No margin no mission – by Terry Betker
No margin no mission I’m sure you will have read something in the past that defines the vision and mission of a business, including farms. At the risk of repetition, I’m going to summarize. A vision describes the future state of the farm. It provides insight to the...
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...
Predetermined transition – by Terry Betker
Predetermined transition Discussion centered around transition tends to focus quite a bit on the generation that is exiting. Thinking about that causes me to wonder how could we determine when someone actually ‘started’ farming in the first place? We could say it...
Invest in consistency, curiosity, and conscious analysis of soil samples – by Katelyn Duncan
Invest in consistency, curiosity, and conscious analysis of soil samples Records indicate the first analytical soil sample was taken in 1914 in Ontario and the practice came to the Prairies in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Based on current soil sampling frequency data...
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...
