{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-cost-of-staying-in-QoIyJXV9","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Math Broke: Who can Afford to Stay in?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/3e7de3a2-4998-414b-9791-43c091b10d48/the_math_broke_who_can_afford_to_stay_in_podcast_cover.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/ddf88a4f-4614-4ec2-bc80-e05df2adfaa8\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"The Math Broke: Who can Afford to Stay in?\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Dan Aberhart hosts David Widmar (Agricultural Economic Insights) and Eric Olsen (MNP Farm Management) for a 75-minute live briefing on the financial math facing farm operators in 2026. The conversation moves through US and Canadian interest rate environments, government support program structures, a side-by-side farmland affordability calculator, lender behavior shifts, and the barriers facing the next generation of producers. The central tension: farmland values still reflect the low-interest-rate world of 2008-2021, but cash rents and operating costs have adjusted to today's reality -- leaving producers squeezed between an asset base that hasn't corrected and an operating business that can't carry it."}