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Building the conversation between farmers and consumers - CFBMC's Marketing Caravan is in town!
CFBMC
You have a great product, a valuable service or a timely agri-business idea. Now, what do the paying customers want and how do you tell them what you have to offer?
The Canadian Farm Business Management Council (CFBMC) will help farmers answer that question. The first step is to identify what potential customers are looking for. Once that is achieved, they must then communicate with those customers.
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CBC Commentary
Too much of a good thing?
Dan Woolley
What producer would not want sky-high prices for their commodity? But the current state of the blueberry industry shows sometimes prices can be too good.
In the last few years blueberry growers enjoyed great returns, but those high prices prompted a massive expansion in production that could keep their industry in a long-term price slump.
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Canadian Farm Manager Newsletter
The Money Issue
Profits: Making them, investing them and talking about them!
This edition of the Canadian Farm Manager is about profit – how to increase it and how to invest it. But getting farmers to talk about the P-word isn’t easy: No one wants to be seen as insensitive to the plight of those farmers who are struggling financially, reveal their personal financial situation to the world, or be seen as boasting.
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