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Episode 244: Building Farm Management Excellence w/ Heather Watson

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

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Episode 244: Building Farm Management Excellence w/ Heather Watson


In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks to Heather Watson from Farm Management Canada about “Building Farm Management Excellence.”

In this episode, Tracy and Heather speak about:

  • Farm Management Canada's mission is to help create strong farm business leaders through its knowledge centre, events, and resources. Heather shares more about when and why their organization was founded. Hint: They spotted the need after the farm crisis of the 80’s.
  • Tracy asks her about what they are focused on as an organization right now and what concerns farmers have on their minds.
  • She shares more about their resource centre, which hosts information about their transition programs and events, farm financial fluency training and events, risk management programs and tools, and so much more.
  • Heather then shares more about their upcoming event in November. The 2024 Conference theme, Together Towards Tomorrow, speaks to the importance of leveraging our collective strengths and finding innovative ways to work together to position Canada’s farmers and ranchers for sustainable growth and prosperity for generations to come.

If you are looking to become the strong farm business leader possible, please check out Farm Management Canada and their list of resources and events below.

Thanks for tuning in,

Tracy




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* Disclaimer - As always, this information is not intended to provide business or medical advice. To ensure that your own circumstances have been properly considered and that action is taken based on the latest information available, you should obtain professional advice from qualified business or medical professionals before acting on any of the information in this post.
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Show Resources

Bridging the Gap Farm Transition Workshops in various locations across Canada throughout the Fall/Winter. More information here: https://fmc-gac.com/programs-services/btg/

National Farm Leadership Program starting January 27th and LeaderShift InSight program starting February 10th – powered by our partners at LeaderShift (www.Leader-Shift.ca)

Coming soon: our Farm Financial Fluency Training Program (virtual), and our Roots to Success Risk Management Training (virtual). All our programs are listed at https://fmc-gac.com/programs-services/

Our National Farm Business Management Resource Centre can be found at www.AgriResources.ca – it includes links to learning programs, resources and tools and farm business management focused events.

If folks want to go directly to our Farm Transition Toolkit, they can follow www.farmtransitionguide.ca

Go directly to Farm Management Canada’s farm business management practices assessment and planning tool, they can follow www.farmbusinessassessment.com

AgriShield risk assessment and planning platform, they can follow www.myagrishield.ca

AgEx Conference can be found at www.AgExcellenceConference.ca


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Show Guest

Heather Watson
Executive Director, Farm Management Canada (FMC)

Heather Watson is the Executive Director of Farm Management Canada (FMC). Heather obtained her Bachelor’s from the University of Guelph, and went on to obtain her Master’s degree from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England.

Heather’s passionate about education and committed to enhancing efforts to encourage better business management practices for a sustainable and truly remarkable agriculture industry in Canada. Before joining Farm Management Canada, Heather was a project coordinator within the Business Development Centre of the University of Guelph Kemptville Campus.

Connect with Heather Watson - Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Website / takeanewapproach Website


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The Impact Farming Show

Welcome to Impact Farming, Farm Marketer's video and audio show dedicated to helping Canadian farmers excel in the business of farming. Our goal with this show is to introduce our audience to the people and ideas that are going to make an IMPACT on their farming operation. 

Show Host - Tracy Brunet
CEO of Farm Marketer 

Tracy and her husband are cattle ranchers in South East, Manitoba. As host of the show, primary producer and agvocate, Tracy is passionate about helping farmers succeed in the business of farming. 

In each episode, Tracy chats with today's most successful farm advisors and industry leaders to bring our audience the best and most important ideas. 

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