risks for youths on the farm go beyond just physical well-being

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association July 20, 2024

They say it takes a village to raise a child. And a new study is highlighting that notion when it comes to mental in farm youth, revealing that children aren’t immune to stressors on the family farm The study, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explores how economic stressors affect the mental health of farmers […] Read more

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a strong solar flare on May 8. The image shows a blend of 171 and 131 Angstrom light, subsets of extreme ultraviolet light.

Equipment, Machinery

More guidance outages possible this growing season

Newer GPS receivers may prove more reliable during intense solar storms

By Scott Garvey July 11, 2024

In spring many producers lost GPS signals and were forced to go old-school and actually use the steering wheel — or shut down until service was restored. That interruption was caused by intense solar flare activity, creating outages across most of North America. It may not be the only GPS interruption producers can expect through […] Read more

Equipment, Machinery

New training for the 21st-century farm

Manitoba college’s program aims to build skills in mechatronics

By Scott Garvey July 10, 2024

Up until now farm kids considering college or university training have mostly turned to mechanics or agronomy as first choices. And it makes sense. Both are important skills that can still improve a farm’s operations. But as technology has advanced, there’s now another option that can match the usefulness of those other two: mechatronics engineering […] Read more

Columns, Global markets, Home Quarter Investing

How we choose highly profitable companies at reasonable valuations

Investing for Fun & Profit: It's both an art and a science -- but mostly science

By Herman VanGenderen June 28, 2024

In previous articles I’ve frequently mentioned the importance of selecting highly profitable companies at reasonable valuations. I’d like to illustrate with a real-life example of a switch I made in our tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) at the start of the year. Our TFSA performance has lagged recently even though since inception they are still running […] Read more

Columns, Farm Life

Great questions to uncover inheritance expectations

Seeds of Encouragement: Keeping a farm intact can complicate the process, but not insurmountably so

By Elaine Froese June 22, 2024

One of the key fears of aging farm founders is the conflict they anticipate when the farming heir has access to millions of dollars of land, and the siblings who are off to other careers do not have the same net worth opportunity in their future. Or do they? Firstly, where it is written that […] Read more

Children and youth need to be involved in conversations about farm safety —and that means being honest with them about the potential dangers on the farm.

Wheat & Chaff

“One decision changed my life”

A farm accident survivor on the need to keep farm kids safe

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, Erin Kelly June 20, 2024

Bailey Kemery knows how quickly a farm accident can happen and change a life forever. It was April 1994, and Kemery, who was four years old, was playing on a parked tractor-driven rototiller that was still running on her family’s grain farm near Major, Sask. Her parents were standing not too far away. When the […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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