Impact Farming

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Lisa LaBossiere to discuss how far a farmer can go to protect their property.

Any farmer that owns land may be feeling frustrated by unwanted visitors who may be coming on their land for hunting, or off-roading their vehicles. Unwanted people on your land can cause damage to your property or to themselves.

This episode provides legal advice for how you can protect yourself and your land from trespassers.

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Rob Sharkey to discuss his life, his experiences and his current accomplishments with his podcast, XM Satellite channel, and his outfitter business.

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Terry Betker, to discuss the top 3 financial mistakes that farmers are making.

Understanding the areas of financial management can help to improve your business operations and help to grow your business quicker.

Listen in to find out if you are making these financial mistakes in your farming business.

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Terry Betker, to discuss the benefits and details of peer groups in agriculture.

Peer groups can be a great tool to help farmers connect with like-minded people. A place for sharing, learning, challenging, and so much more. Tune into this episode to learn more.

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Dr. Andria Jones-Bitton to discuss mental health. She shares many of the factors that contribute to a sense of overwhelming helplessness and burnout in farmers. Can you think of a few? After sharing the factors that cause burnout, she goes on to review the results of a recent study that was completed with 1100 farmers from across Canada. She shares the percentages of farmers that suffer with; high levels of stress, anxiety and what percentage of farmers actually meet the classification of depression. Spoiler alert, the statistics are alarming. What can we do as a community? How can we create sustainability for our farmers? We dive into this in the interview. Awareness of mental health has been very important, however, Dr. Andria and her team wanted to take it one step further and create an educational program called "In the Know." The program is designed to increase knowledge about mental health conditions and to give our community the tools and skills needed to spot and help others that may be suffering. Tune in to learn more.

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with David Derwin, to discuss financial and grain marketing tools.

Learn how to better manage your risks, take advantage of pricing opportunities, smooth out cash flows, and balance the opportunities in the market place.

If you would like to increase your profit and revenue on your farming operation, then you don't want to miss this episode.

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Dave Gallant to discuss the benefits of cash advance programs.

Learn how using a cash advance program can help your business succeed. You don't need to tie up collateral on your land, buildings or equipment and no down payment is needed.

How would $100,000.00 of interest-free borrowing help your business?

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Billi J. Miller to discuss her labour of love with writing the Farmwives books.

When Billi married a fourth generation farmer and moved into a farming community, she very quickly fell in love with the community, the people and especially the farm wives. She wanted to write a book that would highlight the roles of the traditional farm wives of the community.

Tune in to hear Billi share her "Labour of Love" and her journey with writing two amazing books.

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Gerry Friesen to discuss his journey with stress, depressions, and anxiety.

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Brent VanParys to discuss why so many intergenerational farm transitions fail.

The transition process can be challenging. It can end in relationship conflict, financial issues and it can break down trust.

Brent shares a lot of great strategies and ideas on how planning can improve your farm business and family dynamics.