GTF Podcast: Is Your Farm Structure Ready for What's Coming?

Evan Shout advises farm operations on financial structure, business planning, and succession at MNP -- one of Canada's largest professional services firms with an agriculture practice built specifically for farm families. The question most farm operators delay is not whether to plan. It is whether the structure they have built is actually designed for what they want to happen next. Transferring to the next generation, bringing in capital, or eventually selling -- each one requires a different foundation. This is the conversation about getting that foundation right before the decision arrives.   What's Inside - Why the farm's business structure is as important as the farm's physical assets - What buyers, bankers, and successors look for when they evaluate an agricultural operation - The financial moves most farm operations miss before succession - How to separate personal income from farm income in a way that protects both - What proactive planning looks like at different stages of a farm's lifecycle   Related Episodes - Why Can't Your Farm Operate Without You? -- John Warrillow on enterprise value and the cost of owner-dependence - Driving the Transition Train: The Farmland Exit (May 2026) -- exit planning for ag, what the conversation actually looks like   Connect with Growing the Future Website: growingthefuture.ca YouTube: Growing the Future Instagram: @growingthefuturepodcast LinkedIn: Growing the Future Register for the Convergence Conference at convergence.ag and stay updated by subscribing to the Growing the Future Podcast at growingthefuturepodcast.ca.