Insights and Stories on Succession

The farmer’s playbook

May. 23, 2025 at 11:10 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Walmart turns over its on-shelf inventory 9.4 times every calendar year. But farmers only get one kick at the can. In fact, it has been said that over a farmer’s career many will only hit a home run about seven times. That means the variance for errors […]

Apart but together

Mar. 14, 2025 at 10:02 am CDT

By Angela Lovell

How to talk about ‘fair family price’ for land, other farm assets

Dec. 6, 2024 at 10:42 am CST

By Elaine Froese

Succession plan drives dairy farm’s journey into poultry

Oct. 18, 2024 at 10:09 am CDT

By Diana Martin

Coming home to the family farm

Apr. 19, 2024 at 10:44 am CDT

By Angela Lovell

Most farms lack a succession plan

Feb. 2, 2024 at 10:52 am CST

On the second floor of the Queensbury Convention Centre at Agribition, the Grain Expo takes place every year. Around the edge of the room, booths are set up, surrounding the tables attendees sit at. Everyone sits watching the panel of producers walking onto the brightly lit stage. Steve Sanden and […]

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

Major strawberry plant producer changes hands

Dec. 4, 2023 at 11:36 am CST

The Quebec company billed as Canada’s largest producer of strawberry plants has picked up new ownership after nearly 70 years. Production Lareault, based on just over 450 acres at Lavaltrie, Que. — about 40 km northeast of Montreal, in the province’s Lanaudiere region — has been acquired by investors Antoine […]

By Dave Bedard

International farmers may ease Canadian human capital crunch

Apr. 3, 2023 at 8:25 pm CDT

As other nations reduce their agricultural footprints in an effort to boost sustainability, their loss could be Canada’s human capital gain, a new report suggests. “The immigration of scientists, data engineers, and entrepreneurs has been recognized as critical to Canada’s growth. A similar approach needs to be adopted to attract […]

By Manitoba Co-operator staff

Tory MP’s bill on farm transfer tax treatment moves ahead

May. 15, 2021 at 3:03 am CDT

A Manitoba Conservative MP’s bill to standardize the tax treatment for sales of farms and other small businesses has cleared the House of Commons and is en route to the Senate. Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire’s Bill C-208, which was introduced for first reading in February last year, passed third reading […]

By Dave Bedard