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In this week's conversation, Tracy speaks to Dorothy Long from Canadian Food Focus about "Improving Food Literacy From Farm Gate to Plate." Canadian Food Focus is committed to providing accurate information and having productive conversations about food and farming. Their content is developed by farmers, dieticians, home economists and other food and farming experts to ensure accuracy. Their goal....they strive to provide balanced, factual, science-based information in a consumer-friendly way. Our goal is to help Canadians find answers to their questions and concerns about our food system. Join Tracy and Dorothy in this conversation about the important work that they are doing improving food literacy from farm gate to plate. Want to learn more? Tune into this week's episode. Thanks for watching, Tracy

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What is Canadian Food Focus? Founded in 2019, Canadian Food Focus is a national organization with the goal of improving food literacy of Canadian consumers from farm-gate to plate. We explore how food is grown and raised and provide useful advice from experts to help people make confident food choices. Our educational programming provides information about Canadian farming and food through articles, videos and social media posts created by experts including farmers, ranchers, dietitians, home economists, and chefs. Our website features sections for In Your Kitchen, Recipes, Health, Canadian Food Stories, On the Farm, What's in Season and a new Learn to Cook area.

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SHOW RESOURCES

Canadian Food Focus: https://canadianfoodfocus.org Ask a Farmer Podcast: https://canadianfoodfocus.org/ask-a-farmer-podcast/ Courses: https://canadianfoodfocus.org/courses/

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Welcome to our very first book review.

I am so excited for this.

In today's book review, I share my thoughts about Heather Venenga's book "Protect Your Pack and Your Den!: Persevere Through Generational Farm Planning."

And I am also excited to share that I will be interviewing Heather for The Impact Farming Show this week and her episode will air in November.

If you haven't already signed up for Impact Farming Show Alerts, I would encourage you to do so.

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By signing up, you will be notified when new episodes are available.

So with all that being said, I hope you enjoy this book review.

Thanks for tuning in,

Tracy

RESOURCES

Buy The Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Protect-Your-Pack-Den-Generational/dp/1947276212/ref=sr_1_1?crid=63ADT1K4ZZ3S&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dXAiGr2mWljCY1dI02OqUw.lmCUpAmejHNeNRS-QQXbqVYS39d4-JXykjCzQUCxqes&dib_tag=se&keywords=heather+venenga&qid=1730518396&sprefix=heather+venenga%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-1

You can connect with Heather Venenga here: https://www.americanharvestfinancial.com

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✅ About The Impact Farming Show: Produced by Farm Marketer.

Farm Marketer is a Canadian digital media company specializing in publishing agriculture content that matters most to Canadian farmers: news, commodities, agriculture events, agriculture real estate for sale, and much more.

Farm Marketer is also the proud producer of the award-winning agriculture show The Impact Farming Show. This weekly video and podcast show is dedicated to introducing farmers to the people and ideas that will impact their farming operations.

Join show host Tracy Brunet as she speaks to top minds and change makers about what's currently IMPACTING agriculture.

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Future proofing our farms.

What does that make you think and feel?

For me, I heard those words and felt they spoke powerfully and perfectly to my mission with my media company Farm Marketer and The Impact Farming Show.

My show slogan is to bring our audience the people and ideas that will IMPACT their farming operation.

But at the core of my mission, is providing people with the tools and empowering them to achieve and take control of their financial destiny.

In farming our financial success depends on us running the best farm that we can. The best production practices and the best farm business management practices. Then we add hope, prayers and faith that mother nature, the economy, and the markets will be kind to us.

In this episode, I share a bit of what is hot on my mind for season 7 and the critical importance of transition planning. Transition planning will be a big focus for season 7.

Isn't transition planning one of the most important things to future proofing our farm and our industry?

In this video, I also share something new that I will be introducing to the show and this channel.

Enough said, I share all the details in the video.

I look forward to seeing you in the episode.

As always, I would love to hear your thoughts.

What's on your mind? What are you excited about in agriculture? Worried about?

What types of episodes would you like to see?

Thanks for tuning in friend,

Tracy Brunet

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✅ About The Impact Farming Show: Produced by Farm Marketer.

Farm Marketer is a Canadian digital media company specializing in publishing agriculture content that matters most to Canadian farmers: news, commodities, agriculture events, agriculture real estate for sale, and much more.

Farm Marketer is also the proud producer of the award-winning agriculture show The Impact Farming Show. This weekly video and podcast show is dedicated to introducing farmers to the people and ideas that will impact their farming operations.

Join show host Tracy Brunet as she speaks to top minds and change makers about what's currently IMPACTING agriculture.

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In today's episode, Tracy chats with Terry Betker in this episode titled "Do Farm Founders Avoid Transition Planning?" Is it finally time to address the elephant in the room? The industry has encouraged farmers to create a transition plan for decades, yet little progress has been made. So, one needs to ask, do farmers purposefully avoid transition planning? In this week's episode, Tracy and Terry speak about:

• If farmers know they need to do transition planning and plenty of information is available, why are they not doing it?
• Is it finally time to address the elephant in the room? Are farm founders purposefully avoiding this subject? Tracy and Terry open the cans of words and get to some real talk about transition.
• Tracy has also noticed that it tends to be the farmwife, farm mom, female farm founder who pushes the subject of transition planning. She asks Terry if he has observed this, and they chat about gender differences, concerns, and roles on the farm.
• She asks Terry what he has noticed in his over 30 years of experience working with farm families on transition. Why do farmers avoid transition planning?
• What are ways to help farmers want to make this transition before it's too little too late?

Tracy and Terry discuss matters in this episode that are rarely discussed…the humanness, immortality, and conflicting desires of the farm founder. If you are looking for a deep, meaningful, honest conversation on transition planning, you will want to tune into this episode.

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SHOW RESOURCES

Visit Backswath Management's website here: https://backswath.com Backswath's Upcoming Conference "The Next Chapter of Your Farming Journey" Learn more and register here: https://backswath.com/events/yournextchapter/

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Thank You to our Show Sponsor Here at The Impact Farming Show, our goal is to bring our audience the people and ideas that will IMPACT their farming operation. We couldn't do it without the continued support of our sponsors that are committed to supporting our show and our shared vision of helping farmers succeed. Please take a moment to check out this week's show sponsor: BrettYoung

Canada's Largest Independent Seed Company - Learn More Here

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In today's episode, Tracy chats with David Derwin about "Agriculture Market Outlook & Update: October 2024." Are you curious how things are shaping up in the markets as of fall 2024? If so, you will not want to miss this conversation where Tracy and David chat about the fall market outlook for:

• Grain prices
• Fertilizer prices
• Cattle marketers
• Commodity and crude oil trends
• Canadian dollar direction.

If you are looking for an excellent market outlook and update on the top agriculture commodities plus… don't miss this episode.

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SHOW RESOURCES

David Derwin Commodity Portfolio Manager www.Commodity-Options.ca [email protected] 204-918-2734

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Thank You to our Show Sponsor Here at The Impact Farming Show, our goal is to bring our audience the people and ideas that will IMPACT their farming operation. We couldn't do it without the continued support of our sponsors that are committed to supporting our show and our shared vision of helping farmers succeed. Please take a moment to check out this week's show sponsor: BrettYoung

Canada's Largest Independent Seed Company - Learn More Here

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In this week's episode, Tracy speaks to Aimée Ferré Stang about Farm Credit Canada's "FCC Knowledge: Talking Farm and Food Podcast."

Have you tuned into Farm Credit Canada's podcast yet? If not, you are in for a treat.

The Talking Farm and Food is a monthly podcast that highlights the stories and experiences of farm business entrepreneurs and the lessons they've learned along the way. You'll also hear from industry experts about the farm management topics you care about.

In this episode, Tracy, and Aimée chat about:

• The vision behind FCC's podcast and why it was launched.
• Aimée shares more about the previous seasons, the types of subjects covered and what the audience can expect from Season 4 episodes.
• Tracy and Aimée chat about podcasting, their experiences as show hosts, and what is unique about the agriculture space.
• Tracy asks Aimée about their podcast's most popular episodes. What are the topics that their listeners like best?

This was such a great conversation with a fellow podcaster.

If you want an excellent agriculture podcast to add to the playlist, head over to FCC's website or your favourite podcast destination and immediately listen to these great episodes.

Thanks for tuning in,

Tracy

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SHOW RESOURCES

FCC Knowledge: Talking Farm and Food Podcast: https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/podcasts Farm Credit Canada Transition Planning Resources: https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/resources/transition-planning

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In this week's episode, Tracy speaks to Ove Karlsson about the "Five Pillars of Farm Business Excellence." Ove is a speaker at Farm Management Canada's 2024 AgEx Conference being held in November and we were pleased to have him on the show to share his farm business management expertise with our audience. In this episode, Tracy and Ove speak about:

• How knowledge is power, but knowledge is not enough.
• His travel to Canada and the differences/similarities between Swedish and Canadian farmers.
• Where many farmers are missing the mark on their operation and how they can improve.
• He shares the five pillars of farm business management and explains the importance to farmers and their farming operations.
• He touches on sustainability and the three-circle model.
• Ove covers this and so much more in this informative episode.

If you are looking to become the strongest farm business leader possible, please check out Farm Management Canada and its list of resources and events below. Thanks for tuning in, Tracy

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Details can be found at www.AgExcellenceConference.ca!

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Thank You to our Show Sponsor Here at The Impact Farming Show, our goal is to bring our audience the people and ideas that will IMPACT their farming operation. We couldn't do it without the continued support of our sponsors that are committed to supporting our show and our shared vision of helping farmers succeed. Please take a moment to check out this week's show sponsor: BrettYoung

Canada's Largest Independent Seed Company - Learn More Here

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In this week's episode, Tracy speaks to Heather Watson from Farm Management Canada about "Building Farm Management Excellence." In this episode, Tracy and Heather speak about:

• Farm Management Canada's mission is to help create strong farm business leaders through its knowledge centre, events, and resources. Heather shares more about when and why their organization was founded. Hint: They spotted the need after the farm crisis of the 80's.
• Tracy asks her about what they are focused on as an organization right now and what concerns farmers have on their minds.
• She shares more about their resource centre, which hosts information about their transition programs and events, farm financial fluency training and events, risk management programs and tools, and so much more.
• Heather then shares more about their upcoming event in November. The 2024 Conference theme, Together Towards Tomorrow, speaks to the importance of leveraging our collective strengths and finding innovative ways to work together to position Canada's farmers and ranchers for sustainable growth and prosperity for generations to come.

If you are looking to become the strong farm business leader possible, please check out Farm Management Canada and their list of resources and events below. Thanks for tuning in, Tracy

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SHOW RESOURCES

Bridging the Gap Farm Transition Workshops in various locations across Canada throughout the Fall/Winter. More information here: https://fmc-gac.com/programs-services/btg/ National Farm Leadership Program starting January 27th and LeaderShift InSight program starting February 10th – powered by our partners at LeaderShift (www.Leader-Shift.ca) Coming soon: our Farm Financial Fluency Training Program (virtual), and our Roots to Success Risk Management Training (virtual). All our programs are listed at https://fmc-gac.com/programs-services/ Our National Farm Business Management Resource Centre can be found at www.AgriResources.ca – it includes links to learning programs, resources and tools and farm business management focused events. If folks want to go directly to our Farm Transition Toolkit, they can follow www.farmtransitionguide.ca Go directly to Farm Management Canada's farm business management practices assessment and planning tool, they can follow www.farmbusinessassessment.com AgriShield risk assessment and planning platform, they can follow www.myagrishield.ca AgEx Conference can be found at www.AgExcellenceConference.ca

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Thank You to our Show Sponsor Here at The Impact Farming Show, our goal is to bring our audience the people and ideas that will IMPACT their farming operation. We couldn't do it without the continued support of our sponsors that are committed to supporting our show and our shared vision of helping farmers succeed. Please take a moment to check out this week's show sponsor: BrettYoung

Canada's Largest Independent Seed Company - Learn More Here

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In this week's episode, "Increase Your Resiliency: Change Your Life And Farming Operation, " Tracy speaks to John Sachse about increasing resiliency to change your life, relationships, and farming endurance. Noun: Resiliency Definition: The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Well, goodness, as farmers, we could all use more resiliency on our journey, couldn't we? In this episode, that is precisely what Tracy and John speak about.

• What is resiliency, and why should farmers care about it?
• John shares ways to increase resiliency.
• So often, we hear the typical self-care items like eating well, getting more rest, and so on. In this episode, John discusses goal-setting and how it applies to building resiliency. This is a GAME CHANGER!!!
• Are you feeling short on motivation these days? John shares sources of motivation behind goal-setting.
• He explains the three different types of goals and how each one contributes to the bigger picture.
• John shares his framework for goal setting. You won't want to miss this.

This episode has the potential to change your life. Truly. As business owners and farmers, we constantly have to overcome obstacles, and it takes an incredible amount of resiliency to keep going day to day, month to month, and year to year. I loved the information and framework that John shared on goal setting and how this "mere" act of goal setting can genuinely change your life, your relationships, and your farm performance and help you reconnect with your motivation. If you are looking for a bit of motivation and a way to put some pep back in your step…please don't miss this episode. Thanks for tuning in, Tracy

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RanchFit - https://goranchfit.com

7-step goal-setting framework - See show page www.farmmarketer.com>> and check out the Show Resources section

Elevated Brotherhood Group: https://thehub.mastermind.com/v2/preview/FzjmAW1nNqCFHoQkhyix

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Thank You to our Show Sponsor Here at The Impact Farming Show, our goal is to bring our audience the people and ideas that will IMPACT their farming operation. We couldn't do it without the continued support of our sponsors that are committed to supporting our show and our shared vision of helping farmers succeed. Please take a moment to check out this week's show sponsor: BrettYoung

Canada's Largest Independent Seed Company - Learn More Here

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DISCLAIMER - This information is not a substitute for mental health or medical treatment or services. In this week's episode, Tracy speaks to Amy Monea about all things mental health in this episode titled "Farmer Suicide: Let's Talk About It." In this episode, Tracy and Amy discuss:

• What is the difference between mental health and mental illness?
• Amy walks us through different mental health concerns, symptoms and illnesses. She shares about panic attacks, anxiety, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, suicide ideation, and more.
• Tracy asks Amy "What state of mental health are farmers usually in when they commit suicide…is it usually depression? Can the desire to commit suicide start suddenly or does it creep up on farmers?"
• What are the ways that we can recognize when people are just not ok?
• There is a common fear that if you bring it up to someone, you may offend them or even give them the idea to commit suicide. This is not true. Amy speaks to this.
• What can you say to someone is you are concerned about their mental health or if you are concern that they might be contemplating suicide?
• Now what if it's ourself? What if we are in a dark place and contemplating if life is worth living…what do you do?
• Is there ways to prevent mental illness? Ways to take care of our mental health?
• If someone is struggling where do you go to get help?

This is an informative and deep conversation about mental health and spotting symptoms in ourselves and others. We are a large community but a small community in reality. We need to look out for one another so if you are interested in learning more, you won't want to miss this episode.

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SHOW RESOURCES

Connect with Amy Monea

Heard Wellness Through Horses: https://www.heardwellness.com/about

AgKnow: https://www.agknow.ca/resource-library/interview-amy-monea 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call or text 9-8-8. Help is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline offers support that is:

• bilingual
• trauma-informed
• culturally appropriate
• available to anyone in Canada

For this and other mental health services please visit this website: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/mental-health-services/mental-health-get-help.html

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Thank You to our Show Sponsor Here at The Impact Farming Show, our goal is to bring our audience the people and ideas that will IMPACT their farming operation. We couldn't do it without the continued support of our sponsors that are committed to supporting our show and our shared vision of helping farmers succeed. Please take a moment to check out this week's show sponsor: BrettYoung

Canada's Largest Independent Seed Company - Learn More Here

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