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CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER. The Growing the Future Podcast features conversations on innovation, entrepreneurship, and personal and professional growth in the agriculture community.
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Convergence Is Back. Here Is What We Are Building. (opens the original)
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Dan Aberhart hosts the public launch of Convergence Conference 2027 with Terry Aberhart (founder), Warren Bills (MNP), Laura Shoemaker (repeat attendee, farmer), and Courtney Thevenot (Scotiabank). The conversation covers the origins of the conference, what the room actually produces in people who attend, and what is being built for 2027 -- including the Journey Track, the Ag Rocks for Charity opening-night fundraiser, and a banquet anchored by family business improv. Warren Bills makes a live m
Know Your Numbers: See Where You Stack Up (opens the original)
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Travis Girard, a farm management consultant with MNP, and Dean Klippenstine, also with MNP, join Dan for the second session in the Know Your Numbers benchmarking series, drawing on a database of roughly 1,500 farms and 8.5 million acres across the Prairies. They walk through seven years of regional profitability data and reveal that the production expense gap between top performing farms and average ones is far smaller than most operators assume, just seven dollars an acre. The tension is that m
The Crop Is Ready. Is Your Yard? (opens the original)
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Dan Aberhart opens with the episode's central claim: a combine is only as fast as the yard behind it, and most farms have never measured where that bottleneck actually lives. He brings together three operators solving it at different price points and scales. Brennan McArthur walks through the fully automated grain-handling system he built at his Watrous yard, which can unload a legal Super B in about eight minutes and gives him live inventory from his phone. Vince Pawluski describes a lower-cost
Sell High or Sell Wrong - A Pre-Harvest Market Briefing (opens the original)
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Dave Norris of Norris Crop Consulting and Todd Rowan of IXL Innovations join Darren Sander, a Rosetown, Saskatchewan producer and Crop Aid Nutrition client, to read where the 2026 canola crop actually stands heading into harvest. The panel walks through why two bushels an acre off the provincial average works out to roughly a million tons, why record crush and export demand could leave the market rationed if the crop lands under 21 million tons, and why China stepping back into the canola market
Farm Succession Planning Canada: Are You Prepared? (opens the original)
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Jace Young, founder and CEO of Legacy Farmer, joins Jolene Bolding of Farm Credit Canada and Wade Berlinic of Hammond Realty for a conversation built around one question: could your farm run tomorrow if you weren't there? Jace traces his own family's story, a 55 year operation his grandfather built from nothing in Tribune, Kansas that collapsed into bankruptcy in 2005, and the toll it took on the family afterward. The panel breaks down why only 12 percent of Canadian farms have a written transit
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