Family farms, more than ever before, have been transitioning from generation to generation. In cases where the farm’s main goal is to continue operating for the foreseeable future, the structure of the farm business is vital. Many farm disputes happen between different family members (siblings, parent and child) owning shares in the same corporation. There […] Read more
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Morris ownership focuses on western Canadian roots
Morris Industries Ltd. has a new chief executive officer and a new majority shareholder. The Saskatoon-based farm implement manufacturer announced Sept. 5 that Ben Voss will take over as the company’s top executive, replacing former CEO and majority shareholder Casey Davis. Voss and Davis made a joint decision to transition majority ownership to a group […] Read more
FMC gets large cereal and insect assets from DuPont
FMC announced early Friday morning that it would be acquiring DuPont’s cereal herbicides business, as ordered by the European Commission to allow the merger of DuPont and Dow. While that deal will now not close until sometime in August, it helps pave the way for the big merger. FMC said it expects its deal with […] Read more
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U.S. biofuel plan disappoints WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) — U.S. regulators have proposed a modest increase in the amount of corn-based ethanol and biofuel that American fuel producers must mix into diesel and gasoline next year. The move disappointed agricultural and oil lobbies. In unveiling the latest stage in its controversial biofuel program, the Environmental Protection […] Read more
Lentil prices debated at Global Pulse Convention
The Western Producer’s Sean Pratt is reporting from the 2016 Global Pulse Convention in Cesme, Turkey. CESME, Turkey — Market outlooks for green lentils, red lentils and beans were the highlights of day two of the 2016 Global Pulse Convention Gerald Donkersgoed, vice-president of Ilta Grain, said Canada is pretty much sold out of green […] Read more
Bayer bids for Monsanto
NEW YORK/FRANKFURT, May 19 (Reuters) – German drug and chemical group Bayer has made an unsolicited takeover proposal to U.S. seed company Monsanto, aiming to create the world’s biggest agricultural supplier and take advantage of converging pesticides and seed markets. Monsanto disclosed the approach on Wednesday before Bayer confirmed its move, though neither released proposed […] Read more
Alberta Ag budget cut; gas prices to rise
Albertans were warned to expect a big red deficit number in the April 14 provincial budget. That number is $10.4 billion in 2016-17, the largest in Alberta history. Finance minister Joe Ceci gave the details on the deficit, revenue and financial plans in the legislature this afternoon, calling the NDP government’s first budget “the Alberta […] Read more
Return on investment for farms about more than numbers
Everyone wants the best possible return on their investments. To achieve that, we first need to determine what the actual investment is that we want a return on. Next, we need to define the return we want and determine how we’re going to measure it. For a business, this is straight forward. Take the profit […] Read more
Professionalized farmers: giving us hope for the new year and new era?
As the new year swiftly approaches we’re all looking to the future, and for farmers it’s not as bright as at many times in the past decade. Prices are far beneath where they were during the 2007-2012 boom and analysts aren’t offering many hopes for substantial recover, at least not to anything near those boom-era […] Read more
New rules, new tax pitfalls on selling grain in the U.S.
This is part one of a five-part series on avoiding unnecessary U.S. taxes. The United States has be-come an attractive outlet for direct grain sales by many Canadian producers since the dissolution of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk trading monopoly. U.S.-based grain traders are soliciting new business in Canada, and some are also investing […] Read more
