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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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Your banker calls it coffee. In Craig Macfie's experience, it is an interview. They are reading your numbers, and they are reading how you manage.

Harvest ends, Christmas comes, and twelve months of bookkeeping land on the accountant's desk with eve... more

A grain farm carrying roughly $500 of crop per acre on 5,000 acres is carrying about two and a half million dollars of exposure to grain prices. It doesn't need an open trading account to be in the market.

Ryan Bonnett started as a 21-year-old grain... more

The hardest thing to fix on a farm doesn't have a part number. It's whatever went wrong between people, and unlike a tractor, you can't just order the replacement part.

Dan built this session around an experiment: using the same diagnostic logic a f... more

Robert Woolf is 67. He is not a programmer. In season he is scouting fields fourteen to sixteen hours a day, and he used to get home and forget half of what he'd found before he could write it up.

His grandson brought up AI at a rodeo. Robert's firs... more

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Recent Guests

Craig Macfie
CPA professional agrologist and founder of Spring CFO
Spring CFO
Episode: Farm Finance: The Fractional CFO Strategy Every Farm Needs
Ryan Bonnett
Runs ABB Solutions, market expert in grain trading
ABB Solutions
Episode: Learn To Hedge: No Body Showed You
Robert Woolf
Collaborator on AI-cohort; discussed workflow and deal-making using AI
Cohort collaborator/WD-40 AI Workshop participant
Episode: The WD-40 AI Workshop: Lubricate Life's Squeaky Wheels
Robert Aberhart
Cowboy AI agronomist featured as the guest expert, leading AI/cohort discussions
Growing Your Future Operating System / Growing the Future
Episode: The AI Agronomist Transformation
Susan Stroud
Founder of No Bull Ag, grain and oilseed market analyst
No Bull Ag
Episode: Canola Prices and the Washington Policy Fight
David Sullivan
From GARS, discussing farm financials and the five-buckets framework
GARS (Global Ag Risk Solutions)
Episode: Farm Finances to Decisions
Terry Aberhart
Founder of Convergence conference
Convergence Conference
Episode: Convergence Is Back. Here Is What We Are Building.
Trevor Sherman
Farms at Battleford operator who built a tool to measure arguments about combine settings
Farms at Battleford
Episode: The Crop Is Ready. Is Your Yard?
Vince Pawluski
Technology entrepreneur discussing automated systems and remote control integrations
Consulate (event host)
Episode: The Crop Is Ready. Is Your Yard?

Hosts

Dan Averhart
Host focusing on market briefings, live canola market discussions, and audience questions.
Dan Aberhart
Host with focus on farm economics, market dynamics, and multi-guest discussions.
Danny Eberhardt
Host of the Growing the Future series and live briefings.

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The WD-40 AI Workshop: Lubricate Life's Squeaky Wheels
Q: Athena, what are the four elements of the predictive index again?
Dominance, extroversion, patience, and formality—essentially control over social interaction, steadiness, and structure.
Learn To Hedge: No Body Showed You
Q: How many trades out of 10 are winners?
Win rates vary by trader, but the goal is to maximize the ratio of winners and cut losers quickly; no trader achieves a 100% win rate, and having a defined system helps improve outcomes over time.
Canola Prices and the Washington Policy Fight
Q: Why did canola oil gain traction as a biofuel feedstock, and how did 45Z changes affect its credits?
Canola oil gained traction after it was approved as a pathway under the renewable fuel standard, and 45Z adjustments removed the indirect land use change penalty and introduced a ring fence for North American feedstocks, bringing canola back into favorable credit consideration along with soybean oil and waste feedstocks.
Canola Prices and the Washington Policy Fight
Q: What are the two main US policies driving biofuel demand today?
Susan outlines the Renewable Fuel Standard and the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard, noting their combined impact through mandates and the evolving credit system that supports biofuel production, especially in biomass-based diesel and renewable diesel.
Cover Crops Western Canada: Does It Pay on Prairie Acres?
Q: What is a plant actually doing that means it needs less nitrogen out of a bag?
The plant's nitrogen use efficiency can be improved by better soil biology and nutrient balancing, allowing the plant to achieve similar or higher yields with a reduced external nitrogen input when supported by proper ammonium/nitrate balance and soil conditions.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Growing the Future

What is Growing the Future about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show features conversations on agriculture, innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth within farming communities. Episodes frequently center on market dynamics, farm succession, agronomy, soil health, and the economics of farming in Western Canada and beyond. A recurring strength is bringing practitioner perspectives—farmers, lenders, agronomists, and policy analysts—into practical discussions that blend on-the-ground experience with data-driven insights. Noteworthy is the mix of live briefing formats, audience interaction, and real-world implications for profitability, sustainability, and strategic planning in farming operations. This makes it helpful for listeners who want actionable guidance on marketing, finance, risk management, an... more

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5. Susan Stroud
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