The Alberta Canola Producers Commission and Farm Management Canada (FMC) are excited to announce they have formed a strategic alliance to support the provision of farm business management resources and learning opportunities to Alberta's canola producers. This relationship will launch with Alberta Canola investing $15 000 in Farm Management Canada's programming in 2017.
FMC will work with Alberta Canola to provide, promote, and share information, resources, and educational programming focused on farm business management. while exchanging industry insights and best practices in knowledge transfer to address the lifelong learning needs and opportunities of Alberta's growers.
"Alberta Canola's mission is to make farmers more profitable and farm management skills are critical to achieving that," says Stuart Holmen, Chair of Alberta Canola's Grower Relations & Extension Committee, "Our goal with this strategic alliance is to support Farm Management Canada as a national resource for farm business management information and learning opportunities for our growers and encourage others to support them in their exceptional work as well."
According to the recent Dollars and Sense study conducted by Ipsos, less than 50% of Canada's farmers have adopted beneficial management practices of any kind. This signals an immense opportunity for growth for the Canadian agricultural sector. Growth will come from investing in farm business management.
"The Alberta Canola Producers Commission has taken a lead role in the agricultural sector by increasing the profile of the importance of farm business management and offering much-needed farm business management expertise and opportunities to their growers," says Heather Watson, Executive Director of Farm Management Canada. "We're very pleased to have their support in continuing our mission to improve business practices for farmers, and hope others follow their lead."
Under Growing Forward 2, FMC must garner industry contributions towards learning programs in order to secure contributions from the Federal government. This alliance will be used to leverage additional funds from Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada towards additional knowledge transfer for education, training, skills development and building overall awareness and adoption of beneficial farm management practices across Canada.
Source : Albertacanola