FARM SUCCESSION PLANNING

Building a Transition Plan....

can be one of the most complex challenges a producer will ever encounter.

You will receive pieces of advice from your:

Accountant

Banker

Children

Insurance Advisor

Investment Advisor

Lawyer

Neighbour

Your advisors offer important financial and technical pieces of information. Your job is to sort through the pieces and put together one of the most intricate puzzles you have ever had to deal with.

Attending to the technical and financial details in a farm transition plan is important and sometimes is overwhelming, but a succession plan is much more than simply a change in your farm's business structure, or a new insurance policy or investment portfolio. A succession plan is also about balancing family dynamics.

PRESERVING THE FAMILY AND THE FARM

We can help you answer important questions!

How can we discount the price of farming assets transferred to our successors, treat our non-farming children fairly, and retire with some financial security?
Should we incorporate before transferring the farm to our successor?
Will an estate freeze work for us?
Should we be putting more into RRSPs or should we be investing in TFSAs?
What is the best way to extract retirement income from our farming corporation after retirement?
What if our successor divorces, how do we protect our financial interests and our retirement income?
How do we transfer inventory and machinery to our successor with triggering taxes?
How might that affect my Old Age Security? What about AMT?
Would it be better to delay CPP and OAS benefits or should we take it early?
How do we prepare our successor?
What return on my investments will I need to guarantee a decent retirement income?
How should we be invested once we leave the farm?
What will relocation costs look like?
How much after-tax income will I need to retire on?

Succession Planning...

relies upon balancing strong family bonds with farm business realities and personal retirement needs.

Maybe all you need today are options to consider or simply to improve your general knowledge of succession planning.

Maybe your planning has been put on hold for perhaps too long, and now you need to get things done, in either case, we can help provide ideas, options, answers and a path forward.

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What makes this advisor different? I WORK only FOR YOU!

Raymond Riel, Farm Transition Consultant CEC

I grew up on a family farm and bring over 30 years of industry experience applying advanced financial and tax strategy specifically to farm transition planning. Over time, I've built a unique, advice-only, holistic process that integrates comprehensive wealth transfer principles with the complexities of farm family dynamics.

I provide objective, unbiased advice and do not sell accounting services, investments, or insurance products. As your independent family farm consultant, I work only for you and your family—committed to always putting your financial and personal interests first.

My approach leverages comprehensive expertise in tax, estate, and retirement modeling, specialized farm management, and professional coaching to build a transition plan from your point of view. The resulting plan will be easy to understand yet robust enough to bear the technical scrutiny of your accounting, insurance, and investment professionals.

If you are searching for unbiased, objective advice built on decades of experience, get in touch today.

Ray@myfarmplan.ca

Meadows Parkway, Saskatoon, Sk.

(306) 559-0342