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For the most part, recent strong net income will take the sting out of interest rate hikes.

Rising interest rates, rising risk?

Farm Management: What do today’s rising interest rates mean for your farm’s balance sheet

By Angela Lovell November 27, 2018

There are a number of ways that rising interest rates affect farm balance sheets. They can negatively affect cash flow, can create a need to adjust short-term and long-term liabilities and affect the value of farmland that in turn can impact the farm’s asset values. “Higher interest rates will impact operations differently based on how […] Read more

Having a well-thought-out risk management plan for your farm can help you endure market volatility.

Columns, Marketing

Farming can be a rough game to play

Protect yourself and your farm by making a risk management plan in advance

By Brian Wittal November 2, 2018

In the middle of September, the Prairies were hit with frost, rain and snow. If this were a sporting event and I were the referee that would be enough for me to eject Mother Nature from the game along with a two or three game suspension for an unsportsman-like conduct penalty as her actions were […] Read more

*10-year growth compares 2017 to 2008. Example, Royal Bank’s 2017 dividend was 1.8 times larger than in 2008.

Columns

Sorting through the mumbo jumbo of financial investments

Herman VanGenderen puts his model portfolio to the  test for Grainews readers

By Herman VanGenderen August 8, 2018

There is a lot of mumbo jumbo surrounding the stock investing field, and quite frankly a large amount of horse exhaust as well. Let’s cut through a bunch of that, in this and the next column, to illuminate what’s really important to us as independent investors. I have taken the portfolio I described in my […] Read more

Minerva Foods is a producer and marketer of beef, including exports of live cattle. The company is headquartered in Barretos, Brazil. Photo: azgek/iSock/Getty Images

Livestock, Reuters

Brazil meat company Minerva plans IPO by Chilean unit

By GFM Network News August 8, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters – Brazilian meat company Minerva SA plans an initial public offering in Santiago of its units outside Brazil as a way to reduce its debt, according to a securities filing on Tuesday. After a capital increase at its Chilean subsidiary Athena Food, Minerva said it will gather its operations in Paraguay, Uruguay […] Read more

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Seven summer financial bottlenecks

By Maggie Van Camp April 18, 2018

In biz-speak, a bottleneck is a point of congestion that causes delays or inefficiencies, leading to higher costs. It’s a perfect metaphor for farm finances at a time of year when the bottle we’d rather be thinking about might have something cold in it, with us sitting on a dock. Yet summer is a too-good-to-miss […] Read more

Crops, Features

Would your farm pass the stress test?

When you pencil out  your farm budgets,  calculate some “what if”  scenarios as well

By Angela Lovell March 3, 2017

New provincial guidelines for estimating 2017 crop production costs are being released across the Prairies. These guidelines can help producers predict their operating costs, breakeven yields and profitability. Producers should also be doing a “stress test” to see how much deviation from those predictions the farm can actually bear without losing money, is the advice […] Read more

Columns, Guarding Wealth

Guarding Wealth: Owning a piece of the business

Roller coaster or reliable investment? Consider both sides of the stock market

By Andrew Allentuck September 21, 2016

It is a fact of life that we need money to grease the wheels of commerce, to buy seed, machinery, trucks to move the grain, and so on. It is also a fact of life that the people wanting to do all of this stuff don’t have the money. How they get it is the […] Read more

Columns

Farm Financial Planner: Building up those off-farm assets

With a big farm and few takers from the next generation, a couple focuses on off-farm assets

By Andrew Allentuck May 12, 2016

On a 4,000 acre farm in southWestern Manitoba, a couple we’ll call Herb, 56, and Lorie, 45, grow grains and raise 600 head of cattle. They have been successful over the years with Herb and his brother buying the family farm in equal shares. That buyout provided Herb’s parents with a retirement income and gave […] Read more

During the 10-year buyout of the farm, Sam and Ursula would have an annual income of almost $150,300.

Columns

Farm Financial Planner: Transition: two children, one farm

Sam and Ursula wan to pass the farm onto their son, but share the wealth with their daughter

By Andrew Allentuck April 18, 2016

A farmer we’ll call Sam, 62, and his wife Ursula, 59, farm 10 quarters of grain in central Saskatchewan. Helped by their son, Ernie, and his wife, Maria, both 35, they have developed a very successful operation. The farm generates an average of $175,000 a year and the couple operates equipment for roadwork, snow plowing […] Read more

Columns, Guarding Wealth

Investing for tough times ahead

Guarding Wealth: When you have to change your strategy from “making money” to “not losing money”

By Andrew Allentuck January 13, 2016

We are coming to the end of the longest bond bull market in history, a 32-year trend of falling interest rates and rising bond returns. Marked by a final decade of global stagnation and, recently, inflation rates virtually at the doorstep of deflation, the next step is expected to be a small rise in short […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on screwworm news

Trade mission heads for Japan as Canada becomes the country’s top pork supplier

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on lack of Chinese demand, wheat hits contract lows

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on screwworm news

Trade mission heads for Japan as Canada becomes the country’s top pork supplier

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on lack of Chinese demand, wheat hits contract lows

Tag Archives finances

Rising interest rates, rising risk?

Farming can be a rough game to play

Sorting through the mumbo jumbo of financial investments

Brazil meat company Minerva plans IPO by Chilean unit

Seven summer financial bottlenecks

Would your farm pass the stress test?

Guarding Wealth: Owning a piece of the business

Farm Financial Planner: Building up those off-farm assets

Farm Financial Planner: Transition: two children, one farm

Investing for tough times ahead

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