{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fs3-ep1-L4rrKdjZ","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Only One in Five Farms Has a Written Plan","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/0c853b2a-0247-46d5-bd58-7499a77b4f4d/cropped_1788811407700.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/1e438f49-433d-4136-b95e-40f9994367d6\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Only One in Five Farms Has a Written Plan\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Recorded at the end of 2020, this panel brings four producers from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Montana together with Heather Watson of Farm Management Canada to work through what went right, what went wrong and what each of them is changing. Watson opens with research showing only one in five Canadian farms has a written business plan, and that planning correlates with both financial performance and peace of mind. The producers are candid about a drought, a twenty inch rainfall, a fertility strategy pushed too far, and a soybean crop written off. The through line is that the operators who improve are the ones who sit down in winter and decide what to change rather than waiting to see what the year does."}