{"id":26012,"date":"2015-08-18T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=26012"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:52:52","slug":"mnp-hosts-farm-management-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2015\/08\/18\/mnp-hosts-farm-management-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"MNP Hosts Farm Management Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_085845-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_085845-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20150813_085845 (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_085845-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_085845-2-466x350.jpg 466w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_085845-2-228x170.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_085845-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Submitted by:<br \/>\nChris Reimer |<\/p>\n<p><\/br>Despite it being ideal harvest weather close to 30 area farmers and industry advisors attended MNP\u2019s \u201cPutting Your Best Farm Forward\u201d seminar on August 13, 2015<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<em>Click any picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Peter Manness, a professional agrologist and advisor within MNP\u2019s Farm Management Consulting Group, delivered an insightful seminar emphasizing the importance of farm planning which encompasses many areas including operational cost management, program for planned capital replacement, financing, succession strategies, etc.  Peter also discussed current financial trends in the industry and provided an example of MNP\u2019s regional benchmarking data in a per acre cost format.  At the conclusion of the seminar Peter hosted a \u201cQ &#038; A\u201d session which generated some good discussion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_083907-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_083907-2-475x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20150813_083907 (2)\" width=\"475\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-26014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_083907-2-475x214.jpg 475w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_083907-2-228x103.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_083907-2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150813_083907-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As one of those in attendance stated, farming has changed dramatically in recent years and having an updated farm plan in place has become increasingly important.  Not only does it provide operational and financial guidance but it also provides assurance to creditors of a farm\u2019s viability going forward, exposure to risk, liquidity issues, etc.<\/p>\n<p>As a leading national accounting, tax and business consulting firm for Canada\u2019s agriculture industry, MNP has invested more time and resources into understanding agriculture than any other firm.  With more than 15,000 agriculture clients and a team of over 600 agriculture specialists, MNP delivers a suite of services to protect farmers and maximize results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by: Chris Reimer | Despite it being ideal harvest weather close to 30 area farmers and industry advisors attended MNP\u2019s \u201cPutting Your Best Farm Forward\u201d seminar on August 13, 2015 Click any picture for a larger version. Peter Manness, a professional agrologist and advisor within MNP\u2019s Farm Management Consulting Group, delivered an insightful seminar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-26012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}