Prairie land values, lender logic, and the stubborn math behind farm deals.
This episode gets into the hard math behind prairie land values: who can still buy, who can still lend, and why some dirt keeps pulling away from the rest.

Dan Aberhart , Terry Aberhart
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Farm business talk with real pressure attached.
Growing the Future brings producers, advisers, and market voices into brisk live conversations about the business side of agriculture. It favors concrete examples: land values, fertilizer shocks, production insurance, AI tools, advisory boards, and the numbers behind stronger operations.
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Growing the Future is a live, conversation-driven show about the business mechanics of modern farming. It is not polished studio storytelling, and that is part of the point. The show sounds like a room full of people who already know the pressure points: land, cash flow, crop insurance, fertilizer, fuel, succession, benchmarking, weather, and debt. Episodes usually begin with casual live-room housekeeping, a bit of teasing, and then a fast pivot into a farm-management problem with real dollars attached. The land-market conversations look past headline increases and ask why the best ground is moving differently from average ground. The AI episodes stay practical, using examples like custom GPTs, compliance records, knowledge banks, and team decision systems. Farm-finance panels bring bankers, accountants, strategists, consultants, and producers into the same kitchen-table conversation. The show is especially interested in the gap between operations that merely survive and operations that compound small advantages. It keeps returning to structure. What does a farm control when markets, weather, and lenders do not cooperate? How does a purchase fit the larger operation? What kind of advisory board helps when the books are difficult to open? Where do options and production insurance overlap when the year is volatile? The market episodes are grounded in the same plainspoken urgency, whether the subject is urea, ammonia, phosphate, oil, gas, or delayed shipments. There is humor in the room, sometimes dry and sometimes rowdy, but the conversations do not drift far from usable farm-business judgment. The live format lets guests riff, then circles back to the operational takeaway. That makes the show feel less like a lecture and more like a working call producers would actually keep open during a busy season. It suits listeners who want agricultural strategy with numbers, personality, and a tolerance for blunt talk. At its best, Growing the Future turns a messy farming year into a sharper management question.
Made for: For producers, farm families, lenders, advisers, and ag-business operators who want practical conversations about risk, growth, markets, and management. It suits listeners who prefer shop-talk specificity over broad inspirational agriculture content.
What sets it apart: The show combines live webinar energy with unusually concrete farm-business scenarios. Instead of staying at trend level, it keeps asking how a decision fits cash flow, efficiency, succession, protection, and the whole operation.
CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER. The Growing the Future Podcast features conversations on innovation, entrepreneurship, and personal and professional growth in the agriculture community.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Growing the Future connects farm finance, input markets and technology to the operating decisions producers face on the ground.
Growing the Future turns farm business pressure into open, practical conversation. In live sessions led by Dan Eberhardt, lenders, producers and other guests work through farmland values, concentrated wealth, financing structures, succession and tightening capital.
A land purchase meets the lender's cash-flow test, and suddenly your dream parcel has homework.
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Prairie land values, lender logic, and the stubborn math behind farm deals.
This episode gets into the hard math behind prairie land values: who can still buy, who can still lend, and why some dirt keeps pulling away from the rest.
A live ag-tech discussion that treats AI as a working tool, not a slogan.
Growing the Future treats AI on the farm as something being used in the moment, not polished into a slogan. Dan Eberhardt opens with a warm handoff, then quickly gets to the practical question of what AI actually helps agricultural operators do now.
A blunt read on fertilizer shocks, shipping delays, and tight spring input conditions.
The episode treats fertilizer as an immediate market shock, not a quiet farm input. It starts on the Strait of Hormuz, with urea nearly doubling since December and global ammonia production falling 30 to 35 percent, then tracks the pressure through shipping congestion,…
A plainspoken look at land-heavy wealth, lending pressure, and keeping family options open.
Growing the Future treats a farm-finance webinar as a plainspoken look at what happens when much of a family farm's wealth sits in land. Dan Eberhardt opens it briskly, and the discussion stays on lending reality, capital structure, and how visibility can shape control,…
A live farm-finance discussion focused on how younger farmers can still find a path in.
Liquidity and Legacy centers on a live discussion of changing farmland conditions and the pressure on the next generation to get into farming.






Joe Larre says he built a farm portal in roughly 20–30 evening hours, estimating a programmer might charge $120,000–$130,000.
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch made atmospheric nitrogen usable as ammonia, while Growing the Future asks whether farms can produce nitrogen solution onsite.
Growing the Future host Danny Everhart frames agricultural AI around taking repetitive work off farmers’ plates, using a five-invoice-per-day busy-season example.
Prairie land is splitting between the best acres and the rest.
The show opens like a live ag meetup.
This episode explores how assembling a diverse advisory team of financial and agricultural experts can strengthen farm operations and navigate challenges through personal stories and expert insights.
This episode explores the $70 per acre profit gap between farms, analyzing factors like management, marketing, and market conditions in agriculture.
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The room opens with a tease about whether Josh Linville will show up.
A live workshop on using futures and options to protect agricultural investments in volatile markets.
A webinar kickoff for the agriculture community, blending motivational energy with discussion on innovation and growth.
A live panel discussion on whether Saskatchewan farmland values are peaking, plateauing, or pulling back.
A panel discussion on fortifying farm capital for a new lending reality, exploring alternative capital tools like life insurance.
A workshop on financial planning for farmers, covering revenue floors, margins, and break-even analysis with expert guests.
The show opens like a live town hall.
Danny Beherton opens a live Growing the Future Productions session with a blunt look at changing farm conditions.
A Q&A session with Canada's largest farmland owner discussing capital availability and positioning for producers.
A conversation with Robert Angelic about a coming capital squeeze in agriculture and a three-step action plan for farmers.
This episode features Tim Schaeffer discussing how farm leaders can transition from chaotic firefighting to strategic CEO roles through clarity, building systems, and modern management tools.
A podcast where innovators pitch agri-tech ideas to real-world farmers in a shark tank format.
A Shark Tank-style episode where ag tech founder Tayeb Sumro pitches PathoBox, a microbial profiling platform, to a panel of real farmers.
Host Dan Eberhardt introduces a webinar on water management and tile drainage in agriculture, featuring expert guests and audience interaction.
Host Dan Eberhardt introduces a guest whose work saves lives and shares a personal fundraising campaign for STARS air ambulance.
Host Dan Eberhard interviews an adventurer from Saskatchewan, discussing innovation and transformation in the adventure industry, while promoting his family of agri-businesses.
An interview with a fertilizer market analyst discussing the volatile global fertilizer market in 2025, including price spikes, tariffs, and buying strategies.
An interview with the founder of Farmer's Edge discussing the origin of the company name and the early challenges of integrating data into agriculture.
A fifth-generation farmer discusses his journey in precision agriculture, from satellite soil sampling to building a leading ag tech company and now focusing on carbon asset management and next-level agronomy.
Host Dan Eberhard interviews Benny Fisher, founder of Big Fish Contracting, about his story and insights for the Convergence Conference 2025.
This episode discusses how hands-on agricultural experiences outside the classroom can inspire students to consider careers in agriculture, featuring an interview with the executive director of Ag in the Classroom.
This episode features Rick Block from the Canadian Food Grains Bank discussing global food security, the impact of humanitarian aid, and finding gratitude in abundance.
Interview with a former John Deere dealership executive about leadership and growth in the agricultural industry.
This episode features an interview with Matt Gosling, a seasoned agronomist and entrepreneur, discussing the intersection of life principles, business acumen, and precision agriculture in modern farming.
An interview discussing the importance of agricultural innovation and education, featuring a guest with a unique story of overcoming adversity.
An agronomist and farmer discusses his experience in crop consulting, building confidence in product application, and his role as chair of Nuffield Canada.
An interview with an agronomy entrepreneur discussing innovation, trials, and business growth in agriculture.