Consequences to price spikes – by Terry Betker

Consequences to price spikes – by Terry Betker

Consequences to price spikes  What are your thoughts about the existence of a commodities supercycle? Whether we’re in one or not is open for debate. From some of the reading I’ve done, even economists aren’t all of the same opinion about the presence of a supercycle....
Have we been here before? – by Terry Betker

Have we been here before? – by Terry Betker

Have we been here before? I’d like to pose a question. Yogi Berra, famous New York Yankees catcher, is credited with saying “It’s like déjà vu all over again”. He had dozens and dozens of sayings that were funny but provided some meaningful life lessons at the same...
How do you and debt get along? – by Terry Betker

How do you and debt get along? – by Terry Betker

How do you and debt get along? Is your goal to be debt free? Do you think of debt as being a necessary evil? Any answer will be very much a function of personal opinion – with no ‘wrong’ answers. I regularly talk to people who would very much like to be out of debt....
If you had a million dollars – by Terry Betker

If you had a million dollars – by Terry Betker

If you had a million dollars You may remember the Barenaked Ladies song ‘If I had a $1,000,000’. It was released in 1992. You would need about $1,850,000 today to have the same buying power as then, depending of course on the inflation rate used in the calculation...
A different perspective – by Terry Betker

A different perspective – by Terry Betker

A different perspective So, here’s an interesting question. Would you buy your farm? Not as in would you buy the land but rather, in a scenario where you didn’t have a farm and were looking to make an investment. Where one of the investments you were looking at was...
What do you want? – by Terry Betker

What do you want? – by Terry Betker

What do you want? What do you want? A simple enough question and one that gets asked countless times a day. It’s usually addressed to another person or group of people, purposed at trying to find out what it is they desire or need. Young children have it mastered....
Register now for The Next Chapter of Your Farming Journey – November 12th and 13th 2024 in Regina, Saskatchewan
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