Planning for 2025 and beyond - Country Guide
Jan 6, 2025 · Country Guide associate editor, April Stewart, sat down with Evan Shout, a.k.a. the Farmer Coach, for his thoughts and top tips on how farmers can prepare to make decisions not only for the coming year but for the next decade. Below is an excerpt from the podcast (edited for clarity). Country Guide: As we both know, farming is a complex business full of daily decisions, the results of which ...
Every child matters - Country Guide
Sep 19, 2024 · This article was first published in September 2021 as part of a collection of stories and media exploring truth and reconciliation. View it in its original form here.. Glacier FarmMedia—It’s hard to describe the feeling of wandering through the Deer Meadow Farm’s Every Child Matters and Turtle Island corn mazes south of Winnipeg.To be completely candid, it was humbling to walk along the ...
The open road of culinary tourism - Country Guide
[UPDATED: Mar. 23, 2021] The past year has shone a sometimes not very flattering light on Canada’s ailing food system, but it has also revealed new challenges and exciting opportunities to bring about long overdue changes for the farming and foodservice industry. For Rebecca Mackenzie, president and CEO of the Culinary Tourism Alliance, it’s time for a fundamental paradigm shift based on ...
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Numbers. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they are an integral part of farming. Why you need to stay on top of your farm’s numbers is obvious. But the ‘what’ and ‘how’ might be a bit more challenging.
Summer Series: Long-distance farming - Country Guide
Jul 9, 2024 · Summer Series: Long-distance farming [Change Management] For Michael Carter, when a family can make the right changes at home, their odds of success with expanding across provincial borders and hundreds of kms away go up and up
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Farms from away! - Country Guide
Oct 17, 2022 · It helped too that the Conroys reached out as well. As a young person relocating to a new province, Hanna joined the local 4H club and got involved in other community groups to meet people and develop a supportive farming network of her own.
The Country Guide Podcast - Country Guide
Oct 14, 2024 · July 31, 2024 (above): Cody Snyder is a seasoned traveler who found his way back to the family farm.In this episode, Cody tells us how travelling the world has changed his outlook on business and his career. July 18, 2024 (above): Graham Snyder has been working on farms his whole life.From cash crop farming to tillage and combining, the Snyder family does it all.
Saskatchewan is now flax central - Country Guide
Jan 24, 2023 · It’s been getting tougher for photographers to capture that iconic shot of adjoining fields of blooming flax and canola. There’s no shortage of yellow flowers, but Prairie flax area, recently averaging about 900,000 acres, is less than half of its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s.
Travelling for the sake of your farm - Country Guide
Nov 25, 2024 · Back in the 60s and 70s, loads of North American kids crammed their backpacks to the point of bursting and jumped straight from high school and college into a plane seat for a year of backpacking in Europe or almost anywhere else before settling down.