Is Your Neighbour Richer Than You?
By Paul
Kuntz
When
you spend a lifetime in the ag banking industry, farmers often pose this
question to me: Why can’t I have the lifestyle and purchasing...
Covid and Farming
By Paul Kuntz
As we
manage our way through this pandemic, I am interested to see how it affects
different industries. If we look at the hospitality...
Calculate your Efficiencies
By
Paul Kuntz
When times get lean, we need to be efficient. But isn’t the goal to
be efficient all the time?
As our operations become more profitable,...
AgriStability Changes
By
Paul Kuntz
On Dec. 17, 2019, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Minister Marie-Caude Bibeau announced that there was a change to AgriStability.
Beginning in the 2020 program year,...
Harvest from Hell
By
Paul Kuntz
Several of my clients have described the past few months
as a harvest from hell. Perhaps we are speaking incorrectly because this
description can lead...
Grain Farming From a More Holistic Approach
By Paul Kuntz
If you do a search for ‘holistic management’, you will see
that the livestock industry occupies this area. For many years they have...
Zero Till Saves the 2019 Crop
Paul Kuntz
The 2019 crop is not in the bin as I write this, but at least there is a crop that we can anticipate....
Are We Being Left Out?
By Paul Kuntz
Hopefully
by the time you are reading this, China and Canada are trading agriculture
commodities with zero issues. As producers, all we are asking...
Thanks to All the Mechanics Who KeepUs Running
By Kevin Hursh, P.Ag.
Error messages started popping up on the seed-cart
monitor. Meter one out of range. Meter three out of range. As the messages...
The Balance Sheet is My Favourite
By Paul Kuntz
As a financial consultant in the agriculture world, I do have a favourite financial statement. I realize this is not an area...
