Farmers’ Bridge
Helping build bridges to your farm’s future.
Why?
Succession is the greatest labour and leadership issue agriculture has ever faced.
It can be one of the greatest challenges your farm and family have ever faced…or your greatest opportunity. If your farm is planning to transition, we are here to help. Our team of experts are grounded in practical farm experience with a passion for helping you build a bridge to the future.
What We Do
Connect
Start by knowing where you are now.
Take 4 minutes to assess your situation currently. Start here.
Train
People-first approach.
On-demand transition foundations and communication trainings at Utensil.ca
Inspire
Speakers.
Elevate your event with powerful speakers! Get in touch with askus@loft32.ca to explore engaging collaborations and make your upcoming event unforgettable!
Farm Family Legacy Video
Capture your family farm’s stories and memories.
How much does your family and your farm mean to you?
Using personalized one-on-one coaching and interviewing, the family is guided through the process from concept to completion. Experienced producers use music and software to compile a beautiful authentic story of how the farm got to this point to share with future generations.
Who We Are
Farmers’ Bridge was built to help farmers more efficiently and less painfully navigate through intergenerational change. Our trusted farm-experienced experts, can lead the planning process or be part of your multidisciplinary team of advisors. Our training and coaching help build better communication and decision-making processes. Build your farm’s future with people who understand succession and know agriculture.
Maggie Van Camp
Farmer, Co-Founder and Director of Strategic Change Loft32
Maggie Van Camp is Loft32’s co-founder, Director of Strategic Change and in 2024 started Farmers’ Bridge to help farm families navigate transitions and build their businesses for the future.
She is also CEO and owner of a family farm near Blackstock, Ontario. For decades, Maggie had an award-winning career as an agricultural journalist, notably as a senior business editor with Canada’s national agricultural magazine, Country Guide. Recently, Maggie was BDO’s National Director of Agriculture, where she led sector marketing and industry relations, revitalized the accounting firm’s social responsibility program, worked closely with business transition services and built a strategic organization of Agteams from coast to coast.
She is a well-known and trusted speaker, moderator and writer and a respected member of the board of the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame. In 2021 Maggie was named in the top 50 in Canadian Agriculture.
Elevate your business, your people and the conversations on food and farming. Loft32 offers speaking, training, project management and subject matter expertise – with a smile! Achieve your goals with expertise and strategic thinking with Loft32 – grounded in practical experience, context and connections.
Looking to increase your skills? Team engagement? Onboarding? Check out Utensil.ca for on-demand training designed for people in agriculture and food.
Our expert speakers are passionate, authentic, and motivational about farm business and succession.
Build agriculture’s future with people who understand succession and know farming.
Resources
Farm Succession Planning – The AG Podcast
You can read and download Maggie Van Camp’s Applied Research paper “Farm Succession: A Communications-first Approach” – This paper was accepted for presentation at the International Farm Management Congress 2024.
Transition in Plain Language: All the terms you need to know to navigate succession and retirement.
A starting place: Do you know all the information you’d need to keep operating without your key decision makers? Here is The Because I Love You list that you can download and keep safe.
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