The work stoppage has begun for Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) as of early Sunday morning, with both the union and the railway accusing the other of initiating the halting of rail services. As of early Sunday, both CP and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) were still at the table with federal mediators, according... Read More
Category: Farm Management
The Successors is a RealAgriculture podcast series hosted by Kara Oosterhuis focusing on agriculture from the perspective of the up-and-coming generation. How do you find your place on the farming operation? What can you do to keep the lines of communication open? What can a peer group provide to both you and your career? Fiona... Read More
Jennifer MacTavish has announced her departure from Ontario Sheep Farmers (OSF), happening sometime before August 31, 2022. MacTavish has served in the role for the last nine years. OSF chair John Hemsted has named a transition committee of the board to oversee the recruitment of a qualified individual for the general manager position. MacTavish is... Read More
Chris Lane will begin a new position as president and CEO of Economic Development Regina, as of April 25, 2022. Lane has spent the last six years as CEO of Canadian Western Agribition. He joined Agribition after spending several years as senior news producer for CBC in Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Maritimes. While the last... Read More
The 2021 average increase in farmland values isn't entirely surprising, says J.P. Gervais, chief economist for Farm Credit Canada (FCC), but the magnitude of the increase certainly is. With a weighted average of 8.3 per cent on the year, the significant weather events of the year — the extreme drought for the Prairies and parts... Read More
According to Farm Credit Canada's Farmland Values Report, Canadian farmland increased in value by 5.4 per cent in 2020 and 8.3 per cent in 2021, an entire year under pandemic conditions and during an extreme drought for Western Canada. The largest increases were in Ontario (22.2 per cent) and British Columbia (18.1 per cent), followed... Read More
The Do More Agriculture Foundation is welcoming a new executive director. Megz Reynolds, former Saskatchewan grain farmer and well-known online agriculture advocate, has been hired to lead the organization that is focused on being a national leader, voice and champion for mental health in Canadian agriculture. She replaces Adelle Stewart, who led Do More Ag... Read More
The Saskatchewan Stockgrowers Foundation hosted a webinar on the ins, outs, why, and hows of term conservation easements on March 3. RealAgriculture hosted a live webinar on the topic, with a panel discussion to answer the top questions ranchers and industry may have about the use of these easements and the permanency of them. We'd... Read More
One of the hardest things about life is trying to accept all the things you can’t control. As a farmer, that makes up a lot of stuff. In any given year, the weather can hand us an absolute sucker punch to the gut (or somewhere worse). Commodity markets could tank for no reason, or rally... Read More
In June of this year, Michael Hoffort will end his 34-year career with Farm Credit Canada (FCC), having spent the last eight years as president and chief executive officer. Hoffort joined FCC in the late '80s, a decade that was known to be particularly difficult for the farming sector, marked by sky-high interest rates, poor... Read More