Lynn Thacker - Two Scientists Farming With Inspiration From The Crusades - a podcast by Shawn Hass & Dustin Leniuk

from 2020-02-07T20:23:37

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In this episode we sit down with Lynn Thacker of LTAC Farms, a specialty crop producer from Bow Island, Alberta

In this episode, we talk about:

Lynn’s business partner and wife Ute Thacker’s impact and role as such an integral part of their operation
The evolution of pivot irrigation and how that allowed their farm to grow more innovative crops
The Canadian Wheat board’s monopoly and how it forced farmers to diversify into other crops to avoid their stifling regulation
Lynn’s dad George encouraged Lynn and his brothers to experiment and take some creative chances over the years
Specialty crops demand quality
Research about the negative effects of fossil fuels impact on climate change needs to be scrutinized and verified against it’s source
Science isn’t done through consensus, many of the world’s best scientist’s like Albert Einstein had consensus against them in the past

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