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In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks to Rose Tryon from American Agri-Women Association.

American Agri-Women is the largest national coalition of farm, ranch, & agribusiness women.

AAW members have been advocating for agriculture since 1974.

Join our diverse group of women from across the country who are committed to advocating for agriculture. Our members are farmers, ranchers, producers, other agriculture business professionals, educators, consumers, students, researchers, and many others — how about you?

In this episode, Tracy and Rose speak about:

• The American Agri-Women Association. Who they are, what they do, how they serve the agriculture industry, and why members love this organization.
• They chat about the chapters, annual events and how the organization operates.
• Rose and AAW members are incredibly excited about June’s flying event. Each year in June, American Agri-Women hosts a Legislative Fly-In for those interested in speaking to their legislators, agencies, and other professionals in Washington D.C. about current agricultural issues and policies while relying upon your own opinions and the AAW Position Statements. We also explore the city and its major historical sites.
• For 2024, they are excited that for the first time ever it is being opened up to all women involved in ag and natural resources, in a massive effort to unite as one voice in the nation's capital!

Are you ready to unite with women across the country who care about agriculture just like you?

Listen to this week’s event to learn more.

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RESOURCES

American Agri-Women Association -https://www.americanagriwomen.org


2024 American Agri-Women Fly-In:
Uniting Women Across the Ag & Natural Resource Industries
June 2 - 4, 2024
Washington, DC
https://www.americanagriwomen.org/events

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In this week’s episode Tracy speaks to Michelle Durnin in this episode titled “Innovating Women’s Farm & Ranch Wear.”

This one is for the ladies.

Are you tired of the awkward fitting work wear? Wish you had farm gear designed specifically for the shapes and curves gifted to us ladies?

If so, you will not want to miss Michelle's incredible entrepreneurial story of dreaming up and launching Durnin Farm & Ranch Wear.

In this episode, Tracy and Michelle speak about:

• Michelle's background, story, and how the idea for farm and ranch wear designed specifically for women came to her.
• She shares more about her overalls and coveralls and what women can expect when they purchase products from her rather than the brand names readily available to farmers.
• Everyone loves a good entrepreneurial story, so Tracy tells the who, what, when, and how of her journey from idea to finally deciding to launch Durnin Farm & Ranch Wear.
• Tracy asks Michelle what has been the most challenging, surprising, and best thing on her entrepreneurial journey.
• Limiting beliefs: we all deal with them, and if we don’t know better, we let them stop us. Tracy asked Michelle what advice she would give herself as she contemplated this business idea. Michelle shares some great advice here for aspiring entrepreneurs.
• To wrap up the episode, Tracy asks some extra personal questions to help the audience get to know her better. These include something that she is really fired up about, a book that changed her life, and the best advice she has ever received.

Whether you are a female farmer looking for better-fitting farm and ranch gear or an aspiring entrepreneur… you will love this episode.

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Durnin Farm & Ranch Wear:https://dfrwear.ca

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In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks to Marcel Kringe about “Harvest Optimization” and how the Bushel Plus products are adding more value and profit to each harvest.

Are you looking to reduce harvest wastage, increase yield in the bins and generate more profit at the end of each season?

If so, that is precisely what Tracy and Marcel are speaking about in today’s episode:

- Marcel shares more about their Smart DropPan System™, MAD Concaves™, and the MiniCombine™
- Before chatting about the Bushel Plus products, Tracy asks Marcel to share more about growing up on a multigenerational family farm in Germany, his family’s background, and how he ended up in Canada as a summer student.
- Marcel also shares his fascinating farming-related travels to Russia, Brazil, and Australia and how he once again found himself back in Canada.
- Throughout his travels and experience farming around the World, Marcel noticed one common denominator when checking for combine wastage: it was time-consuming and incredibly dangerous.
- Relying on his handy nature and generations of handymanship, Marcel started innovating to create a drop pan system that would not require farmers and farm hands to risk their lives to get a sample.
- He shares how demand steadily grew, and he knew he was onto something. He shares more about the support he received from farmers and the early days of starting to mass-manufacture the drop pan system.
- Marcel walks Tracy and our audience through the smart pan system, MAD concaves, and mini combine systems. How do they work, and how do they add value to a farmer’s operation and harvest efficiency?
- Marcel has been heard to use the term “precision harvest.” Tracy asks him to explain the terminology and share more about harvest optimization and how their products are helping farmers reduce operational costs over time and maximize their profit potential during harvest.
- Tracy asks Marcel to discuss return on investment as each purchase needs to make financial sense for farmers to purchase it.
- Last but not least, Marcel shares the exciting news about a new service, Harvest Academy, which will launch at the beginning of April.

Are you excited to learn how you can put more yield in the bin with the Bushel Plus harvest optimization products? If so, check out their website in the resource links below.

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Bushel Plus https://bushelplus.ca

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In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks with FCC Vice President and Chief Economist J.P. Gervais about the “2023 FCC Farmland Values Report.”

The FCC Farmland Values Report provides an annual look at the regional land value trends across Canada.

In this episode, Tracy and JP discuss:

- The special milestone of this being the 40th FCC Farmland Values Report. JP shares more about the report and the information it contains.
- JP shares the overall Canada-wide national value for 2023.
- He then shares the results province by province, noting anything surprising.
- How did the 2023 values compare to 2022 and 2021? JP shares more.
- Tracy asks about interest rates, higher costs, and if they are starting to see farmland purchases cooling.
- With elevated interest, higher costs, and lower commodity prices, Tracy asks JP for his thoughts on what the 2024 report will likely reflect.
- JP shares his thoughts on interest rates for 2024, fixed versus variable, and what farmers may expect for interest rates over the next ten years.

If you are curious about the 2023 FCC FarmLand Values Report, click the show link below to access it.

Thanks for tuning in,

Tracy Brunet

RESOURCES

2023 FCC FarmLand Values Report: https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/economics/farmland-values-report

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Episode 222: Canadian Farmland Values: Exploring Trends and Prices w/JP Gervais

In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks to Sarah Falen Tate from Wild West Advocacy about “Balancing Conservation & Property Rights.”

In this episode, Tracy and Sarah discuss:

- Sarah’s deep family roots in ranching, advocacy, and fighting for the property rights of ranchers.
Tracy asks Sarah if land ownership and property rights are under attack.
- Sarah shares her thoughts on land ownership, property rights, conservation, and the attack on farmland.
- In this episode, Tracy and Sarah dive deep into five areas of concern regarding property rights. They chat about:
- Energy companies: We discuss the forceful use of eminent domain that some states and energy projects have seen in the US.
- Conversation programs - Do you have acres enrolled in a conversation program? If so, you won’t want to miss this.
- Land trusts - What are land trusts, how do they work, and why are they used?
- Endangered Species Act—Do you remember the wolves being released in Colorado? We chat about this heated topic. Are local farmers happy with the wolves being released? What are the dangers? Can this raise endangered species act & property right concerns? Sarah shares horrifying stories about other locations where wolves have been released, the damage they have done to wildlife and livestock, and how residents fear for their pets and their children’s lives.
- Natural Asset Companies - What are NACs, and what just happened a few months back? This one is alarming.

Sarah shares some final advice for farmers with land in conversation programs or those considering entering their land into conservation programs.

You will want to catch this episode if you own or lease government land.

I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did. As farmers, our property rights are critical and Sarah brought some great food for thoughts for our audience.

Thanks for tuning in friends,
Tracy

RESOURCES

Wild West Advocacy - https://www.wildwestadvocacy.com

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Episode 221: Balancing Conservation & Property Rights with Sarah Falen Tate

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In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks to Evan Shout about “The Agri-preneur Mindset.”

In this episode, Tracy and Evan discuss:

- Is your farm a business or a lifestyle? This is always a hot topic in agriculture, and Evan shares his thoughts on it to open the conversation.
- Tracy asks Evan to share more about Farmer Coach, a farm business coaching program launched to bridge the gap between farming as a lifestyle and farming as a successful and thriving business.
- Evan speaks and coaches farmers about the Agri-preneur Mindset. He elaborates more on the thinking, actions, and behaviours accompanying this mindset.
- We are headed into a down cycle for the crop sector; now, more than ever, it’s time to act like a business. Evan shares some thoughts about the near future—good and bad, tight times and opportunities.
- Agri-preneur farmers show up differently than lifestyle farmers. Evan shares four key areas and insights on strengthening farmers' farming operations. They discuss:
1) Business structures and systems.
2) Income, costs, and driving revenue through side hustles.
3) How they work in the business (roles, hired employees, working on business and not in)
4) Learning and goals

This episode has some great takeaways if you want to strengthen your operation and adopt an agri-preneur mindset.

Evan is a great speaker with some keen insights on farm business management.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.

Thanks friends,

Tracy

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RESOURCES

Hebert Grain Ventures - https://hebertgrainventures.com
Maverick Ag - https://maverickag.com
Farmer Coach - https://farmercoach.ca

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In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks to Joe Roberts about “Peak Energy Performance.”

In 1989, Joe was homeless, living under a bridge. 12 years later, he was a celebrated CEO, and in 2017, he finished a 9000-kilometre charity walk across Canada.

Having mastered energy health through his own experience, Joe now helps individuals balance effort and energy to create high-performance results.

In this episode, Tracy and Joe speak about:

- Joe shares more about how we become imbalanced and how we respond.
- He shares more information about the energy continuum scale and the stress recovery wheel, two tools he uses with individuals who attend his workshops.
- Tracy asks how farmers can manage stress, prevent burnout, and quickly bounce back to healthy levels.

Are you looking for ways to feel better?

Then this is the episode for you.

Joe truly has an inspiring story and it was great having him back on the show to help farmers manage their stress and to achieve peak energy performance.

Thanks for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did.

Tracy

RESOURCES

Check out Joe’s website and books here - https://skidrowceo.com

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Episode 219: Peak Energy Performance For Stressed Farmers

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In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks with Amanda Nigg, also known as FarmFitMomma.

Would you like to hear an incredible story of tragedy to triumph? An inspiring story about how the worst day of your life can accidentally set you onto your life’s purpose.

If so, you are going to want to watch this episode.

In this episode, Tracy and Amanda chat about:

- The gut-wrenching story of how tragedy struck on their family farm, and if that wasn’t enough, the national covid pandemic was declared the very next day, adding additional chaos and unknowns to an already devastating time.
- Amanda openly shares how frustrating, heartbreaking, and depressing this time was for her.
How she mustered the energy to pull herself out of bed and put one foot in front of the other and start rebuilding their lives.
- She shares how her husband lovingly brought scrap metal from the farm junk pile to help her rebuild her gym so that she could refocus and take back some sense of control of her life.
- Amanda was amazed and so thankful for the communities that came together in person and online as she openly shared her struggles.
- She was surprised when people started asking her what she was doing for fitness routines. Others struggling with the uncertainties of the pandemic also found themselves looking for an outlet and something to help them build their mental and physical strength.
- Amanda reflects on the moment when she changed her Instagram handle from her name to FarmFitMomma and how this started an exciting journey of building her company, viral planking challenges, and her calling to serve the farming community through fitness.
- She shares how fitness truly is the way to take control of your mental and physical health and become the best you. She shares some of her clients' amazing transformations and how many of them have become coaches in her community.
- Tracy and Amanda then chat about business. They discuss the most exciting and challenging parts and what has surprised her most about being a business owner.
- They finish the fantastic episode with a lightning round of questions, including favorite books, best advice, and more.

If you want to hear an episode about tragedy, triumph, passion, and resiliency. Don't miss this episode.

Thanks for tuning. I appreciate you spending your time with us.

Drop a note in the comments. What did you enjoy most about this conversation?

Tracy

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FarmFitMomma -https://www.farmfitmomma.com

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In this week’s episode, tracy speaks to Senior Policy Analyst Bill Wirtz about the European Farmer Protests.

Across Europe, farmers have rallied against changes in government policies and aggressive government environmental goals that are affecting business practices, harming food production, and seeing farmers in some countries having their farmers taken/bought out by the government.

Tracy spoke to Bill Wirtz from the Consumer Choice Center to get the details of the European farmer protests.

In this episode, Tracy and Bill speak about:

• The uprising of farmers across Europe and what has been happening since January 8th when the German farmers declared a week long protest.
• To provide the whole picture, Bill takes us back to October 2019 when the Dutch Farmers started protesting their government's aggressive environmental goals, which called for a reduction in nitrous oxide and the call for hundreds of farmers to sell their farms to the government to assist the Dutch government in meeting their environmental goals.
• Flash forward to January 8th of this year as we see the German farmers kick off a week of nationwide protests against "subsidy cuts" or the end of tax breaks, depending on how you view it. Bill shares more.
• Since January 8th, Europe has seen farmers from country after country rise and join German farmers. Tracy asks Bill why these additional countries joined.
• In Europe, there is a lot of talk about "the Green New Deal." Bill shares more about how European governments have ambitious environmental goals. He shares how these lofty ideas are impacting farmers. He shares essential information here for anyone watching the European protests.
• What about North America? There is a lot of talk in Canada and the United States about the environment, climate change, sustainability, ESG, and goals such as the 30% reduction in Nitrous Oxide. Are these stringent environmental policies headed for North America? What do farmers need to know?
• Last, Tracy asks Bill if he thinks farmers are right to take these actions.

If you have been watching the European farm protests and are wondering what exactly is going on and why…this episode is for you.

This was such a valuable episode. If you are a farmer anywhere in the World, please don't miss this episode.

Thanks for tuning in,

Tracy

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Consumer Choice Center -https://consumerchoicecenter.org/team/bill-wirtz/

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In this week’s episode, Tracy speaks to Trent Loos from Loos Tales about standing up for agriculture, educating the urban consumer, threats to the agriculture industry, and much more.

When anti-agricultural activists threatened the way of life he cherished, Trent knew it was time to take a stand. Consumers, even individuals in other aspects of agriculture, were listening to and believing the lies being spread by celebrities and vegan zealots. Somebody needed to speak on behalf of the hard-working farmers and ranchers of America. Trent accepted the challenge.

In this episode, Tracy and Trent speak about:

• He realized very early that consumers were getting bad information about the who, where, and how their food was produced, and he knew it was time to take a stand for our industry.
• He shares the story of how his show Loos Tales was launched and how the show airs on over 100 stations nationwide today and boasts 3 million listeners on-air and online.
• His mission? Sharing the message about the people and places in rural America is a step toward re-connecting consumers to their food. Trent has been doing this since long before it was the “cool, foodie” thing to it.
• Tracy asks Trent about the most significant threats he sees to the agriculture industry.
• He speaks about the destruction of the energy sector and how he sees a similar trajectory in the agriculture industry with the green agenda.
• He touches on the 30x30 land grab agenda and encourages farmers and ranchers to know what is happening before it is too late. He references the European farmers and how green agendas have harmed their farming operations and pushed them to unrest.
• Tracy asks for words of wisdom and encouragement for farmers who see what is happening and may feel overwhelmed when it comes to speaking up for our industry.

If you are looking for a straight-talk episode. Look no further. Trent shares his passion, concerns, and hopes for the industry we all love so much.

Thanks so much for tuning into this episode!

I would love to hear your thoughts on the episode. Do you share these concerns with Trent?

Tracy