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August 2025

Strong Boards
It takes courage & conviction, financial savvy & fiduciary responsibility, to serve effectively as a Board Director. Canadian agriculture is learning…
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Brenda Tjaden
Grazing: All the Rage These Days
Virtual fencing allows livestock monitoring, fences and herds to be moved, remotely from a tablet. This satellite-supported tech removes a major barrier…
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Brenda Tjaden
5 More Reasons to Stop Growing Canola
Better than bailing out unprofitable canola producers is to understand the ecological and economic advantages of a more diverse, biologically-supported…
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Brenda Tjaden
Securing Local Food
The definition of farming is: using land to grow food to feed people. Stabilizing the businesses that process farm-raised foods is an immediate need to…
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Brenda Tjaden

July 2025

How to Use Biologicals
For lots of good reasons, lots of good farmers are looking at biological crop inputs for the first time. It's critical to get independent advice along…
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Brenda Tjaden
Modernizing Grain Marketing
For farms to market grain successfully these days, they must look beyond the elevators to tap into additional sources of revenue
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Brenda Tjaden
Energy Ag vs. Community Food
There are 2 distinctly different styles of supply pushing production off of farmland into markets: energy inputs that mimic oil and gas, and food that's…
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Brenda Tjaden
Farming's Triple-Bottom Line
People, planet & profit - unless each one is in a good state, farms are not successful.
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Brenda Tjaden
Building New Markets
Regenerative farmers are breaking the industrial mold, drastically reducing costs and restoring natural systems in agricultural lands. Now, how can they…
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Brenda Tjaden

June 2025

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