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Dairy Farmers Shouldn’t Avoid Benchmarking

Dairy Farmers Shouldn’t Avoid Benchmarking

By Rick Hamilton CPA CA MNPPartner MNP LLP The pressures affecting dairy farm profitability are growing, especially with recent developments surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and concessions made in trade agreements. Financial benchmarking is a tool that helps dairy...
Glance at the Markets

Glance at the Markets

By Brian GonderVP & COOGVF Group of Companies Over the past year and a half, we have had many different factors affect the market, from the pandemic, to a natural disaster in BC, an environmental improvement shutdown in China (due to New Years and the Olympics),...
Winter Cereal Forage

Winter Cereal Forage

By Michelle Durnin, BSC., AGR, CAA Agri-Solve Inc. Winter cereals are gaining popularity as a forage crop in Ontario. Typical quality and yield data make it easy to see why: Crude protein: 16.1-16.5% NDFd (48h): 57-73% Total Digestible Nutrients: 60-64% Yield: 5.0-9.0...
Farm Management: Planning for 2022 and Beyond

Farm Management: Planning for 2022 and Beyond

By D. Clair DoanAssociate Vice President, AgricultureOntario for National Bank Adaptability is one word that all people including farmers, have experienced in operating businesses in a fluid and changing environment, particularly these past two years. In the coming...
Are You Ready to Make High Quality Corn Silage?

Are You Ready to Make High Quality Corn Silage?

By Jeff KeunenRuminant Nutritionist,Grand Valley Fortifiers, Nutrition Direct Good spring planting conditions and plenty of early season heat have helped corn plants grow well across many parts of the province. Most fields of corn were tasseled in mid-late July and...