Endnotes -   contents

  1. Personal interview with Bill Chesney of Innerkip Ontario, June 28 2000.

  2. Dairy Farmers of Ontario, June 21, 2000

  3. Ontario Port Board, June 21 2000.

  4. Bob Ballantyne of Ayr Tractor, June 23 2000

  5. Richard Cressman, local information by author

  6. Fast, Dr. John, Personal Interview, July 14 2000

  7. Fast, Dr. John, Personal Interview July 15, 2000

  8. Cressman, Richard, the author has observed in working with clientele of over 150 farm accounts that there are only fifteen who are not at least third generation farmers.  They may not be located on the original family farm, but nonetheless they're still farming.  This is not statistically significant data but it does show the trend in agriculture has been to passing on the farm.

  9. Ontario Federation of Agriculture Field Person, July 1999.

  10. Personal interview with Dr. John Fast, May 29 2000

  11. Personal interview with Dr. John Fast

  12. Center for Family Business, Yearly Membership Fee for 2000

  13. Family Firm Institute Inc. Yellow Pages Spring 1999.

  14. Joesph H. Astrachan, editor

  15. About the Beginning Farmer Center -- Web Site in References

  16. Web address for Farm On

  17. Web address for Farm Savvy Manual

  18. Web Address for National Farm Transition Network

  19. Personal interview with the John Baker

  20. Personal interview with Suzanne Laplante, the only bilingual coordinator of one of the centers on March 10 2000.

  21. Syllabuses of the protocol used by the resource center for farm establishment in Quebec (obtained from Suzanne Laplante, Center coordinator)

  22. Agricultural Institute of Management in Saskatchewan Inc. www.agr.gov.ca/aims/

  23. Howard, Wayne; Owen, Lorne, Managing the Multigenerational Family Farm  Canadian Farm Business Management Council

  24. Taylor, Janet E.; Wayne Howard, and Joan E. Norris, Succession Patterns of Farmer and Successor in Canadian Farm Families

  25. Errington, Andrew, (1998)

  26. Tually, Jeffrey, Putting the Family Back into the Family Farm (1999)

  27.  Colette Dumas, Jean Pierre Dupuis, Francine Richer, and Louise St.-Cyr.  Factors Influence the Next Generation's Decision to Take over the Family Farm, Family Business Review, Volume VIII Number 2 Summer 1995, Page 99.

  28. -- organized seminar -- John Fast was speaker, March 1999[1] Farm Succession Presentation at Stratford Oct. 26 by Author 1999.

  29. Personal Interview with Heidi Wagner Director of the Waterloo Rural Women's Network