By: Shaun Haney
January 23, 2012
Have you ever been to a farm meeting and there is a speaker talking about the cost of production? Do you ever feel like they are speaking no...Read more »
By: Kevin Serfas
January 23, 2012
Over the past couple of days, I have been reading and seeing a bunch of different articles in relation to keeping young farmers on the farm and...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
January 18, 2012
Christie Young is the Executive Director of FarmSmart and this week she has created some stir within the Canadian Agriculture industry by saying that...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
January 13, 2012
Have you ever heard the saying, “hope is not a plan.” This is a great saying that is very applicable in agriculture. It is very critical to...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
January 5, 2012
Farming is a unique business. It involves every aspect of business you can imagine from shovelling to marketing. It’s that diversity that can make...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
December 23, 2011
There are some elements of farming that will always be the same, but to move ahead and grow as a farm, it’s the changes that need to be kept up...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
May 11, 2011
We have all heard the saying, “what goes up must come down,” but does that maybe not apply to land values? This week FCC released its newest...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
April 14, 2011
For a lot of farmers marketing wheat can be a lot like playing “Let’s Make a Deal”. You pick what’s behind door number one and hope it’s...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
March 11, 2011
When agricultural commodity prices rise there are expected effects. Costs like fertilizer prices and machinery costs are always natural to rise in a...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
February 4, 2011
Farmers are great at growing crops and raising livestock but I don’t know many that really like to crunch the numbers. I feel that farmers...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
February 4, 2011
In the short term the financial picture for agriculture looks very good. Both farmers and livestock producers are very excited about the...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
January 27, 2011
Creating a business plan and making sure you execute the plan is a very big challenge for farmers. In fact it is a great challenge for all business...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
January 10, 2011
By Dick Haney I just finished watching the wild card NFL game between the defending Champion New Orleans Saints and the Seattle Seahawks. The game...Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
January 5, 2011
By Dick Haney As we started out the New Year, there were at least in my family the obligatory college football games to be viewed on January 1st....Read more »
By: Shaun Haney
November 18, 2010
By Shaun Haney There was a time when your banker was your friend, your confident and your advisor. This was especially true in agriculture...Read more »