VIDEO: Vance Crowe on the rural/urban divide

VIDEO: Vance Crowe on the rural/urban divide

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

Vance Crowe is a podcast host who aims to expose listeners to ideas they would not otherwise encounter, and ultimately make better decisions and gain wisdom. He also records legacy interviews, where individuals are recorded for the family to have as a lasting memory or keepsake. He recently spoke at the Agri-Visions conference in Lloydminster. […] Read more

VIDEO: Rethinking mid-life transitions

VIDEO: Rethinking mid-life transitions

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

Chip Conley has a different perspective on retirement. If you live to be 90 and start working at age 18, when you reach age 54, you are halfway there, he says. Conley, a former hotelier and Air BnB employee, now runs the Modern Elder Academy. Conley cites societal changes that have occurred as our lifespan […] Read more



Wild pigs raise several litters a year, and litters average six piglets on the Prairies.

Feral hogs — the problem persists

This article is not specifically about the business of beef except to cover the potential effect disease transmission plays and the ecological damage invasive species can wreak, either directly or indirectly. Wild pigs continue to expand out of control in Canada. We’ll also dive into the really bad decisions agriculture producers made in the 1980s […] Read more



VIDEO: Never split the difference when negotiating

VIDEO: Never split the difference when negotiating

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

Undoubtedly, when navigating through succession/transition planning or simply working in a family business, there will be times when we need to have tough conversations. What could be more difficult than the conversations had by a top-level FBI hostage negotiator? Chris Voss is such a person and spent over 20 years in that capacity. Now with […] Read more


VIDEO: Failing well on the farm

VIDEO: Failing well on the farm

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

Is there such a thing as failing well? Dr. Amy Edmondson of the Harvard Business School thinks so and explores the subject in her latest book, The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well. Consider times in the past when you have experienced failure. Were some of them done poorly and some done […] Read more

Agriculture is a business. So, in our operations, we need to consider not only the technical (or production) aspects but also the business side of it.

VIDEO: Entrepreneurial myths revisited

Depth of Field with Kelly Sidoryk

Close to 30 years ago, Michael Gerber wrote The E-Myth and founded a small business development support/coaching company. (E-myth stands for entrepreneurial myth).  “It is self-evident that businesses, like people are supposed to grow; and with that growth, comes change,” Gerber wrote.  He recognized that small businesses have significant challenges and many of them are […] Read more



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Can byproduct feeds play a role in growing calf programs?

You'll need to know their nutritional content and digestibility

This column is the last in a three-part series focusing on factors influencing the profitability of backgrounding cattle. To this point, we have covered economic and management issues related to this sector as well as the concept of formulating diets to match specific program objectives such as overwintering lightweight calves for grass and backgrounding medium- […] Read more