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A podcast exploring how collective wisdom and adaptive leadership can help us navigate the profound transformations reshaping our food and agriculture systems.
Unknown Host hosts The Future Herd, a arts show with 30 episodes published.
Summary: This episode brings together Canada's sharpest minds at the intersection of AI and agriculture to make a concrete case: the future of Canadian farm competitiveness will be decided not by whether producers adopt
Summary: Elaine Power, a food scholar at Queen's University, argues that the word "AgriFood" itself encodes a fundamental contradiction: the agri side serves corporate capital while the food side is rooted in care, commu
Title: Throwing Out the Business Textbook to Save the Family Farm Summary: RJ Taylor, second-generation fish farmer and co-owner of a multi-site Ontario aquaculture operation, makes the case that the conventional busines
The Politics of Standing Up for Farmers Why governments need to actually listen before they regulate Canadian agriculture has enormous potential. The land, producers, knowledge, innovation, and markets are there. But too
Summary: Donald Killorn, Executive Director of the PEI Federation of Agriculture, makes the case that ecological thinking — not agronomic expertise — is exactly what Canada's food system needs from its leaders right now.
Title: Agroecology Is the How-To of Food Sovereignty Summary: Charles Levkoe, food systems researcher at Lakehead University, makes the case that agroecology is not simply a set of farming techniques but the practical ex
Title: Leaving Every Organisation Better Than You Found It Summary: Kaitlyn Kitzan, Saskatchewan farmer, entrepreneur, and sectoral leader, argues that lasting leadership means improving every organisation you touch and
Title: The Grocery Store Is a Media Environment: What Sociology Reveals About Food, Power, and Choice Summary: Alissa Overend of MacEwan University argues that the food choices Canadians make every day are shaped by forc
Measuring What Matters: Transforming Canada’s Agri-Food System What does a resilient agri-food system actually look like — and how would we know if we were building one? In this Future Herd panel episode, guest host Jen
Where Food Becomes Community Rethinking Rural Food Security with Rob Rainer In this episode of The Future Herd, Jesse Hirsh speaks with Rob Rainer about food insecurity from a rural perspective. Rob brings a rare combina
Summary: Mohamad Yaghi from Farm Credit Canada explores how technology can democratize and transform the agricultural sector. He discusses the unique challenges farmers face and how innovative solutions can help address
Jennifer MacTavish's career path in agriculture demonstrates the power of curiosity and saying 'yes' to opportunities. Starting with an international development degree and transitioning through animal science, she disco
What happens when an emergency response becomes a permanent feature of the system? In this conversation, Neil Hetherington, CEO of Daily Bread Food Bank, offers a clear-eyed view from inside one of Canada’s most critical
The Rise of the Computational Breeder: Rethinking How We Grow Food What happens when crop science becomes computational In this episode, Jesse Hirsh sits down with Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi, Assistant Professor at th
Can We Eliminate Food Waste Or are we just managing a system designed to waste Canada produces more than enough food to feed everyone, yet millions remain food insecure while enormous volumes of perfectly good food are l
Colin Hornby from Keystone Agricultural Producers joins The Future Herd for a conversation grounded in Manitoba, where agriculture operates with little insulation from volatility. We explore how risk is managed in real t
Jordyn Domio reframes a familiar concern in agriculture—the question of the “next generation”—by shifting attention to something more immediate and less discussed: proximity. Who gets close enough to the industry to unde
This conversation with Barb Scott-Cole explores something easy to overlook and difficult to rebuild: the social systems that make agriculture possible. Before innovation strategies, before policy frameworks, before the l
Canada feeds the world—so why are thousands of people in our own communities facing food insecurity every day? In this episode of The Future Herd, I sit down with Treska Watson, who leads food security initiatives at The
Raj Thandhi brings the conversation back to something the agri-food sector often treats as secondary, but that quietly determines everything: culture. This episode explores the space between what is grown and what is act
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