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Every farmer has somebody they call. The story we tell about that is a

farmer who doesn't know what he's doing, hiring someone else to think

for him. Jaeda Hoppe thinks that story is wrong.

She went independent at 24, after two of her clients tracked her down

through her mother's hair salon and asked her to work for them

privately. Four years later, she still has the same five clients she

started with. This conversation is about what she actually gets paid

for, once the theory runs out.

What's Inside

• What a producer is actually paying an independent agronomist for, once

the theory runs out

• Why she recommends every young agronomist start in ag retail, even

though almost nobody treats it as an end goal

• The built-in objectivity problem when a retailer's margin depends on

which product they recommend

• Why she's seen close to zero measurable results from the biological

products she's evaluated

• Compartmentalizing stress: the skill she says separates the farmers

and agronomists who last from the ones who don't

• Her weekly Sunday text subscription sharing field observations, and

why she built it

Connect with Jaeda Hoppe

Hoppe Agronomy

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John Kempf, Melissa Werkema, and Kevin Elmy on Regenerative Economics

GTF Productions Live Briefing, in partnership with Sask Soils | August 5, 2026

17,000 farmers registered for a national program teaching cover cropping,

nitrogen management, and grazing. 10,000 are actively engaged. When

surveyed, 89% said they had already implemented, expanded, or enhanced

one of those practices. The holdup was never belief. It was cost, cash

flow, and not knowing the ROI.

This briefing puts three specialists on that exact question, with the

economics front and center the whole way through.

What's Inside

• John Kempf's nitrogen protocol: ammonium and nitrate ratios, replacing

25% of your first 100 units of nitrogen with sulfur, and why foliar

urea outperforms soil-applied nitrogen 4 to 1

• The trace minerals, boron, manganese, cobalt, and molybdenum, behind a

claimed 25 to 30 percent yield bump

• Why the form of a nutrient matters more than the amount on your soil

test, and how sap analysis catches what a standard report misses

• Cover cropping as functional plant groups, and the economics of

building soil through custom grazing

• Why ruminant manure, bison and cattle specifically, builds soil biology

that cold-climate soils can't get any other way

• What actually triggers a producer to change practices, and why it's

rarely curiosity

If you want more on tissue and sap testing, look for the Late Crop, Right

Call and Tissue Testing episodes in the GTF Podcast back catalog.

Resources Mentioned

Advancing Eco Agriculture

Cover Crops Canada -- Kevin Elmy's consulting practice, author of Not Just Dirt

Sask Soils (Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association)

Farmers for Climate Solutions, FARM program -- funding partner behind this briefing

Rangeland Bison -- Dean Andrus

Connect with John Kempf

Advancing Eco Agriculture

Connect with Melissa Werkema

Future Analytics -- Red Deer, Alberta

Connect with Kevin Elmy

Cover Crops Canada

Connect with Sask Soils

sasksoils.ca -- annual conference February 10-11, 2027 in Regina

(Sask Soils' 40th anniversary), cover crop workshops this fall

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A drought area of Saskatchewan just got two weeks of standing water.

Harvest is coming and margins are tight either way, but the numbers still

have to work. Most farm finance advice arrives as a binder nobody opens.

This conversation is five numbers, in plain language, from a CPA who goes

home to a working grain and lentil farm at night.

Richelle Boyd, MNP's National Leader for Crop Services, and Dean

Klippenstine, a senior partner in MNP's agriculture practice, walk through

what good looks like on a real operation and what to check first when

something feels off.

What's Inside

• Gross margin: whether the crop is producing enough room for the rest of

the farm

• Cost of production: finding your real break-even number per acre

• Cash flow: why a profitable year on paper doesn't mean the account is

ready

• Debt servicing: manageable debt versus debt that leaves no room for a

bad crop

• Working capital: the cushion between what you can turn into cash and

what's coming due

Resources Mentioned

MNP -- "The Numbers Every Farm Business Should Know" -- mnp.ca/en/insights/directory/the-numbers-every-farm-business-should-know

MNP Agriculture practice -- mnp.ca/en/industries/agriculture

Connect with Richelle Boyd

MNP -- mnp.ca/en/personnel/richelle-boyd

Connect with Dean Klippenstine

MNP Agriculture -- mnp.ca/en/industries/agriculture

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Four operators in Western Canadian agriculture spent thirty days building with AI, then sat down to tell Dan Aberhart what actually changed. An independent agronomist carrying sixty-plus harvests of judgment, a six-thousand-acre farmer who calls himself a nine who never finishes anything, an entrepreneur scaling a plasma-activated-water nitrogen business, and a Saskatchewan farmland realtor running a team of thirteen all walked into the same AI cohort a month earlier. What they bring back: a satellite-imagery call that stopped an unnecessary reseed, a combine deal an AI advisor told them to walk away from, an agent built at four in the morning that caught financial red flags nobody assigned it to find, and a hard-conversation coach one of them didn't know he needed.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Cold open: the AI cohort joke

2:51 -- Welcome to Growing the Future Productions Live

4:15 -- How this started: 60 days from signal to launch

7:08 -- Meet the panel: Robert, Joe, Chris, Tim

15:16 -- What business problem each of them was actually trying to solve

20:20 -- What the personal operating diagnostic revealed about each of them

30:00 -- Talking openly about AI skepticism and confidentiality

35:39 -- Robert: the gopher-field call satellite imagery corrected

40:34 -- Joe: the combine deal, the AI advisory board, and slowing down emotional decisions

42:51 -- Chris: building diagnostics and agents for the whole team

43:52 -- Tim: the AI tool built to help him have hard conversations

45:57 -- Tim: strategic blueprints and running land-value scenarios

48:24 -- Where each of them takes this next

55:06 -- Cohort 2 details: dates, seats, price, and the guarantee

56:02 -- The real vision: a course with a room, or a room with a course

57:53 -- Closing words from the panel

59:57 -- Sign-off

Resources Mentioned

GYFOS (Growing Your Future Operating System) Cohort 2 -- application at growingthefuture.ca

Personal Operating Diagnostic (built from Kolbe, CliftonStrengths, and Enneagram assessments)

AgriTrend -- the independent agronomy mentorship network Robert Woolf came up through

Nitride Corp / Green Lightning -- plasma-activated water, a nitrogen source

Pioneer Seed and Covers & Co. -- Joe Larre's seed businesses

Hammond Realty -- Saskatchewan farmland brokerage

Connect with the Panel

Robert Woolf CCA -- Crop Innovations Inc., independent agronomy

Joe Larre -- MJM Ranches, St. Walburg SK (Pioneer Seed, Covers & Co.)

Chris Nykolaishen -- Nitride Corp

Tim Hammond -- Hammond Realty

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Half of Saskatchewan is watching the canola fill pods. The other half is still sitting in water. 30% of the cropland in the province rated moisture surplus at the time of this conversation, and the ministry's own word is that flooding is the number one source of crop damage in Saskatchewan this year. Yellowing fields, drowned-out low spots, pulses going backwards. The decision framework for in-season nutrition changes when you're not sure which half of the province you're in.

Greg Patterson has been doing tissue analysis at A&L Canada Laboratories for decades. Darren Fischer is a technical advisor with Crop-Aid Nutrition who was in the fields in real time during this conversation. This is what they said on July 13, 2026, with the season in exactly the condition it was in.

What's Inside

• Two seasons on the prairies at once: what each one means for your in-crop nutrition decisions right now

• A farm-walk report from Darren Sander at Sander Farms near Sovereign, Saskatchewan -- his fungicide and foliar strategy mid-season

• Why you should never apply a fungicide without pairing a foliar with it, and why that's even more true in a wet year

• Potassium as the yield driver in both wet and dry conditions: for every pound of nitrogen the crop needs early, it needs three of potassium

• How to read a tissue report: the fuel-gauge analogy, what dropping levels actually mean, and why a great crop should drive you crazy

• The phloem connection: how potassium and boron work together to move photosynthates through the plant, and what happens when boron is low

• The nitrate accumulation trap: when it looks like a nitrogen problem but it's actually a potassium and boron imbalance

• Boron in Western Canada: why we're afraid of it, why that's costing yield, and what the research on microbial activity actually says

• Foliar selection by condition and crop stage: which product when, and how to think about tank mixing with herbicides and fungicides

• Handheld tissue testers vs. lab analysis: what the correlation data actually shows

• The fastest way to get a tissue sample to the lab: paper bag, Purolator envelope, 24-hour turnaround

• The economics: how to think about a $5-6 foliar pass when you're already sending the sprayer out for fungicide

• Frost risk in a late year: why well-fertilized crops mature faster and reduce your window of exposure

If you want more from Greg Patterson on soil biology and tissue analysis, the Engine of the Soil series is where he goes deep -- look for those episodes in the GTF Podcast back catalog. And if shallow rooting and soil health in a wet year is where your season is, that same series has the framework.

Resources Mentioned

A&L Canada Laboratories -- alcanada.com (plant monitoring program, tissue analysis, 24-hour turnaround)

Crop-Aid Nutrition -- cropaidnutrition.com (foliar products, educational videos, crop tour program)

Ag in Motion -- Crop-Aid Nutrition at Booth 381; A&L Canada Laboratories on site

Connect with Greg Patterson

A&L Canada Laboratories -- alcanada.com

Call the lab and ask for Greg, Beth, Mike, or Chris -- they take questions and find answers

A&L technical reps in the field are trained directly by Greg

Connect with Darren Fischer

Crop-Aid Nutrition -- cropaidnutrition.com

1-866 number and email on the website -- ask for Darren Fischer by name

Crop-Aid Nutrition on YouTube -- educational videos on foliar timing and application

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Cory Doctorow has spent 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation watching the same story repeat across industries: a digital lock gets built in, a legal framework gets constructed around it, and the people who depend on the machine lose the right to fix it. He coined the word for how this happens. Enshittification is now in the Oxford English Dictionary.

In agriculture, the mechanism is called parts pairing -- a chip that decides who is allowed to fix your equipment and what components can connect to it. The data your tractor generates is a second layer of the same argument. And the remote immobilization of stolen tractors in Ukraine is a third. Cory's position is that all three are the same issue, that the law enabling them passed in 2012 after 6,132 Canadians said no and 53 said yes, and that farmers are one of the most effective political forces in this country when they choose to use it. This is not Growing the Future's verdict on any equipment manufacturer.

What's Inside

• What enshittification means and why John Deere became Cory's clearest example of it outside tech platforms

• Parts pairing: how a chip on your equipment determines who can fix it and what components can connect to it

• How data generated by your tractor was being siphoned -- and why data ownership and right-to-repair are the same underlying issue

• Honeybee, a Saskatchewan head-end manufacturer, cannot connect their products to Deere equipment because of digital locks, not any technical limitation

• Canada's Bill C-11: the Copyright Modernization Act passed in 2012 after 6,132 Canadians opposed it and 53 supported it

• Digital sovereignty: from Ukraine's remotely immobilized tractors to what happens if that switch gets turned toward Alberta

• Why voting with your wallet does not work in a monopoly, and what the Grangers' fight with the railroads in 1890 has to do with where we are right now

• A specific call to action: CCLA, Open Media, and the EFF -- and why farmers are one of the most effective political forces in this country when they choose to be

Also discussed: Cory's new book "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" -- Number 1 Canadian bestseller, New York Times list, and in the same week enshittification was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Resources Mentioned

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI -- Cory Doctorow (Number 1 Canadian bestseller -- available at Indigo and McNally Robinson)

Electronic Frontier Foundation -- eff.org

Open Media -- openmedia.ca

Canadian Civil Liberties Association -- ccla.org

pluralistic.net -- Cory's daily newsletter

Honeybee -- Canadian head-end manufacturer, Saskatchewan

Agri GPS bridge -- referenced by audience member Jim Hale as an example of third-party ag tech workaround

If you want to hear more from the GTF back catalog on what it costs when farm equipment goes down, start with: Matt Yanick's episode: Downtime: The ROI Killer.

And if the data question from this conversation stays with you, Wade Barnes' Farmers Edge series looks at who owns what comes off your farm.

Connect with Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

craphound.com

Book: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI -- Indigo, McNally Robinson, and all major booksellers

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In agriculture, being busy is practically a badge. Ask anybody how they're doing and you'll get some version of underwater. So how does a 25-year-old fifth-generation grain farmer from Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, who also writes federal grain policy, finishes a master's thesis, teaches university, and referees hockey across the country, have more room in her day than most people do? Kate Sauser has ADHD, a system she built around how her brain actually works, and a tattoo on her wrist that reads "everything in time." This is the episode where she explains it.

Resources Mentioned

Albert Einstein: "Time is relative, its only worth depends on what we do as it is passing"

Billy Joel: "Vienna" -- "Slow down, you're doing fine. You can't be everything you want to be before your time."

Google Calendar -- Kate's primary scheduling tool

ChatGPT -- Kate uses it for daily task planning, meal planning, and workouts

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One refinery south of Edmonton will process a million tonnes of canola feedstock this year, more than 10% of Canada's entire canola crop at a single facility. The US renewable fuel standard needs another 2.7 million tonnes on top of that, and Indonesia is moving toward a 50% biodiesel blend requirement. In the 2000s, corn ethanol turned a $2.50 crop into a $9 crop in under a decade. Growing the Future's foremost live briefing examines whether canola is about to run the same play, and what the structural demand shift already means for Prairie land values.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Opening: the renewable diesel demand story and the canola-as-fuel structural shift

3:00 -- Sponsor acknowledgments and panelist introductions

5:00 -- Is canola food or fuel, and does the distinction matter?

6:00 -- Shaun Wildman: calorie analysis and why food affordability is not the argument

9:00 -- Quick Dick McDick: Saskatchewan's 24 million canola acres and the case for playing both markets

13:00 -- Ryan Bonnett: the corn ethanol parallel and how US biofuel policy drives domestic demand

14:00 -- RIN credits and the 12-cent-per-pound penalty for Canadian-sourced canola in US markets

16:00 -- Indonesia's B50 blend requirement and what global feedstock scale actually looks like

18:00 -- Local processing expansion: Cargill in Regina, LDC and Richardson in Yorkton doubling capacity

22:00 -- The bottleneck: crush capacity is the ceiling, not canola production

27:00 -- Scale check: the US diesel market and how much canola it would take to move the needle

28:00 -- EPA rates canola second-best vegetable oil for US renewable fuel programs

32:00 -- Saskatchewan's carbon advantage: 67% lower footprint through zero-till canola

36:00 -- US winter canola expansion as a future risk to Canadian market share

39:00 -- Could canola's price floor shift from $500 to $700 per tonne?

45:00 -- Prairie land values: what the renewable diesel demand shift means for buyers and holders

48:00 -- Large land acquisitions, the Minette deal, and what it means for the next generation of operators

52:00 -- Closing round: one takeaway from each voice in the room

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In April 2026 the United Nations revised its worst-case climate scenarios downward and declared the most catastrophic projections highly implausible. Almost no one in Canada covered it. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University and host of Canada's number one rated food podcast, has spent 25 years doing the work the room needs: holding science, policy, and politics to the same standard. In this conversation, he takes on three issues agriculture keeps being told what to think about, climate policy, gene editing, and the Canadian fear of failure, and gives the room the version it hasn't been getting.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Dan's opening question: think of one issue in agriculture you've changed your mind on in the last five years

1:30 -- "Don't Follow the Flock" -- live intro and platform housekeeping

3:00 -- Dr. Sylvain Charlebois: The Food Professor Podcast, Dalhousie, Canada's number one food podcast with zero budget

4:00 -- Ireland, Brexit, and the economic lesson Canada keeps missing about CUSMA

10:00 -- Audience poll: when you hear a strong opinion from a non-farmer, what's your first instinct?

11:00 -- Why civic engagement in food systems makes farming stronger, not weaker

13:00 -- Demand chain management: build from the consumer back, not the farm gate forward

15:00 -- How Canadian media coverage became one-sided and why it keeps getting harder to correct

22:00 -- The GTF promotion ad that was rejected -- and what that reveals

23:00 -- Topics Sylvain is asked not to raise on Ottawa stages

25:00 -- The "mini-me" problem in academia: conform, or get canceled

33:00 -- MYTH 1: Climate change -- the UN revised its worst-case scenarios downward; almost no Canadian outlet covered it

40:00 -- Carbon pricing at $110 a tonne with emissions still rising: what the data actually shows

44:00 -- MYTH 2: Gene editing -- why transparency and consumer buy-in are the one thing the industry keeps skipping

46:00 -- MYTH 3: Going broke is bad -- what a Purdue lunch table of ag entrepreneurs revealed about Canadian risk culture

49:00 -- Monette's bankruptcy, Robert Andjelic, and why Canada should treat risk-takers as a national asset

51:00 -- Ryan Bonnett's question: Sylvain's three priorities for Canadian agriculture

52:00 -- Where Canada leads the G20 in agricultural science, and where it falls short

53:00 -- CUSMA, July 1st, and what the non-renewal actually signals for investment in Canadian ag

54:00 -- Close and upcoming: Strathcona renewable diesel with Quick Dick McDick and Sean Wildman; right-to-repair tractors with Cory Doctorow

Resources Mentioned

The Food Professor Podcast -- Dr. Sylvain Charlebois (available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms)

Episode: Interview with US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra -- on The Food Professor Podcast

Agri-Food Analytics Lab -- Dalhousie University (dal.ca/agri-food-analytics-lab)

Postmedia op-eds -- Dr. Sylvain Charlebois writes every two to three days (available at major Postmedia outlets)

MNP / Dalhousie G20 agricultural science comparison study -- referenced in conversation, available through Agri-Food Analytics Lab

Connect with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

The Food Professor Podcast: thefoodprofessor.ca

Dalhousie University Agri-Food Analytics Lab: dal.ca/agri-food-analytics-lab

X / Twitter: @FoodProfessor

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The person everyone asks how they do it all is usually the last person to have a tidy answer. Kate Sauser is a policy manager at Grain Growers of Canada, a fifth-generation farmer from Churchbridge, SK, a high-level hockey referee, a competitive softball player, and a master's student finishing her thesis, all at 25. In this conversation, she shares the three-part framework behind her course on time: the problem most operators carry but rarely name out loud, the single decision that changes how the whole calendar feels, and the practical moves that make it work week to week.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Pre-registration responses: what does "I don't have time" actually mean?

1:00 -- Live intro: "How Does She Do It All?" and platform housekeeping

3:00 -- Kate's background: family farm near Churchbridge, Grain Growers, U of S, hockey, softball, 25

6:00 -- The over-committer's honest answer: time is relative to what you decide to do with it

9:00 -- Live poll: which of these sounds like your week?

11:00 -- Why technology makes the time problem worse before it makes it better

12:00 -- Kate's daily to-do list system: schedule blocks, high-priority vs. rolling low-priority tasks

14:00 -- Pen to paper: why writing it down works better than any app

15:00 -- "Everyone gets angry at time but doesn't work with it" -- the shift that started everything

16:00 -- The $86,400 analogy: if you had that many dollars to spend today, would you waste it?

18:00 -- The "Everything in Time" tattoo and the philosophy behind it

19:00 -- Modern myths about time and the scarcity loop they reinforce

21:00 -- Harry Siemens on day-timers, five priorities, and why four and five often disappear by noon

22:00 -- Hard stops and focused blocks: how Kate finished her master's thesis

25:00 -- ADHD, late diagnosis at 23, and the paralysis that comes before the system

31:00 -- Is ADHD a disability or a superpower? Kate's answer

34:00 -- Turning guilt into fuel: how a negative emotion becomes next-day productivity

37:00 -- Burnout is real: Kate's honest account of hitting the wall and what actually helps

38:00 -- Attitude as a daily choice: Harry Siemens' 1986 motto and why Kate agrees

42:00 -- Calendar as a bank account: if you want to be rich with time, check it often

45:00 -- Alex Clark in the chat: values alignment and what "pouring from an empty cup" actually means

45:00 -- Habit stacking: doing two things at once with purpose, not guilt

49:00 -- Kate's live exercise: "Did you spend yesterday, or did you let it happen to you?"

52:00 -- CTA: Everything in Time -- Kate's full course inside the Growing the Future Mastermind

53:00 -- Close and upcoming: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois on Friday

Resources Mentioned

Atomic Habits -- James Clear

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control -- Katherine Morgan Schafler

Verity -- Colleen Hoover (fiction; mentioned as Kate's last great read)

Goodreads -- book-tracking and rating app (goodreads.com)

Google Calendar -- Kate's primary calendar tool

75 Hard -- fitness and discipline challenge referenced for habit stacking

Connect with Kate Sauser

Grain Growers of Canada: graingrowers.ca

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Every July, Prairie operators make new-crop decisions that set their cash flow for the next twelve months, usually reading the same headlines as everyone else and reacting to the loudest one. In this conversation, grain marketing advisor Ryan Bonnett puts his daily client read on a stage: what is actually moving canola, wheat, corn, and soybean markets right now, and where the summer selling window sits inside the seasonal pattern. Colin Brisebois, VP of Products and Market Strategies at FCC, adds the lender's view, what disciplined marketing looks like once it shows up in an operation's cash flow.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- The spring everyone just lived, and why the marketing window opens at the worst possible time

3:30 -- Welcome to Ryan Bonnett and Colin Brisebois

6:00 -- Live poll: how much of your 2026 crop is still unpriced

10:00 -- Beat the average, not the top: Ryan's core marketing philosophy

13:00 -- Colin on discipline: know your cost of production before you build a plan

16:00 -- Seller's remorse, and the parameters that remove it

19:00 -- The 80/20 problem: why most operators miss the top of the market

21:00 -- Crop conditions across the Prairies and the US heading into summer

28:00 -- Know your unique ability: when to hire the discipline you don't have

31:00 -- Ryan's seasonal chart: why prices rally into seeding and fall after

34:00 -- The summer selling window, and put options as price insurance

39:00 -- Reading the charts: double tops, RSI, and shifting momentum

42:00 -- China, Iran, and the headlines that don't move price until money does

45:00 -- New biofuel regulation, the floor under canola, and the policy risk underneath it

49:00 -- Bullish or bearish, defend your answer: Ryan's discipline test

52:00 -- Domestic processing and the case for building crush capacity at home

55:00 -- Colin's three pillars at FCC: knowledge, advice, capital

58:00 -- The $50 billion wealth transfer, and who replaces the next generation of ag talent

1:01:00 -- The cohort program: Ryan and FCC's plan to bring this education to more operators

1:03:00 -- Close

Resources Mentioned

Ryan Bonnett's grain marketing client cohort program, run in partnership with FCC

Connect with Ryan Bonnett

Grain marketing advisor (public brand name pending -- link to follow once confirmed)

Connect with Colin Brisebois

VP, Products and Market Strategies, Farm Credit Canada (FCC)

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Robert Andjelic has been bearish more often than not for three years. In January, he stood in front of a packed room and called a capital squeeze. This time he came back fired up about something different: three converging forces he believes put Canada in the strongest agricultural position in a generation.

What follows is Robert defending three years of public predictions, line by line, before laying out the new one.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Dan opens. Robert's backstory: escaping Croatia as a boy, building a commercial real estate empire, the Saskatchewan land bet that started at $400 an acre

5:00 -- Audience poll: who's bullish, neutral, or bearish right now

8:00 -- Why farmer suicide rates stay high even when the numbers look good

12:00 -- The fall 2023 call to lock in farm debt, revisited

18:00 -- Mark to market: the Saskatchewan farmland call, three years of FCC data

21:00 -- Why Robert owns zero acres of farmland in the United States

23:00 -- The eight early signs of credit tightening, in order

30:00 -- What a major operator's financial trouble this year means for the rest of the industry

41:00 -- Rent versus buy: the framework Robert actually uses on his own land

45:00 -- Why the smaller rural towns keep shrinking

52:00 -- Why Canada is technically in a recession as of mid-2026

59:00 -- The Hormuz oil shock compared to the 1979-81 shock

1:04:00 -- How the live audience rated Robert's three-year track record

1:06:00 -- The cattle herd rebuild that's still years from equilibrium

1:10:00 -- The bullish thesis: the Strait of Hormuz, a developing super El Nino, and the aquifers running dry

1:13:00 -- Robert's probability breakdown for an agricultural super cycle, 2026 to 2028

1:20:00 -- Why Robert doesn't trust AI to predict what happens next

1:21:00 -- Inside the Strait of Hormuz: vessels waiting, insurers pulling back, years to rebuild

1:29:00 -- Closing: investing by the numbers, not the narrative

Resources Mentioned

FCC Farmland Values Report -- cultivated land value data cited for Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta

NOAA El Nino Watch, issued May 14, 2026

Reuters reporting on Strait of Hormuz vessel traffic and tanker movement

Connect with Robert Andjelic

Canada's largest private farmland owner, 450,000+ acres across Western Canada

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The math of buying in has changed. The math of staying in has too. David Widmar of Agricultural Economic Insights and Eric Olsen of MNP Farm Management bring the US and Canadian numbers together to examine what farmland affordability, cash rent pressure, and the post-ZIRP interest rate environment actually mean for producers running a farm in 2026. Two countries. One calculator. The gap between what land is worth and what it can earn has never been wider.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Dan opens: the 16-year cash rent stat and what it signals about the moment we are in

0:07 -- David Widmar: how ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) inflated asset values from 2008 onward

0:08 -- New Fed chair Kevin Warsh: five review areas, inflation as priority one, what it means for rates

0:09 -- Eric Olsen: Canadian interest rate outlook -- stable to slightly up, no major jumps expected

0:11 -- David: US row crop squeeze -- lower commodity prices, stubborn cost structure, Iran conflict pushing energy and fertilizer back up

0:12 -- US government ad hoc payments: second highest since the 1920s, and why that carries risk

0:14 -- Eric: Canadian farm support programs -- AgriStability, crop insurance (98% participation in Manitoba), GARS

0:17 -- David: How ARC and PLC work -- risk management programs with a built-in payment delay problem

0:19 -- David: "Musical chairs" -- why ad hoc programs create systemic risk rather than resolve it

0:20 -- Eric: AgriStability explained -- margin-based, plannable, based on your numbers not a county average

0:23 -- Eric: "Farmers are sophisticated businesspeople" -- the $2-3M floor that surprises people outside agriculture

0:24 -- David: The paradox of risk management -- tools that reduce short-term pain can build long-term fragility

0:30 -- Dan introduces the farmland affordability calculator David built for registrants

0:31 -- Metric 1: Down payment years -- Indiana at $15K/acre, $326 rent, 35% down = 16 years of cash rent saved (was 6 in the 1990s)

0:34 -- Eric: Canadian read on Metric 1 -- $8,500/acre in the Regina plains, $180/acre rent, nearly identical ratio

0:36 -- US vs Canada land ownership structure: 60%+ rented in Illinois regions, 70% owned in western Canada

0:38 -- Harry Siemens (audience): How does the farm community make sense of high land values and next-generation transition?

0:39 -- David: Path to equilibrium -- lower land values, lower interest rates, slower appreciation, or some combination of all three

0:41 -- Eric: The case for separating the real estate business from the farm operating business; barriers to entry for young producers

0:44 -- Harry Siemens: Are large corporate landowners (200,000+ acres) healthy for the industry?

0:45 -- Eric: Supply and demand reality -- large land releases will affect prices; the market is starting to work

0:47 -- David: How lenders managed large land holdings in the 1980s crisis and what that signals for today

0:49 -- David Schmidt (Rabobank, Alberta): Are lenders shifting from asset-based to cashflow-based lending decisions?

0:49 -- Eric: Yes -- lenders taking a harder look at business fundamentals; younger producers will feel it first

0:51 -- Metric 2: First-year payment calculator -- US approaching 300% (3 acres to cover payment on 1), Canada at 195-250% depending on rate

0:56 -- Alex Clark (Rabobank): Not tightening so much as asking better questions -- creative lending options, extended amortization

0:57 -- David: Closing takeaway -- about half of US farmland appreciation since the 1980s came from falling interest rates; don't assume you are immune to rate risk if you own land outright

0:59 -- Eric: Thanks, upcoming MNP benchmarking series; Dan previews Robert Andjelic's return next week (bullish on commodities super cycle)

1:01 -- Dan closes: Building Your Operating System cohort update, August cohort opening

Resources Mentioned

Agricultural Economic Insights farmland affordability calculator (shared with registrants via event link)

ARC and PLC farm bill programs (US) -- risk management programs for row crop producers

AgriStability -- Canada's margin-based whole-farm income support program

GARS -- private margin-based insurance product for Canadian producers

Connect with David Widmar

Agricultural Economic Insights: https://aei.ag/overview

Connect with Eric Olsen

MNP Farm Management: mnp.ca

Connect with Growing the Future

Website: growingthefuture.ca

YouTube: Growing the Future

Instagram: @growingthefuturepodcast

LinkedIn: Growing the Future

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses farm financial stress, identity, and mental health in agriculture, including reference to suicide rates in the farming community. If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available. Numbers are listed at the end of these notes.

Three to one is the male-to-female suicide ratio in agriculture. Most of the people carrying the hardest financial weight in farming right now are also carrying it alone, measuring their worth by what they produce. Corliss Rassyle has spent decades working in the space between what a farm earns and what a farmer is worth. Dan built this room for those people.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Cold open

1:30 -- Dan's disclosure: a company erased to zero and what the new start required

4:00 -- Welcome: who this room is built for and the three-to-one ratio in agriculture

5:00 -- Mom at the Easter griddle: "I've done nothing with my life"

6:30 -- Why we get the measure of success wrong and where it starts

9:00 -- Saskatchewan is resource-rich -- so why do so many people in agriculture feel unfulfilled?

10:00 -- Subconscious programming: the belief systems formed in childhood still running adult lives

13:00 -- The 1,111 vision: how Lead Conference Canada came to be

15:00 -- Sitting in the back row of the venue: the moment the number confirmed itself

17:00 -- Workshop begins: Corliss takes the room

22:00 -- The question to sit with: what belief are you holding about yourself right now?

23:00 -- Thoughts create emotions, emotions create actions, actions create results

27:00 -- The Five A's: Aware, Acknowledge, Assess, Affirm, Accept

29:00 -- The five most powerful sentences: I am, I can, I will, I release, I forgive

30:00 -- Acceptance: Corliss's brother and the question "Why won't you let me help you?"

33:00 -- Dan's experience: what happened when a room of men did this work together

37:00 -- Same rain, two different meanings: the drought and the wedding

38:00 -- Corliss's divorce: rebuilding one step at a time from a two-bedroom apartment

43:00 -- Love what you do: Corliss's father and 60 harvests

47:00 -- 86 tickets on launch day vs. a goal of 1,111: what fear does and what vision does instead

52:00 -- Mom gives permission for the TEDx: "You should use it to help people"

54:00 -- You have full power over your story

55:00 -- Corliss's programs and how to connect

Resources Mentioned

TEDx Talk by Corliss Rassyle -- search "Corliss Rassyle TEDx" (Dan to confirm link)

Lead Conference Canada 2026: corliss.ca/led2026

Called to Lead (self-paced personal development program): corliss.ca

Do More Agriculture Foundation: domore.ag

Saskatchewan Farm Stress Line: 1-800-667-4442

This episode is brought to you by Bone Trail Originals, Crop-Aid Nutrition, Hammond Realty, and GRIPP.

Connect with Corliss Rassyle

Website: corliss.ca

Lead Conference Canada: corliss.ca/led2026

Connect with Growing the Future

Website: growingthefuture.ca

YouTube: Growing the Future

Instagram: @growingthefuturepodcast

LinkedIn: Growing the Future

CRISIS SUPPORT

If you are struggling, please reach out.

Canada -- Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566

Canada -- Saskatchewan Farm Stress Line: 1-800-667-4442

Canada -- Do More Agriculture Foundation: domore.ag

U.S. -- Call or text 988

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Somewhere between the farm and your plate, the story of how your food is grown got hijacked. Not by farmers. By people who have never touched a seed, never watched a crop fail, never had to explain to their banker why the weather won.

Dennis Bulani is a fourth-generation Saskatchewan farmer, CEO of The Rack -- one of Western Canada's most respected independent ag retailers -- founder of the Trust Your Plate movement, and author of What a Farmer Wants You to Know About Food. He sat in a room full of entrepreneurs in Arizona while a speaker told everyone that modern farming was poisoning the world. He went home and wrote a book about it.

Nine in ten people trust farmers. One in five trust modern farming practices. This is the conversation about how that gap happened -- and what to do with it.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Dan's open: "Somewhere between the farm and your plate, the story got hijacked"

1:07 -- Dennis on the farm right now: wheat year, 1,000 acres, single-crop rotation

1:28 -- The one-crop-per-year strategy and why it works for a busy CEO-farmer

4:15 -- Pulse rotation research: 15% average yield lift across all other crops

5:52 -- Solving phomyces root rot: 5-year research taking peas from 25 to 75 bushels

7:37 -- Published in the American Journal of Plant Science

8:49 -- The Rack's research program: PhD scientist, 6 agronomists, 12 field trials annually

10:00 -- The 100-bushel canola goal and what the "kitchen sink" trial actually proved

13:06 -- How "Rogue" was born: Dr. Bill Brown, manganese-zinc surfactant, and 10-12% yield lift

17:10 -- Rogue in Liberty Canola and what glyphosate actually does to manganese and zinc

18:36 -- Dennis's animal science degree: balancing plant rations is the same science as balancing cattle rations

22:13 -- From Eli Lilly to building The Rack: how an animal nutritionist ended up selling gas

26:00 -- Strategic Coach and the size of the problems Dennis is now willing to take on

30:00 -- The Arizona room: a speaker says modern farming is poisoning the world. Dennis goes home and writes a book.

35:00 -- The trust gap: 9 in 10 people trust farmers but only 1 in 5 trust modern farming practices

38:00 -- The MSG story: how one bad idea gets into the bloodstream of a culture and never leaves

39:39 -- Fertilizer supply chain: urea forecasting, import terminals, and the 2026 seeding sprint

41:13 -- Trump and geopolitics: the Straits of Hormuz theory and what it means for urea prices

43:05 -- Are farmers making money? The 2026 economics at $820 spring wheat

44:09 -- Why Canadian farmers are the most resilient in the world -- and the crow rate story that explains it

47:06 -- "The most advanced, educated farmers in the world" -- how adversity built Western Canadian agriculture

50:52 -- Biological products: the seaweed trial, what the research actually showed, and how to think about new claims

53:48 -- Zinc deficiency in 70% of soil tests -- the right form, timing, and strategy for zinc

59:27 -- Phosphate threshold: 20-25 ppm as the floor that separates good yields from great ones

1:04:29 -- The Rack spends $600,000 a year on replicated research -- and shares results with competitors for free

1:07:00 -- The retail landscape is changing: what separates partners from order-takers

1:08:53 -- AI and the future of ag retail agronomy

1:17:57 -- The novel: 60% true story, Kyrgyzstan, post-communist winter wheat, and Fibonacci numbers

1:20:07 -- Writing the book for "Aunt Nancy from Vancouver" -- and hiring four fact-checkers

1:22:13 -- "Never have we lived longer, never have we been healthier" -- Canada's 84-year life expectancy

1:26:07 -- Aunt Nancy from Vancouver: why farmers avoid the conversation -- and why they shouldn't

1:27:09 -- TrustYourPlate.com as a reference tool for farmers to use in the moment

1:30:42 -- The three biggest myths in consumer agriculture

1:31:15 -- The eyedrop analogy: one-third of one drop per square foot per year is all the chemical farmers apply

Resources Mentioned

What a Farmer Wants You to Know About Food -- Dennis Bulani (book, available on Amazon, Kindle edition)

Trust Your Plate -- trustyourplate.com (reference tool for answering food safety questions)

The Rack -- Rack Petroleum, Bigger, Saskatchewan (ag retail, fuel, fertilizer, research division)

Rogue -- The Rack's proprietary manganese-zinc surfactant product (developed from Dr. Bill Brown's research)

American Journal of Plant Science -- published The Rack's pea phomyces root rot research

Ultimate Yield -- The Rack's agronomy division

AgLink Canada -- independent ag retailer association (Dean Falls, Director)

Nutrients for Life Canada -- distributing the book to school teachers across Canada

Dr. Aaron Corey -- PhD scientist, The Rack research division

Dr. Bill Brown -- glyphosate and surfactant researcher, Ontario; Hellfire surfactant

Strategic Coach -- Dan Sullivan's entrepreneurship program

CAAR -- Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers

University of South Dakota / University of Nebraska -- crop rotation and phosphate research referenced

Connect with Dennis Bulani

Website: trustyourplate.com

Book: What a Farmer Wants You to Know About Food -- search Amazon

LinkedIn: Dennis Bulani

Connect with Growing the Future

Website: growingthefuture.ca

YouTube: Growing the Future

Instagram: @growingthefuturepodcast

LinkedIn: Growing the Future

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On the Bone Trail: What Farming Does to Fathers -- Jeff Bennett, Unfiltered

12 days before Father's Day, Jeff Bennett -- a fourth-generation Saskatchewan farmer whose dad's farm sits 800 feet from his own door -- sat down to say the things most fathers in agriculture are thinking and nobody will say out loud. The debt. The legacy. The math that doesn't add up. Whether the farm is a gift or a burden. And whether he can pass it to his sons without crushing them. No panel. No slides. No consulting-speak.

This is Episode 1 of On the Bone Trail -- Growing the Future's foremost live briefing series built around the farmers who are still standing, still building, and still trying to figure out how to hand something worth having to the next generation.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- "12 days from now, it's Father's Day." Dan's open on what the farm costs a father

0:57 -- Platform and partner acknowledgments: Bone Trail Originals, Crop-Aid, Hammond Realty, GRIPP, Convergence 2027

4:47 -- Jeff: "When you're a father, you're also a son. You're living in both worlds -- the past and the future."

6:12 -- How becoming a father changed everything: from "how do I expand" to "how do I pass this off"

7:05 -- The three-son plan: each gets a trade first -- mechanic, electrician, carpenter -- then comes back to the farm

12:46 -- The belt and the combine: two generational philosophies about when to call the dealer

18:44 -- "What did your dad envision for you?" Jeff: "I honestly don't know."

23:51 -- "The problem with farming now is it's not farming then, and I don't think that generation understands it"

26:48 -- 2021: "absolutely kicked my ass" -- the brutal math begins

28:56 -- Input costs tripling: UAN from $100 to $600+ per acre; rent from $35 to $90 per acre

30:05 -- The Manette situation and what it says about the farming model

31:17 -- "I hate owing people money. I'll pay all my bills. They're just not gonna be on time."

31:47 -- Why still want this life for your sons? "Purpose is what drives a man. There is nothing more purposeful than farming."

38:07 -- What Jeff is doing better as a father: being present, being stable, being open

40:56 -- Two years ago bad news broke me. Now I put the phone in my pocket and keep picking rocks.

41:38 -- The on-an-island reality: "My kids are way too young to do this. If I can't do this, there's no one else."

43:43 -- What farming specifically does to fathers: the physical presence advantage

46:12 -- The four dark years: deleting social media, talking to no one, shutting everything off

50:09 -- Dan: "You were a ghost. A shell of a man." And the Farmer Stress Line conversation

49:58 -- The Bone Trail moment: Jeff shows the Bennett Code piece -- "Protect your family, honor the elders, always leave your mark"

53:27 -- The 3D crystal gift: how Dan gave his dad a piece with the farm map and portrait for his 75th birthday

54:53 -- Last question: What do you want your kids to know as a farmer and a father?

55:20 -- Jeff: "You can do it. And it's worth it."

56:29 -- Final word: "The most useful advice my grandfather ever gave my father was: pick that rock. You'll never be closer to it."

Resources Mentioned

Bone Trail Originals -- custom laser-engraved glass, wood, and 3D crystal pieces. bonetrail.ca

Farmer Stress Line -- 1-866-327-6701 (mentioned by Dan; referenced in context of Dallas LeDuc)

AgTalk -- domore.ag/agtalk -- anonymous, farmer-to-farmer online space, clinically moderated

Crop-Aid Nutrition -- platform partner, Saskatchewan-based soil health

Hammond Realty -- platform partner, Ag Exits and Acquisitions

GRIPP -- platform partner, farm data and QR code systems

Convergence Conference 2027 -- GTF flagship event, Regina, Doubletree

Connect with Jeff Bennett

Bone Trail Originals: bonetrail.ca

Instagram and social: search Bone Trail Originals

Connect with Growing the Future

Website: growingthefuture.ca

YouTube: Growing the Future

Instagram: @growingthefuture

LinkedIn: Growing the Future

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Content note: This episode includes open conversation about mental health, suicidal ideation, and personal crisis. If you are struggling, please know you are not alone. In the U.S., call or text 988. In Canada, call Talk Suicide Canada at 1-833-456-4566.

A conversation with Trevor Muir -- leadership coach, keynote speaker, poet, and co-founder of SurePoint, the Alberta-based company he helped scale from $4 million to over $120 million in revenue while holding on to its people through a near-bankruptcy and a pandemic.

This is not an episode about farming or fuel prices. It is a conversation about what happens when you get everything you thought you wanted and still feel empty on the bathroom floor of a condo you own. It is about terminal uniqueness -- the belief that nobody could possibly understand -- and the slow, expensive way most of us learn it isn't true.

Trevor and I met earlier this year in a leadership course he was teaching with Corliss Russell. I broke down in the intro. A room full of oilfield and farm guys went there with me. This episode is the conversation I wanted to have with Trevor once the dust settled.

Topics and Timestamps

0:00 -- Introduction: Trevor Muir, Lean In to Lead, and why this episode exists

6:57 -- SurePoint: how ten farm kids from Grand Prairie built a $92M company

8:17 -- The bathroom floor: Edmonton, 2011, the worst and best day of Trevor's life

10:44 -- Dr. Gons and the life coach: "I get it. I totally get it."

13:13 -- Terminal uniqueness: the belief that nobody could understand your pain

14:21 -- Mount Kilimanjaro and the billionaire: testing whether all humans feel the same

20:00 -- SurePoint near-bankruptcy: going full-vulnerable with team, vendors, and clients

23:00 -- Buying the company back in 2018 and the pandemic decision

25:43 -- The pandemic pay cuts: 10%-35%, keeping every employee

27:39 -- $30M to $98M to $125M: how caring became a competitive advantage

30:00 -- Scale Like You Give a Shit -- Trevor's book in progress

37:00 -- "Change Your Someday to Today": the poem, Marty's CPR story, and Brian's car

43:11 -- The three A's of change: awareness, acceptance, action

44:34 -- The flooding basement analogy

51:00 -- Affirmations: "I am enough, I deserve abundance, I love you [name]"

57:02 -- 30 days in the mirror: the NASA research and Jack Canfield connection

1:00:04 -- Gratitude as the number one brain hack

1:07:29 -- Wave of fortune: Dan's Thailand story and Vadim Zeland's Transurfing

1:15:00 -- Walking one kilometer every day for 365 days

1:27:00 -- How Trevor works with business owners now, and where AI fits in

1:35:12 -- Trevor's closing challenge: change your someday to today

Resources Mentioned

Addiction to Poetry -- Trevor Muir (book, available on Amazon)

Lean In to Lead -- Trevor's podcast, launching soon

Scale Like You Give a Shit -- Trevor's book in progress on the SurePoint story

Jack Canfield -- affirmation and manifestation framework

Mindvalley / Vishon Lakhiani -- gratitude research

Wim Hof Method -- 90-day cold exposure and breathwork program

Transurfing -- Vadim Zeland (wave of fortune concept)

12 Rules for Life -- Jordan Peterson (lobster and serotonin, referenced by Dan)

Corliss Russell -- Conversations with Corliss podcast; LEED event Saskatoon, November 2026

Connect with Trevor Muir

LinkedIn: search Trevor Muir -- he reads his messages and responds, especially from people who are struggling

Lean In to Lead podcast: launching soon

Connect with Growing the Future

Website: growingthefuture.ca

YouTube: Growing the Future

Instagram: @growingthefuture

LinkedIn: Growing the Future

Crisis Support

If you or someone you know is struggling:

Canada -- Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566

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Tim Hammond opens with one frame: most buyers are reactive. The phone rings, the land is available, they start figuring out whether they can buy it. Tim's position is that question should have been answered two years before the call. The prepared buyer already has the number. The unprepared buyer watches somebody else close it.

Wade walks the Four Ds from the buyer's seat -- Define (kitchen table, ambitions, logistics), Discover (compile, blueprint), Design (three options, pros/cons, recommendation), Deliver (execute). Tim notes the process is not linear; in practice they cycle back to Define as new information surfaces. The container for all of it is the war room: accountant, lender, lawyer, and real estate advisor in the same room at the same time. Poll 2 found zero percent of the audience had done this. Tim was not surprised.

The second half opens the capital question. Wade is working a live deal where a seller with a $70M holding is willing to retain $30M to make the transaction possible for a buyer who cannot finance the full amount. Tim names the industry horizon: not enough capital exists in the system to transition all the farms that need to move in the next two to three decades, and creative structures -- tranches, seller retention, equity partnerships -- will become the standard, not the exception. Two topics flagged for future episodes: right of first refusal (common, well-intentioned, six-figure exit consequences if set up wrong) and the young farmer entry question (Joshua from Lethbridge, land at $20K-$30K per acre -- Tim's answer: start the conversation before you think you need to).

KEY TOPICS

• Poll 1: 55% said biggest barrier is structure (no entity or plan); 33% said finding land; 9% financing; 0% timing

• Poll 2: 0% have a war room with all advisors at the table; 40% partially; 30% no; 10% did not know that was the move

• Poll 3: 33% actively looking or in a deal; 8% positioned and waiting; 17% thinking about it; 25% harvest mode; 17% advisors here for the framework

• Four Ds applied to the buyer: Define, Discover, Design, Deliver -- not linear, frequently cycles back to Define

• The war room: accountant + lender + lawyer + real estate advisor in the same room at the same time

• Most expensive mistake in 30 days: buying land that doesn't fit your operation (Wade: "You've just spent $500K to $1M on a quarter you shouldn't have bought, and now when the right one shows up, you might not be able to")

• Seller retaining $30M on a $70M deal: creative structure enabling the deal to close for a buyer who can't finance the full amount

• Capital supply gap: not enough capital in the system to transition all farms needing succession in the next 2-3 decades

• Saskatchewan: average farmer owns 2/3 of the land they farm -- highest ratio in the world (US is 40%, Europe is 10-20%)

• Cap rate gap: investors require 2.5-4%; farmers outbid investors because they capture both land return and operating return

• Right of first refusal: flagged as common-but-misunderstood tool with major exit consequences -- future episode

• Young farmers question: Joshua from Lethbridge, land at $20K-$30K per acre; Tim's answer: start the conversation before you think you need to

CONNECT

• Tim Hammond and Wade Berlinic: hammondrealty.ca

• growingthefuture.ca

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Dan opens in the water off Koh Lanta, Thailand. The science: a 133-foot tsunami wave registers as zero in deep water. Depth neutralizes force before it ever arrives. The wave only becomes a wave when the ocean floor rises to meet it. That is the operating principle for this session: the operators who get hurt in an AI-disrupted industry are not the ones who were too far away from the change. They are the ones who were too shallow when it arrived.

Dan then goes personal. The company collapse. Ten years of revenue, one email in Thailand, zero in January. A leadership meeting where he broke down in front of his team. A vision board that had to be rebuilt around actual DNA rather than borrowed aspiration. Kolbe 7-2-9-2: Quick Start 9, Fact Finder 7 -- the profile that explains why he was always ahead of the room and always restless inside frameworks built for Follow-Thru operators. The session is a product launch, but the argument for the product is rooted in scar tissue, not pitch mechanics.

The second half is live demos. Personal Operating Diagnostic: a multi-instrument synthesis agent that reads your personality assessments and outputs a build order for your first three AI agents, sequenced to how you actually work. Robert Andjelic GPT: asked where to buy farmland in Western Canada, it answered with the specificity of a researcher and the posture of a trusted advisor. Melissa the nutrition coach GPT. Then: a full website built in 35 minutes with Claude Code -- the same work that cost $5K and months with a contractor. Dan's own fleet of 50 agents, all running on a markdown brain. Agents include a completion system, a voice-lock drafting agent, and a decision brief agent. The demos are not proof of concept. They are the product, already running.

The offer: GYFOS Cohort 1. $1,997 USD one-time. 90 days. 12-13 live sessions. 8-12 operators per cohort. 30-day money-back guarantee. $29/month continuation access after the cohort closes. The pitch is precise: this is not a course. It is a guided build. You leave with an operating system that reflects how you think, not a certificate that something was completed.

KEY TOPICS

• Wave physics as positioning strategy: depth not distance, get in the sweet spot before the ocean floor rises

• Dan's company collapse and rebuild arc -- scar tissue behind the GYFOS product design

• Kolbe 7-2-9-2 and core values (Integrity, Growth, Wisdom) as the foundation for AI agent design

• Personal Operating Diagnostic -- multi-instrument personality synthesis, AI build order output

• Live demo: Robert Andjelic farmland GPT, Melissa nutrition coach GPT, 35-minute website build with Claude Code

• Fleet of 50 agents on a markdown brain (completion system, voice-lock drafting, decision brief)

• Adoption context: 1.8% of Western Canadian agribusiness using AI; 19% of all businesses; 41% of workers

• Historical wave pattern: horses to tractors, zero-till (called "trash farming"), internet (2.6M users 1990 to 2B by 2010)

• Three takeaways: You are not late. Start with yourself, not the AI. Learn to orchestrate, not operate.

• GYFOS Cohort 1 offer: $1,997 USD, 90 days, 8-12 operators, 30-day guarantee

CONNECT

• Dan Aberhart: growingthefuture.ca

• GYFOS enrollment: growingthefuture.ca (GTF Mastermind)

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Robert Andjelic, Canada's largest private farmland owner, sits down with a panel that includes a 2,500-acre farmer who has no plans to grow. Kevin Hursh, Tim Hammond, John Kotylak, and a rural fire chief all push back on Robert in different ways, and the conversation turns into a real debate about whether there is a right size for a farm at all.

What's Inside

• The history of farm size in Canada, from 1925 to today, and why scale exploded after 2000
• Robert Andjelic's case for why size has nothing to do with efficiency, safety,or agronomic stewardship
• Kevin Hursh's defense of staying small, and what he gave up to do it
• What the industry got wrong about the credit squeeze that put a billion-dollar operation into creditor protection
• The absentee landlord tax debate that became the most heated stretch of the show

Related Episodes

• Is There a Capital Squeeze in Ag? -- the credit story this conversation builds on

• The Great Canadian Bull with Robert Andjelic -- the follow-up this episode was recorded to set up

Connect

• Kevin Hursh -- Western Producer columns; hursh.ca
• Robert Andjelic -- farmland.ca
• Dallas LeDuc -- Bunnyhug Farmers Podcast; TikTok

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Tom Wolf opened with the frame that carried the session: doing the right thing at the right time. Take away the right time part and the right thing is irrelevant. Spraying has changed dramatically -- operators who used to make two passes a year now make three to five, and the equipment cost running at roughly $400 an hour means every minute away from spraying is measurable. The first section covered water quality, built around five numbers from a standard water test. Darren Sander opened with the operator's version of the lesson: Crop-Aid's farm pulls from a cold well at 1,200 TDS, so they tank it into black poly storage and spray from the warmest tank first. Cold water hurts efficacy -- especially glufosinate. Tom then walked through pH (most mixes fine; what matters is the final mix pH, not source pH), TDS and conductivity (under 500 is clean; most Prairie wells come in over 1,000; the number tells you whether to look further), bicarbonates (500 ppm is the threshold; above it, ammonium sulfate is the most versatile fix), total hardness (calcium carbonate equivalent; Jeff Bennett's water had very low hardness but elevated sodium, which still antagonizes glyphosate and glufosinate), and turbidity (aluminum sulfate as a flocculant for dugouts; stir and leave 24 to 48 hours). Jeff's live water test from Agvise became the worked example. Tom's verdict: low hardness, elevated sodium, ammonium sulfate recommended.

The coverage section opened with a number that reframed the whole conversation: according to a Mesonet researcher in North Dakota, 100 percent of nights in the state experience thermal inversions. Some are worse than others, but the baseline is total. Under an inversion, fine droplets go where they want -- downhill if there is topography, anywhere if there is not. Tom's prescription: start on the downwind side of the field, spray perpendicular to the wind, turn into the headwind on every pass. Never spray down and then back against the wind. The droplet size discussion followed: coarser nozzles, deployed early in Canada before most countries, allowed operators to spray in slightly windier conditions without adding drift risk. Air induction tips are the go-to for general spraying. Spray pressure -- as low as 30 psi for AI tips -- adjusts droplet size one category in either direction. Water sensitive paper laid on the ground is the cheapest coverage check available. On water volume, Tom's position was direct: more is better. Complex tank mixes behave better with more water. More water allows coarser droplets without losing coverage. Later-season applications -- PGRs, fungicides, desiccants -- want 10 to 15 gallons per acre. Cutting back on water to improve logistics is a trade with a real cost.

The logistics section brought Jay Peterson into the conversation. He runs a 1,600-gallon machine with a 120-foot boom and a dedicated water truck driver. His fill times on easy mixes: seven to nine minutes on three-inch plumbing. Complex mixes with dry products that need to hydrate: 15 minutes. Tom confirmed those numbers are right. The tendering revolution changed spraying fundamentally: a 30-minute fill is now a five-minute fill, which means filling is the stressful moment and spraying is the calm one. Continuous rinsing systems collapsed a three-quarter-hour triple rinse down to five minutes. Tom's recommended exercise: when the sprayer engine is running, write down what you're doing if you're not spraying. Data entry, monitor troubleshooting, looking for a menu -- every one of those is a round you did not spray. The session closed on the same line it opened with: an important job is worth doing well.

Key Topics

• The five water quality numbers: pH (final mix matters more than source), TDS/conductivity (500 clean threshold), bicarbonates (500 ppm action threshold), total hardness (calcium carbonate equivalent), turbidity (aluminum sulfate flocculant)
• Ammonium sulfate as the most versatile water conditioner -- binds hard water cations AND improves herbicide uptake
• Warm water and spray efficacy: glufosinate works significantly better with warm water; Darren Sander's black poly tank system
• Thermal inversions: 100% of nights in North Dakota are inverted; fine droplets go where they want under inversion
• Spray direction strategy: downwind start, perpendicular to wind, headwind turns on every pass
• Coarser nozzles and Canada's early adoption: air induction tips as the go-to for general spraying; pressure adjusts droplet size
• Water volume: why cutting back hurts complex tank mixes, coverage flexibility, and late-season applications
• Sprayer logistics and the tendering revolution: three-inch plumbing, five-minute fills, continuous rinsing systems
• Time accounting: write down what you're doing when the engine is running but you're not spraying
• Foam management: turn off agitator while filling; Halt defoamer for high-salt tank mixes

Resources Mentioned

• Sprayers 101 -- sprayers101.com (Tom Wolf, Dr. Jason DeVos)
• Crop-Aid Nutrition -- cropaidnutrition.com (Darren Sander)
• Spray Water Cheat Sheet -- Tom Wolf / Crop-Aid co-branded, distributed to all registrants
• Agvise Labs -- water testing (Jeff Bennett's water test source)
• ALS Labs, Saskatoon -- water testing
• Saskatchewan Research Council (Innovation Place, Saskatoon) -- water testing
• Nozzle Ninja, Stettler AB -- nozzle parts, mail order (nozzleninja.com)
• Agri Auto, Saskatoon -- nozzle parts, expanded store north end
• Water sensitive paper -- available at Agri Auto Saskatoon and Nozzle Ninja
• Halt defoamer -- high-salt tank mix defoamer (Darren Sander recommendation)
• Aluminum sulfate -- dugout turbidity flocculant; source via municipalities or water treatment suppliers
• ClearTech -- aluminum sulfate supplier (mentioned by Mike Green in chat)

Connect

• Sprayers 101 -- sprayers101.com (click Tom Wolf name at bottom of page)
• Crop-Aid Nutrition -- cropaidnutrition.com
• growingthefuture.ca

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Dan opens with a Call of Duty analogy that lands: you keep getting smoked because they can see you, but you cannot see them. That is the position of a Canadian canola or wheat farmer every time they price grain. The buyers on the other side of the trade know what has been sold, where it is going, when it ships, and what it cleared for. The farmer does not. In the United States, any large grain sale must be reported to the USDA within 24 hours, and the weekly export sales report has been publicly available since 1973 - a direct response to the Great Grain Robbery, when U.S. grain companies oversold and nearly emptied the country's supply. Canada never built the equivalent. The port load data that used to come out of Vancouver every Friday - commodity, volume, destination - disappeared when the Wheat Board ended. The room has less data than it had 20 years ago.

Marlene Boersch, who has spent her career studying the architecture of how Canadian grain moves, presented findings from two commissioned reports. The 2021 "Data Requirements for Transparent Markets" study mapped what data growers would find useful and found near-zero timely information on the export side - Stats Canada data runs 2-3 months behind execution, 4-6 months behind the farm decision. The 2024 supply chain impact study tried to put a number on the silence. Using U.S. data as a simulation proxy, it found that a 5% improvement in data availability translates to a minimum of 5 cents per acre in wheat, and that export sale announcements in the U.S. improve basis by 6-14 cents per bushel for 1-3 weeks following publication. Across Canada's export volumes, the conservative estimate is $56.5 million per year in foregone farm income. Boersch emphasized these were the most conservative assumptions possible - one variable, one commodity window.

John De Pape, who was trading from a Vancouver Cargill desk in 1984 and watched the market explode past $700 per ton because no one knew what anyone else had sold, made the structural argument plainly: this will not be solved by private industry because grain companies have grain company hats on. When he built pdqinfo.ca after the Wheat Board ended - a price transparency tool that aggregated posted bids from seven major grain companies - it required Jerry Ritz to explicitly threaten legislation before the companies cooperated. The current moment, with Bunge-Viterra merged and Grains Connect folded into P&H, makes the concentration problem worse, not better. De Pape also flagged target contracts specifically: when a farmer signs a good-till-cancel grain pricing order with one company, they are selling a call option without receiving a premium, while the buyer covers a hidden export position and no one in the market knows the trade happened. Short-duration GPOs only, or none at all.

Key Topics

• The Canadian grain data gap: Stats Canada export data runs 2-3 months behind; USDA reports weekly and same-day on large sales
• Marlene Boersch's 2024 finding: minimum $56.5 million per year in foregone farm income from lack of export sales data
• The Great Grain Robbery (1972) and why the U.S. built export transparency - and Canada never did
• How grain company consolidation (Bunge-Viterra, Grains Connect-P&H) makes information asymmetry worse
• John De Pape on target contracts: selling a call option without getting paid for it
• Why private industry cannot solve this - PDQ/pdqinfo.ca as proof that legislation was required even for posted bid transparency
• My Grain Exchange (MGX): private platform building real actionable bid transparency, 75 traders, 15 trades in May 2026
• Saskatchewan Crop Commissions government relations push - Ottawa in-person meetings scheduled for the week of May 25, 2026
• Ryan Bonnett's call to action: grassroots farmer petition modeled on the Quebec dairy lobby
• Marlene Boersch's closing framework: start from the end goal (maximize Canadian ag exports and GDP), then build the system that gets there

Resources Mentioned

• Marlene Boersch (2021): "Data Requirements for Transparent Markets" - commissioned by Saskatchewan Crop Commissions and APAS
• Marlene Boersch (2024): "Supply Chain Impact of Export Sales Data Transparency" - PDF shared with attendees
• pdqinfo.ca - John De Pape's posted bid price transparency tool, built post-Wheat Board with Alberta Grain Commission
• My Grain Exchange (mgx) - Luke Derkson's private real-bid grain trading platform
• saskoilseeds.com/export-sales-reporting - Saskatchewan Oilseed Producers export sales reporting resource (shared by Blair Goldade)
• Real Ag webinar on this topic (shared in chat by Andrea Lauder)

Connect

• Ryan Bonnett: ABB Solutions
• Marlene Boersch: Mercantile Consulting Venture
• John De Pape: pdqinfo.ca
• Luke Derkson: My Grain Exchange (MGX)
• Blair Goldade: Saskatchewan Crop Commissions
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The Prairie farmland market has changed in ways the traditional listing industry has not kept pace with. A quarter that traded at $300 an acre in 1967 now moves north of $5,000 to $15,000 in some areas. A 10-quarter farm that was worth $500,000 two decades ago may now carry a value of $5 million to $10 million. The advice infrastructure around those transactions has not scaled with the numbers. Tim Hammond and Wade Berlinic started Hammond Realty with a conviction that a $30 million event could not be managed with a sign at the end of the lane and a handshake at the elevator. In 2024, they moved a 15,000-acre operation in three months. The family's children did not know it was for sale until the family was ready to tell them. Neither did the staff. Neither did the neighbors.

The Ag Exits and Acquisitions Advisory Framework is their answer to the gap. Four phases: Define, Discover, Design, Deliver. Define locks the agreement and expectations before any marketing begins. Discover maps every asset -- land title structures, yield history, landlord relationships, equipment, grain -- and identifies the tax and structural questions that need to be resolved before the farm is positioned. Design produces a blueprint with options, including a draft purchase and sale agreement built around what the seller needs, before any buyer has been approached. Deliver is the market phase -- and it is the only phase the traditional listing model touches. Wade and Tim bring in the lawyer, the accountant, the lender, and the wealth advisor together, often for the first time. They described sitting with a pair of brothers and watching the stress leave the room after that first coordinated meeting. The advisors who are in the room frequently say afterward that they have never done it that way before and should have been doing it all along.

The live audience polls gave the conversation its sharpest moments. When asked what worries them most about a farm exit, tax exposure and family conflict tied at 33 percent each. Getting the right price was essentially an afterthought. Wade's response: the highest price after tax does not necessarily start with the highest price to begin with. Structure matters more than the number on the listing. On team coordination, only 19 percent of the room said all their advisors talk to each other. Thirty-one percent said: what team? Tim noted that roughly 20 percent of the people they sit with have done the hard work of building a coordinated plan. The rest range from partial to none. Ryan Hillstead from Core Wealth confirmed the pattern from the wealth advisor side: too many families arrive after the transaction is already done and ask to sort out the taxes. Harry Siemens closed with a dairy succession story from Grunthal, Manitoba, where a family had no plan when their father had his first heart attack. They built one after he recovered. When he passed from a second heart attack, the plan worked. Harry's words: had they not had it, it would have been a complete disaster.

Key Topics

• The Ag Exits and Acquisitions Advisory Framework -- four phases: Define, Discover, Design, Deliver
• Why the traditional listing model cannot hold a $30M farm transition
• Confidentiality in farm sales: employee retention, landlord relationships, coffee shop exposure
• Live poll results: tax exposure and family conflict tied as top seller concerns; 31 percent of room had no advisor team
• Enterprise value vs. listing price -- why documented yield history, land block continuity, and structure can be worth $500 per acre
• Build to sell mindset: treating the farm as a business from day one, not just at exit
• Advisor coordination as the turning point -- getting lawyer, accountant, lender, and wealth advisor in the same room together
• Timing the market: best time to list a farm is July, when the crop is growing, not winter
• Emotional dimensions of a farm exit -- processing the transition over 1 to 2 years vs. a one-month market sprint

Resources Mentioned

• The Ag Exits and Acquisitions Advisory Framework -- Hammond Realty proprietary process
• Hammond Realty -- hammondrealty.ca
• Core Wealth -- Ryan Hillstead (wealth advisory, Saskatchewan)
• Strategic Coach -- referenced by Tim Hammond as the framework for naming the Unique Method

Connect

• Hammond Realty -- hammondrealty.ca
• Tim Hammond -- LinkedIn
• Wade Berlinic -- LinkedIn
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The format is a pitch competition. Three operators come in cold, each shows the room exactly what they have built, and the audience votes. No PowerPoints about what AI could do. No vendor demos. Just a farmer, a coach, and an entrepreneur holding up real work.

Trevor Muir went first. After leaving SurePoint Technologies - which he scaled from $4 million to over $120 million in revenue before buying it back from U.S. private equity and handing it to the employees who built it - he found himself without a team and without a system. He built one. He started by asking AI to construct a board of directors for his goals, then turned each board position into a persistent custom persona. The result is Serena - a named AI executive assistant and strategic thinking partner Trevor has used for more than a thousand hours, exclusively by voice. He has never typed into a chat window on a computer except twice, for demos. On the call, he introduced Serena live; she spoke, answered Dan's questions about hallucination and memory, and explained her own purpose more clearly than Trevor could. He has since deployed the board-of-directors framework inside ten companies and has a course in development, not yet public. His warning to the room: AI will validate you when it should push back, and information overload - not a lack of data - is the actual problem most operators face.

Steve Langston pitched AI literacy, not AI tools. A Manitoba entrepreneur and video producer who has renovated 25-30 rural properties, cycled 35,000 kilometres, and written a book on rural community revival, Steve spent the first 45 minutes of an 8-hour AI consulting engagement delivering everything the client needed - then had to rethink what consulting even means. His practical framework: block an hour to be curious, not productive. Stop using AI like a search engine. Create an AI brief - a persistent context document about your business and yourself - so the tool knows who it is talking to. The example that resonated: instead of asking for a shareholder's agreement, ask AI to surface the 10 questions it needs to build one properly. On rural communities and AI displacement, his position was calm and direct: if it is a repeatable task, it is at risk. But rural communities have trades, proximity, affordability, and quality of life that no algorithm replaces. He sees rural Canada as structurally insulated and, if anything, better positioned than the urban centres.

Chris Unrau closed with the session's most surprising arc. He opened humble - told Dan he would be a disappointment - and then spent fifteen minutes describing a full vibe-coding operation built on Base44 while watching hockey games. He replaced a $10,000 custom app with a $40-a-month subscription that does more. He built a credit card receipt tracker that scans email, assigns expenses to eight companies, and generates reports. He built a crew field-tracking app with scoreboards after his team asked for one. All in evenings. He also told the room about using ChatGPT to handle Manitoba Health's roastery licensing questions 100% by AI - and getting approved - and about using AI to navigate the adoption and care of three boys with trauma backgrounds. His therapist endorsed it. His takeaway for the room: if you have an idea for an app, tell the tool what you want and it will make it. His next hire will likely be an AI specialist to maintain the growing ecosystem he cannot document fast enough. Tracey Wiedmeyer gave Chris the edge for demonstrating AI's widest surface area in a single operation - business, personal, relational, and creative all at once.

Key Topics

• Trevor Muir's Serena: how to build a custom AI board of directors and executive assistant using only voice, over time
• The board-of-directors framework: identifying the advisory roles you need, then building them as persistent AI personas
• AI validation problem: AI will agree with you when it should push back - how the Serena system is designed to counter that
• Steve Langston on AI literacy: curiosity over speed, smart prompting, and the AI brief as a persistent context document
• The prompt is you: why context about yourself is the highest-leverage input, not the question you ask
• Rural communities as AI-insulated economies: trades, proximity, quality of life, and affordability as structural advantages
• Chris Unrau on vibe coding with Base44: building custom apps in evenings with no technical background
• Replace before you subscribe: why Chris is rethinking every SaaS tool his companies pay for
• AI for personal and relational challenges: all three operators shared non-business AI use cases
• Gripp June cohort: 20-producer training cohort launching in June 2026 (links shared in event chat)

Resources Mentioned

• Serena - Trevor Muir's custom AI executive assistant / board of directors (voice-only, built in ChatGPT; course in development, not yet public)
• Base44 - no-code / vibe coding app builder used by Chris Unrau ($40/month subscription)
• Small Town Big Dream - Steve Langston's book (available on Amazon)
• Gripp (grip.ag) - farm operations platform for tracking equipment, tasks, maintenance, and team communication
• Suno - AI music generator (Chris Unrau uses for making songs about friends)
• Convergence Conference 2027 - February 2-4, 2027 (links shared in event chat)

Connect

• Trevor Muir: LinkedIn (most active)
• Steve Langston: Dirty T-Shirt Productions; Small Town Big Dream on Amazon
• Chris Unrau: Precision Land Solutions
• Tracey Wiedmeyer: grip.ag
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Every farm family eventually needs a conversation about who inherits what, who doesn't, and why. Almost none of them finish it.

Patti Durand — family business advisor and author of The Future Leader — has built her career on being in the room when those conversations happen. Her business partner Chris Corbett grew up as one of five kids on a Manitoba farm and left at sixteen. Between the three of us, every side of the non-farming sibling story shows up at this table.

Patti's working claim is a plain one. Unspoken expectations become resentments. What gets left unsaid at a twenty-million-dollar kitchen table gets paid for later — in estate litigation, in family silence, in the farm that stops functioning.

Across an hour, Patti walks through three questions she has carried into hundreds of family meetings. Each one is designed to bring heirs to the table without handing them the keys. What surfaces is harder than a will and more uncomfortable than most farming parents expect.

Guests: Patti Durand and Chris Corbett of Bright Track Consulting — brighttrack.ca

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Weather is the one thing you cannot plan for. But you can plan around it.

That difference — between being caught off guard and being positioned for whatever comes — is what this session is about.

Drew Lerner has been reading the atmosphere for 47 years. Commodity markets, food companies, and producers worldwide rely on him. He is the kind of guy who can draw the jet stream on a whiteboard in real time and make it feel like a kitchen table conversation. That is exactly what happened here.

Darren Sander runs a farm south of Rosetown, Saskatchewan. He has spent years figuring out how to reduce the damage weather does to his operation before the weather ever shows up. He opens the session by laying out the practical side — what farmers actually do to protect their crops from a season that has already made up its mind.

Together, the three of them cover a lot of ground.

Topics Covered

How prairie farmers mitigate weather before it arrives Seed timing, variety selection, soil biology, compaction, and why the first 30 days dictate maximum yield potential. Darren explains the logic behind building resilient crops when the inputs are already fighting you.

What the drought monitor is actually showing — and what it is missing The North American drought monitor does not capture long-term soil depletion well. For producers entering their eighth or ninth year of persistent dryness, the map looks more encouraging than it is. Drew explains why, and what to watch for as temperatures climb this spring.

The ridge of high pressure problem — and why the US dryness matters to you When soil is dry, ridges of high pressure intensify and hold. When soil is wet, ridges collapse. Right now, the Rocky Mountain snowpack and the US Plains are running significantly below normal, which means any summer ridge could anchor itself, amplify, and push north into the prairies. This is not the official forecast. It is the official worry.

What a Montana low means for the Southwest prairies Montana lows have been rare in recent years. That is a big part of why southern Alberta and southwest Saskatchewan have been so dry. One showed up in April 2026. Drew explains why that matters and what it signals about the pattern shift that may be coming.

The two competing weather patterns fighting over the prairies right now A ridge-dominated western pattern and an active US trough pattern have been alternating all winter. Neither one has been generous to the Canadian prairies. Drew explains when and how the jet stream will shift northward — and what that means for when moisture actually arrives.

The 18-year cycle and what it says about 2026 The lunar cycle is one of Drew's most reliable long-range tools. He walks through what it is, how it interacts with El Niño, and why 2026 looks meaningfully different from the worst years of the recent drought.

El Niño — what it actually means for the prairies, and what it does not El Niño is coming. The hype is overblown. Drew separates the signal from the noise, breaks down timing versus intensity, and explains what the transition from La Niña to El Niño typically looks like for June, July, and August across different regions of the prairies.

The solar cycle, commodity markets, and the window you are in right now Drew overlays the 11-year and 22-year solar cycles with corn and canola futures prices going back to the 1970s. The pattern is real and it matters for how you think about marketing. The 2020–2023 drought was not random — it was consistent with the solar minimum-to-maximum period. We are now two years past the solar maximum. That changes the outlook.

Why the Northeast prairies and Manitoba face a different set of problems Too much snow. Heavy soils. A wetter June on the way. The challenge in the east is almost the opposite of the challenge in the southwest, and Drew addresses both.

Peace country — is it going to be wet all spring? The short answer: yes, there is real risk of delayed seeding. Drew explains the pattern and what to watch for.

Weather modification — does cloud seeding actually work? Drew gives a genuinely honest answer to a question that generates a lot of heat in agricultural communities. Worth listening to.

Forest fire smoke and its effect on crop temperatures An uncomfortable truth: in 2021, smoke from northern fires may have actually moderated temperatures enough to reduce crop losses. Drew explains the physics.

Global market drivers to watch in late 2026 and into 2027 El Niño's impact on Southeast Asia, India, and the pulse markets. Coffee, cocoa, palm oil, and what to pay attention to if you're thinking about canola.

Timestamps

[00:00:00] Welcome and context — 420 registered, 250 live [00:01:00] Introduction to Drew Lerner and World Weather Inc. [00:02:30] How probabilities work — and why no weather forecaster really knows what they're doing [00:05:00] Darren Sander on farm-level weather mitigation — seed primers, soil biology, compaction [00:08:10] Drew on how farmers in the US approach weather risk [00:13:00] AI, machine learning, and the future of weather forecasting [00:19:00] The North American drought monitor — what it shows and what it misses [00:22:00] The ridge of high pressure — basic atmospheric physics and why the US dryness is your problem too [00:27:00] Nine years of drought in southwest Saskatchewan — when does the drought monitor catch up? [00:27:30] The Omega block explained — live whiteboard illustration [00:31:00] Soil moisture assessment heading into spring 2026 [00:35:00] Snow cover — who has too much, who has too little, and what happens next [00:39:00] The two storm systems coming in April — what to expect in your area [00:41:00] Why the Montana low is encouraging news for southern Alberta [00:43:00] Manitoba — a different problem, a wetter spring coming [00:44:00] The primary influences on 2026: La Niña fading, El Niño arriving, the 18-year cycle, the solar cycle, ocean temperatures [00:50:00] Warm ocean temperatures globally — why that matters for storm moisture [00:52:00] The upper air pattern that has dominated since November — and when it breaks [00:58:00] US frost risk and potential market opportunities for prairie producers [01:01:00] The 30-day outlook — less precipitation coming after these two storms, then a pattern shift [01:06:00] El Niño timing and what the 18-year cycle data says month by month: May, June, July [01:13:00] The 1972 comparison — why Drew does not like it as an analog, and what is different this year [01:17:00] Drought monitor data collection — how granular is it, really? [01:19:00] Weather modification and cloud seeding — does it work? [01:26:00] The solar cycle and commodity futures — a 50-year correlation worth understanding [01:37:00] Global market drivers: Southeast Asia, India, pulse crops, coffee, cocoa, and canola [01:39:00] India's monsoon — El Niño timing versus the Indian Ocean Dipole [01:42:00] Final questions, closing remarks, and gratitude from the room

About Drew Lerner Drew Lerner is the founder and senior agricultural meteorologist at World Weather Inc., a subscription-based service relied upon by commodity markets, food companies, and producers worldwide for over four decades. His forecasts cover the Canadian prairies, the US Plains, and global crop production regions. To subscribe or get in touch: worldweather.cc

About Darren Sander Darren farms south of Rosetown, Saskatchewan, and has spent years building a farming system designed to withstand weather stress — from seed to harvest.

About Growing the Future Productions Growing the Future Productions is a live, interactive briefing platform for prairie producers and agricultural professionals. We run monthly sessions with the best minds in prairie agriculture — weather, markets, land, technology, policy, and the things that actually matter on the farm.

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FCC just dropped the 2025 farmland numbers. Canada up 9.3%. Manitoba leading at 12.2. Saskatchewan at 9.4. West Central Saskatchewan at 4.8 — roughly half the provincial move.

That split is what this episode is about.

Dan hosts a live panel with four guests who are in the data, closing deals, and financing purchases right now. Not forecasting from a distance. Actually in it. Together they work through what the headline number isn't telling you, why buyers are getting more selective, what lenders are seeing at Q1, and what comes next for a market that has run hard for twenty-five years.

The honest answer from every person on the panel: the market is not the same everywhere, and it hasn't been for a while.

Topics and timestamps:

• 0:00 — Introduction. The division forming between good land and everything else. FCC 2025 numbers across the prairies.
• 5:00 — Panel introductions: Tim Hammond (Hammond Realty), Bobby Montreuil (Hammond Realty / active producer), Courtney Thevenot (Scotiabank Ag), Conrad Olson (FCC, West Central Saskatchewan)
• 6:00 — What the market is telling the people actually closing deals — that the FCC report won't show until next year
• 8:00 — Why 30 pre-approvals per tender became 4 or 5. Less players. Not less land moving.
• 10:00 — West Central at 4.8% vs. the provincial 9.4%. What tighter margins and rougher crop years look like in the numbers, lagged.
• 13:00 — Live audience poll: where do you think farmland values are going in your area in the next 12 months? Results: 53% flat, 18% down, 24% up.
• 17:00 — How fortunes get made in land. The cap rate reality. Why the guy who paid $2,100 when everyone said $1,800 was the ceiling was right.
• 19:00 — Where are producers actually getting their local farmland values? Neighbors and coffee shop vs. realtor vs. lender vs. FCC. (Spoiler: coffee shop was first pick for 26%.)
• 23:00 — The Saskatchewan Comparable Farmland Reports and Farmland Security Board database as a tool for area-specific data.
• 28:00 — "They're not making any more land." How land buyers pencil it out when input costs keep rising and commodity prices stay uncertain.
• 29:00 — The lender's view: it's never about one parcel. It's about the whole operation. Cash flow. Equity. Fit.
• 33:00 — Large land packages and what potential Manette-scale offerings might signal for market dynamics.
• 37:00 — Next audience poll: what is your most likely land move in the next 12 months? 45% hold. 25% buy. 11% sell. 20% rent before purchase.
• 38:00 — Strategic efficiency purchases. Buying to right-size. Selling what's far away and consolidating closer to home.
• 41:00 — The Pareto Principle and farmland: 80% of what's for sale is weaker land. Was true in the 2000s. Still true now.
• 44:00 — Succession pressure and what it means for supply. 65% of Saskatchewan farmland owned by someone 65 or older. What happens when no one's taking over?
• 46:00 — Lending health check. Are declines increasing? Short answer from both Scotia and FCC: not really. Agriculture is holding stronger than the general business community.
• 51:00 — Creative financing structures for land that doesn't pencil on its own. Interest-only periods. Phased purchases. Part-buy, part-rent.
• 54:00 — Final round: one takeaway from each panelist. Bobby: still long on farmland. Courtney: Canadian ag is set up to shine. Conrad: hesitancy with a strong dose of optimism — know your numbers and stay agile.
• 58:00 — Audience takeaways read live, plus upcoming episodes: Drew Lerner on spring weather, non-farming siblings and succession, Steffes auction on whether now is the time to buy iron.

What makes this one worth your time:

You have an FCC lender, a Scotiabank ag lender, a real estate professional who is also actively farming, and one of Saskatchewan's most experienced farm real estate agents — all in the same room at the same time. No rehearsed answers. No unified talking point. Just four people telling you what they're actually seeing in Q1 2026, with an audience of producers pushing back in real time.

The takeaway isn't a prediction. It's a map. Good land in good areas is behaving differently than average land in average areas. Lenders are still lending. Buyers are getting more selective. And succession is quietly building pressure underneath all of it that the headline numbers don't capture yet.

Guests:

Tim Hammond — Founder and CEO, Hammond Realty. 25 years in Saskatchewan farm real estate. Expert in farmland transactions, succession advisory, and M&A. Based in Biggar, Saskatchewan. hammondrealty.ca

Bobby Montreuil — Farm real estate agent with Hammond Realty and active prairie producer. Both sides of the deal, every day.

Courtney Thevenot — Agricultural Lender, Scotiabank. Part of the Build Your Ag Dream Team. Sees the deals before they close and the ones that don't.

Conrad Olson — Agricultural Lender, FCC Rosetown. A decade financing West Central Saskatchewan land purchases. Knows the dirt.

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The steel-wheeled tractor was a fad once. So was the fax machine. Nobody's laughing at those now.

AI is moving through agriculture whether the industry is ready or not. The global AI and agriculture market is approaching five billion dollars and growing at over 26% a year. Eighty percent of agribusinesses say they understand its potential. Only twenty percent have adopted it. And who's actually getting results? Closer to five percent.

That gap is what this Growing the Future Productions live event is built to close. Dan Aberhart puts three of the most plugged-in AI power users in ag — Rob Saik, Tim Hammond, and Damon Johnson — in the same room for the first-ever episode of The AI Farm. No vendor pitches. No vague future-casting. Three people who are deep in this every single day. Audience vote at the end. Winner gets bragging rights. You get the ideas.

Where AI Actually Disrupts Agriculture — And Where It Doesn't

Rob Saik opens with a reframe: agriculture at the farm level ranks low on AI disruption — not because it's behind, but because farming is inherently hands-on and judgment-dependent. The bigger disruption is upstream, in realty, insurance, and the machinery sector. Prediction is where AI excels. Judgment still belongs to you.

(00:07:40) — Rob walks through the tools he uses daily: Perplexity, Claude, Notebook LM, and a custom Dossier Builder that profiles anyone he's about to meet. His starter recommendation for producers new to AI: Perplexity. It's reference-based, cites its sources, and aggregates across multiple AI models. If you're perplexed about AI, that's your on-ramp.

(00:21:07) — A Power Farm member built a complete grain marketing program by uploading his inventory and contracts into Claude. That's not a future possibility. That happened.

Tim's Pick: A Custom GPT That Makes Decisions for Your Team

Tim Hammond is in the top 1% of ChatGPT users globally — 26,500 messages, 800-plus threads in a single year. His big move: he fed 1,200 pages of regulatory knowledge into a custom GPT, locked it to that knowledge base only, and deployed it to his whole team. Now they ask the bot before they ask Tim.

(00:23:14) — The framework from Jeff Woods' book The AI-Driven Leader: Context, Role, Interview, Task. Most people skip the Interview step. That's where AI surfaces your blind spots and assumptions before it gives you an answer. The farm application: 12,000 acres is the HR ceiling where most operations stall. AI helps you scale past it without adding headcount.

Damon's Pick: A Full Farm Dashboard Built in 12 Minutes

Damon Johnson — economist, active grain farmer, insurance builder — built a fully integrated farm management dashboard the night before this call. Six tabs. Google Maps field borders. Grain marketing scenarios. Input cost tracking. Seeding date calculator. Spray window tool. Twelve minutes.

(00:38:00) — He uploaded years of historical farm data into a Claude project and prompted it to build what would previously have cost millions and years. His framing: Claude is now a prototype partner. Fail fast. Iterate. Build.

(00:56:47) — He reads the exact prompt live: a grain marketing calculator for a 7,000-acre Saskatchewan farm, three marketing scenarios, net revenue comparison chart. Type it. Get it.

The Poll Results — Where Producers Actually Are

19% haven't touched AI at all. 42% have played with ChatGPT but nothing on the operation. 27% use AI tools regularly for at least one part of their business. 10% have it built into multiple parts of the operation. (00:20:26)

What's holding people back: a third don't know where to start. 17% don't trust the technology. 15% are worried about farm data being used.

Also covered: Machine learning vs. AI explained without jargon (00:48:08). How to stop AI hallucinations (00:52:36). Drones, Starlink, and Goldman Sachs' $264 billion precision ag disruption number (00:54:24). Dan's live demo: using Claude inside Gmail to scrape 100-plus webinar registration emails and extract every question in seconds (00:46:20). And Whisper Flow — because typing is starting to feel like a fax machine.

Final word from all three panelists: Start. Pick one pain point. Play with it. You'll find out what works.

Featured in this episode: Dan Aberhart — Host, Growing the Future Productions Rob Saik — Founder and CEO, T1 Technology Corporation / Ag Advisor Pro Tim Hammond — Founder, Hammond Realty Damon Johnson — EVP, Global Ag Risk Solutions / Hub International

Resources mentioned: Perplexity AI, Claude (claude.ai), Notebook LM, Whisper Flow, Grip farm management software, The AI-Driven Leader by Geoff Woods, Ag Advisor Pro

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Somewhere on the prairies, there's a producer trying to do it all. The agronomy. The marketing. The books. The succession. The banking. The strategy. And they're wearing every hat at once — running hot, making decisions with incomplete information, and wondering why the numbers never quite tell the full story.

The top farms? They stopped doing that a long time ago.

This Growing the Future Productions live event puts Dan Aberhart at the table with seven of the most plugged-in financial and business minds working in Canadian agriculture right now: Evan Shout (Maverick Ag / Farmer Coach), Brian Mack and Justin Simpkins (Grow Lytics), Travis Gerrard and Roxanne Olynick from MNP, and Courtney Thevenot and Tanner Gerwing from Scotiabank Agricultural Banking. The conversation runs nearly 90 minutes and covers the full spectrum — from bookkeeping basics to billion-dollar family legacy questions. Not a panel of polished talking points. A real room of real advisors who already work together behind closed doors, and now you get to hear it.

What gets covered in this episode:

The 2% / 18% / 80% Split — Where Does Your Farm Land?

Evan Shout opens with a number that should stop people cold: over the last 20 years, as farm revenues have gone up and risk has increased, financial acumen in the industry has actually gotten worse. The top 2% aren't just profitable — they're operating with a completely different level of financial sophistication. The next 18% are closing the gap. The other 80% are still treating finance as a back-seat discipline.

(00:07:00) — Evan breaks down what separates the top tier, and why building a team is the single most powerful thing an operation can do to move up that ladder.

Access to Capital vs. Strategic Advice — They're Not the Same Thing

Grow Lytics started by reverse-engineering the perfect credit deal. Not by handing out money — by working backward from what a lender actually needs to say yes, and building the farm's story from there. Brian Mack draws a clear line between knowing your costs and knowing what the bank is looking at when you walk through the door.

(00:10:00) — The panel unpacks the difference between getting financed and being financially positioned. You don't want your banker to tell you it's a bad deal. You want to already know that before you show up.

What Scotiabank Actually Looks For — And It's Not Just the Numbers

Courtney Thevenot is direct: lending decisions aren't just financial. Management strength, character, who you've got in your corner, whether you're trying to do it all yourself — that all goes into the picture. A farm that walks in with a team behind them sends a completely different signal than one that shows up with a stack of paper and no story.

(00:12:00) — Courtney makes the case for the banking relationship as an ongoing partnership, not a transactional event. Quarterly calls. Farm visits. The relationship should be built long before you need something.

The Mental Health Moment Nobody Planned — But Everybody Needed

An audience member, Harry Siemens, drops a question about the farm suicide rate — 3.5 times higher than any other industry. Dan opens the floor. What follows is one of the most honest conversations this panel has. Evan doesn't give the diplomatic answer. He gives the hard one: farming culture has tied identity and legacy to a business in a way that makes failure feel unsurvivable. That's not the truth. But it's the pressure people are carrying.

(00:27:00) — Justin Simpkins adds context from time spent in Australia, where the numbers are even more stark. Courtney mentions the Canadian Centre for Agriculture Wellbeing as a real resource. Roxanne talks about peer groups as one of the most underrated tools for connection and permission to be honest. This segment wasn't on the agenda — but it might be the most important twelve minutes in the episode.

Benchmarking, Peer Groups & the Trucker Who Blew Everyone's Mind

Travis Gerrard talks about what happens when you put a trucking company's operational metrics in front of a room full of grain farmers. Nobody expected it. Everyone walked away wanting to know their numbers that much better. The benchmarking group MNP runs is covering 14% of Saskatchewan farmland — and the data is clear on what the best operations have in common.

(00:19:00) — Travis and the panel dig into the power of cross-industry benchmarking, and why getting outside the agriculture bubble — like Dan's example of Strategic Coach — can be the jolt that resets how a producer sees their own operation.

AI, Data & the Role of the Farm's Next Hire

The panel lands on something the audience was clearly hungry for: the missing seat at the table isn't another accountant or banker. It's a CTO. A tech integrator. Someone who can get real-time data flowing — from grain cards, JD Ops, harvest profit, bookkeeping — so that the advisors in the room can do insight work instead of cleanup work.

(00:44:00) — Evan lays out the vision clearly: AI isn't replacing thought leadership, but it will replace data entry, and that changes everything about how fast good decisions can get made.

The Third Generation Curse — And the Harder Question Nobody's Asking

John Gibson brings it live from the audience floor: why do so many family farm operations succeed through two generations and fall apart in the third? The panel doesn't flinch. Evan talks about the knowledge that gets lost when the generation that built through hard times doesn't transfer that context. Brian Mack says something that stops the room: are you trying to preserve the farm, or are you trying to preserve wealth for future generations? Because sometimes those are two different decisions.

(00:49:00) — Evan makes the case for the family office model — keeping the farm intact across generations rather than selling it off every 40 years to settle estates. The math at today's land prices makes the traditional approach nearly impossible.

Succession Planning — Separate Rooms, Real Conversations

Travis's point lands hard: get the kids in a separate room. Get the parents in a separate room. Because what the next generation actually wants — and what mom and dad assume they want — are often two very different things. That gap, unaddressed, is where farm transitions collapse.

(00:38:00) — Roxanne talks about seeing a generational shift in how clients are bringing younger family members into meetings earlier. Evan talks about farm operations actively recruiting external CEOs to run the business while family members stay involved as shareholders. The structure is changing.

Who's Missing from the Dream Team?

Lawyers. The panel admits it freely. Wills, shareholder agreements, prenups, joint venture agreements — verbal handshakes between multimillion-dollar operations. Evan doesn't mince words: Walmart isn't doing verbal agreements anymore. Neither should you.

(01:23:00) — The closing segment also touches on life insurance, climate advisors, agronomists as financial team members, and the AI-specific skill set that's becoming the next frontier for farm advisory teams.

Featured in this episode:

• Dan Aberhart — Host, Growing the Future Productions
• Evan Shout — Maverick Ag / Farmer Coach
• Brian Mack & Justin Simpkins — Grow Lytics
• Travis Gerrard & Roxanne Olynick — MNP
• Courtney Thevenot & Tanner Gerwing — Scotiabank Agricultural Banking

Resources mentioned:

• Canadian Centre for Agriculture Wellbeing (CCAW) — free counseling and support resources for ag producers across Canada
• Sask Ag Matters — crisis line and no-cost counseling for Saskatchewan farmers
• Do More in Ag — mental health resources for the agricultural community

Connect with the panelists:

• Maverick Ag / Farmer Coach: maverickg.com or farmercoach.ca
• Grow Lytics: growlytics.ca
• MNP: mnp.ca
• Scotiabank Agricultural Banking: Contact your local Scotiabank ag banking team

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The data is in. Farms that perform better... perform a lot better. And the gap isn't luck.

In this live webinar event from Growing the Future Productions, host Dan Aberhart sits down with three of the sharpest minds working on Saskatchewan farms right now — Darren Sander of Crop-Aid Nutrition, Dave Norris of Norris Crop Consulting, and Todd Rowan of IXL Innovations — for a frank, no-sugarcoating conversation about what separates the producers clearing big margins from the ones leaving money on the table.

The number? Somewhere between $50 and $100 per acre. Every single year. Compounded over a decade — it's not a number. It's a different life.

What gets covered in this episode:

Soil Health & the First 30 Days — Darren makes the case that the first 30 days of a crop dictates maximum yield potential. Not the last 30. The first. That reframe alone is worth your time. He also talks about how a soil health program let his operation move from a three-crop rotation to two — and pencil out better. Earthworms optional, but encouraged.

(00:04:00) — Darren breaks down the incremental gains philosophy: fertilizer protection, stress reduction, nutrient use efficiency, and how every acre should be growing the crop it's best suited to grow.

Grain Marketing & the Probability Game — Dave Norris and Todd Rowan don't predict the future. They work with probabilities. And when warships started heading toward the Strait of Hormuz, they texted their clients to fill their fuel tanks. Fuel was $1.02. The downside risk was 93 cents. The upside was $1.50. That's not a prediction. That's a risk-reward conversation — and the producers who had that conversation in advance came out a lot better than the ones who watched the news.

(00:09:00) — The panel unpacks why so many producers make decisions after it feels urgent, and why the best time to act is almost always when it doesn't.

Crop Insurance, In-Season Pricing & the 2025-26 Landscape — It's the worst crop insurance environment since before 2021. The panel digs into what that means for in-season pricing on canola, wheat, and durum, and how to think about layering agri-stability on top when the base numbers aren't what they used to be.

(00:22:00) — Dave and Todd walk through the mechanics of in-season pricing, the cash flow timing issue with SCIC payments, and how to think about selling new crop canola when fertilizer costs are still wildly elevated.

The Fertilizer Problem Nobody's Talking About Enough — An estimated 400,000-tonne shortage of urea in Saskatchewan this year. Producers who didn't pre-buy are scrambling. The panel discusses how this reshapes planting decisions, top-dressing options, foliar programs as a partial substitute, and why the supply-demand models for yield estimates may be fundamentally broken this season.

(00:33:00) — Todd flags what this means for crop rotation flexibility. When the only crop penciling out is canola, what happens to everything else?

Macroeconomics, Gold, Oil & the Commodity Supercycle — Dave Norris had a supercycle bias since November. He didn't have a war in March as the trigger — he thought it would be El Niño. He wasn't entirely wrong. The panel talks about money flowing into commodities, what governments printing money means for grain prices, and why canola at $700 a tonne may not be the ceiling.

(00:40:00) — The canary in the coal mine: when gold and silver started ripping, the smart money was already watching inflation and currency hedges. Farmers paying attention to macros have a structural edge over those only watching local basis.

The $70 Poll — What the Audience Said — Dan ran a live poll with over 150 producers on the call. The majority landed between $50 and $100 per acre as the value of strong management decisions. Todd shared a real-world example: in 2021-22, clients who didn't over-contract and took in-season crop insurance pricing pocketed $18/bushel versus $12. Clients who panicked after 2021 and froze in 2022 took $17 off the combine when $22 was on the board. The math on those decisions — compounded over 10 years — is a different farm.

(00:56:00) — The close. Dan pulls together the final takeaways from the audience word cloud, and the panel leaves producers with the most important thing of all: knowing when to act, and not waiting until it's obvious.

Featured in this episode:

• Dan Aberhart — Host, Growing the Future Productions
• Darren Sander — Crop-Aid Nutrition
• Dave Norris — Norris Crop Consulting
• Todd Rowan — IXL Innovations

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2,333 days ago, Jeff Bennett was the second guest I ever had on this show. Different world. Different market. Different men. Since then we've lived through bull markets, bear markets, a pandemic, and all kinds of crazy in our personal lives.

Jeff runs a grain farm in Saskatchewan while quietly building a parallel business out of his garage — custom laser engraved glass and wood pieces, high-end 3D crystal branding work. He didn't start building because it was trendy. He started building because five rough crop years forced a simple question: what do you control when the weather and the banks don't care?

This conversation is not polished. It's not motivational. It's a farmer sitting across from me telling the truth about debt, structure, generational disconnect, and what it actually takes to keep going when the math doesn't work.

If you farm, you'll feel this one. If you don't, you'll understand something about resilience you didn't before.

Timestamps

[00:00:00] Cold open — "What breaks first in your life?"

[00:01:00] Dan's intro — 2,333 days since Jeff's first episode

[00:03:00] What breaks first — Jeff on why breaking isn't an option

[00:04:00] What Jeff refuses to depend on anymore

[00:05:00] If your kids copied your current operating model

[00:07:00] Why Jeff rates himself "just below jaded" on the industry

[00:08:00] Five rough crop years and the financial reality no one talks about

[00:10:00] "Agriculture is not struggling. Farmers are struggling."

[00:11:00] What makes a good farmer — passing it to the next generation

[00:13:00] Diversification that isn't just more agriculture

[00:15:00] The difference between being tough and being stubborn

[00:17:00] Why Dad can't help — the generational disconnect in farming

[00:20:00] The economics gap — when a $100K off-farm job won't cover your nitrogen

[00:24:00] Succession planning and the kind of help that actually works

[00:25:00] "I don't think farming is a good business" — the structural problem

[00:27:00] Who's actually making the money in agriculture?

[00:29:00] The equipment deal Jeff regrets — and what it cost him

[00:32:00] What Jeff would do with $5 million (the answer is boring and brilliant)

[00:34:00] What people romanticize about farming that's just wrong

[00:36:00] If everything works, what does Jeff's life actually look like?

[00:38:00] His son Axel, a 3D printer, and teaching your kids they're not just farmers

[00:41:00] If the farm disappeared tomorrow

[00:43:00] Has Jeff ever thought about quitting?

[00:45:00] "Farmers feed the world" — a belief Jeff doesn't hold

[00:50:00] Advice to his younger self: "Buckle up kid. She's about to get rocky."

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Spring 2026 is arriving with a fertilizer market that looks nothing like anything most producers have seen. Urea at $700 a short ton. Elemental sulfur up nearly 8x in 18 months. Global ammonia production down 30–35%. China not exporting. India running at 50–60% production capacity because they can't get LNG shipments through the Persian Gulf. And retailers across Saskatchewan are 30–40% behind on bookings.

Josh Linville, one of the most followed voices in fertilizer on X, joined from a ski condo in Colorado. Mario Gaudet has been in the thick of the elemental sulfur trade and has the kind of inside knowledge that doesn't show up in the headlines. Together, they broke down what's actually happening, what even the best-case scenario looks like if the Strait reopens tomorrow (answer: not great), and what decisions producers need to be making right now.

This one got into places you don't hear about in mainstream ag media. Why you can't have a green energy mandate without oil and gas refining. Why Morocco building a massive triple super phosphate plant now looks like genius. Why the US imports over 5 million tons of urea per year when North America is sitting on some of the cheapest natural gas in the world. And why the retailer down the road isn't willing to hold inventory anymore, even if he thinks you're going to need it.

The practical advice coming out of this conversation was clear: talk to your retailer now, build a forecast together, buy in chunks to spread your risk, and don't cut the nutrition inputs that will cost you two bushels of corn per acre to save $5 upfront. As Josh put it, the market is undefeated, and nobody has ever sold every bushel of grain in one shot. Why would fertilizer be any different?

Timestamps

• [00:00:46] Setting the stage: Urea nearly doubled since December, global ammonia down 30–35%, spring is here
• [00:02:16] Josh Linville's call: the worst economic environment for farmers he's ever seen
• [00:05:18] Josh joins from a ski condo in Colorado; the market doesn't stop
• [00:06:04] Audience poll: Where are you at with your 2026 crop plan?
• [00:09:34] Mario's rant begins: how elemental sulfur went from $70 to nearly $580 a ton
• [00:10:31] The connection nobody's making: sulfur, battery production, lithium, and why green mandates need oil and gas
• [00:13:34] Geopolitics, the Strait of Hormuz, and 40–50% of global sulfur supply at risk
• [00:14:33] The 10-million-ton sulfur stockpile in Fort McMurray and why it can't get to market
• [00:15:40] Buying patterns: how procrastinating on fertilizer decisions became the industry's biggest self-inflicted wound
• [00:19:39] Josh on sulfur: how cleaner air created a new farm input problem
• [00:20:46] Phosphate and the Strait: Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, three of the top 10 anhydrous exporters, all behind the closure
• [00:22:23] Tampa Index negotiations, phosphate production costs, and why summer fill pricing won't go down
• [00:23:22] Josh: we have already seen the cheapest phosphate price we are going to see
• [00:25:20] Even when the Strait reopens, the tail of this thing will last longer than people think
• [00:28:29] Morocco's triple super phosphate expansion: playing chess while everyone else played checkers
• [00:30:21] How high input costs are going to change what farmers buy this season
• [00:34:15] Josh's biggest rant: don't make a cut that feels good today and feels terrible in October
• [00:40:17] Alberta's 10-million-ton sulfur block, the LNG pipeline we didn't build, and the opportunity we've squandered
• [00:43:13] Is this the moment North America gets serious about fertilizer self-sufficiency?
• [00:45:21] The global food security conversation: who really pays when fertilizer prices go to the moon
• [00:48:31] Iran, the Strait, and the proxy war between the US and China
• [00:49:20] Why N-46 is at $1,250 Canadian when we make it in Indian Head, SK
• [00:54:04] Final advice from Mario: talk to your retailer, forecast what you need, buy in chunks
• [00:55:19] Final advice from Josh: no farmer sells all their grain at once, so stop treating fertilizer differently

Connect with our guests:

• Josh Linville, VP of Fertilizer at StoneX. Follow him on X for daily fertilizer market updates: @JoshLFert
• Mario Gaudet, Busy Salt. Elemental sulfur supply across North America

Growing the Future platform partners:

• Crop-Aid Nutrition, soil health and crop nutrition: cropaidnutrition.com
• Hammond Realty, Saskatchewan agricultural real estate, succession and tax planning: hammondrealty.ca
• Gripp, farm management software for tracking equipment, logging maintenance, and keeping your team aligned: gripp.ag
• Bone Trail Originals, handcrafted live edge resin art from a 110-year-old family farm in Saskatchewan: bonetrail.store

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Canola ran hard. The question wasn't whether to celebrate — it was whether to protect what you'd built.

This session came out of a real conversation with a GARS advisor who pointed out something most producers have never heard explained clearly: options and production insurance don't just coexist — they can amplify each other. If you structure it right, you can protect your floor, leave your ceiling open, and potentially have the government subsidize the cost of the strategy through AgriStability.

That's the thesis Ryan Bonnett walked through live. He's been trading futures and coaching producers through options for 20 years. He was joined by Derek Tallon — a central Saskatchewan grain farmer who sold 400 tons of canola the week before this session — for a real-world producer perspective on how these tools actually get used. And David Sullivan from Global Ag Risk Solutions rounded out the room with everything you need to know about where production insurance fits into the picture.

Nobody was selling anything theoretical here. This was a working session.

Topics covered:

• How to quantify your bullish or bearish position before you ever place a trade — and why gut feelings without numbers will get you burned
• The difference between call and put options, and when each one belongs in your marketing plan
• How a collar strategy works in practice: buying a $700 put and selling an $800 call for a net cost of around $10/ton — and what you're giving up to get it
• Why "I'll hold the option a little longer after I sell the grain" is where hedgers become speculators
• How paper trades through your RBC or STONEX account interact differently with your GARS policy than a delivery-tied contract does — and why that distinction matters
• The AgriStability angle: how your option strategy cost becomes an eligible expense, and what that means if you're one of the many producers sitting close to a claim this year
• What a "whole farm put" actually looks like and how it covers commodities you can't hedge on the exchange
• The fertilizer and fuel hedging conversation nobody else is having

Useful timestamps:

• 00:04:17 — Ryan introduces the bullish/bearish framework and canola market context
• 00:07:00 — Crowd poll results: where producers' heads are at on canola prices
• 00:13:00 — Technical analysis walkthrough: support, resistance, and where this market could run to
• 00:26:22 — Call and put options explained cleanly
• 00:35:10 — How put options work as price insurance without elevator contracts
• 00:39:33 — The collar strategy: how to cheapen your protection
• 00:42:36 — Derek Tallon's producer perspective on using options as farm insurance
• 00:46:46 — David Sullivan: how options interact with your GARS production insurance
• 00:50:00 — The AgriStability layer: how your option cost could be 80% subsidized
• 00:59:32 — When and how to exit the strategy properly
• 01:04:29 — Fertilizer and fuel: the hedging conversation farmers aren't having yet
• 01:17:00 — The hardest part: closing your hedge the same day you make your physical sale

Guests in this episode:

Ryan Bonnett — independent commodity trading advisor, 20 years of experience coaching Western Canadian producers through options and futures strategies.

Derek Tallon — grain producer, central Saskatchewan. Grows canola, wheat, and durum. Brings a grounded, practical lens on how these tools work at the farm level.

David Sullivan — production insurance advisor, Global Ag Risk Solutions (GARS). Expert in how production insurance, AgriStability, and marketing strategies interact.

One thing that stuck:

David put it plainly — a 5,000-acre producer is sitting long on $2.5 to $3 million of grain the moment they plant. Most traders would never carry a position that size unhedged. Most producers do it every single year without thinking about it that way.

That framing alone is worth the listen.

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The post came after a long drive home from a production show.

Jay Peterson had spent the day talking to people at booths, catching up with friends, listening to the Manitoba and Saskatchewan numbers come out on the radio. And somewhere between Saskatoon and Swift Current, something settled on him. Nobody was really having the conversation. Not out loud. Not honestly.

So he made a video. Johnny Cash in the background. A simple question underneath it. Why is nobody talking about the fact that nothing we can grow in 2026 is going to make us money?

The comments came in five flavors. Some farmers said they'd never quit, no matter what. Some were close to a breaking point. Some said it was just another cycle. Some thought bigger forces were reshaping the whole industry. And some were just trying to make sense of it.

This episode is the conversation that followed.

Four farmers. Real numbers. No prescriptions. No easy answers.

The question underneath all of it: when the math stops working, what are we actually farming for?

Guests

Jay Peterson — JSP Farms Chris Allam — Allen Farms Norm Shoemaker — Shoemaker Ag Ventures Partnership Jeff Bennett — Bone Trail Land Company

Timestamps

00:00 — Jay's TikTok, the long drive home from the production show, and why the comments hit a nerve.

08:34 — The live poll. How does your farm pencil out for 2026? 26% profitable. 42% break even at best. 16% likely a loss.

09:14 — Jay on what he was actually feeling when he made the post. Inputs still high. Prices not following. The sense that everyone was in the same position but nobody was saying it.

13:48 — Norm on the math. It used to take a metric ton of durum to break even. Now it takes close to two. Costs went one way and didn't come back.

15:22 — Jeff on why he stopped trying to predict what the year would bring. Four tough years before a good one. The numbers change every two months. You still show up.

17:09 — Chris makes the case it's not that dire, at least in Alberta. Average contribution margin, a little bit of profit. But he's clear: this was never a one-year home run industry.

19:18 — Cycles. Nobody agrees on where we are. Norm says we got used to good years and probably over-invested in iron. Jay says he might just be a year-by-year guy.

21:44 — Jay on why he never wanted to be a home run farmer. Singles and doubles. The rare triple. What it felt like to watch the bottom fall out mid-harvest last fall.

28:53 — The second poll. What's putting the most pressure right now? Inputs at 55%. Commodity prices at 42%. Land costs at 36%. Equipment at 27%.

29:45 — Whether cutting production costs to meet the market is actually a strategy. Chris says you produce more, not less. Jeff says fertilizing for disaster is its own kind of disaster.

31:43 — Jay on buying base chemical components instead of prepackaged. Why he grows mustard and not canola. Efficiency over volume when the rain isn't coming.

34:24 — Norm on land values. A million dollars a quarter. A son and a son-in-law coming into the operation. The math on return when you run those numbers.

36:32 — What farmers are actually doing differently this year. Variable rate fertilizing. Weekly peer group meetings. Cost benchmarking. Lean Six Sigma on the farm.

43:18 — Jeff on switching acres to canary seed and specialty canola. Crop rotation as a profit strategy. Finally back to a third, third, third rotation after years of disease pressure.

46:00 — The last question. What are you farming for when the numbers don't work?

47:27 — Chris: the next generation, and watching marginal land get better year after year.

48:16 — Jeff: fourth or fifth generation on this land. Leaving a starting point better than the one he was handed.

49:38 — Norm: the kids, the grandkids, and the table. Number six on the way. Who's at the table is what matters.

50:32 — Jay: he got into it because he loves farming. Loves farming with his dad. Loves doing it as well or better than the generations before him.

52:27 — Why Dan wanted to create a room for this conversation. And why it matters that farmers are willing to say it out loud.

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Back in June 2025, Trent Klarenbach of Klarenbach Research did something nobody had done before. He charted Saskatchewan farmland values going back a hundred years and applied technical analysis to what he found.

The chart went viral on YouTube. 52,000 views. And for good reason.

The RSI had been signaling overbought conditions for over thirteen years. Previous times the market crossed that line and broke below the two-year exponential moving average, the results were not subtle. A 54% drop after 1922. A 22% drop after 1968. A 60% drop after 1982. Those aren't predictions. That's the historical record. Most people buying land today have never seen it.

Tim Hammond runs Hammond Realty. He's been on the floor of the Saskatchewan farmland market since 2002. He manages 80,000 acres for investors, negotiates rental agreements, and watches the bid sheets on every tender. What he's seeing right now is something he hasn't seen before. A split market. Good land in a good area still moving. Average land struggling. Inventory quietly doubling. The spread between the top bid and the second bid widening from close together to five, ten, fifteen percent apart.

The top bid is still setting records. But Tim's point is that land is only worth what the second highest bidder will pay. And that depth is getting thinner.

This is not a doom and gloom conversation. Saskatchewan farmers hold somewhere around 65 billion dollars of farmland free and clear. The balance sheets are strong. The ag lenders are still positive. If there's a correction, Tim thinks agriculture can absorb the first 15 to 20 percent without a cascade. The question is where it goes from there.

That's the conversation this episode holds. What the chart says, what the ground says, and what it means for the decisions you're making right now.

Guests

Trent Klarenbach — Klarenbach Research. Technical analyst. The first person known to have charted Saskatchewan farmland values across a hundred years of data.

Tim Hammond — Founder and CEO, Hammond Realty. Agricultural real estate specialist, former ag lender, manages land for sophisticated investors across Saskatchewan.

Timestamps

00:00 — Dan sets the stage. The Robert Angelic webinar in January, tightening capital conditions, and why this conversation needed to happen.

04:00 — The Klarenbach Research farmland study. 52,000 YouTube views. What happens when you apply a hundred years of technical analysis to land values for the first time.

05:00 — Introducing Trent Klarenbach and Tim Hammond.

08:34 — Live audience poll: where do you think Saskatchewan farmland values are headed? Results reveal a split room.

11:50 — Trent walks through the chart. RSI, the two-year exponential moving average, and what the historical pullbacks actually looked like. 54% in 1922. 22% in 1968. 60% in 1982.

13:00 — What overbought actually means and why the RSI can stay elevated for years before anything moves.

15:00 — Tim on what the chart means personally. His great-grandfather handed back the keys in 1933 when land values had halved. The Hammond family's hundred years of farming mapped almost exactly onto Trent's cycle lines.

17:00 — What Dan took from the chart that nobody talks about at the kitchen table.

18:00 — Tim on what he's seeing on the ground right now. The split market. Good land still competitive. Average land going sideways or down. The first split he's seen since 2002.

20:00 — Second live poll on local market conditions. 52% say steady but not as aggressive. 30% still seeing competitive multiple-bid situations. 12% starting to see softening.

21:30 — Inventory. How much farmland has come to market since January and what the doubling of listings actually means in context of one per rural municipality.

23:00 — The bid depth problem. Tenders that used to get ten offers are now getting two or three. The spread between top bid and second bid is widening. What that means for actual land values beneath the headline numbers.

26:00 — Trent on the catalysts that could trigger a trend change. Credit tightening, geopolitics, commodity cycles, retiring farmers reconsidering their position.

30:00 — The long-term buyer question. Tim's dad bought land in 1981 at 80,000 a quarter. It took 27 years to look like a great investment. He still has it.

33:00 — What a 33-year wait looks like depending on your age and whether you can survive the cycle. Trent on what happened to the people who couldn't.

34:00 — If there is a pullback, what does buying the dip actually look like and who has the dry powder to do it.

38:00 — Tim's cell signal. What price movement would actually constitute a sell signal on Trent's chart and how close we may or may not be to that line.

39:00 — The retired farmer wildcard. 30 to 40 percent of Saskatchewan farmland is held by retired farmers and farm families who stopped selling when the asset kept appreciating. What happens if that calculus changes.

42:00 — Audience poll: do you believe technical analysis has value for farmland decisions? 64% say somewhat useful but not definitive. 20% say yes, charts reveal important signals. 16% say farmland is different from other markets.

43:00 — The shift from expansion to efficiency. Why buyers are getting stronger instead of bigger.

45:00 — Rental rates. Poll results: 43% say increasing, 40% holding steady, 11% starting to soften. Tim on managing 80,000 acres of rental agreements and what he's seeing in renegotiations this year for the first time.

49:00 — Rent versus land value. When you're getting 1% on an asset that might start declining, when does the math change?

51:00 — How much Saskatchewan farmland is rented versus owner-operated. Tim's gut on the percentage turns out to be almost exactly right.

53:00 — Rent versus purchase in a tighter market. Why locking in for three years looks different than committing for twenty.

54:00 — Credit conditions and balance sheets. Tim on whether he's seen lenders kill deals yet and what the equity cushion actually looks like.

57:00 — Nutrient mining clauses in rental agreements. Are landlords enforcing them?

58:00 — 42.1% of Saskatchewan farmland is free and clear. What that number means in dollars.

59:00 — Are boomers selling? Why the transfer of farmland may matter as much to the market as new buyers entering it.

01:01:00 — Trent on where he's taking the research next. An announcement coming. Subscribe to find out.

01:02:00 — The next generation question. What happens to the land when the people who said they didn't want it are the ones who inherit it.

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Most farm families in Western Canada have built more wealth over the past two decades than any generation before them on the land. A lot of it is sitting in the ground. And that concentration, it turns out, is quietly creating a set of problems most producers have never been introduced to.

This session brought the Kohr Wealth team to the Growing the Future Productions live room. Ryan Hillstead, a CPA who spent 16 years in public practice carrying a heavy ag book, walked through three client stories that stopped people cold. Shane Shepherd laid out how whole life insurance works as something you own, not just something you pay for. And tax lawyer Kelly Caruk explained why buying insurance in the wrong place can cost you the very tax advantages you were trying to protect.

The conversation also got into what Ryan calls the tax liability can. The one being kicked down the road from generation to generation, growing in step with every acre of appreciating land. Somebody's eventually going to pick it up. This conversation is about making sure there's a plan when they do.

Guests: Larry Scammel, Shane Shepherd, Ryan Hillstead, Kelly Caruk — Kohr Wealth

Timestamps:

00:00 — Welcome and setup. Why capital concentrated in one asset class can narrow your options across generations.

03:52 — Larry introduces Kohr Wealth, their new partnership with Blue Star Equity, and their two beer rule for working with clients.

06:30 — How Kohr approaches life insurance from a balance sheet perspective. Liquidity, tax exposure, succession, long-term family control.

08:22 — Ryan Hillstead introduces himself. 16 years as a CPA in public practice, partner level with a national firm, heavy ag client base across Saskatchewan.

09:39 — How agriculture has changed in 15 years. Land values, technology, and the shift toward viewing farming as a wealth-building business.

11:42 — The $50 billion of farmland set to transfer in the next decade and why succession conversations have taken over the kitchen table.

12:58 — The disappearing tax tools. TOSI rules, passive income changes, income splitting restrictions, and the removal of surplus strip planning in 2024.

19:00 — Ryan's three client stories. Uncle Gordon. Rod. The estate freeze family with farming and non-farming kids at the same table.

21:05 — Uncle Gordon did everything right. Died with a $4 million investment portfolio. The tax bill on his land ate the whole thing.

23:09 — Rod sold the farm when no one wanted to take it over. Year three, he came in looking deflated. Said he wished he had never done it.

24:40 — The estate freeze family. $40 million corporation. Mom and dad hold preferred shares. The farm may have to sell land just to cover the tax bill when they pass.

30:56 — Shane Shepherd explains whole life insurance. What cash value is, how it builds, and why it behaves differently than anything else on your balance sheet.

33:37 — The farmland analogy. You don't sell the land to access the equity. Whole life works the same way.

38:10 — Kelly Caruk on the tax architecture. Why insurance is taxed differently than almost every other asset class, what capital dividends are, and why structure matters before anything else.

43:50 — The risk of buying insurance in the wrong place. For farm families specifically, a wrong structure can cost you the farming tax preferences you would otherwise have.

48:52 — Audience question: Can insurance companies go broke in Canada? Shane answers. Kelly adds the regulatory backstop.

51:28 — Ryan on the intergenerational tax liability. Generations kicking the can down the road. What it looks like when somebody finally has to pick it up.

54:55 — Shane closes. Tax tools have narrowed. Timing matters. Capital structure is as important as the amount of capital you have.

58:59 — Audience Q&A on preferred shares and estate freezes. Ryan and Kelly explain what preferred shares actually are and how insurance can reduce the estate tax bill, not just fund it.

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When nothing you can grow in 2026 is projected to make money at average yields and average prices … what do you do? In this live workshop, Dan Aberhart sits down with Dave Sullivan from Global Ag Risk Solutions, Dean Klippenstine from MNP, and producer Jake Leguee to break down the farm financials, benchmark the best operators, and engineer a revenue floor before you seed a single acre. Dave walks through real spreadsheets showing break-even costs have more than doubled since 2010, why the largest crop in Canadian history barely generated a profit, and what the top 25% of managers are doing differently. The panel digs into how to stack crop insurance, AgriStability, and GARS products — including the brand new Yield Plus option — so you can farm with confidence even in a year where the math says you shouldn't be able to. If you only listen to one episode before spring, make it this one.

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Engineer Your Revenue Floor Before You Seed Season 8, Episode 6

The margins are tight. The projections are grim. And spring is coming whether you're ready or not. In this live workshop with nearly 300 registered producers, we cut through the noise and get to the numbers that matter.

Panel:

• Dave Sullivan — Global Ag Risk Solutions
• Dean Klippenstine — MNP
• Jake Leguee — Leguee Farms

Timestamps:

[00:00:00] Welcome and why this workshop exists — the financial questions stacking up at the kitchen table

[00:02:55] Setting the stage — projections showing $25–$50/acre below break-even at average yields and prices

[00:04:37] Dave Sullivan shares what he's seeing across thousands of farm financials — and why having a common vernacular matters

[00:10:30] Break-even costs over time — how we went from $250 to $550/acre in 16 years

[00:13:19] The 2026 budget reality — $50–$75/acre losses on average, and why we haven't seen a starting point this tough since 2007–2008

[00:17:19] Top producers vs. top managers — why the most profitable farms aren't always the biggest spenders on inputs

[00:20:39] Southeast Saskatchewan benchmarks — the massive gap between top and bottom 25% and where it actually shows up (hint: it's LPM, not inputs)

[00:25:07] Jake Leguee on scouting, holding back that extra pass, and why spending more doesn't always mean earning more

[00:26:27] Dean Klippenstine busts the "fixed cost" myth — why that term needs to go

[00:27:33] Yield Plus explained — the brand new GARS product that layers crop insurance into the calculation and can save 40–70% on premiums

[00:30:26] Stacking your coverage — how to combine crop insurance, AgriStability, GARS, and GI-3 for the right fit on YOUR farm

[00:34:46] Why locking in canola at this rally matters — and the futures strategy conversation

[00:39:46] The AgriStability cashflow trap — great on a spreadsheet, but can you wait 12–18 months for the check?

[00:44:00] The "trough of despair" — why a 70% crop can actually pay better than a 90% crop when your coverage is stacked right

[00:49:23] Quotes move fast — why your GARS quote is only good until something weird happens (and weird things are happening a lot these days)

[00:54:52] How GARS treats futures contracts, delivery contracts, and trade accounts

[00:59:43] Why relationships with the right experts are the real competitive advantage

[01:00:50] Final takeaways — know your numbers, understand your options, and get yourself on the right side of the distribution curve

Key Takeaway: The gap between the top 25% and bottom 25% of farms is massive — and it's not about spending more on inputs. It's about knowing your numbers, controlling your LPM, benchmarking against your region, and engineering a financial floor before you ever hit the field. This is the year to get that right.

Resources mentioned:

• Global Ag Risk Solutions: agrisksolutions.ca
• MNP Benchmarking
• GARS Yield Plus product (new for 2026)
• AgriStability & provincial crop insurance programs

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Liquidity & Legacy
With Ted Cawkwell, The Cawkwell Group

Farm balance sheets may look strong on paper. But beneath the surface, lending behavior is changing, capital is more disciplined, and the margin for error is narrowing.

In this live conversation, Dan and Ted discuss:

Why profitable farms can still experience financial pressure

The difference between strategic sales and forced sales

How liquidity issues surface before they become obvious

What well-prepared farm operations tend to have in common

Why “just hold the land” isn’t always a complete strategy

Ted works directly with farm families, lenders, and advisors across Western Canada and beyond. As the #1 RE/MAX farmland realtor globally, he has been involved in hundreds of farmland transactions and sees patterns long before they become headlines.

This episode is not about predictions. It’s about structure, positioning, and understanding how capital behaves when conditions shift.

Chapters / Timestamps

00:00 – Introduction & why this conversation matters

02:30 – Market sentiment vs. reality on farmland values

06:45 – What’s changed recently in buyer and seller behavior

12:30 – Profitability, cash flow, and leverage pressures

18:00 – Liquidity vs. legacy: real tradeoffs

26:00 – Investor behavior, rental land, and capital availability

34:00 – Risk, balance sheets, and selling strategically

42:00 – Productive vs. marginal land dynamics

50:30 – Perspective, cycles, and long-term thinking

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The first two parts of this event were Robert Andjelic's thesis and his plan. This is the room pushing back -- live audience questions, direct challenges, and Robert answering without notes.

What's Inside

• The audience's sharpest questions on Robert's thesis and plan

• Where Robert's answers held up under direct challenge and where the room disagreed

• The closing exchange on what producers should watch for next

• A preview of where this conversation went next, in The Great Canadian Bull

Related Episodes

• Is There a Capital Squeeze in Ag? -- Part 1

• How to Survive a Capital Squeeze in Agriculture Part II -- Part 2

• Too Big to Farm -- the next chapter in this conversation

In this session, Robert responds to questions about:

– Cash flow vs land value

– How banks actually behave when risk rises

– Why liquidity disappears before prices fall

– What breaks first when leverage is stretched

– How operators protect the land when margins compress

– And why “survival” is not failure, it’s strategy

Several moments in this Q&A landed hard, including Robert’s blunt reminder: “Your balance sheet won’t save you if your cash flow breaks.” This conversation isn’t theory. It’s lived experience, shared in real time.

00:00 Part 3 - Audience Q&A & Closing

05:40 Banking Relationships and Financial Advice

12:01 Global Agriculture and Market Dynamics

33:30 Cryptocurrency and AI in Agriculture

41:21 The Inevitability of War and Global Tensions

41:46 China's Ambitions and Global Power Dynamics

42:34 Climate Change and Carbon Credits

44:51 Agricultural Financing and Real Estate

51:42 Interest Rates and Economic Predictions

56:35 Farmland Investment Strategies

01:06:19 Global Trade and Agricultural Competitiveness

01:23:48 Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

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Part 1 covered why Robert Andjelic believes the system is under pressure. This is where he tells you what to actually do about it: a 3-step action plan built for producers who did not lock in two years ago and need a defensive plan now, not a growth plan.

What's Inside

• A recap of Robert's 12-point thesis for anyone catching this one first

• The 3-step survival plan: get brutally clear on cash, talk to lenders early, raise guaranteed income fast

• Why land payments come first and everything else is negotiable

• What to bring to a lender conversation so it reads as credibility, not panic

• Why cutting capital drag on machinery is one of the fastest ways to stabilize an operation

Related Episodes

• Is There a Capital Squeeze in Ag? -- Part 1, the thesis this action plan responds to

• What Happens When Capital Tightens? Live Q&A -- Part 3, the audience questions this plan raised

• Too Big to Farm -- the follow-up conversation

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Robert Andjelic spent two weeks meeting with 20 to 30 lenders in Toronto before he picked up the phone to call this briefing. What he found there is the spine of this conversation: banks are not turning against agriculture, they are absorbing pressure from a commercial real estate sector years into extend-and-pretend, and that pressure is starting to reach the farm gate.

This is Part 1 of a three-part live event. Robert lays out his 12-point thesis on where the economy actually stands, why he believes this cycle could rival 1929, and what role banking oversight plays in what producers are starting to feel.

What's Inside

• What changed in Robert's 14 years of lobbying lenders on agriculture's behalf
• Why banks are not hostile to agriculture, they're under pressure from commercial real estate
• The 80-year long wave cycle and why Robert believes this downturn could be worse than 1929
• What OSFI is and why it matters to every producer with an operating line
• Why Robert chose to say this publicly, despite knowing the criticism it would bring

Related Episodes

• How to Survive a Capital Squeeze in Agriculture Part II -- the action plan that follows this thesis
• What Happens When Capital Tightens? Live Q&A -- Part 3 of this event
• Too Big to Farm -- the follow-up conversation this briefing set in motion

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Episode NotesWhy most diets work briefly—and then quietly collapse

The hidden cost of extreme approaches to food and fitness

Growing up overweight and learning to separate identity from behavior

Why protein, fiber, hydration, and sleep are foundational—not optional

The difference between weight loss and health

Alcohol, energy, and the trade-offs we don’t like to talk about

Why tracking creates awareness, not obsession

How agriculture schedules complicate nutrition—and how to adapt

Accountability as a support system, not a punishment

Building habits that can survive busy seasons, travel, and stress

This episode is a reminder:

You don’t need a new body.
You need a way of living that doesn’t break the one you have.

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Farmers don’t need another polished sales pitch — they need tools that actually work when iron is hot and harvest pressure is on.

In this live episode of What Farmers Want, host Dan Aberhart puts ag-tech innovation to the test in a Shark Tank–style format designed for one audience only: farmers.

🎙 Andrew Leaman, Founder & CEO of Chariot Command, joins the show to present technology built around visual monitoring, thermal imaging, and AI — designed to detect overheating components, mechanical failures, and fire risks before they become catastrophic.

Andrew isn’t pitching to investors or executives.
He’s pitching directly to producers and agronomists who live with this equipment every day.

👨‍🌾 Farmer & Agronomist PanelWyatt Bolt – Bolt Seeds Farm

Darwin Kells – Lambton Agra

Riley Kushniruk – K4 Ag

With candid discussion from the live audience and real-world scenarios ranging from combine bearings to grain dryer fires, this episode dives into:

The true cost of downtime

Why most fires don’t come out of nowhere

How thermal imaging sees what humans can’t

Data ownership, insurance implications, and OEM relationships

What farmers would actually pay for preventative technology

🤝 Presented by Cornerstone Credit UnionLyndon Lisitza, Director of Rural Tech Activation at Cornerstone Credit Union, joins the conversation to share why supporting practical, farmer-driven innovation matters — and how financial institutions can play a role in accelerating adoption without hype.

This is an honest, unfiltered conversation about ag-tech, risk, and reality — exactly how farmers like it.

🔗 Learn moreChariot Command
Founder: Andrew Leaman
📧 andrew.leaman@chariotcommand.com

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Content note: This episode includes open conversation about mental health, burnout, and identity in agricultural leadership. If you are struggling, please reach out. Farm Stress Line: 1-866-327-6701. Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566. In the U.S.: 988.

Corliss Rassyle is the founder of Lead Conference Canada. She spent years building a life in agricultural leadership before she had the breakdown that made her question what leadership actually meant.

This episode is a conversation about the moment when the person running things has to stop and ask whether the thing they have built is actually serving them. Corliss does not have a tidy answer. She has the questions she learned to sit with.

What's Inside

• What Corliss Rassyle's breakdown in agricultural leadership looked like and what she did next

• The difference between performing leadership and practicing it

• Why the leaders who are most in control are often the most at risk

• What Lead Conference Canada was built to address and how it came out of her own experience

• The question she asks every agricultural leader she works with now

Related Episodes

• You Are Not Your Tractor -- Corliss Rassyle on vulnerability, identity, and what the land does not owe you (GTF Productions, June 2026)

• What the Farm Asked of Andy Junkin -- succession, identity, and what farming costs a son

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and episode introduction
01:07 Introducing Corliss Rassyle
03:15 Growing up on the farm
05:00 Building a business and finding purpose
09:32 The hero’s journey and hard seasons
13:02 Losing everything and rebuilding
17:00 Where real change begins
18:18 Vision, purpose, and leading your life
21:36 Becoming who you need to be
24:02 Learning to value the journey
27:17 Call to LEAD and leadership without titles
32:00 What changes after doing the work
33:13 Convergence Conference and what’s possible
39:04 Final reflections and where to connect

Guest

Corliss Rassyle
International Speaker, Author, Coach, and Founder of Corliss Co.

Website: https://www.corliss.ca

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast, Dan sits down with a prairie-based entrepreneur and investor helping unlock a new wave of ag-tech innovation across Western Canada.

The conversation spans angel investing, Startup TNT, and the roots of prairie innovation — from early farm accounting software and fertilizer exits to today’s venture-backed ag-tech startups. Along the way, we dig into a powerful idea: agriculture doesn’t just need better technology, it needs farmers back in the innovation value chain as owners, not just test pilots.

This episode also reflects on the Yorkton Harvest Showdown Ag Tech Pitch, where Dan and his guest recently connected with emerging founders — several of whom will be featured in upcoming episodes.

If you’re a farmer, founder, investor, or someone curious about how ag-tech actually gets built and funded, this conversation offers a grounded, honest look at capital, community, and purpose-driven investing.

Key Topics / Bullets (Optional but recommended)

Angel investing in agriculture

Startup TNT and prairie startup ecosystems

The legacy of AgExpert and early ag innovation

Why farmers are losing equity in the value chain

Purpose, responsibility, and investing in community

How ag-tech startups actually get funded

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In this conversation, Dan Aberhart introduces the upcoming Convergence Conference, now in its third year and happening February 3–5, 2026 in Regina. The banquet keynote speaker is Matt Havens — a leadership and generational expert with a background in corporate strategy and a knack for comedy.

Dan and Matt dive into the challenges of modern farm businesses, from information overload to multi‑generational dynamics. They discuss why simplicity beats burnout and how prioritizing what really matters can help cut through the noise. Matt shares how humor makes tough conversations easier and why we often have more in common across generations than we think. They also touch on the unique challenges of family farms — being hard on family, managing multiple age groups on one yard, and the importance of empathy.

The episode offers a taste of what Matt will deliver at Convergence 2026 and underscores why his message is right on point for anyone in agriculture. Tune in to hear practical ideas for leading with intention, building culture, and making space for real progress.

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In this episode of Growing the Future Productions, we explore what it means to go from Chaos Commander to CEO with Tim Schaefer, founder of Encore Consulting.
Tim has over 20 years of experience helping farm families professionalize their operations, strengthen leadership, and prepare the next generation to succeed.

In this episode:

The difference between managing chaos and leading a business

How to let go of control without losing your edge

What it takes to professionalize your farm operation

How to build systems and people that work without you

Why clarity and communication create freedom

Whether you’re stuck in the middle of harvest madness or planning your next growth phase, this episode will give you perspective, calm, and a plan for leading your farm like a business.

Brought to you by:
Aberhart Ag Solutions and GRIPP — the accountability app built for farms.
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🎙 Host: Dan Aberhart
🎙 Co-Host: Nicole Dube
👤 Guest: Tim Schaefer, Encore Consulting
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Welcome back to Season 7, Episode 15 of the Growing the Future Podcast with Dan Aberhart and Nicole Dubé—coming to you from our brand-new studio!

In this episode, we take you inside the Growing the Future Mastermind, featuring soil scientist Greg Patterson, founder of A&L Laboratories Canada. Together, we dig into advanced soil science concepts that can transform how you farm:

Why cation exchange capacity (CEC) is the key to understanding nutrient availability.

How base saturation makes soil chemistry actionable for real-world farming.

Why the balance of calcium, magnesium, and potassium drives energy production and yield stability.

This is just a taste of what happens inside the Mastermind—a place where producers, agronomists, and ag entrepreneurs come together to learn what’s really working in the field.

👉 Want access to the full sessions, transcripts, and community? Join the Growing the Future Mastermind today.

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In This Episode:Why digital scouting tools are becoming a game-changer for producers

How Agscouter streamlines reporting between agronomists, farmers, and retailers

The top frustrations farmers have with ag-tech (and how to fix them)

Where tech fits — and where it fails — in real-world decision-making

Exclusive insights from farmers on what they actually want from innovators

Featured Guests & Panelists:Jill & Kara (Agscouter Co-Founders) — sharing the vision and roadmap

Cherilyn Jolly-Nagel (Producer, Mossbank, SK)

Scott Maurer (Maurer Family Grains)

Brett Casavant (Casavant Family Farms)

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One year ago, independent agronomists joined forces with MNP, Canada’s largest private accounting and advisory firm. It was a move that surprised many in the industry and promised to change the way farms approach agronomy and business strategy.

In this episode, we look back at what happened, why it happened, and what it means for the future of farming in Western Canada. Panelists Ryan Goodwin, Mike Palmier, and Dean Klippenstine share their perspectives on:

The motivations behind the merger and the lessons learned along the way

The biggest challenges farmers face today and how independent advice can help

What separates good farms from great ones

How data, finance, and agronomy can work together to support better decisions acre by acre

Whether you’re curious about the evolution of agronomy or looking for insights to take your farm from good to great, this episode delivers a candid, practical conversation about the future of agriculture.

Listen in, and then check out the full webinar replay on the Growing the Future Productions YouTube channel.

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Join Dan Aberhart on the Growing the Future Podcast for a special episode where we dive into the Growing The Future Mastermind community.

In this episode, Dan highlights the top three reasons for joining the Mastermind and features expert Greg Patterson, with over 30 years of experience in soil science, plant nutrition, and microbiology.

Learn about the crucial role of soil types in fertility planning, how plants reshape their microbial environment for better performance, and the significant impact of soil health on drought resilience.

Join the conversation and elevate your agricultural practices here: https://www.skool.com/gtfmastermind/about?ref=ea63befe7e934417a3e7ebb42bb2080c

00:00 Welcome to Growing the Future Podcast

00:16 Introduction to the Mastermind Community

01:12 Top Reasons to Join the Mastermind

02:05 Insights from Greg Patterson: Soil Types

06:57 Understanding Microbial Environments

12:05 Soil Health and Drought Mitigation

14:37 Conclusion and Invitation to Join

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Farmers Evaluate PathoScan's Ag Tech: Real Feedback, Real Insights, Ep.2

Join us in episode two of 'What Farmers Want,' hosted by Danny Aberhart, where REAL-WORLD producers dive deep into evaluating innovative Ag Tech solutions.

In this episode, we feature Tayeb Soomro, founder of PathoScan, pitching his microbial profiling platform, PathoBox.

The technology allows early detection and management of crop diseases, potentially transforming fungicide application decisions.

Hear from seasoned farmers like Matt Wallington, Kris Mayerle, Janel Delage, and Scott Maurer, among others, as they provide candid feedback, discuss the practicality, and explore the potential ROI.

CEO Doug Jones from Cornerstone Credit Union shares insights on supporting Ag Tech advancements.

This interactive, no-nonsense series aims to bridge the gap between Silicon Valley innovation and practical farming needs, ensuring technologies not only impress but work effectively in the field.

00:00 Introduction to What Farmers Want

01:54 Meet the Panelists

03:19 Farmers Share Crop Conditions and Innovations

09:12 Cornerstone Credit Union's Role in Ag Tech

16:32 Challenges in Ag Tech Adoption

20:24 Introducing Patho Scan and Patho Box

35:05 Challenges with Previous Device

35:44 Improvements in Sample Preparation

37:27 Cost and Pricing of the New Technology

40:12 Fungicide Decision-Making on the Farm

44:14 ROI and Cost Analysis of Fungicide Application

49:48 Future Plans and Farmer Feedback

58:26 Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

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Join Dan Aberhart in this Season 7, Episode 10 of Growing the Future Productions' 'Dollars in the Dirt,' sponsored by Precision Land Solutions. Dan sits down with top producers and tile drainage experts from Manitoba to discuss the transformative impact of water management on agricultural land.

Featuring personal anecdotes and professional insights from Chris Unrau from Precision Land Solutions, Darryl Wiebe from Beaver Creek Farms, and Jim Pallister from Pallister Farms, the conversation explores key themes like improving land value through tile drainage, the return on investment, and the regulatory landscape.

This episode is packed with valuable advice for farmers looking to enhance their land productivity and sustainability. Don't miss out on the rich discussion around the benefits, challenges, and practicalities of implementing tile drainage systems!

00:00 Welcome to Growing the Future Productions

01:02 Sharing Personal Wins

01:52 Chris's Coffee Venture

04:33 Discussing Land Values and ROI

05:43 Chris's Journey with Tile Drainage

12:24 Darrell's Family History with Tile Drainage

16:29 Jim's Passion for Land Ownership and Improvement

23:54 Benefits of Tile Drainage

34:53 The Value of Tiling Land

35:29 Net Worth and Land Renovation

36:27 Payoff Time for Tiling

37:02 Soil Conservation Anecdote

38:19 Philosophical and Practical Views on Tiling

39:21 Field-Specific Benefits of Tiling

43:52 Complete Solutions for Tiling

46:14 Challenges and Solutions in Tiling

52:50 Regulatory Landscape and Advocacy

01:00:48 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

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STARS: Life-Saving Missions and Community Impact |

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In this episode of 'Growing the Future Podcast,' host Dan Aberhart chats with Darren Entner, the Clinical Operations Manager at STARS in Regina.

They dive into the vital role STARS plays in providing critical care in remote areas through air rescue missions.

Dan also discusses his personal mission to raise $50,000 for STARS by participating in the 'Rescue on the River' campaign.

With over 11 daily missions and nearly 4,000 in one year alone, the life-saving work of STARS is monumental.

Discover how community support and innovative healthcare are making extraordinary impacts in rural Canada.

00:00 Welcome to Growing the Future Podcast

00:30 Personal Mission: Rescue on the River Campaign

02:01 Introducing the Guest: Darren Entner from STARS

04:11 Darren's Journey with STARS

07:54 The Evolution and Impact of STARS

14:25 Cutting-Edge Technology and Operations

16:27 Mission Types and Procedures

19:39 Scene Calls and Coordination

21:35 Critical Care Logistics and Communication

22:13 Challenges and Differences Across Provinces

22:37 Manitoba's Unique Circumstances

24:58 Mission Statistics and Busy Seasons

27:44 Impactful Patient Stories

31:48 Fundraising and Community Support

34:02 Rescue on the River Event

39:19 Concluding Remarks and Gratitude

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Epic Solitude: A 122-Day Solo Canoe Expedition Across Canada's Wilderness | Growing the Future Podcast

Join host Dan Aberhart on the Growing the Future Podcast for an awe-inspiring episode with special guest Calem Watson.

In this episode, Caleb shares his incredible 122-day solo canoe expedition across the Northwest Territories, from Fort Smith to Tuktoyaktuk in the summer of 2023.

Discover the compelling reasons behind his adventurous spirit, the profound solitude he experienced, the stunning wildlife encounters, and the motivation to pursue a career as a public speaker.

Calem's journey offers invaluable lessons in resilience, courage, and the beauty of nature.

Learn about his preparation, the kindness of strangers along the way, and the broader message of finding freedom and simplicity away from modern life's chaos.

Tune in to hear Calem's story and be inspired to embrace adventure and follow your dreams.

00:00 Welcome to Growing the Future Podcast

01:52 Introducing the Esteemed Guest

02:23 The 3000 Kilometer Solo Canoe Expedition

03:57 The Motivation Behind the Adventure

05:24 Experiencing Canada's Untamed Wilderness

10:49 The Challenges and Rewards of Solo Travel

16:17 Planning and Preparing for the Journey

21:47 Sharing the Adventure and Inspiring Others

31:28 Breaking into the Wilderness

32:48 Wildlife Encounters

33:31 Survival Diets and Pemmican

37:18 Lessons from the Journey

42:34 Indigenous Culture and Kindness

47:32 Future Adventures and Reflections

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What happens when you put bold ag tech in front of a panel of no-nonsense farmers and hand them the mic?

In the premiere episode of “What Farmers Want”—brought to you by Cornerstone Credit Union’s Rural Tech Act—host Dan Aberhart invites you to witness a high-stakes, Shark Tank-style pitch where Kyle Folk, Founder & CEO of GroundTruth Ag, makes his case for a new approach to on-farm grain grading automation.

But the decision isn’t up to investors. It’s up to the farmers.

This episode features direct, unfiltered feedback from a panel of respected Saskatchewan producers:

Matt Wallington – Hanover Ridge Farms

Brett Casavant – Cas-Grain Farms

Riley Kushniruk – K4 Ag

Scott Maurer – Maurer Family Grains

They ask the tough questions, challenge assumptions, and weigh in on whether this technology has what it takes to make it out of the shop and onto the farm.

💡 Highlights Include:

Why ag tech adoption so often misses the mark

The real-world challenges of grain grading and quality assessment

What it takes to earn the trust of producers

Live audience polling and Q&A participation

Is this the next game-changer—or just another gadget gathering dust? Listen in and decide for yourself.

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Engineering Leadership & Innovation in Agriculture with Ryan Husband

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In this episode, we sit down with Ryan Husband, the mayor of Outlook, Saskatchewan, and the executive director of Irrigation Saskatchewan. Raised on a family farm, Ryan's journey to becoming a local leader, water management engineer, and co-owner of Husbandry Farms is full of grit and perseverance.

From fighting fires to managing an orchard, Ryan's story is one of innovation and dedication to improving the agricultural industry. Join us as we discuss the complexities and rewards of irrigation, leadership in small-town Saskatchewan, and the future of farming.

For more info on irrigation in Sk check out https://irrigationsask.com

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You won't want to miss this one!

00:00 Welcome to Growing the Future Podcast 01:03 Introducing Today's Esteemed Guest

02:23 Ryan Husband's Background and Journey 06:06 Engineering and Agricultural Career

08:22 Challenges and Opportunities in Irrigation 13:01 Community Involvement and Leadership

17:45 Outlook's Infrastructure and Future Plans

20:34 The Importance of Irrigation in Saskatchewan 26:03 Comparing Irrigation in Saskatchewan and Alberta

32:48 Outlook's Growth and Development

48:27 Exploring the Concept of Irrigation

48:39 The Vision of John Diefenbaker

50:06 Current State of Irrigation in Saskatchewan

51:37 Challenges and Solutions in Irrigation

52:42 Gravity's Role in Irrigation

55:03 Efficiency Improvements in Irrigation

01:01:17 Getting Started with Irrigation

01:21:52 Economic and Community Impact of Irrigation

01:24:23 Leadership and Personal Growth

01:30:36 Future of Irrigation and Final Thoughts

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Soil Health Revolution: Unlocking the Potential Beneath Your Feet | Growing the Future Mastermind

Join host Dan Aberhart in the 'Engine of the Soil Igniting the Evergreen Revolution' webinar as he speaks with Greg Patterson, CEO and founder of A&L Canada Laboratories.

This webinar, presented by A&L Canada Laboratories and Growing the Future Productions, gathers a powerhouse of agronomic expertise to discuss soil health and its transformative potential in agriculture.

Greg shares his 40 years of experience and unveils a comprehensive soil health series that will bring agronomic insights to farmers in Western Canada and beyond.

The session explores the history of green revolutions, the importance of soil microbiomes, balanced fertility, and innovative techniques to boost crop yields while maintaining environmental sustainability.

Engage with the discussion, learn about the groundbreaking Soil Health Index, and discover how proper soil management can revolutionize agricultural productivity.

Stay tuned for future sessions and masterclasses aimed at elevating agronomy practices globally.

00:00 Welcome and Introduction

01:30 Excitement for Soil Health Series

03:04 Greg Patterson's Vision and Goals

06:00 Historical Overview of Fertility 06:18 The First Green Revolution

08:23 The Second Green Revolution

09:24 The Evergreen Revolution

09:50 Plant-Microbe Interactions

11:36 Soil Health and Microbial Activity

16:18 Case Study: Potato Production

19:49 A&L Biologicals and Soil Health

25:56 Balanced Fertility and Nutrient Management

33:14 Q&A Session: Soil Health and Fertility

47:59 Impact of Agriculture on Organic Matter

49:46 The Role of Sulfur in Soil Health

52:47 Microbial Activity and Soil Moisture

01:02:10 No-Till Farming and Soil Stratification

01:09:29 Soil Health Index and Microbial Populations

01:23:21 Introducing the Growing the Future Mastermind

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Join Dan Aberhart on Growing the Future Productions as he discusses the volatile global fertilizer market in 2025 with Josh Linville, a trusted Fertilizer Market Analyst at Stonex. In this episode, they tackle the unpredictable fluctuations in fertilizer prices, including the impacts of tariffs, geopolitical events, and supply constraints. Josh provides a detailed analysis of the global factors affecting nitrogen, urea, potash, phosphate, and sulfur markets, and offers insights on how farmers and industry professionals can best navigate these challenges. Learn the current state of the market, predict future trends, and understand the complex forces at play in the agricultural sector.

00:00 Introduction to Global Fertilizer Market

00:26 Current Fertilizer Market Challenges

02:07 Audience Interaction and Questions

03:49 Josh Linville's Market Analysis

07:49 Global Supply Issues and Political Impacts

15:45 Middle East and Global Shipping Concerns

20:22 European Production and Market Dynamics

33:54 Technological Advances and Future Outlook

35:15 Phosphate Market and Tariff Implications

37:58 Understanding Market Signals

38:27 Global Phosphate Supply Issues

39:01 Impact of US Government Policies

40:07 China's Export Restrictions

43:52 India's Struggle with Subsidies

48:05 Internal Fertilizer Trade Dynamics

49:51 Tariffs and Market Reactions

54:05 Potash and Sulfur Market Insights

01:01:05 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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In this digital interactive event hosted by Dan Aberhart brought to you by Growing the Future Productions and Global Ag Risk Solutions, farming experts dive deep into the challenges Western Canadian farmers face amidst market volatility and climate unpredictability.

The webinar features key speakers including Dave Sullivan from Global Ag Risk, Dean Klippenstein and Tyson Kenneth from MNP, and Carl DeConnick Smith, who is known for his contrarian yet effective farming strategies. T

he discussion covers crucial topics such as effective risk management, insurance options, agri-stability, forward pricing strategies, and the importance of having a well-thought-out plan.

With live questions from an engaged audience, there are lots of actionable insights to fellow farmers striving for resilience and success.

00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:46 Engaging the Audience

01:15 Panelist Introductions

03:15 Technical Difficulties and Chat Interaction

05:48 Starting the Discussion: State of the Union

06:14 Insurance Options and Strategies

17:39 Q&A Session

19:06 New Farmer Challenges and Solutions

28:46 Halfway Mark: Transition to Farmer's Perspective

33:06 Forward Pricing and Crop Insurance

34:37 Real-Life Examples and Benefits

35:29 Multi-Layer Tools and Strategies

36:31 Insurance in Action: Case Studies

39:58 Understanding AgriStability and GARS

42:24 Scenario Analysis and Decision Making

52:21 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast, Wade Barnes, founder of Farmer’s Edge, shares the raw and unfiltered story of his entrepreneurial journey—from the early days of pioneering precision agriculture to the pressure cooker of fundraising, navigating investor dynamics, and the hard lessons learned through an IPO.

🛠️ Key Topics Discussed:

• The highs and lows of raising capital and the hidden challenges of venture capital.
• The fear of growth and competition, and how it shaped business decisions.
• Insights into working with top investors like Kleiner Perkins, Mitsui, and Prem Watsa from Fairfax.
• Building a billion-dollar ag-tech company and the reality of public markets.
• How Farmer’s Edge became a leader in carbon offsets and the emerging potential of "insetting."
• The emotional and professional toll of losing control over his company.
• Wade’s thoughts on the future of farm data, AI, and why John Deere is leading the pack.
• His new venture, Ronin, and a return to the roots of higher-touch agronomy services.

🎧 Why You Should Listen:
Wade provides an honest look into the pressures of being a tech entrepreneur in agriculture, including what he would have done differently and why he believes a more personal touch with farmers is the key to success. Whether you're in agribusiness, tech, or just love a great entrepreneurial story, this episode is packed with valuable lessons and insights.

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What happens when a small agtech company takes on the biggest names in agriculture?

In Part 2 of Wade Barnes' incredible journey, we dive into the high-stakes battle between Farmer’s Edge and industry giants like Monsanto, John Deere, and Nutrien. This isn't just a story about farming—it’s about corporate power, data wars, and the fight for the future of agriculture.

💡 In this episode, we cover:

• How Farmer’s Edge competed with billion-dollar corporations
• The deal with Nutrien that almost destroyed the company
• Why Monsanto was obsessed with farm data and precision ag
• How a single technology breakthrough changed everything
• The real reason venture capitalists and investors bet big on farming tech

📢 Tune in to hear the inside story from Wade Barnes on how he built, battled, and survived in an industry where the biggest players don’t like competition.

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On this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, we sit down with Wade Barnes, a farm kid from Birtle, Manitoba, who forged his own path in agriculture, much like a samurai without a master. From humble beginnings working the land to building Farmer’s Edge, one of the most influential AgTech companies in Canada, Wade’s journey is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and taking on the establishment.

Wade didn’t follow a traditional roadmap—he challenged old ways of thinking, fought through skepticism, and built a business that changed how farmers manage their land. Without a blueprint, without guarantees, and without waiting for permission, he created something entirely new, proving that sometimes the best way forward is to carve your own path.

In this episode, we explore:

• The roots of precision ag – How GPS, satellite imagery, and hard-nosed agronomy changed the game.
• Pushing against the establishment – Why traditional experts doubted his approach and how he proved them wrong.
• The power of relationships – How key connections with industry leaders like Cam Henry and Mark Keating helped launch Farmer’s Edge.
• Scaling the business – The challenges of rapid growth, securing investment, and consolidating his vision.
• A masterclass in deal-making – How a business coach from Winnipeg gave Wade the tools to negotiate high-stakes partnerships.

This is Wade’s first-ever long-form podcast, offering a rare inside look at the lessons learned from building a company on the cutting edge of agriculture. His journey reflects the samurai mindset—self-reliant, disciplined, and unafraid to challenge convention.

Listen now and subscribe for Part 2 as we dive deeper into the story of innovation, persistence, and the future of digital agriculture.

00:00 Introduction to Precision Agriculture

01:07 Welcome to the Growing the Future Podcast

02:46 Meet Wade Barnes: A Visionary in Ag Tech

03:32 Wade's Early Life and Farming Roots

05:57 The Birth of Farmer's Edge

12:39 Challenges and Innovations in Precision Ag

19:47 Scaling Up and Industry Recognition

29:48 Consolidation and Growth

38:23 Key Partnerships and Business Lessons

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From Father to Son: Preston Marthey's Water Management Legacy

In this heartfelt episode of the Growing the Future podcast, host Dan Aberhart reconnects with Preston Marthey, a Territory Manager for CropX.

Join us as Preston shares his inspiring journey from high school 'wild child' to an innovator in the precision ag industry, stepping into the huge shoes left behind by his father, Big Dave.

Dive into the rich history of water management, the evolution of precision agriculture, and the transformative power of ag tech. Witness the strong familial bonds and core values that drive Preston's passion for sustainable farming practices, as well as the cutting-edge solutions he's bringing to farmers across North America.

Tune in for a conversation filled with wisdom, wit, and a touch of nostalgia, celebrating the past while paving the way for the future of agriculture.

00:00 Welcome to Growing the Future Podcast

02:25 Introducing Today's Guest: Preston Marthey

03:12 Preston's Early Journey in Agriculture

06:23 Technological Shifts in Precision Agriculture

09:39 Generational Wisdom and Business Evolution

13:15 Challenges and Innovations in Water Management

26:39 Balancing Family and Work in Agriculture

31:38 The Art and Science of Land Forming

47:04 Balancing Simplicity and Precision in Farming

47:28 The Impact of OptiSurface on Land Leveling

48:10 Challenges and Solutions in Soil Management

50:14 Regional Differences in Agricultural Practices

53:33 The Importance of Precision Investment

55:17 Nutrient Management and Technology Integration

01:10:06 Mentorship and Personal Growth in Agriculture

01:27:40 Final Thoughts and Reflections

📩 Contact Preston: Preston@pmwmc.com | 📞 +1 (870) 819-7151

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Benny shares a deeply personal and transformative story about losing his younger brother in 2021—a tragedy that profoundly shaped his life. His brother was murdered during a drug deal gone wrong, a moment that shook his family to the core. Benny reflected on how he hadn’t spoken openly about his own struggles and the lessons he’d learned in his younger years, and he wondered if being more vulnerable could have made a difference.

This heartbreaking experience led Benny to two life-changing realizations:

1. His Business Didn’t Need Him Every Day: At the time of his brother’s death, Benny had implemented the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) in his company, which allowed it to function without his constant oversight. For the first time, he saw how freeing it was to detach his identity from his business. It gave him the space to step away and be present for his grieving family without the pressure of everything falling apart.

2. He Needed a Greater Purpose: The loss forced Benny to ask himself a tough question: Is running a roofing company all I’m meant to do? He realized his true calling was to share his story with others—stories of resilience, vulnerability, and finding purpose beyond work. This moment inspired him to launch a podcast, take the stage at speaking events, and help others navigate their own challenges. Benny’s journey is a powerful reminder of the importance of separating our identity from our work and creating space to live authentically and fully.

He’ll be sharing this deeply personal story—and the lessons he’s learned—at the upcoming Convergence Conference 2025 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Benny’s keynote promises to inspire, challenge, and help attendees see the bigger picture in both their business and personal lives. If you’re ready to reflect, grow, and start 2025 with a fresh perspective, don’t miss Benny Fisher at Convergence Conference. It’s a message you need to hear.

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In this episode host Dan Aberhart chats with Warren Bills and his little brother Terry Aberhart ... the Visionary/Integrator and Simplifier/Multiplier team who have transformed the Western Canadian agricultural industry thought their various endeavours together.

They talk about their on their collaborative journey, the formation of their numerous agribusiness ventures, and the importance of aligning with values-driven partners.

This conversation covers the launch of Convergence Growth, their experience with AgriTrend, insights into the MNP Ag Intellect initiative, and the establishment of Aberhart Group.

The episode also previews the upcoming Convergence Conference 2025, aimed at fostering innovation and collaboration in agriculture.

Join us for an inspiring dialogue on making a meaningful impact in agriculture while maintaining personal well-being and strong community ties.

00:00 Catalyst for Change: Embracing New Beginnings

00:43 Welcome to Growing the Future Podcast

02:06 Introducing Esteemed Guests: Warren Bills and Terry Aberhart

04:01 The Journey Begins: Warren and Terry's Backstory

12:14 Agritrend and Its Impact

16:46 Convergence Growth: A New Vision

27:54 MNP Ag Intellect: A Collaborative Future

35:39 Aberhart Group: Family and Business Synergy

40:25 Convergence Conference: Join the Movement

47:09 Closing Thoughts and Future Plans

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In this episode of the Growing the Future podcast, host Dan Aberhart interviews Sara Shymko, the executive director of Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) Saskatchewan.

They discuss the importance of creating hands-on educational opportunities for students to explore careers in agriculture. Sara shares insights from her global experience and emphasizes the need to connect kids with meaningful food experiences to understand the local and global impacts of agriculture.

The conversation highlights the Acres for Education campaign aimed at raising $100,000 to provide farm visits and out-of-school experiences for students. This episode underscores the critical need to inspire future generations to consider careers in agriculture and the collective effort required from the industry.

Connect with Sara:

Website: https://aitc-canada.ca/en-ca/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AITCCanada/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AITCCanada

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aitccanada/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDjICByAj9euDpyUMb9aZg

Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca
https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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In this episode of the Growing the Future podcast, host Terry invites Rick Block from the Canadian Food Grains Bank to discuss the organization's impactful work in global food security.

They share their personal experiences abroad, the history and mission of the Canadian Food Grains Bank, and the innovative Grow Hope initiative. Terry’s son Holden shares his unique perspective as a young man engaged in these critical issues.

This is all about giving, the importance of relationships, and how small acts can have profound impacts on communities around the world.

“The Full Man Does Not Understand the Wants of the Hungry” - Irish Proverb

Connect with Rick:

Website: https://foodgrainsbank.ca

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CanadianFoodgrainsBank

X: https://x.com/Foodgrains

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foodgrains

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/foodgrainsbank

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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Arthur’s story starts simple: a family farm, a small-town upbringing, and a job managing dealerships where loyalty wasn’t handed out, it was earned. As the dealerships grew, so did Arthur, taking on bigger roles until he eventually became President of Pattison Agriculture, responsible for 17 John Deere dealerships across Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It was more than just tractors—it was about building relationships, managing people, and proving you could hit your numbers no matter the season. Along the way, Arthur learned that customer satisfaction wasn’t just a strategy—it was survival. And survival’s a skill you don’t forget.

But it didn’t stop there. The Jim Pattison Group, a corporate giant with over 48,000 employees across 25 industries, saw something in him. Arthur became one of Pattison’s Vice Presidents, sitting at the same table as one of Canada’s most iconic businessmen. Jim Pattison’s leadership was simple and sharp: “Spend money like it’s your own,” and “Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want on the front page of the newspaper.” It was the kind of no-frills wisdom that fit Arthur like a glove.

In this episode, Arthur reflects on:

The lessons learned from farming and how they carried over into running dealerships and corporate boardrooms.

The challenges of balancing old-school agriculture with new business realities, including scaling operations while holding onto small-town values.

What he took away from working with one of Canada’s sharpest business minds—and why the hardest part wasn’t making it to the top, but staying there.

Now, Arthur’s back on prairie soil, working with Aberhart Group to build something real—businesses that serve their people, their customers, and the land. He’s traded in the skyscrapers for Saskatchewan sunsets, but the fight’s still the same: do right by people, take care of the customer, and build something that lasts.

Tune in for a conversation that’s as much about grit as it is about growth. Arthur’s journey is proof that whether you’re on a tractor or in a boardroom, it all comes down to knowing the value of hard work and the power of doing things the right way.

0:00 Introduction and Core Values

00:33 Welcome to the Growing the Future Podcast

00:48 Introducing Today's Esteemed Guest

01:15 Family of Companies Overview

02:09 Arthur Ward's Early Life and Career Beginnings

04:48 Transition to Agricultural Sales

07:36 Challenges and Successes in the Ag Industry

11:14 Leadership and Coaching Philosophy

18:00 Joining the Jim Pattison Group

18:51 Innovations and Future Plans

41:52 Adapting to Market Changes

43:19 Lessons from Farming

45:25 Unexpected Life Changes

48:33 Joining the Aberhart Group

53:45 The Role of Chief Integration Officer

56:51 Future Goals and Reflections

57:36 Rapid Fire Business Insights

01:02:29 Building Sustainable Businesses

01:14:02 Personal Reflections and Future Plans

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartgroup.com

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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Ready to learn, unlearn, and relearn how you run your farm?

In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast, Matt Gosling breaks down many different concepts that every farmer should have the opportunity to hear.

From balancing nitrogen, to building dynamic soil zones, to challenging the status quo, Matt shares his 21 years of hands-on experience in agronomy, offering practical insights for treating your farm like the multi-million dollar business it is.

These aren’t just theories—they’re hard-earned lessons on soil health, smart decision-making, and innovation that will push your farm to the next level. Hear how mentorship, continual learning, and entrepreneurial spirit are shaping the future of farming—plus, why family and purpose are just as important as innovation.

Explore the future of farming with AI, data, and proven agronomy practices.

Subscribe now to learn the keys to smarter, more profitable farming!

Connect with Matt:

Website: https://www.premiumag.ca/

Twitter: https://x.com/PremiumAg

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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When you've spent your life building your professional career after you left the family farm in the 80’s ...

When you're at the top of your game …

When you've got 35 years experience in the field of international agricultural fertility …

When you've been to 80 countries all around the world …

When you could ride out the last victory laps of your professional life in relative safety and comfort …

And yet, you decide that you can do more, you can offer value in a totally different way …

That you can become an entrepreneur and build a brand new business to change the world …

Yet through the many twists and turns you end up in a totally different spot than you anticipated!

And you end up fighting for your very life, against the very disease that took your father's life ...

When Jeff Ivan left the farm in the 80's, things were very different …

In this episode you will learn about balance in the soil and in your own life as Jeff recounts his challenges as he founded a brand new company, full of scientific innovation similar to the advances that saved his life from a terminal diagnosis!

Connect with Jeff:

Website: https://www.soilgenic.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soilgenic/

Twitter: https://x.com/Soilgenic

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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Join host Dan Aberhart on the Growing the Future podcast as he welcomes Jessica Janzen, a motivational speaker, mindset coach, author, and philanthropist.

Jessica shares her incredible journey of overcoming life challenges, including the heartbreaking loss of her son to Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Discover how her faith, resilience, and choice to bring joy have transformed her life and the lives of many others through the Love for Lewiston Foundation.

This episode dives deep into the importance of self-worth, the power of choice, and bringing joy, even in the hardest of times. Don’t miss this emotional and inspiring conversation that is sure to leave a lasting impact.

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Steve and his wife Vanessa live near Three Hills, AB, with their three children. A Professional Agrologist and Certified Crop Advisor, Steve has supported farmers for over 25 years. He has a diploma in Crop Advisory and a B.Sc. in Agriculture Studies. In 2008, he received a Nuffield Scholarship to study controlled traffic farming.

In 2006, Steve founded Beyond Agronomy, providing agronomic services and strategies to farms in Canada and internationally. He also ran businesses in carbon and ag technology and published The Spark newsletter from 2008-2019.

A first-generation farmer since 2007, Steve operates a no-till research farm near Morrin, AB. He shares his expertise locally and internationally.

In his community, Steve enjoys making ice, coaching hockey, and winter activities with his family. He’s always ready for a brainstorming session.

Steve shares his vision for Nuffield Canada, including better communication and branding, and the goal of making the organization more widely known and impactful.

In this episode, Steve Larocque discusses:

• his journey with the Nuffield Scholarship and the impact it has had on his life and career.
• his experience with controlled traffic farming and the benefits it has brought to his farm, including improved soil health and increased yields.
• his approach to working with farmers, emphasizing the importance of confidence and execution in agronomy practices.
• the need for farmers to have a broader perspective and invest in further education to drive innovation and change in the industry.
• the future of agriculture, including the role of autonomous equipment, the need for value-added products, and the importance of food processing.
• the shift towards sustainability and the challenges of navigating climate change policies.
• the need for farmers to be involved in policy-making and to have a strong voice in shaping the future of agriculture.
• the value of homeschooling and raising children who are informed about the industry.

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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In this episode, you’ll learn how Max Ag Consulting has approached business growth, and how Mike measures his future success.Key topics: 🔑📖- Entrepreneurship and growth- The value of gaining work experience outside of agriculture- The importance of challenging best practices- The pursuit of success and year-over-year improvementPlus, you may just learn the answer to your burning question..."Who would win in a foosball match between Mike and Dan?" This and so much more in Season 6, Episode 4, of Growing the Future Podcast.

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In this episode you’ll hear a story about Craig’s farming background, his high regard for putting in a hard day’s work, and the turning point when being driven by success becomes a deeper desire to make an impact on the industry…and on the world.

Learn from Craig’s hands-on approach to aligning agribusiness solutions with growers’ needs and his experiences with the cutting-edge products and practices that are shaping the future of farming.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from the boots-on-the ground experiences of a fifth-generation family farmer from Virden, Manitoba. Tune in for a blend of personal stories and professional growth in agriculture.

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In this episode we dive deep into the sheer grit and determination of Marcel Kringe, Founder & CEO of Bushel Plus. Join us to hear about an entrepreneurial journey like no other.

In the midst of a life-threatening car crash and the potential of not making it through the night at a hospital in Australia thousands of miles from home, Marcel made it through with the incredible support of his team, his family and a local South African family who helped him find community and faith.

Marcel’s journey is about his recovery and what he learned about being a good boss, building a people-first team culture, and scaling an agricultural equipment business using the right business structure.

It’s an episode you won’t want to miss.

➡️ CLICK HERE TO WATCH PT. 1 Marcel Kringe | Ag Entrepreneurship: The Essence of Happiness: 👀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTrO4BQRosM

Connect with Marcel:

Website: https://bushelplus.ca/who-we-are/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BushelPlus/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BushelPlus

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bushelplus/

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChiABoQgTTuxU9ZgdHpE4fg

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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Embark on an insightful exploration of the intersection between German culture and entrepreneurship with Marcel Kringe, the Founder of Bushel Plus.

Marcel unfolds his agricultural narrative, meandering through the rustic allure of German farming to the vast landscapes of Canada and Russia.

In part one, immerse yourself in the personal odyssey of adaptation, financial challenges, and the priceless lessons gleaned from the fields!

Rooted in a culture of unwavering diligence and commitment, shaped by family values, these principles resonate in the ethos of Bushel Plus today. Despite the geographical distance, the familial bond remains robust, and Marcel shares anecdotes from his upbringing.

This episode unfolds a tale of genuine camaraderie and infectious laughter. Grab your coffee and tune in as Dan and Marcel unravel his captivating story.

Stay tuned for part two—activate your notifications to ensure you don't miss the next chapter.

Connect with Marcel:

Website: https://bushelplus.ca/who-we-are/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BushelPlus/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BushelPlus

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bushelplus/

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChiABoQgTTuxU9ZgdHpE4fg

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

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Blake Berglund, Musician and Author, takes us on a journey from the farm in Kennedy, SK., to the vibrant streets of Nashville, Tennessee, tracing the thread of lightning that connects him to his father. As he grapples with the passing of his father, he finds solace and inspiration in the stormy nights and the memories of his farm upbringing.

Amidst tornado warnings in Nashville, Blake sits at the piano, channeling the energy of the farm into a heartfelt composition. The song becomes a tribute to his father, capturing the late-night moments when he would be woken up to play 'Great Balls of Fire.' Blake reflects on his father's unwavering support, mirroring the cycles of farming in the ups and downs of creative pursuits.

The farm, a constant presence in their lives, becomes a sanctuary for the Berglund siblings in times of need. As the family experiences grief and heartache, amidst the pain, there's a profound sense of rebirth. Together, they embark on a lifelong journey of healing, finding love and insights that can only emerge through the process of grieving.

Blake performs 'Farming Wives,' a song from his new album 'Left of the Right,' he shares thoughts on the importance of the matriarchy in the Berglund family.

This episode captures the essence of love, loss, and the enduring connection to the farm that shapes the lives of the Berglund family.

Connect with Blake:

The Straight & The Narrow Substack: https://blakeberglund.substack.com/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/blakeberglund

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blakejohnberglund

Website: https://blakeberglund.com/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

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Part Three: The grand finale with Canada's largest farmland owner, Robert Andjelic!

Join Robert and Dan on an exciting ride as they explore the bright future of agriculture, delving into the revolutionary impact of AI and gene editing. From weed control to drought-tolerant crops, they discuss the potential game-changers that could shake up the world of farming.

But that's not all – buckle up for insights into collaborative farming, where Robert shares his firsthand experience. Discover the importance of partnerships with tenants, enhancing efficiency and aligning operational decisions with on-the-ground insights.

They go beyond traditional farming, uncovering the strategic blend of land management and capital investment that's shaping the evolution of agriculture. It's not your average farming talk – it's an adventure into the future of farming!

Join the conversation as Robert addresses misconceptions and sheds light on contemporary farming practices. Learn how education plays a vital role in dispelling outdated views on farming and land management.

Just a quick heads up – the views expressed here are Robert's own opinions and investment ideas. This is all about sharing insights and information, so consider it a fun and informative ride, not financial advice!

Connect with Robert:

Website: https://andjelic.ca/about

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008628990360

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-andjelic-a0474178/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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In part two, Dan and Robert delve into critical insights shaping the future of agriculture, global trade, and investment strategies.

Robert discusses the importance of maintaining capital flow into agriculture, especially in these uncertain times. Canada, in his words, is at the forefront of efficiency, with a need to invest wisely for the benefit of future generations.

Even with formulas and foresight, Robert shares his experience of being unable to foresee the specific situation in Ukraine. Geopolitical shifts were anticipated, but their impact on agriculture and global trade was unexpected.

He also touches on his foresight into the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy and the impending challenges once government support wanes.

Robert shares experiences from past recessions and the innovation required to navigate the upcoming economic shifts.

Despite all challenges in other sectors, Robert emphasizes why agriculture remains a safe investment. Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion on the intricacies of global shifts, economic challenges, and the evolving landscape of agriculture.

Please note that the views expressed here are Robert's opinions and his own investment ideas. This is provided for informational purposes only and should not be construed as investment advice.

Connect with Robert:

Website: https://andjelic.ca/about

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008628990360

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-andjelic-a0474178/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

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Embark on an unforgettable journey with Robert Andjelic, Canada's largest farmland owner, in a special three-part series of the Growing the Future Podcast! 🌾

Robert’s journey is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and visionary thinking. In this captivating series, we dive deep into the chapters of his life, exploring challenges, triumphs, and the secrets behind his remarkable success.

In this episode, Dan and Robert unravel his extraordinary life story, from daring immigrant escapades to pioneering moves in real estate and commodities.

Dan explores Robert's challenges and triumphs migrating from Croatia to Canada in 1958. From early construction experiences to a foundation for future success, his story is truly inspiring.

Robert shares his ventures into real estate, learning from architects and engineers, and preparing for economic shifts like the '90s recession.Insights from the '90s and the 2008 financial crisis are revealed, showcasing his bold maneuvers in real estate and commodities trading. 🏗️

Turn on your notifications and prepare for an immersive journey as Dan and Robert unveil his remarkable story!

Connect with Robert:

Website: https://andjelic.ca/about

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008628990360

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-andjelic-a0474178/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

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Ever wondered about where our guests are now?! On this episode Dan caught up with none other than Andy Caygeon Junkin, also known as Stubborn Farmer!

In the early days, Andy discovered a profound truth—that every cowboy carries a tale of sorrow. While burning the midnight oil in college, he realized that farming isn't just a right but a privilege.

The struggle to preserve the family farm, salvage his parents' marriage, and excel academically led him to a dark and isolating place. However, it was when his friends sought his assistance with their family farms that he realized his capabilities extended beyond merely inheriting the family legacy.

No longer content with farming until his last breath, Andy packed his bags and embarked on the journey of "Stubborn Farmer." Through this venture, he discovered that the root of all conflicts lies within oneself. Before investing in others, he believes in the importance of personal adaptation, growth, and learning.

Andy's mission goes beyond the fields; he aims to rescue the essence of family Christmases by safeguarding the family farm and eliminating the need for mediators altogether.

Join Dan and Andy in this profound episode as they delve into the intricacies of family dynamics and share insights on how to reshape the narrative for a brighter future.

Connect with Andy:

Website: https://stubborn.farm

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/caygeon

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stubborn_farm

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stubborn.farm/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@StubbornFarm

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

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From skeptical beginnings to recognizing the power of technical analysis, Trent Klarenbach, Grain Market Analyst with Klarenbach Research, shares the highs and lows of his journey in trading and investing. 💼📈

Learn how Trent bridged the gap in grain marketing for farmers with the Klarenbach Report covering equities, cryptocurrencies, and more!

He has been on a rollercoaster of constant learning and reassessment. Mistakes became stepping stones in this mentally demanding field, leading to the publication of his newsletters.

Trent dives into why focusing on price action, not personal opinions, is the game-changer in a noisy market.

Unlock trading insights, from take-profit targets to navigating emotional granularity. It's not just about predictions; it's about sharing strategies for informed decisions.

You don’t want to miss this episode as Dan and Trent get into the back end of the market!

Connect with Trent: Website: https://www.klarenbach.ca/about Twitter:https://twitter.com/TrentKlarenbach

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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Harry's journey is like a rollercoaster of creativity and curiosity! 🎢

From his early days as a vinyl-spinning DJ to his unexpected detour into app development, it was clear that Harry had the entrepreneurial itch.

But it was when he stumbled upon the fascinating world of podcasting and vertical farming that things got serious!

Vertical farming – yes, you heard that right! Picture crops reaching for the skies instead of sprawling fields.

Harry was hooked and couldn't help but wonder about the origins of our food.

Why do some folks still struggle to find fresh produce in today's high-tech world? 🌱

Through his podcast Harry guides listeners through the vertical farming jungle, debunking myths and sharing how it's revolutionizing agriculture. It's not about pitting vertical farming against the good ol' traditional approach however, sharing how they complement each other.

Harry and Dan peel back the layers of vertical farming and how it's changing the game in our quest for food security. 🌽💪 Tune in for a deep dive into the world of vertical farming and the modern food revolution!

Connect with Harry:

Website: https://harryduran.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harryduran/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarryDuranFu...

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Step into a world where farming meets sci-fi – welcome to the realm of Digital Ag! It’s like having your own farm robots– intelligent technologies working their magic before, during, and after farm production.

Buckle up, because in this episode Dan and Jacqueline Keena, Managing Director of EMILI, are taking you to Innovation Farm, where the newest startups test their latest tech.

It's not just a farm; it's a space for collaboration between leading industry researches and academia institutions.

These startups receive all the support – capital, resources, mentors, you name it – to help them grow, scale, and become the next big tech in digital ag.

But it doesn’t end there!

At Innovation Farm, they've teamed up with real-life farmers to help eliminate risks in startups by providing real time data.

Join Dan and Jacqueline as they take you on a journey through the digital ag landscape.

Connect with Jaqueline:

Website: https://emilicanada.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/emilicanada

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emil...

Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepod...

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In a world where the landscape of agriculture is ever-evolving, the responsibility of cultivating the next generation of ag leaders falls on our shoulders.

Are our classrooms adequately equipped with agricultural knowledge?

It's startling how even in close-knit ag communities, the education on farming practices seems insufficient.

But what if we fail to nurture the youth today? Will they know the journey from field to table?

That’s where Ag In The Classroom comes into play, partnering with agricultural and educational communities to connect kids and agriculture through innovative, experiential, curriculum-based programs and resources.

Join Terry, Holden and Sara Shymko, Executive Director of Ag in the Class, as they embark on a journey to cultivate a brighter future.

Let's sow the seeds of knowledge, nurture the next generation of ag leaders, and create a world where the students of today become the teachers of tomorrow. Remember, there's a place for everyone in this ag adventure!

Connect with Sara:

Website: https://aitc-canada.ca/en-ca/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AITCCanada/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AITCCanada

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aitccanada/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDjICByAj9euDpyUMb9aZg

Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca
https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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Picture this.....

The 2024 Crop Olympics commence with a vibrant and lively opening ceremony, celebrating the rich diversity of crops from various regions around the world.

Each country's team enters the stadium with their unique crops, displaying colorful and bountiful harvests.

It wasn't easy to make it this far!

That's where people like Jarrett Chambers, President of ATP come in. Starting with a passion for agriculture, science and people.

Jarrett coached you to fuel your crop with every necessary nutrient to get you across the finish line to bring home gold.

It's not just a single nutrient; it's a complete package and theres a science behind it all.

This episode Dan and Jarrett take us across the finish line as they dive into nitrogen, bio-stimulants and all things plant nutrition.

If you want a gold medal wining crop, you're going to want to check this episode out!

Connect with Jarrett:

Website: https://atpag.com

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ATPNutritionLtd

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ATPNutritionLtd Aberhart

Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca
https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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Do we have a right to farm? Or is it a privilege…..

As a young boy Andy Caygeon Junkin quickly learned that every cowboy has a sad story.

While attending college burning the midnight oil he discovered that farming is a privilege.

Battling to save the family farm, his parents marriage and maintain good grades drove him to a dark and lonely spot.

It wasn’t until his friends starting coming to him for help with their family farms that he learned he had more talent then just taking over the family farm.

He no longer wanted to just farm until the day he died.

He packed his bags and started “Stubborn Farmer”.

He started to learn that all conflicts truly start with you, we need to adapt, change learn and grow before we invest in others.

Andy’s goal is to save the family Christmas by saving the family farm and eliminating mediators all together.

Grab your notebooks as Dan and Andy get deep into family matters and how to turn the tables for a brighter future in this heartfelt episode.

Connect with Andy:

Website:https://stubborn.farm

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/caygeon

Twitter:https://twitter.com/stubborn_farm

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/stubborn.farm/

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@StubbornFarm

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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If you grew up in a small rural community you know that it can be isolating at times…

You spend hours on the farm, prioritizing everything else before yourself.

As the days become shorter and darker, it's easy to feel your mind wandering and you start to get that heavy feeling.

Although you acknowledge that you should be grateful for having food and shelter, you still feel a sense of darkness.

Expressing your emotions to your loved ones is difficult and the doctor is not providing any solutions.

You are NOT alone!

Lewellyn Melnyk, Author and farmer has had that same feeling since she was a teenager…

She is now opening the door to talk about mental health in rural areas with her new book Rooted.

She shares how she stays Small Town Strong when life gets hard and how you can too.

In this episode Dan and Lewellyn dive deep into living with depression and anxiety.

Lewellyn shares her top tips for pushing through the bad days, you don’t want to miss this emotional episode.

Connect with Lewellyn:

Website: https://www.lewellynmelnyk.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lewellyn.melnyk

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewellynmelnyk

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lewellynmelnyk/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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The rat sweats…. 

Every agricultural entrepreneur has had them! You wake up in the middle of the night panicked on how you’re going to make payroll. 

Trevor Thiessen, President of Redekop Manufacturing shares how he beat the rat sweats and set big goals and achieved them for the future of the company. 

If theres one thing for certain, Trevor has carried the old school ag virtue and rolled those values into Redekop today. 

Trevor's success story offers inspiration for entrepreneurs facing similar challenges. 

This episode highlights Trevor’s dedication to traditional agricultural values and his love for the land. 

Dan and Trevor engage in a conversation centred on a farmer-first mentality, where Trevor's passion for farmers shines bright. 

Connect with Trevor: 

Website: https://redekopmfg.com 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redekopmfg 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/redekopmfg 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MAVstrawchopper 

Aberhart Family of Companies: 

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca 

https://aberhartfarms.com 

https://suregrowth.ca 

https://www.convergencegrowth.com 

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan 

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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Rituals…

We all have them when it comes to our operations!

You need to spray xyz fungicide every year at this date….

As far as you know, bull 321 is the best among the herd in the pen.

What if we introduced new technologies and broke free from our usual routines?

By using genomics you can help ensure success for your farm in the future.

This where Heather, Vice President of Operations of Quantum Gentix comes in to play.

She has helped producers take the guesswork out of farming decisions with DNA testing in livestock and crops.

Dan and Heather get into the details of how genomics and DNA testing is done and applied to operations.

You don't want to miss this inside scoop to an incredible technology.

In this episode, you will learn:

How Heather uses Quantum Genetix on her own farm

Heather’s professional journey

How Heather got involved with Quantum Genetix

How Quantam Genetix was started

The technology they are currently using today

What is animal genomics?

What do genes tell us?

How has the genome advanced over the last 20 years

Using genomics to get the best return on your cattle

How to execute this technology properly

How much do we really know about the genome?

What else Quantum Genetix is working on?

How does this technology excel traditional breeding methods

Can you eliminate faulty genes for better herds

How well can this detect diseases

How Quantum made the leap from cattle to crops

What was the flax crisis?

What types of diseases they are testing for in crops?

How does detecting diseases work

What does Sclerotinia look like

How do producers decide to spray without using this technology

Does Quantum Genetix look at the environmental factor or spraying

What does turnaround time look like for producers using this tech?

How accurate is this technology

How Quantum got into Covid testing

How Heather feels about Covid

The future of Quantum Genetix

How to get ahold of Heather

Connect with Heather:

Website: https://quantumgenetix.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuantumGenetix/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/quantumgenetix

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quantumgenetix/?hl=en

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvOvvRhLAhNeKqWLA_uxvQ

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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When you think Saskatchewan what comes to mind?

Is it the land of the living skies?

The beauty in the fields?

The incredible people?

There’s no denying there’s something special in the air when you enter the province.

Michael Muscoby is no exception, a true representation of Saskatchewan Spirit!

Through trails and tribulations his family has always adapted to the ever changing landscape.

His roots go way back to when his grandmother was born under a wagon box a mile we from Kipling, SK….

Days later they were fighting a fire to protect their land.

Michael shares his family's journey to farming in the prairies and how they have advanced over the years.

You don’t want to miss this episode as Dan and Michael have an old school farm table chat.

What you will learn:

-Michael’s family origins

-How Michael’s family landed in Saskatchewan

-What the family farm looked like 20 years ago

-What Michael’s farming career has been like

-Farming during the low of 2000

-The family succession plan

-The trouble with farming and banks

-Michael’s regrets on land

-Michael’s perseverance and positive attitude

-Why Michael left livestock

-The importance of working off the farm

-Michaels career in the oil sands

-What Michael's operations look like today

-When the next generation will take over

-Where Michael sources his information for planing from

-The struggle with equipment and fertilizer

-How Michael makes a decision for the future of the farm

-Michael’s farming accident

-What colour Michael runs

-What fertilizers Michael is using

-How Michael got invested in a Fly Fishing Camp

-What Michael is most excited for in agriculture

-How to get ahold of Michael

Connect with Michael:

Phone: 1-306-736-7800

Email: muscobym@gmail.com

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberh...

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepod...

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Show jumping can teach a person plenty about venture capital.

In show jumping (VC Agtech), where horses (startups) are racing (solving farmers problems) against a clock where time (money) is running out to navigate many challenging obstacles (regulatory hurdles, finding customers, and developing a sustainable business model), the horse (founder) has a personality of their own; the team must get to the end without too many mistakes (penalties) against you or your ride = zero.

There are some winners though, and big winners at that.

For Wilson Acton, Managing Partner at Tall Grass Ventures, a unique venture capital fund out of Alberta focused on agricultural companies, so far they've sifted through 160 companies to find 6 that could be winners.

Hear how Wilson applies the lessons learned as a 5th generation farmer, competing in show jumping, and a career as an M and A lawyer to helping agricultural startups in his stable on this episode.

Connect with Wilson:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilsonacton/

Website: https://www.tallgrass.vc

Email: wacton@tallgrass.vc

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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IF you are a farmer, you’ve been there …

… sitting in the yard in the air seeder and the clock is rapidly ticking …

… trying everything to get the monitor working but you’ve had no success …

… you’ve got that sinking feeling of time and acres wasting away …

… you realize it’s after hours just before the long weekend …

… you begin doing the math on yield loss per day of lost seeding after a certain date …

… you then realize you have an ace in your pocket …

… it’s your precision ag consultant Matt Yanick …

… you call him up and due to his encyclopedic knowledge of monitors, he quickly diagnoses the issue and walks you through the steps to get things running …

… before you know it you’re back up and running in the field and that one call saved you a tonne of stress and potential yield loss and paid for the MY PRECISION AG service in itself!

In this episode Matt and Dan talk about how to get the best ROI on your iron and what the future of precision ag looks like.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Matt’s farming background
• Matt’s educational journey
• How Matt’s education has transferred over to his customers
• Matt’s experience working in dealerships with GPS
• What it was like starting his career at 19 off the farm
• How has precision ag advanced over the last decade
• How Matt can help advance your technology
• Are a lot of systems the same?
• When Matt realized he had a business opportunity
• What Matts company looks like today
• Does Matt deal with overlap with dealerships?
• Why don’t dealerships contract matt?
• Does Matt wear John Deere under wear?
• The gap in private equipment sales
• What Matts customer base looks like
• What does it cost to work with Matt?
• The ROI you will see working with Matt
• What the going rate is for dealerships
• The biggest thing producers can do to improve logistics
• Logistics optimization on the farm
• The next big thing in precision ag
• Matt’s thoughts on the DOT
• Which manufactures are nailing precision ag
• Where Matt sees his business in three years
• What producers should take advantage of in 2023
• Values Matt learned on the farm that has applied to his business
• How to get ahold of Matt

Connect with Matt:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyPrecisionAg/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/myprecisionag

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myprecisionag/

Website: https://myprecisionag.ca

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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From the frontlines of Ukraine to Canadian Ag!

Yevgen’s journey has lead him all around the world before finally reaching Canada - a place he now calls home.

Through determination, perseverance and a no fear mentality Yevgen has built a very successful career in agriculture.

Currently he teaches at Olds College and works with the DOT Autonomous Farming Platform.

He has taken his passion of autonomous farming and drone work to assist the Ukrainian military on the frontlines today.

You will quickly be inspired by his story and mindset!

You don’t want to miss this episode as Dan and Yevgen talk about his dreams for the Ukrainian educational system and how you can help the military frontlines.

For donations: https://linktr.ee/dronestoukraine

Money transfers:

e-transfer/PayPal to dronestoukraine@gmail.com

Paysend/Wise to debit card: 4724-0905-5545-1283

Paysend can be sent from all over the world in any currency. Beneficiary currency - CAD

WhatsApp: +14034726662

In this episode, you will learn:

• How Yevgen went from Ukraine to Canada
• How Yevgen got into autonomous agriculture
• What it was like growing up in Ukraine
• Yevgen's educational background
• How Yevgen constantly challenges himself
• Yevgen’s journey with CNH Industrial
• How Precision Ag caught Yevgen’s eye
• Yevgen’s journey to Regina, SK
• Everywhere Yevgen has traveled to work in agriculture
• How Yevgen got into drones
• Yevgen’s work with Olds College
• The DOT Omni Power by Raven
• The power of Yevgen’s Youtube channel
• Farming in Australia
• Immigration policy for Ukraine to Canada and Australia
• How Yevgen ended up in Asia
• The current war in Ukraine
• Yevgen’s experience in the frontlines
• How Yevgen got into teaching military how to use drones
• Yevgen’s dreams for the Ukraine education systems
• How you can help Yevgen and the Ukrainian Military

Connect with Yevgen:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000996022732

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MYAGRO_CA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mykola.mykhailichenko/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yevgen-mykhaylichenko-083541b3/

Check out Yevgen’s Youtube Videos:

Mazergroup (former Markusson New Holland) YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@mazergroup1003/videos

MY AGRO CANADA YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@myagrocanada2066/videos

Soil Compaction Maps YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@soilcompactionmaps.myagro.3348/videos

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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If you are involved in the ag industry in Western Canada, you've more than likely read this man's work in the Grainews, The Western Producer, or maybe even the Financial Post. 

Have you ever thought about the writer behind the article? 

Toban Dyck grew up on a farm but started out his career ambitions with the written word as his craft. 

This lead him to become an award winning writer for many different papers. 

His writing eventually took him far from the farm to the big city of Toronto. 

On a visit home he realized the true beauty and legacy of the family farm and decided to return. 

Toban's talent and passion to write gave him the ability to relate with producers on a very practical level. 

His question quickly became ... do we take writing for granted in agriculture? 

Through his articles he has connected with not only hundreds of producers sharing their stories, tips and tricks around the farm, but the broader public in order to create awareness. 

He is also making an impact on agricultural organizations ability to communicate their message through his new company, Burr Forest Group. 

There's one thing that will always remain the same, great storytelling always wins.

Join Dan and Toban as they discuss how you can farm and keep your passions alive at the same time. 

What you will learn: 

-How a small town farm boy ends up in Toronto writing -

Toban’s journalism background 

-Toban’s first writing gigs

-How Toban landed an interview at the Globe 

-Is the CBC the devil? 

-How Toban ended up writing in agriculture 

-How Toban wrote for Financial Post 

-How different Toronto was then home for Toban 

-Do Torontonian’s even know about farming? 

-Is it important everybody know about agriculture? 

-What it’s like to write for a living 

-The reality of writing in a public space 

-What does it take to create a successful piece 

-The worst piece Toban ever wrote in his career 

-Will AI tools take over the writing space? 

-How Toban ended back at the farm 

-The transition back into farming 

-What are the true characteristics of a writer? 

-How Toban translated being back on the farm into writing

-How Toban’s writing has connected him with many farmers 

-How to farm and continue your passions 

-The power of storytelling 

Connect with Toban: https://burrforest.com 

Connect with Dan: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast 

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com 

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Agronomy and basketball coaches have more in common than you may think....

A coach is to help an individual or their team grow.

It's not always encouragement.....

Sometimes it's being kind of strict, pushing them, knowing what their boundaries are, what they can, what they can't do, and what they're not ready to do.

The perfect example of that would be when you introduce producers into variable rates for their first time or try a new prescription.

Just like the players on the court, a coach guides them into new realms and techniques.

Lance Lindbloom does just that with 406 Agronomy!

Tune in as Dan and Lance dive into how bringing together competition and producers in the same room, can bring home the trophy for the future of ag.

Grab your clipboards and get ready to take notes on Lance's strategies and plays in agronomy.

In this episode, you will learn:

• The journey of 406 Agronomy
• How Lance got into agronomy coaching
• The real competition between agronomists
• The difference between agronomists and agronomy coaches
• Lance’s farming background
• What is 406 agronomy?
• The biggest agronomy challenge in Montana
• How drought has affected Lances business
• Lance’s risk management in years with no rain
• How Lance balances fertility in drought
• What Lance thinks of variable rates
• Which methodology Lance uses for prescriptions
• The different management styles in agronomy
• Current technology Lance is using in his practices
• Lance’s experience with NutriScan
• Lance’s thoughts on technology coming to agronomy
• The 5th annual 406 Agronomy Summit
• The key technical takeaways of Summit
• Lance’s opinion on regenerative ag
• Lance’s personal health journey as a producer

Connect with Lance:

Website: https://406agronomy.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/406Agronomy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/papabloom/?hl=en

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-lindbloom-83b64810/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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🎶 If Fertilizer Markets Were A Country Song,

I'd be singin' the blues,

Just lookin' for clues,

On how to get my fields to produce...... 🎶

In the case of Josh Linville Director of Fertilizer at Stone X, fertilizer used to be a relatively boring topic. Now 🎶 “She thinks my fertilizer is sexy”🎶 as the song goes given all of the events in the market in the last two years.

The reality of the market is that of a Hank Williams song, “A Country Boy Can Survive", … 🎶"The preacher man says its the end of time and the Mississippi River she's a going dry.”🎶

In this episode Dan and Josh discuss whether or not producers should be worried about the supply and current markets.

Josh recommends a glass of whiskey to take the edge off while he delivers the news.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Josh’s background in agriculture
• How Josh became known as the “Fertilizer Guru”
• Is fertilizer sexy?
• What is Josh’s current role in the fertilizer market
• How Josh’s business helps manufactures
• Who is Josh’s customer? Produce or speculators?
• Why the conversation of fertilizer has become critical
• What has changed with volatility in the past year
• What is a Black Swan Event?
• How is food production correlated to fertilizer?
• Who's profiting off market volatility?
• What is happening in Europe?
• Why can’t we make our own Nitrogen?
• Did we miss the mark with regulation?
• Are we going in the wrong direction?
• Do we see any wherewithal to ensure food security?
• How much of Josh’s job depends on being right
• Where are producers sentiments at?
• What is holding back producers on making fertilizers decisions
• How Josh is coaching retailers on fertilizer markets
• Is regenerative ag going to move the needle on global supplies?
• What is happening with less synthetic fertilizers?
• The Black Swans of logistics
• Why can’t we just truck product?
• How is Amazon effecting fertilizer?
• Josh’s advice for buying nitrogen in next year
• What to do if you didn’t make the jump on purchasing
• Josh’s thoughts on new technologies in efficient catalysts
• Should you worry about not being able to get Nitrogen?
• What is phos going to look like in ten years?
• Snake Oil in phosphorous markets
• Are we creating problems for the future?
• Josh’s thoughts on buying phos right now
• Is there demand destruction?
• What's going on with potash?
• A day in the life of Josh
• How to connect with Josh

Connect with Josh:

Website:https://www.stonex.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JLinvilleFert

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-linville-9555a711/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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Soil is the foundation of our food system, and yet most people know very little about it…..

The soil is a complex ecosystem with countless interactions taking place between different elements.

In order to produce healthy crops, producers must manage these interactions carefully.

This is where Greg Patterson comes in.

Greg is a wealth of knowledge on soil fertility and health, and he has spent years researching the topic and much more.

In this exclusive two-hour episode, Greg and Dan delve into the roots of our food system, starting back to the evolution of fertility.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone who wants to learn more about the hidden world beneath our feet.

In this episode, you will learn:

• The history of fertility and achieving yields
• How to achieve balanced fertility
• The pros and cons of balanced fertility
• The tools Greg uses to help clients achieve proper nutrients
• Are producers collecting enough of the right data
• How to harness microorganisms in the soil and use them as work horses
• Where are we today in the spectrum of history
• Do we need micronutrients?
• Boron deficiencies
• The truth of bugs in a jug
• High producing soils and bugs
• How microbes work with fertility
• Soil health indexes for Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
• What nutrient is the biggest concern for Western Canada?
• How to properly address and fix deficiencies
• Nitrogen in today’s world
• Overstimulated microbes and the soil
• How to make phosphorus available and is it currently a concern?
• Spreading rock phosphate
• Where are we at with potash in Western Canada?
• Sulphur in comparison to other nutrients
• How to execute on increasing your soils biome
• The investment of getting your operations data
• What nutrients we need as humans?
• Meat diet vs plant diets
• Why do we truly grow food?
• Autoimmune diseases and food
• Your health and the impacts of nutrients
• What is “Repoopulating”?
• Pregnancy an birth bacterias
• How A & L Labs born
• How to connect with Greg

Connect with Greg:

Website: https://www.alcanada.com/index

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alcanadalabs

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ALcanadalabs

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alcanadalabs

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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Growth isn’t always easy…..

Taking the leap from doing what you know, to doing something your passionate about can be scary

Chris Jones is the definition of entrepreneurship, he always took the leap

In the blink of an eye he left his education to pursue entrepreneurship and invent his first product

He quickly became known as the man of sporting goods after inventing a football receivers glove

He was then struck in a pivotal moment and realized he wanted to sell his company and move into coaching

That’s when Chris joined the world of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems)

Since then Chris has written books and helped multiple businesses grow

In this episode Terry and Holden get a front seat view of the trials and tribulations of Chris’s entrepreneurial journey

In this episode, you will learn:

• Who is Chris Jones?
• Chris’s entrepreneurial journey
• What Chris invented while at school
• What shifted Chris from entrepreneurship to coaching?
• What happened when Chris lost 70% of his business overnight?
• The pivotal moment Chris walked away from his sporting goods business
• Chris’s advice to know if you’re going in the right direction
• What is EOS ?
• How did Chris get into EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems)?
• The challenging parts of entrepreneurship
• The biggest hurdles in Chris’s entrepreneurial journey
• How to effectively delegate on your farm or business
• All about Chris’s new book
• How to have hard conversations
• How Chris effectively works with leadership teams
• Why it’s important to turn off work and take a holiday
• The importance of having healthy debates with leadership teams
• What is the difference between Strategic Coach and EOS?
• How Terry and Chris have worked together
• Chris’s key message to the audience
• How to start working with Chris

Connect with Chris:

Website: https://www.relentlesschrisjones.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjonesyyc/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/RelentlessChrisJones/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/relentlesschrisjones

Download chapter one of Relentless AF https://www.relentlesschrisjones.com

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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Franck Groeneweg is truly an international agricultural adventurer!

From the fields of France …

… to Iowa,

… to Saskatchewan,

… to Haiti,

… and now to Montana,

… this man has traveled the globe to pursue his passions.

Franck has supplied distributed farm equipment internationally across 32 states to Europe and back.

Franck has represented Canada internationally as an Envoy, learning about problems Canadian farmers face and tried to provoke more favourable policies from the national government.

Franck has even taught what he knows about farming to those who are less fortunate.

Now in Montana he explores his interests in regenerative and nutritive agricultural techniques to fulfill his desire to live amongst the consumers of the food that he raised.

Together with his wife and kids they operate “The Living Skies Farm” where they promote advanced agricultural techniques to enhance the nutritive value of the grains they grow while also improving soil microbiology and carbon capture and moisture content.

This episode is a front seat ride that will take you around the world and back giving you an inside look at agriculture!

Be ready for some laughs as well as some deep conversation between Dan and Franck.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Who is Franck Groeneweg
• Franck’s farming background
• What it’s like to farm in France
• Why farming in France wasn’t taken seriously
• Why Franck left France and came to America
• Franck’s journey in importing and exporting parts and equipment
• Relationships Franck built through importing and exporting
• How Franck got into farming in Saskatchewan
• What the farming community was like in Saskatchewan
• How Franck and his family got through the frost of 2004
• An impactful moment of 2018 on Franck and his family
• Why Franck sold the farm in Saskatchewan and headed to Montana
• How Franck produces food to impact people’s mental health in a positive way
• The feeling of producing a commodity for the community in the community
• How Franck got involved with advocacy and different boards
• The disconnect between consumers and producers
• The climate crisis and the impact on food
• How to get in touch with Franck

Connect with Franck:

Website: https://livingskygrains.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/franckgroeneweg/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livingskygrains/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingSkyGrains/

Email: franck@livingskygrains.com

Phone: 406-521-5234

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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A farmer is an incredibly hardworking and determined individual.

A coach is a motivating source of inspiration who pushes you to your full potential no matter the pain or obstacle.

Farmer Coach is an executive agriculture training program that brings primary producer entrepreneurs together into a group setting to learn and share collaboratively on topics and behavior that drive agriculture forward.

Kristjan Hebert, Course Collaborator and Managing Partner of Hebert Grain Ventures is also known as one of the most progressive young farmers

Along with Evan Shout, Coach, President and co founder of Maverick Ag Ltd and Chief Financial Officer at Hebert Grain Ventures.

Together they have created Farmer Coach!

Farmer Coach bridges the gap that exists between farming as a lifestyle and farming as a successful and thriving business. It is the first comprehensive business management program in Canada designed specifically for primary producers.

If you want to create momentum on your farm, build culture and increase morale, learn shortcuts, programs, and platforms to permanently simplify your operation then look no further.

This episode features Dan, Terry, Kristjan, Evan and a live audience.

Grab your notebook and a pen as this episode is packed with valuable information and lessons.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What is Farmer Coach?
• Why Farmer Coach was brought to Western Canadian Ag
• Who is this program for?
• Why you could benefit from a coach
• The tiers of Farmer Coach
• Terry’s experience with similar programs
• What the program entails
• The importance of coaching
• The involvement of participating
• Benefits of participating with other producers in the program
• Topics addressed in the program
• How Kristjan and Evan plan to overcome resistance from producers
• Why Terry prioritizes coaching in his life and business
• How much of a commitment is Farmer Coach
• Program capacity
• Where the training is taking place
• The value from this program versus a peer group setting
• Kristjan, Evan, and Terry’s definition of success
• Taking the program with your spouse
• How to register for Farmer Coach
• Where to get in touch with Farmer Coach

Register for Farmer Coach: https://farmercoach.ca/programs/

Connect with Farmer Coach:

Website: https://farmercoach.ca

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Farmer_Coach

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/farmercoach/

Connect with Kristjan:

Website: https://kristjanhebert.com/blog/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KristjanHebert

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristjanhebert/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristjan-hebert-cpa-50b46425/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCaw2ZgDB6GvUYXxfvYp3vA

Connect with Evan:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanshout?lang=en

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-shout-985483209/?originalSubdomain=ca

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evan.shout

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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As a child you remember being told you won’t understand until you’re older.

You remember watching your parents stress, breakdown, lose their tempers all the while sucking in those emotions and habits.

Fast forward and you finally understand the emotions of life, the responsibility of caring for a family, and the weight of the world on your back.

Life can be a tough journey and that’s no secret, but you don’t have to bear it alone!

Canada’s Farm Whisperer Elaine Froese shines the light on finding harmony through understanding.

Sitting around the kitchen table hashing it out for the future isn’t easy, that’s where Elaine comes in.

She has worked with thousands of farm families over the last 40 years, including the Aberhart family.

Elaine is highly educated, has written five books, and received numerous awards!

She's on a mission to guide farm families across North America to get unstuck, communicate better, find harmony through understanding and secure a profitable farm legacy.

This episode is real, raw and unfiltered.

Join Dan and Elaine as they touch on deep topics of emotion, grab a tissue!

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why relationships are so hard
• How you can become a better listener
• How to keep the peace in situations
• How to ask the right questions
• How to work with coaches
• What happens when your personal relationships suffer
• The effects of workaholism
• Why we get defensive so quickly as humans
• The 24 hour rule
• How we can become aware of our own emotional patterns
• How to live in a healthy gap
• How to distinguish an aggressive situation
• How to live in the now
• What breaking generational issues can look like
• How to continue one sided relationships
• How to deal with betrayal
• Elaine’s advice to those who feel alone
• Elaine’s values
• How Elaine has helped the Aberhart Family
• How to start working with Elaine

Connect with Elaine:

Website: https://elainefroese.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/elainefroese

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/farmfamilycoach

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/farmfamilycoach

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainefroese/

Elaine’s FREE gift to listeners: https://elainefroese.com/farm-family-coach/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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In a world where founders of agtech companies are the superheroes of the story….

Sean O’Conner and Kyle Scott of Emmertech are the self described “Alfreds'” of the Canadian Ag Tech world.

Kyle Scott is the Managing Director at Conexus Venture Capital and Emmertech.

Sean O’Conner is the head of Conexus Venture Capital who runs the VC fund on behalf of Conexus and Emmertech.

This $60 million dollar fund has thrown out the Canadian playbook when it comes to venture capital.

They have reinvented it and rebuilt a new investment approach to fit the world of ag tech.

Dan, Sean, and Kyle discuss closing the venture capital gap between the massive investment in the US and Canada.

This episode is an eye opening conversation on Canadian Ag Tech and funds.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Who is Emmertech?
• Who is Conexus?
• Sean’s role
• Kyle’s role
• How to become a Venture Capital Manager
• What it’s like spending other peoples money
• What ag tech in the prairies looks like today
• What comic book heroes Kyle and Sean relate to
• The work dynamic between Kyle and Sean
• What it’s like to receive money to invest
• Core values of Emmertech
• How hard it is to raise funds
• What Kyle and Sean have to say to investors that have not put their money into the fund
• What do the funds currently look like for ag tech?
• Who are the investors?
• What does the role of an investor look like
• Can investors lend anything other then money
• Why don’t companies just bootstrap?
• How Kyle and Sean handle the different personalities of investors
• The top question Sean and Kyle ask new companies
• What is different about AgTech from a conventional fund?
• Some of the exciting companies Sean and Kyle are working with
• Who is Emmertech currently investing in
• What’s next for Emmertech?

Connect Sean:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/seantoconnor

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-o-connor-73310b46/

Connect with Kyle:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleascott/

Connect with Conexus Venture Capital and Emmertech:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Conexus_VC

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/conexusventurecapital/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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What the heck is a Famerizer?!

A Famerizer is known as, the man himself Mr. Korey Peters!

You've undoubtedly seen some of his relatable reels on Instagram and chuckled.

Korey starts the episode off with a bang, as he recreates the moment he crossed the border by signing “Footloose" to the crossing guard.

Yes, he sings for the podcast audience and, as a result, his years of teaching choir shine through.

More than that, Korey is a former music teacher that grew up on a 3rd generational family farm.

After spending a few years in the classroom, he decided he wanted to return to his roots on the family farm.

Dan and Korey dive deep into his Mennonite background, what’s happening in the hog industry, and what his grain operations look like this year.

This episode is an epic kitchen table style convo that will make you want to pull up a chair and grab a beer!

Cheers!

In this episode, you will learn:

• What is a Farmerizer?

• Korey’s career journey

• How his teaching skills translate into social media

• How Korey used acapella to cross the border

• Why Korey left the generational family farm to teach

• Korey’s advice to young graduates on a family farm

• Korey’s fondest memories of teaching

• How teaching eighty kids compares to working with family

• Why Korey left teaching to come back to the family farm

• The roles and responsibilities on his family farm

• Korey’s Mennonite background

• Korey and Dan’s favourite mennonite dish “schmaunfat”

• What Korey’s 2022 farm year looks like

• Weather conditions and impacts in Korey’s area

• How hog farming impacts the grain side of Korey’s Farm

• How hog farming affects fertility

• What the hog industry looks like right now

• The impact of African Swine Flu from China

• How Korey’s grain side of the farm doing

• The latest innovations he is working with

• How Korey innovates with the current demands

• What does the future look like for the family farm

• What does future mean to Korey, diversified or specialized?

• How the Farmerizer got into social media

• The future of Farmerizer merch

• Who is Korey cheering for in the battle of Alberta?

Connect with Korey:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KoreyPeters

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farmerizer/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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Take a deep breath ...

Nitrogen gas makes up almost 80 percent of the atmosphere.

We breathe it in and out all day long, but in this state it is useless to the plants we grow to feed the world.

Above our heads is a vast vault of unusable nitrogen; under our feet, a limited amount of fixed nitrogen.

Synthesis of this unusable nitrogen into fertilizer through the Haber-Bosch process has fuelled the population growth of the last 100+ years.

Yet we often take for granted that the air we breath is clean.

45,000 immature deaths occur in the UK alone yearly because of Nitrous Oxide pollution.

What if you could take that pollution and turn it into a product that produces higher yields….

Dr Apostolos Papadopoulos (Tolis) Inventor and Developer of Technologies at Crop Intellect has done just that with R-LEAF.

Crop intellect was established in 2011 to preform, research and develop innovations that are out of the ordinary and disruptive.

After they sold the Chlorophyll Increase Activatorto Cargill to be commercialized globally it was time for something new!

R-LEAF is a disruptive technology that is based on photocatalyst (A material which absorbs light to bring it to higher energy level and provides energy to a reacting substance to make a chemical reaction occur.)

R-LEAF captures Nitrous Oxide from the atmosphere and turns it into Nitrate which is food for plants.

The secret of successful farming is moving nitrogen around.

Even the Queen uses R-LEAF!

This episode Dan and Dr Apostolos Papadopoulos (Tolis) dive deep into science and innovations.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Tolis’s professional background
• Patented products Tolis’s has created
• How Tolis has taken 100 year old technology and used it in todays technology
• Why this technology is so important in today’s practices
• Why Nitrous Oxide is an issue
• How is Nitrous Oxide being produced
• How much Nitrous Oxide is being sequestered
• How much Nitrogen is being produced per month
• Why producers aren’t interested in reducing their nitrogen applications
• What Tolis is being compensated for carbon credit
• The pros and cons of R-LEAF
• How R-LEAF compares to other bacteria based products
• What type of application method is used for R-LEAF
• The impact Tolis’s product will make in urban areas
• What Tolis is currently recommending for application rates
• What the economic return on this practice and product is
• The lifespan of one application of R-LEAF
• Where R-LEAF is currently at in the lifecycle of getting to market
• How much money has been raised currently for R-LEAF
• Tolis’s words to producers who are skeptical

Connect with Tolis:

Website:https://cropintellect.co.uk

Twitter: https://twitter.com/crop_intellect

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crop-Intellect-Ltd-196699347202607

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apostolos-papadopoulos-02843220/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

Facts sourced from The Alchemy of Air written by Thomas Hager

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Have you ever sat in your tractor at the edge of the field with an invisible force holding you back and thought “How am I going to make it through today?”

Lesley Kelly’s husband Matt has lived with such anxiety.

For many years it fueled him.

Eventually, it became too much to bear alone.

It took great courage to share his story on social media.

In the end, it changed their lives, and the lives of many others.

There are very few that went before them.

Now the conversation about mental health in ag has changed.

Terry and Holden continue that conversation with Lesley on Season 4, Episode 9 of the Growing the Future Podcast.

Lesley is known as “High Heels and Canola Fields” on social media.

She is a farmer, public speaker, Co-Founder of The Do More Agriculture Foundation, and co-host of the “What the Farm Podcast” along with Rob Sharkey .

This episode will flood you with emotions as we can already relate to the struggles that Lesley, Terry, and Holden have faced.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why is Lesley passionate about sharing their mental health story?
• Lesley’s background in farming
• Lesley’s social media influence
• How to deal with the stigma and feelings of mental health
• How can parents can help their kids when struggling?
• Why is it so hard to talk about mental health?
• How are schools dealing with student’s mental health
• What is the finger exercise and what is it good for?
• How to be self aware when it comes to your mental health
• What happened the first time Lesley opened up on social media about mental health?
• How you can help those struggling with their mental health?
• What is self care? How should one practice it?
• Succession plans that include mental health
• Lesley’s dad and the impact he made on the community

Connect with Lesley:

Website:https://highheelsandcanolafields.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lesleyraekelly

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/highheelsandcanolafields

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/highheelsandcanolafields/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAv8ctmfnYIN2BTOi4I5rxg

Shop Lesley’s merch here: https://highheelsandcanolafields.com/shop/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

You are never alone help is a call away:

National Crisis Centre: 1-800-784-2433

Child/Youth Crisis Line: 250-723-2040

Mental Health Line: 211 or 211.ca

Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast, Dan connects with Michelle Miller also known as The Farm Babe.

Michelle is known as Forbes top farmer to follow! She has made a name for herself as a dedicated myth-buster in the food industry who has influenced corporations as powerful as Burger King.

She is working hard to bring the real story of agriculture and food to the forefront of the headlines as seen in Business Insider, Vice, Forbes and many more.

She is passionate about advocating for agriculture and bridging the gap between consumers and producers by sharing the science and behind the scenes of farming.

She has stepped on stage among leading industry experts as one of the most well known voices in agriculture travelling over four continents.

You won’t want to miss this episode, as Michelle and Dan dive deep into the myths in mainstream media and agriculture.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Michelle became an advocate for agriculture
• The moment she realized she was wrong about the food she eats
• How she got the name “The Farm Babe”
• How Michelle makes a living online
• How Michelle talks to her audience
• When Michelle’s career in speaking took off
• Michelle’s thoughts on public persecution and if she’s ever encountered it
• How humans got so off track with the truths of food and agriculture
• How celebrities support and effect agriculture
• World hunger versus food quality in the future
• Where Michelle gets her facts and information from
• The top three things Michelle has debunked in Agriculture
• Problems that agriculture is solving in the world currently
• The impacts Michelle has had on large corporations
• How corporation’s get so mislead in science
• Michelle’s end goal for agriculture and media
• Michelle’s journey to fame
• Michelle’s advice for reaching out to customers
• What is the next big thing for The Farm Babe
• Michelle’s final words to non farming folks

Connect with Michelle:

Website: https://thefarmbabe.com

Twitter: https://thefarmbabe.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IowaFarmBabe

Instagram: https://instagram.com/thefarmbabe

Youtube: https://instagram.com/thefarmbabe

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle576/

Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/thefarmbabe

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thefarmbabe?lang=en

Shop Michelle’s merch here: https://thefarmbabe.com/shop/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast, Dan catches up with long time friend Evan Shout.

Evan is the President and founder of Maverick Ag and CFO at Hebert Grain Ventures (HGV), as well as Aberhart Farms.

Evan’s goal is to change the face of financial risk management in agriculture, and to leave the dirt and financial statements of the industry in a better state than the last generation.

Evan has also been working on a new coaching program specifically designed for farmers.

As an attendee of Strategic Coach he saw a need for coaching on farms and took action.

He is now bringing his plan to life, and is excited to share his knowledge and wealth with the agriculture industry!

You won’t want to miss this episode, as Evan shares about his new coaching program.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Current events in the agriculture world spring 2022
• What is the media presenting to the farmer?
• Why did some producers hold back on ordering fertilizer this year?
• Lifetime opportunities and big margin for producers in 2022
• Outcomes of those who planned with risk management and those who didn’t
• What producers don’t know right now that they should
• Evan’s coaching advice on planning for the next two years
• Evan’s number one tool to implement with risk management
• Evan’s role in insurance marketing for producers
• Why farmers seek out Maverick
• How Evan uses metrics and dashboards for his clients
• What is an Entrepreneurial Operating System?
• What Evan has experienced working with Aberhart Farms
• What are free days?
• Why should you take 150 free days?
• The key concepts of Strategic Coach
• What is Evan’s new coaching program?
• All about Farmer Coach and the benefits
• Evan’s plan for Farmer coach in three years
• How to learn more about Farmer Coach

Connect with Evan:

Website: https://maverickag.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EvanShout

https://twitter.com/Maverick_Ag

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-shout-985483209/

Farm Forum Event 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMv88zxEqm8

Evan’s first episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17HzGD_oSEw

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast Dan chats with the Founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture and host of Regenerative Agriculture Podcast John Kempf.

Today John is known as a top expert in the field of biological and regenerative farming who is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition.

John has an incredible story of starting at a young age working on his family farm using horses instead of tractors and taking a problem on the farm and turning it into a big opportunity for himself creating Advancing Eco Agriculture.

You won’t want to miss this episode as Dan and John get into the nitty gritty of regenerative ag and John’s future plans for the space. This episode features John’s eloquent speech and stories which are incredible to hear first hand.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How John started his farming systems
• How the world has gotten off track with soil knowledge
• Where and when producers lost the holistic view of farming
• John’s biggest influences and mentors
• How John has put his learnings from elders into action
• How Advancing Eco Ag was founded
• All about Advancing Eco Ag
• The primary reasons that producers come to John for help
• What are we actually consuming in our foods
• Micro plastics vs human consumption
• Are producers learning enough about biomes and the parallels of soil
• How Amish practices have played into John’s business, approaches to farming and food
• The cursed soil and three beliefs
• The outcomes of working with John and his clients journey
• The culture John created in Advancing Eco Ag
• John’s advice for those starting out
• What John envisions for the future of agriculture

Buy Johns Book here: https://www.qualityagriculture.com

John’s thoughts on agriculture in 2050: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeJ2IEslH4E&t=5s

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast:http://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com

Advancing Eco Agriculture: https://www.advancingecoag.com

Connect with John:

Website: https://johnkempf.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/realJohnKempf

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kempf-6b59a450/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

Connect with us on AGvisorPro: https://link-app.agvisorpro.com/aberhart-dan

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast Dan chats with Scott Gillespie, Regenerative Ag Consultant and host of Plants Dig Soil podcast.

With his 15 years experience in dryland and irrigated specialty crop agriculture he has created a Cover Crop course that contains 37 lessons.

By the end of this course you will have plan for when, and when not, to implement cover crops on your farm - For the first 10 listeners Scott is offering an exclusive deal on his course!

You won’t want to miss this episode as Dan and Scott dive deep into regenerative ag and cover crops!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Scott became a Regenerative Ag Consultant
• Scott's background in agriculture
• What is considered regenerative
• What is Scott’s definition of regenerative
• Scott's advice for producers looking into this space
• The problems producers are facing and how they fix them
• The difference between a coach and consultant
• What your return in investment might look like
• Changes Scott has seen in his clients after working together
• All about Scott’s Cover Crops course
• How many producers are currently doing cover crops
• Why are so few doing cover crops
• What are the net benefits of doing these practices
• How Scott measures ROI
• Can problems be solved with cover crops
• Problems Scott has run into as a consultant
• When are farmers going to get paid for this
• Where Scott really stands on the subject
• What working with Scott looks like

Exclusive Deal

Use Code: Future for $20.00 off! (First ten listens)

Take the Cover Crop Course here: https://plantsdigsoil.thinkific.com/courses/cover-crops-prairies?coupon=future

Plants Dig Soil podcast: https://www.plantsdigsoil.com/podcast

Connect with Scott:

Website: https://www.plantsdigsoil.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottcgillespie

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottcgillespie/

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast Dan connects with Lacey Owens, the author of Get Up and Get Your Sh!t Together: A Guided Morning Journal.

Lacey is a Professional Speaker, Personal Development Coach, Writer and Global Ag Risk Solutions Advisor helping producers with one-on-one risk management.

She is truly passionate about helping people get their sh!t together to live life to the fullest. Her vision is to Learn, Speak, Write, Teach, and Coach in a way that truly empowers people to be the best version of themselves.

You won’t want to miss this episode as Dan and Lacey get deep about personal development!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Lacey got into personal development and coaching
• The feeling of achieving everything in entrepreneurship
• How Lacey’s systems have impacted her personally
• Decision Fatigue and how to deal with it
• The lasting impacts your health can have on your mental clarity
• What Focus Five is and how to use it
• All about Lacey’s journal and the benefits
• Why writing your own obituary is important
• Improvements in Lacey’s clients after working with her
• The need for coaching in agriculture
• The importance of living in the moment
• Lacey’s advice for starting with a coach

Buy Lacey’s Journal Here: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09P278358

Connect with Lacey:

Website: https://twitter.com/LaceyRhea

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaceyRhea

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lacey-owens-922b2aa8/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laceyrheaowens/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5S-n1rsORdebYo2LT4bZRQ

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast, class is in session. Dan learns from former business teacher turned tech startup Jordan McFarlen.

Jordan is the Tech Incubator at Cultivator powered by Conexus and Co founder of Big Idea Camp. He has a passion for helping entrepreneurs of all ages and stages and believes creating community is the most rewarding thing you can do.

Right now you can find him accelerating Canadas top early stage ag-tech companies some of which have previously been on the show!

Since launching in 2019, Cultivator has supported over 50 companies that has raised over $30 million in private capital and public funding. Learn how Jordan and the team at cultivator bridge the gap on launching and scaling startups

Jordans story of teaching to ag-tech is truly inspiring and you won’t want to miss it

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Jordan went from business teacher to Tech Incubator
• Who is Cultivator
• The difference Jordan sees between young and older entrepreneurs
• The scope of ag innovations
• How the name Cultivator came to be
• Who are the stakeholders and what are their positions
• Where are they finding hotspots in development
• Where is the accelerator fund focused on now
• The process of working with a startup
• Entrepreneurial life cycles Jordan has seen in his career so far
• What the before and after transformation looks like when taking this program
• Who have they brought in to make a difference
• Where is all the money coming from
• What works for founders and what doesn’t
• Where they see a gap on some of the biggest problems that could be solved
• How safe are startups after they go through the course, failure rates
• How you can get involved
• What is the Million Acres Project
• Jordans messages to new founders
• What Jordan would be a founder of if he had a startup

Connect with Jordan:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcfarljo

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-mcfarlen/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcfarljo/

Find Cultivator at:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cultivatorsk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cultivatorsk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cultivatorsk

Website: https://www.cultivator.ca

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast, Dan catches up with longtime friend Colin Rush of Clean Seed Capital.

Colin is the COO of Clean Seed Capital and has 20 years experience in the agricultural equipment industry. He has held senior positions with John Deere, Case IH and JCB Canada.

Clean Seed is a public company on the TSX.V, symbol CSX.

For the last decade they have been working on commercializing a new concept in seeding. Now it’s coming to market and it’s an exciting time for the company, and for farmers. There is an incredible story behind this product that you are not going to want to miss.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Colins professional journey in the industry and equipment business
• Clean Seeds entrepreneurial journey
• How Smart Seeder Max is the next best evolution in seeding technology
• What Colin brought to the table from the dealer and OEM level to the startup
• The differences Colin experienced in leadership from equipment dealerships to OEM
• Why OEMs are not investing in seeding like spraying, tractors and combines
• What the Smart Seeder can really do for producers
• The agronomists who have been involved and their thoughts on the equipment
• The next steps after purchasing the Smart Seeder
• What Clean Seed will look like in three years
• What the equipment dealers are saying and thinking
• How long before the “big boys” start waving their cheques
• Colins core values he has installed into the company

Learn more about Clean Seed and Colin here: https://www.cleanseedcapital.com

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

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In this episode of the Growing the Future Podcast, Dan interviews Cole Powers. Co-Founder of IntelliCulture.

Cole has an extensive background ranging from

• Working at Tesla in powertrain systems integration firmware engineering

• Helping farmers in this new digital era we are entering

• To leadership coaching for students and early grads who are interested in starting businesses.

IntelliCulture’s mission is to provide farmers with affordable technology that drives ROI in their operations. Their farm management software is designed to address three of the industries largest challenges; labor availability, pest prevention & machine safety.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Cole went from the automotive industry to agriculture
• The origin story of IntelliCulture and how the company name was picked
• The fundamental differences between the target market in automotive and agriculture
• The differences of the barriers and opportunities in those two markets when it comes to automation
• The top thing Cole learned in the automotive industry that he would like to translate into the agriculture industry
• What IntelliCulture really does for producers and how their software works for producers in different levels
• Why IntelliCulture stands out in the crowded market
• Where their product has the biggest impact on farms
• What amount of Prairie producers Cole thinks are really implementing technology in a meaningful way
• What producers in California do differently then Canada
• How IntelliCulture is getting their solutions and product to market
• What is the next big thing for IntelliCulture
• Will Cole be farming on mars with Elon
• What year Cole thinks 85% of tractors that famers use will be automated tech
• Coles journey of entrepreneurship from automotive to agriculture fresh out of college
• What Cole has to say to young entrepreneurs getting started

Learn more about IntelliCulture and Cole: https://www.intelliculture.ca

Aberhart Family of Companies:

https://aberhartagsolutions.ca

https://aberhartfarms.com

https://suregrowth.ca

https://www.convergencegrowth.com

If you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at: https://linktr.ee/Growingthefuturepodcast

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Dan interviews Marcia Cripps. In addition to her very impressive credentials and diverse background, Marcia is an avid entrepreneur who describes herself as the nerd behind her company Agfluence. Agfluence is a focused marketing company whose goal is to integrate academic research into marketing and promotion for all aspects of agriculture.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Marcia's strong connection to agriculture, her training and education, and her experiences winning beauty pageants
• Marcia's take on modern agronomy education
• Marcia's personal experience working as a sales agronomist in California
• Marcia's experience working with biology as an independent potato agronomist in Michigan
• The difference between working as a sales agronomist and the entrepreneur consulting route
• The unsafe working condition for women in the agriculture industry
• Based on data and research what are some of the things that growers may want to implement next year
• How Marcia became an Ag influencer
• How Agfluence is helping agricultural businesses with their social media presence
• Marcia's recommended social media platforms for people in agriculture
• How companies in the agriculture space can incorporate social media
• The advantages of having a social media presence
• Twitter lighting round

Learn more about Agfluence and Marcia here

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

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GTF YouTube Channel

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Terry Aberhart and Holden Aberhart ( Terry's son) chat with Dan McCann CEO of Precision AI. Precision AI uses artificial intelligence technology to avoid the overuse of pesticides in the crops helping the grower to save money and produce more sustainable crops.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The ways artificial intelligence is being used in agriculture
• Why adopting AI technology can save you time and money
• What led Dan to create Precision AI
• About Precision AI's cool mission and cutting edge technology
• The way Aberhart Solutions is using AI in their fields
• Why farmers should be quick to adopt new technologies
• How investing in new technologies can protect you from issues arising from the supply chain
• How AI can help you have more sustainable crops
• How the drones are used in less than optimal weather conditions
• Adopting AI can help the grower keep operating even during unforeseeable events like the latest pandemic

Want to connect with Dan McCann?

LinkedIn

Learn more about Precision AI here

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Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Dan chats with Mandyy Thomas. Mandyy is the CEO of Intentionally Wealthy a financial coaching company. She is also a fellow podcaster among other cool things. She is on a mission to help people to take control of their finances and feel confident about their financial future. This episode is full of gems you don't want to miss.

Farmers! Let's get rid of those limiting beliefs and start taking control of our financial future. Shall we?!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Mandyy's professional background and what motivated her to become a mindset coach
• Money mindset: How having a positive or negative money mindset can affect the way you attract money
• How the way we feel about money and our beliefs about money can affect the creation of wealth
• How to coach people about money. Mandyy's strategy to help her clients experience instant and long-lasting results
• How having a negative or positive money mindset can affect farmers
• What can be improved in agriculture when it comes to money beliefs
• What are some of the beliefs Mandyy has to break through to help people get rid of negative money mindsets
• Twitter Lightning Round Q&A

Want to connect with Mandyy ?

Intentionally Wealthy Podcast

Website

Instagram

Talk One-on-One with Mandyy for Free About Your Specific Financial Situation here

Episode 23:How’s your family money paradigm affecting you?

Episode 3: My one big tip for 2021 to get ahead financially

Episode 2: How I saved $250,000 by 26

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Dan chats with Lana Shaw. Lana is an agronomist, crop researcher who specializes in pulse agronomy. Have you heard about regenerative agricultural soil? Did you know that understanding the soil and changing farming practices can give your soil more longevity? In this episode, Lana answers some key questions to understand the importance of research, science, and technology to take care of our living and most precious soil. Also, stay tuned until the end of the episode where Lana answers questions directly from producers on Twitter.

Get ready to learn:

• Why producers should get curious and start caring about research in the agricultural space ( hop on the research train)
• Don't understand how you can benefit from all the compiled data and research? Lana explains why it's important to learn from other farmers' trials, mistakes, and results.
• Lana's advice on what percentage of land and resources producers should dedicate to research
• Why you should care about the current state of your topsoil.
• What are some of the things producers can start doing to regenerate their soil to retain profitability and production?
• Why producers are reluctant to embrace research and switch to practices that will improve their soil longevity
• Why agronomist are not able to provide definitive answers when it comes to agriculture
• Soil biology? Producers the soil is a whole ecosystem and adopting practices to maintain all of its parts healthy and balanced is your mission
• What are the implications of continuing wholesale of synthetic fertilizer and chemical reduction of diversity?
• Why understanding that the soil is a living organism is key to keep its longevity and productivity
• What are some of the regenerative practices you should be adopting?
• Twitter Lightning Round Q&A

Want to learn more about regenerative agriculture? Go here

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Dan chats with Derek Squair, Aberhart Farms Market Advisor. Derek has been a great resource and a trusted advisor for Aberhart farms. Having Derek's guidance and expertise in making major decisions in Aberhart farms since 2006 has been invaluable. In this episode, Derek shares his opinion and assessment of the current and future market.

In this episode, you will learn:

• What exactly is a market coach. What is Derek’s role as a grain market coach? and why farmers should have one close by.
• What problems a market coach can help producers solve
• Why some grain farms will have significant earnings while comparable size grain farms in other locations will be experiencing devastating losses this year
• The way the current climate in the farming industry is changing the way risk is allocated between grain companies and producers.
• The great advantages of having a board of advisors and coaches at your disposal
• What new market opportunities are raising for grain producers
• What is the difference between organic, sustainable, and regenerative
• Derek’s opinions about carbon markets
• Why does a market coach focus so much on the cost of production
• The way producers protect themselves contractually when they don’t produce the quantities agreed upon in the presale.

Connect with Derek

Twitter

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Facebook

Twitter

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Dan chats with Dave Wall, Lead Grain Management Advisor at Wall Grain Handling Systems. The largest independent grain bin and grain dryer dealer in Western Canada. Dave is also dear to the Aberhart family and the Saskatchewan farming community.

Get ready to learn about Wall Grain's mission of service, grain bin technology, and as always inspiring stories to help you in your entrepreneurial journey.

In this episode you will learn:

• How Wall Grain became the biggest independent grain bin dealer in Western Canada
• Wall Grain's three service pillars
• Wall Grain's scope as far as bins built and distributed
• What problem (s) Wall Grain is solving for farmers
• What technologies Wall Grains has incorporated over the years to help farmers get the most out of their crops
• How Wall Grains incorporates the technology with exceptional coaching and an attitude of service
• How is this technology a big economic opportunity for farmers with immediate and great returns in their investment
• How Wall Grains is actively involved in service within the ag community and other communities

Learn more about Wall Grain https://www.wallgrain.com

Connect with Dave on LinkedIn here

Wall Grain Instagram

Wall Grain Twitter

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LinkedIn

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Dan chats with Jason McNamee. Jason is the Chief Product Officer and Senior geoscientist at Lucent Bioscience. Lucent BioSciences delivers Soileos: a sustainable, non-leaching micronutrient fertilizer for agriculture... in other words, Soileos is the bomb.

In this episode you will learn:

• What is Soileos and what makes it different from synthetic fertilizers?
• How this proprietary technology came about and why it's so effective
• The million-dollar question: what is the benefit for farmers?
• The technology and workings behind synthetic fertilizers.
• The importance of understanding the microbiome in the soil
• Deep understanding of what's happening in the soil and why farmers need to preserve it
• The similarities between the microbiomes in the human body and the microbiomes in the soil
• How is the product delivered to farmers?
• Bonus: Jason's entrepreneurial advice on startups

Want to learn more about Soileos? Go here

Want to connect with Jason on Linked in? Go here

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxB4TPqfE2KR1SPo6KQJQxw

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In this episode of GTF Dan chats with Carissa Campeo, Co-founder of Trendi, and Craig McIntosh, CEO, and Co-founder of Trendi about the inevitable and outrageous food waste in industrialized countries. Trendi uses robotics and automation in the food industry to reduce waste at the production level to transform it and distribute it for different purposes.

In this episode you will learn:

• How amazing Trendi is starting with Craig and Carissa's inspiring journeys and experiences in the food and hospitality industry.
• Numbers and statistics about food waste will blow your mind and compel you to reassess your grocery shopping list.
• What is food insecurity and how it's more prevalent than we think
• How food waste is produced through the food production chain ( from the fields to the grocery stores)
• Trendi's mission and how the company is breaking the stigma around associated with waste
• What is Bioflakes and what it's so revolutionary
• The high price we pay to get those perfectly cut veggies at the supermarket. You'll never get them again!
• How as a farmer you can turn your waste into a sustainable product while creating another source of income. It's a win win!

Go here to learn more about Trendi www.trendi.com

Follow Trendi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trendi.tech/

Connect with Craig on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-mcintosh/

Connect with Carissa on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/carissacampeotto/

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

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In this episode of GTF, Dan chats with Joelle Faulkner. Joelle Faulkner is President and CEO of Area One Farms, an alternative asset management firm. She created a farmer-centric private equity model to simultaneously help scale Canadian family farms and deliver premium investor returns.

This is what you will learn in this episode:

• How Joelle obtained multiple degrees studying all across the world
• The relation Joelle has with farmers, having grown up on the farm
• The unique way Area One Farms invests with farmers and partners
• How Area One helps farmers expand to exactly what they need for the future generations
• Why they decided to stay out of land flipping
• Joelle's thoughts and feelings on Carbon
• Why growing more food is at the top of Joelle's list
• The details of what an investment and partnerships look like with Area One Farms
• Mistakes that have happened in past partnerships
• How Joelle and Dan have worked together in the past, present, and plans for the future

Want to learn more about Area One Farms?

https://areaonefarms.ca

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

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In this episode of GTF, Dan chats with Bryce Eger. Bryce is the president of Corteva Agriscience. Corteva provides education and resources to farmers helping them scale their farming practices and business. Bryce is nothing but a rock star when it comes to leadership. His experience, knowledge, and training, in leadership and management, are outstanding and something we all should learn from.

This is what you will learn in this episode:

• Changes that led to Corteva being a strong organization with the right mix of talent, product, and future focus.
• Bryce's experience and advice in merging different companies creating what Cortava is today.
• The biggest skill you need when stepping into a leadership role within an organization.
• Corteva's approach to the pandemic and what the organization focused on the most during that time.
• Bryce's advice as to how to effectively communicate your organization's mission, vision, and purpose with team members.
• The biggest obstacles Corteva faces in the current market.
• The biggest challenges that farmers are facing right now and how to overcome them.
• Bryce's opinion on how the farming industry will look in ten years.
• The unavoidable carbon sequestration and will impact and benefit farmers.
• Corteva's approach to mental health in the workplace
• Bryce shares one of his habits for excellence.

Want to learn more about Corteva Agriscience?

https://www.corteva.com

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

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Jake farms in Southeast Saskatchewan with his wife, his parents, his older sister, and his brother-in-law, Eric.

They seed a variety of crops, which vary from year to year, but generally consist of canola, wheat, durum, peas, soybeans, flax, and lentils. They rotate crops as much as they can manage from year to year, always keeping integrated pest management in mind.

In this episode you will learn about:

• Family dynamic and all that is involved in managing a family farm.
• The nuts and bolts of having an advisory board and why ever farmer who doesn’t have one might want to run out and get one.
• Different strategies and outlooks on farm growth and planning.
• The ongoing struggles of farming and how to persevere through them.

Want to connect with Jake?

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jake-leguee-a45289106

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Terry Aberhart chats with Bill Dorgan about the benefits of using carbon in agriculture to reduce the impact crops have on the environment and also about tax concerns and other issues associated with using carbon. Bill, born and raised on a farm in Saskatchewan, has an extensive career in agriculture. For the last thirteen years, he’s been part of the carbon and sustainability initiative at Agri Trend.

In this episode, Bill answers the following questions:

• Why farmers should consider carbon to help reduce climate change
• Can carbon really make a difference in climate change?
• How farmers would be affected by the carbon taxes
• Will the carbon taxes affect long-term sustainability for farmers?
• What's happening in the market in Alberta implementing the use of carbon?

Want to connect with Bill?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-dorgan-750844133/

Learn more about carbon here

https://agriculture.trimble.com/software/agri-trend/

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

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In this fantastic episode, part II of the Family Farm Business, Harvey ( the family patriarch), Dan, Terry, and Holden Aberhart (grandson), continue their conversation about their incredible journey into turning a family farm into a successful farm business.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Terry's journey, quitting his job to work on the farm full time and taking over the responsibility of growing his family legacy.
• The moment Harvey knew it was time to quit his job at John Deere and join Terry full time on the farm.
• How a devasted event on the farm was the turning point that compelled Terry and Harvey into changing their perspective and approach to the farm business.
• How Terry's determination, drive, and strategic approach has turned the family farm into a successful, profitable business.
• How the family embraces change while keeping their values of hard work and unity.
• Holden's experiences with his grandfather and dad working on the farm and his plans of taking over the business one day.
• Dan's rewarding and challenging moments quitting his job to join Harvey and Terry in a new startup, Aberhart Ag Solutions.

Listen to part I to learn about Harvey's story about the beginnings of the family farm.

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community, make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

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In a very special episode of GTF, Dan, Terry, and Holden Aberhart (grandson) chat with the patriarch of the Aberhart family, Harvey Aberhart.

This is a two-part interview in which the Aberhart family will take you through the beginning of the farming family business all the way to the present with Terry and Dan taking upon the role of leaders in a family business built over decades of hard work and hustle.

Part one of the two-part series focuses on the history of the farm up until the point where the Aberhart brothers came into the mix in a significant way.

This episode is full of lessons, wisdom, and fun and tender moments you don't want to miss.

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

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Attention farmer 📢 Get yourself a coach!

The farming industry is evolving and changing requiring farmers to maintain their legacy while learning the business side of farming. If you're a farmer, don't panic! In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast ("GTF"), we give you a sneak peek into different programs, coaching, and mentorships and what they can do for you.

Dan, GTF's host and Heather Watson director of Farm Management Canada are back doing what they know best, bringing you the best resources to help you take your farming business to the next level.

Business Operating System for Farms is an online event with experienced panelists in the industry talking about coaching, networking, and business operating systems in the context of farming.

Partners

-Canadian Young Farmers Forum (CYFF).

-Farm Management Canada.

-Hiebert Green Ventures. A progressive agricultural enterprise dedicated to practicing and promoting excellence in farming.

-Maverick Ag Consulting. A business risk management and consulting firm focused on insurance and data analytics. Maverick Ag limited was built to evolve the mindset of financial and business risk management and agriculture.

-Aberhart Ag Solutions, Growing the Future Podcast, Convergence Growth,

Panelists

• Kristjan Hebert HGV)

• Evan Shout president and co-founder of Maverick Ag and CFO of Heber Green Ventures and Aberhart Farms.

• Terry Aberhart partner at Aberhart Ag Solutions

In this episode you will learn:

• The importance of professional coaching if you’re in the farming industry or any type of business.
• The impact that professional coaching has had on the panelist and their business.
• What's strategic coaching and how it can dramatically change your farming business?
• The importance of joining peer groups and how they can improve the industry.
• What's Entrepreneurial Operating Systems (EOS) and why it's considered the evolution of strategic coach for entrepreneurs and teams?
• Networking?! what to do and what are some best practices.
• What is one of the main challenges for farming employees adopting new technologies and processes?
• how do keep up with economic growth while keeping costs and the lowest?

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

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In this episode of GTF, Dan chats with Patrick Verkley. Patrick is a chicken and grain farmer from Ontario and the owner and founder of Verkley Design and Modelling. Patrick works with farmers to help create farm buildings that center on maximizing space, promoting efficient workflow, and enhancing aesthetics in farms. His vision, work ethic, and drive for innovation are remarkable.

In this episode you will learn:

• Patrick's journey as a farmer and what ignited his idea of pursuing architecture as a career
• How Patrick started blending architecture with his passion for agriculture
• How Patrick's passion for design got him to develop a service every farmer should invest in if they want to build a sustainable farming business.
• How Patrick turned his ADHD into one of his superpowers and the advice he has for people dealing with the same circumstances

Want to learn more about Verkley Design and Modeling:

https://www.verkleydm.com

Say hi to Patrick on Twitter at https://twitter.com/pverkley

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

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Fellow Growing the Future trailblazers, I hope you're ready for this episode of GTF. This is episode is going to completely change the way you look at your business.

In this episode, Dan interviews John Warrillow: the author of three best-selling books Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry, and The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top. He is also the host of Build to Sell Podcast.

Here's what you will learn:

• The importance of structuring your company so it can thrive without you
• Why selling a business is an art that requires mastery
• What are the key elements of mastering the art of selling your business
• The concept of unique ability
  • How this concept is measured and how it can help you position your company
• The number one reason entrepreneurs sell their companies
• The number one reason entrepreneurs can't let go of their businesses

To learn more about John visit https://builttosell.com/

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

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Become a Growing the Future Insider and be the first one to be informed about podcast releases a what's the latest in our community by going to http://growingthefuturepodcast.ca.

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, Dan interviews Shane Thomas. Shane is an information and data gathering machine! His curiosity and passion for agricultural science, technology, and the agricultural business led him to create his weekly newsletter, Upstream Ag Insights which is consumed by readers all over the world. Shane is also an entrepreneur working as a consultant for companies in the agricultural industry helping them to position themselves in the market.

You will learn:

• What is Upstream Ag Insights. What inspired Shane to create the publication and how it's become a great resource for those interested in data, trends, and technology in agriculture.
• Shane's views regarding technology and data and the impact that both can have on ROI and market trends.
• Shane's advice to farmers regarding the acquisition of new technologies and adoption of systems.

Learn more about Shane's weekly newsletter here:

https://upstreamaginsights.substack.com/

Connect with Shane on:

Twitter @shaneAgronomy

Instagram @upstreamaginsights

And if you want to be part of the Growing the Future community make sure to say hi on social at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-aberhart-b36203b6/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingthefuturepodcast/

Say hi to Dan: https://www.instagram.com/aberhartdan/

Also, don't forget to share this episode with your fellow Growing the Future trailblazers and subscribe to the podcast.

Become a Growing the Future Insider and be the first one to be informed about podcast releases a what's the latest in our community by going to http://growingthefuturepodcast.ca.

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In this episode of Growing the Future Podcast, you will listen to a selected group of panelists ( long time farmers) talking about strategic planning in farming.

Leading the panel Heather Watson, Director at Farm Management Canada, and Dan Abrahart Managing Partner at Aberhart Solutions and the host of Growing the Future Podcast, ask questions to the panelist about their experiences in 2020, lessons-learned, strategy, and secrets to their personal success in farming.

Panelist

Kent Erickson

A farmer in Irma Alberta with a 4,000- acre green family farm and a former political lobbyist in Canadian agriculture issues.

https://twitter.com/tek2541?lang=en

https://weeklyreview.ca/erickson-family-of-irma-win-2016-farm-family-award/

Ron Krahn

A farmer from Rivers Manitoba, a province on the Northwest of Brandon. Ron farms at Rivers, MB with his brother and their families. He grows wheat, canola, yellow peas, sunflowers, soybeans and is learning how to grow corn.

Franck Groeneweg

Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Franck owns a farm in Three Forks, Montana. Proud farmer, father of four and a husband, he is proud to be a steward of the land, feeding the world with the best technology available so the food that farmers produce, and that my family eats, can be nutritious, abundant, affordable, and sustainable.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/franck-groeneweg-a9657717/?originalSubdomain=ca

https://www.greenatlantic.com

Marcel Van Staveren

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, 2nd generation of Dutch immigrants-1960. Owns a 23,000 -acres farm with his two brothers, two sons, and nephews.

https://twitter.com/marcelvanst?lang=en

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In this episode of GTP, Dan decided to change things up a little and bring a different angle on how Canadian agriculture is perceived from an outsider’s perspective… and by an outsider, we’re not talking about someone who’s NOT from Saskatchewan. Jasmine Laverne is a young woman of color from L.A., an entrepreneur, bossbabe, and advocate for social issues.

… BUT what does Dan, a middle-aged white man from Saskatchewan, have in common with Jasmine, a young advocate for diversity, inclusion, and equity in the U.S.?!

More than you think! Listen to the episode, and you will find out.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Concepts like diversity, inclusion, and equity in the context of social issues.

• About the Crown Act initiative and Food Deserts… two foreign concepts for the majority of us.

• How Canadian agriculture farming is perceived from a consumer’s perspective.

• The importance of having conversations and being authentic with people who may not have the same background can broaden your perception and help you become a more sympathetic human.

Connect with Jasmine here: https://instagram.com/jasmine__laverne

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Saskatchewan's agriculture is growing at a significant pace regardless of the many challenges 2020 has presented. In Saskatchewan, there is a culture of overcoming economic, climate, and technological challenges by quickly adapting and looking for solutions. Saskatchewanians are quick and early adopters, embracing innovation without any resistance. Saskatchewan is an example of innovation and growth, becoming the world's largest export.

This conversation with Alanna will give you a perspective into Saskatchewan's agriculture and get you inspired by its people's resilience, including Alanna's.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Alanna's career in politics and her perspective about politics, policy, and agriculture.

• How Saskatchewan's agriculture bloomed in 2020 despite challenges like the current global pandemic and adverse natural conditions.

• The current political climate between the Canadian federal government and western agriculture.

• Why Saskatchewan is such a hot spot for innovation and change in western Canadian agriculture.

• How resilience, grind, unity, and creative solutions to problems have made Saskatchewan's agriculture the leader in innovation in Canadian western agriculture.

Connect with Alanna on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanna-koch/

Interested to know what The Global Institute for Food Security "GIFS" is all about?! Here is the link: https://www.gifs.ca/

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When farming meets good business practices, the result is a highly successful and sustainable business for generations to come.

In this episode of GTF, Terry and his sidekick, Holden, Terry's son, have a chat with Heather Watson, Executive Director at Farm Management Canada ( "FMC"), and Jorg Zimmermann, Chief Operations Officer at Farm Business Management at FMC to talk about FMC's mission to provide farmers leading-edge resources, information, and tools to support farm business success and talk about the importance of implementing strong business practices in farming.

In this episode, you will learn:

• The importance of introducing good business practices to grow and be profitable in farming.
• The FMC's holistic approach to the farming business that creates a healthy and sustainable work environment for farmers.
• How to make the business side of farming "sexier."
• Why management gives farmers a bigger competitive edge than any other factor in farming.
• The importance of setting financial and management goals.

Find more information about FMC here: https://fmc-gac.com/

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In this episode of Growing the Future podcast, Dan interviews one of his mentors and entrepreneur Jedi Joe Dales. Joe is the co-founder and president of Agri & Food Innovation at RH Accelerator in London, Ontario, Canada. Joe is also the co-founder of Farms.com Ltd. and AdCareers.com. Both companies are the leading suppliers of innovative solutions to farmers, agriculture, and food companies worldwide.

Joe's mission is to help farmers be more profitable and productive by encouraging them to adopt innovative practices.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Joe's beginnings as an entrepreneur and how he saw innovation as an opportunity to grow his business.
• Joe's best entrepreneurial lessons from 20 years of experience delivering knowledge, innovative information, products, and services for the global agriculture and food industry with farms.com and Better Farming Magazine.
• Joe's best advice to new entrepreneurs in the agricultural business.

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Small town SK farm girl ends up in big city Australia helping rural businesses succeed digitally back home during the pandemic with many challenges, opportunities, and lessons to be had along the way.

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“It's just like farming. I mean, um, people will say to me often, like, why are farmers should grouchy and pessimistic all the time? And that's not it, they're not pessimistic. They're simply preventing insanity by talking through scenarios of possible downside.”

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"And that brings a fundamental point and agriculture. You have to have the basic science and you have to have somebody that takes that to the farm gate. And mine was, was the latter, but I've always had great respect and communication with other people.

A lot of things I've been able to do just because there was somebody behind me that knew the basics better than I did"  - Les Henry (7:00)

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Dan Breaks this episode up into 3 parts:

• The Prodigal Son
• How Carbon Tax launched my career in Politics by Jake Ayer
• The Hunger Games: Trumping Trudeau

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"and you know, that, that's kind of the thing. So I said, I was thinking about that. It's like, like, which foot do I put?

You know, which camp do I put my foot into? And I have my feet perpetually in more than one camp. It's a weird situation. I'm, I'm a farmer, I'm a farm boy. I grew up on the farm. I love farming. I love farmers. I love the farming industry. I like crops. I like everything about it and yet I also live in the inner city and I see all the issues that they have.

And those are also mine, you know? And so we started a community garden. It's an organic community garden. It is, uh, you know, I commute, I'm a cycling advocate. I'm a, I'm an advocate for things that are important to my community, right. And my community happens to be the inner city."

• Tom Wolf [09:57-10:24] 

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What we learned from this episode?

• Antara Agronomy facilitates a group of farmers leading the industry by working with agronomist to experiment, collect data, and grow the future of agriculture
• When farmers drive by, you better believe they are watching what Antara Agronomy is doing on their neighbor’s land
• Antara Agronomy talks about their benchmarking program, looking at trends to put into trail to better understand the land in the Red River Valley

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• 01:20 – 2:38 About Tiffany
• 03:53 – 07:12 From Ag Professional to Farm Mom
• 07:13 - 10:59 Natalie’s Diagnosis
• 11:18 - 15:27 Natalie on the Farm
• 15:28 - 16:49 Leaving the Farm
• 16:50 - 31:15 Traveling during COVID-19
• 31:15 - 33:48 Quarantine on the Farm
• 33:48 - 37:00 The Lucky 2%
• 37:01 - 38:27 A Community for Parents
• 38:40 - 46:18 Natalie’s Resilience

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• Dan and Jocelyn talk about the big picture in farming
• Jocelyn's thoughts about soil health as a buzzword
• The importance of a family farm and sustainable ag
• Conversations Jocelyn has with farmers to advise on the future of their farms
• Will Millennials start to care about where their food comes from down to the soil?

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In this Episode, Dan and Stuart chat about: 

• The quest to determine determine if the benefits of organic is actual science or ill informed consumer interest.
• How environmentally friendly is Organic?
• The Three stereotypes about organic farmers
• The Future of Organic Farming, what will farming look like in 3 years?
• The research behind polycrops and beneficial predatory insects
• The lifecycle of an organic farm. Can you produce conventional and organic during
• different seasons?
• What can conventional farmers learn from the organic industry?
• What happens if everyone went organic? The Economics from producer to consumer
• Essential Service and food waste in COVID-19, hunger, and price gouging
• Why Motley Crue put a requirement for Brown M&M’s in their event riders

Referenced Articles

• https://www.producer.com/2018/03/balanced-nutrients-help-soil-microbes/
• https://www.kamsacktimes.com/news/world-s-largest-independent-organic-food-brand-purchases-5-000-acres-of-land-near-kamsack-1.23155084

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IN THIS EPISODE:

• how their families are holding up in the Covid Crisis
• how the COVID ERA is more like our parent's time
• the good side and the bad side of the quarantine
• Lichelle's home schooling strategy
• Warren's home economics eductional musings
• Terry gets smacked upside the hide by a teacher
• Terry can't help but compulsively film family events
• the Aberharts get a chef to help them cook as a family
• Warren talks about his HELLO FRESH subscription
• how the ingredients of the food Aberhart Farms produces fits in
• how to get kids to eat healthy
• the convergence of ag/food/health
• how the "BEYOND BURGER" is produced
• Terry wants a "Star Wars" shake
• how Peter Diamonds gets the perfect supplements every day
• Warren reveals the secrets of Singularity University
• 3D Printing of food and ventilation maksks
• Warren's BIG Hairy Audacious Goals
• Terry speculates on connecting food with people in the future
• what Holden wants to do in the future
• how the current crisis is a wake up call to reality

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We are calling this episode two Tulepps in front of a fern. Instagram sensations Stephanie and Cassandra Lepp joined the show to chat farming, fashion, and family dynamics in rural Manitoba.

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SWAT MAPS: MAPPING YOUR SOIL POTENTIAL SWAT MAPS is a unique, patented method of combining soil, water, and topography data layers into one powerful map for use in precision ag. It allows the influence of stable soil and water properties on yield variability to be measured and more importantly, managed. By mapping the “soil potential” in your field, SWAT MAPS empowers agronomists and farmers using variable rate technology to improve the ROI of fertilizer, seed, amendments, and soil applied herbicides for better profitability and environmental sustainability.

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MANAGING INPUTS FOR YOUR MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE As farm business owners we tend to think in dollars and cents, revenue and expenses, inputs and outputs. Unfortunately, we often forget about the most important input – our self. Using self awareness and a growth mindset as the blueprint, Katelyn will discuss techniques to navigate through the day to day stresses of farming and personal life. Based on wisdom from Don Migual Riuz “The Mastery of Self” Katelyn will discuss how farmers can be their authentic self, regardless of what’s happening around them (aka: the weather, international trade and Twitter fights).

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DATA MONETIZATION ON FARMS: NOW AND IN THE FUTURE If you asked a farmer 20 years ago – how do you monetize your farm data? They’d look at you cross-eyed and crazy! Well today this topic could be top of mind as you’ve likely accumulated and utilized data through equipment, field sensors, and services. The idea of monetization doesn’t only mean turning it into cash, but also the idea that you can leverage data to become more profitable on your farm then without it. Does your farm business have a data strategy? What level of importance do you put on your data quality? Hear Terry and Warren chat about data monetization today on farms, and what this may look like in the future!

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DATA ANALYTICS – TURNING DATA INTO DECISIONS Agriculture advancement in terms of technology, data and human resources has grown exponentially in the past decade. Primary producers are now faced with large scale, multiple decisions that are coming at them faster than ever before. The idea of turning data into decisions encompasses the ideology of “moneyball” or “blackjack farming”; allowing farmers to have the answers to questions that have not been asked yet. Providing a decision matrix that takes the gut feeling out of farming and allows the data to drive the operations in terms of financial analysis, human resources and agronomy. If we already know the answer to the decision, is it really a decision?

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THE FUTURE OF AN AGRONOMIST – WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING IN 2030? Agriculture has changed and will continue to change at a rapid pace. Never before have all levels of agricultural production been under the spotlight more than today. How we as an agricultural community go on the offensive to insure the success and prosperity in the next 10 years of production? If growers have to adapt, so will agronomists.

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PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF PRECISION AGRICULTURE In this session Terry will share his experiences and insight as a precision agronomist and owner, operator of Sure Growth Solutions Inc an independent precision agronomy service and research provider and Aberhart Farms Inc a progressive 15,000 acre dry land grain operation near Langenburg sk. We will review the past decade of challenges and successes with precision agriculture and Variable rate programs and technology, the current focus of precision ag as well as the future opportunities in the next decade to come.

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CONNECT THE DOTS – FIND BALANCE – CRUSH THE AGRONOMICS Strap yourself in for a hard core 4D thinking like a plant experience. You will leave this presentation smarter than 97% of agronomists on the planet. . . . and . . . Elston ‘may’ expose his confirmation bias around elemental sulphur, especially Bio-Sul 😎. Simple Agronomics, Logistics, Economics, Sustainable no-brainer

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Ryan shows the true meaning of determination as he shares his journey to a healthier, happier self: #75Hard challenge.

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Katelyn Duncan covers a vast array of topics including but not limited to the Four Agreements, sustainability in agriculture, fitness, mental health, spraying, her musical proclivities, and marrying a rich farmer.

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Founder of numerous businesses in the Ag world, Professional Agrologist and Certified Agricultural Consultant; Rob Saik talks innovation, leadership, and mental health.

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Co-Authors of two books and founders of their own business consulting agency, Cathy Snelgrove and Jeff Rozier share their experiences in entrepreneurship, small business, and exponential growth.

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From small town Saskatchewan, to Wall Street and back; this young entrepreneur shares his journey towards the creation of FarmLead.com, North America’s Grain Marketplace.

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ANALYTICS EDIT VIDEO Mike Witkowicz is the Vice President, Strategy and Business Development at Ag Exchange Group which provides a service as a private community where Growers and Buyers interact for for grain transactions. Mike shares his thoughts on modern grain marketing in Western Canadian agricultural production.

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Terry and son Holden cover some incredible conversational territory with Elston Solberg, our friend and mentor in the industry. Shine on, Sun Mountain.

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Jonathan Small returns for AgSmart Day 2 to share more of his formula for successful management practises in agriculture!

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Join Terry Aberhart as he explores the incredible career and outlook in agriculture of Bill Zimmer. In this episode they cover topics like millennials, consumers influence on agriculture, the coming biological revolution, how producers should choose products and practises, and much more in ways that will give you hope for the future!

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Maverick Ag is a business risk management and insurance consulting company. Evan Shout discusses with Terry how to move your farming business ahead with greater degrees of certainty and profitability!

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Luke Silinski is the Founder of Ag Tech STEAM (Science, Technology, Art, and Math) Box, an initiative to raise awareness about the more sophisticated aspects of modern agriculture.

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Patrick Walther is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Agvisor Pro. He chats about bridging the gap between existing knowledge practitioners and the farm gate with new technology.

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President of the Olds College Stuart Cullum graciously sits down with GTFPC to discuss his vision of how best to prepare students for the ever changing needs of the agricultural labour market, specifically as it relates to technology!

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On this episode of the show The Tornado Hunter gets real on the nature of risk, life on the prairies, the impact of storms on people and property, politics, and why he loves agriculture! You don't want it miss it!

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Rob is a director for Glacier Media, and is the show runner for the every growing outdoor farm show Ag in Motion in Saskatoon which has exploded in popularity as well as the Farm Forum Event, which returns to it's roots this year in Saskatoon. Rob has a strong background in the agricultural arena including running the Farm Progress show in Regina for over a decade, and is a 3rd generation rancher. We cover everything from the livestock industry to what makes Rob tick when it comes to growing agricultural platforms that facilitate business in #westerncdnag!

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In this conversation with Brianna Elliot, "techgronomist" at Olds College, we cover some new and interesting territory on what the faculty is pursuing with their new Smart Farm Program, and the end results they are looking for: marrying technology with boots on the ground for better decision making and higher profits!

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If you are trying to figure out precision ag for your farm, this is one episode you won't want to miss. Terry Aberhart speaks with Brent Nicol about the new innovations coming in the Wild West of technology in ag, what a techgronomist is, and how farmers can implement the tools that are out there to better their operation!

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Cherilyn Nagel, along with her husband David and family, operate a large grain farm near her hometown of Mossbank, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Cherilyn is an energetic speaker and loves to share a positive message about the sustainable food grown in her home province and across the country.

Cherilyn covers all kind of interesting ground in this candid conversation telling all about her personal journey of embracing farming and agricultural debate from the fields of Saskatchewan to the worldwide stage and everything in between!

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Brennan Turner is the CEO of Farm Lead.

In this second appearance on the show we discuss fake fame vs real relationships, the CBC actually admitting farmers in western Canada sequester carbon, the nature of influencer referrals, benchmarking self awareness in relationships, President Trump, how likely the apocalypse currently is, the nature of USDA reporting, Brennan’s current book choice, what’s next in farming, and what life would be like if he was on the Bachelorette.

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Dean Klippenstine is the National Crops Leader for MNP. We chatted with Dean about the following: - Why Dean is a cool accountant - Dean’s farming background - Looking at a long term perspective on land in agriculture - Figuring out the vision of MNP to bring “infinite sustainability” - Balancing short term financial success with long term prospective on financials - Investing in fertility in rented land - Bringing the franchise model to agriculture - “the art of the possible” - Why the Liberals screwed up the trusts

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We talk with Jonathan Small, Chief Research Officer for Global Ag Risk at the Ag Smart Event in Olds AB about technology, the history of BSE, harnessing the ascendency of the consumer, why non - GMO labels work on consumers, the inception of GARS, what he learned in 25 years of succession planning, and how the GARS model works as a financial snapshot for your farm!

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Industry expert Cory Willness shares wisdom gained from years of experience testing soils and following the data.

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Dan talks with Ag Twitter guru Jeff Bennett about social media, Superbowl commercials, and the benefits (or not) of benchmarking.

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Terry and Dan talk family farms, cold showers, and precision agriculture.

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Dan shares his vision for the Growing the Future Podcast, telling listeners exactly what to expect in the episodes ahead.