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December 2024

Working With Government
Effective government leadership might not be making the news right now, but it’s out there to be built upon, and it’s working to inspire confidence and…
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Brenda Tjaden
Naked Oats & the Grain CSA
Conscious food consumers continue to seek and support all kinds of new ways to support local farms and to buy the best foods.
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Brenda Tjaden
Redefining Success in Farm Lending
In some banking circles, lenders judge farms who spend less on crop inputs as ‘not trying hard enough.’ This is the opposite of how resiliency is…
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Brenda Tjaden

November 2024

Diversity --> Resilience
Complexity contributes to the resiliency of Indigenous-led brand claims.
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Brenda Tjaden
How to Scale Up Local Meat Processing
Success has been elusive for new meat processing infrastructure investments in most rural areas, but White Oak Pastures has made it work thanks to a…
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Brenda Tjaden
Farming for People, Planet & Profit
The mission of the post-industrial agricultural economy is to even out the playing field between industry stakeholders, the environment, and the…
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Brenda Tjaden
Redefining Performance for Value Creation
Agribusiness corporations must abandon nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) as a performance metric, and stop targeting yields, to open up the best new markets…
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Brenda Tjaden

October 2024

Differentiation Vs. Commoditization
New on the scene, indigenous-run farms are facing an unprecedented opportunity for growth through market differentiation. Consumers are uncovering…
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Brenda Tjaden
How to Change Farming
Refreshingly, a new theory illustrates why it hasn't been - and won't be - corporate giants driving change in food and agriculture.
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Brenda Tjaden
Planting Biology
Since commodity market economics drive seeding decisions, adjustments are needed to account for new, and growing, economic incentives that can't be…
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Brenda Tjaden
A Tidy Cleanup of Scope 3 Pork Emissions
Maple Leaf Foods, the Canadian prepared meats giant, is spinning off its pork division.
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Brenda Tjaden
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