Impact Farming

What is the wealth for a farm family? How do you put a dollar sign behind your lively hood that may support multiple families? If your looking at Transition/Succession planning for your operation, Chris Delaney has the answers to these and many more questions!

Here's how to start the conversation!

On Today's episode of Impact Farming, Tracy sits down with Chris Delaney to discuss his upcoming book, "The 20 Biggest Mistakes People Make When Succession Planning", a sequel to his previous novel, "The Naked Opus".

Chris is a well known lawyer, author and keynote speaker in the agricultural industry and we can't wait to hear his Top 4 Tips to help farming operations during their succession planning!

Tune in now!...

On this episode of impact farming, Tracy catches up with Megz Reynolds on farming, campaigning and balancing life through it all. Megz is well known in the agricultural world as an agvocate for farmers and as well recently got involved in politics. Megz has a large following and many supporters Canada wide and we couldn't be happier to have her come back to the show!

Megz talks about the challenges of farming and how the past couple years have been "Building up to the perfect storm"....Not sure what that means?

Tune into this episode to find out more!

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Elaine Froese to discuss Finding Fairness in Farm Transition.

Elaine states how farm transitions needs to be a change in our language and our mindset. She relates the transition to a tsunami as there is procrastination, conflict and avoidance. Most often these conversations are avoided until absolutely necessary and Elaine is here to help guide us through these tough conversations before fights and hurt set in.

You don't want to miss out on this informative discussion!

In today's episode, Tracy speaks with Warren Bills from Xarvio – Digital Farming Solutions. In today's world of digital farming or precision agriculture, Warren explains how utilizing today's technology can increasingly benefit the crops and farmers through on farm data devices. He explains how we can do better and how they can get right to the pocket of the farmer by predicting the future of crops through real time data. In an ever changing world, technology is here to help you improve and automate your crop productions! You don't want to miss out on this informative chat…

In celebration of The Impact Farming Show's First Anniversary, we are counting down and rebroadcasting the TOP 4 episodes from season one. This week we are excited to bring you the highest listened to and watched episode, which was "Farming, Doing What You Love & Challenges" with Megz Reynolds.

This episode was originally aired on August 15, 2019. Don't miss this very impactful episode...

On this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Megz Reynolds aka Farmer Megz to discuss Farming, doing what you love and the challenges that come with it.

Farmer Megz shares her journey from Urban Megz to how she became Farmer Megz. In addition, Megz shares a lot of great wisdom about finding your role on the farm and doing what makes you happy. She also opens up and shares her experiences with agvocating, agriculture education, and farming challenges.

This candid conversation touches on the struggles common to agriculture and shared by so many farm families.

In celebration of The Impact Farming Show's First Anniversary, we are counting down and rebroadcasting the TOP 4 episodes from season one. This week we are excited to bring you the 2nd highest listened to and watched episode, which was "Family Farms & Succession Planning" with Jolene Brown.

This episode was originally aired on August 8, 2019. In addition to it being the 2nd most popular episode of season one, Jolene's interview on The Impact Farming Show holds the very special position of being the very first show episode aired. Don't miss this very impactful episode...

In this episode of Impact Farming, we sit down with Jolene Brown to discuss family farms and succession planning. "If I huff and puff will I blow your house down?" Find out what 3 questions Jolene has for you.

We need to change our mindset to one of joy, celebration, and appreciation and we need to honour the family by doing the business right.

In celebration of The Impact Farming Show's First Anniversary, we will be counting down and rebroadcasting the TOP 4 episodes from season one. This week we are excited to bring you the 3rd top listened to and watched episode which was "Farm Culture Beats Strategy" with Elaine Froese. It was originally aired on May 15, 2019, and Elaine's message resonated deeply with our audience. It quickly became one of our top episodes. In this episode, Elaine defines Culture as the invisible glue that holds a business or a family team together. She states that agriculture is definitely a culture. Elaine has created a three-part framework to help our viewers learn about and create a strong culture on their farm.

Throughout the interview, Elaine shares some amazing insights on how the differences between farm family team members can either cause challenges and/or complement each other to build an even stronger farm family team. Awareness is the key.

Do you farm with family members? Whether it's your spouse or a multigeneration farm family, please do yourself a favour and watch this episode. The principles within Elaine's message can mean the difference between harmony and conflict on your farm, and at the end of the day, it can even mean the difference between the family farm continuing or failing due to personal conflict.

In celebration of The Impact Farming Show's One Year Anniversary, we will be counting down and rebroadcasting the TOP 4 episodes from season one. This week we are excited to bring you the 4th top listened to and watched episode which was "The Top 3 Financial Mistakes That Farmers Make."

Tracy interviewed Terry Betker at Ag Days in Brandon, Manitoba to bring our audience the top three financial mistakes that Terry sees over and over when he is consulting with Farm families. It was originally aired on February 20, 2019, and struck a chord with our audience. It quickly became one of our top episodes.

Listen in to find out if you are making these financial mistakes in your farming business.

Black Fox Farms & Distillery

In this episode, Tracy visits Black Fox Farms & Distillery outside of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Barb and her husband John are grain farmers from Saskatchewan that reached a cross roads in their farming career. It was either expand or do something different. In the end, they wanted to be more connected to the consumer and do something different, so they created Black Fox Farms & Distillery which is a cut flower farm and distillery that produces award winning gin. The neat thing, they still farm, and their farm actually provides over 90% of the ingredients that go into their beverages.

You absolutely do not want to miss this innovating farmer episode that follows their exciting nontraditional farming journey.