Better Farming - October 2016

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10 Farm News First > Better Farming October 2016
GENERATIONALTRANSITION
Keeping it
in the family
Ontario’s farmers are engaged in a generational transition.
In such a process, family connection has its advantages.
It comes with challenges too.
Three generations of Brittains at their family farm in Brandford-Blenheim, Oxford County. Portrayed here are Gary
and Nikki Brittain, their sons, Levi (six months) and Connor (two), and Gary’s parents Allan and Carol. The Brittain
family have been farming near Princeton since 1923. Gary and Nikki returned to work on the family farm in 2014.