Farming for the Elevator vs. Farming for the Person Buying Your Flour

Frank Grenaway has farmed in four countries. He grew up on a small farm in France, chased wide open spaces to Iowa, built an 1,800-acre Saskatchewan farm into 10,000 acres, then sold it, taught farmers in Haiti to use tractors more efficiently, and eventually landed on a wheat farm outside Three Forks, Montana, at the headwaters of the Missouri River. What he's building there now is deliberately smaller and more direct: regenerative wheat, milled into flour, sold to people whose names he actually knows. What's Inside - Why Frank believes farming can produce more with meaningfully less synthetic fertilizer, and what the research already shows - The difference between selling a truckload of grain to an elevator and milling flour for a customer you know by name - A 2004 frost that cost the farm 180,000 dollars in one night, and how a grain-burning stove business helped carry them through it - What changed when Frank's family sold their 10,000-acre Saskatchewan farm to start over in Montana - His case against fertilizer-reduction mandates, and what he'd do instead to get producers there voluntarily - Why he thinks the real disconnect isn't between farmers and government, it's between farmers and the people eating their food   Connect with Franck: Website: https://livingskygrains.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/franckgroeneweg/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livingskygrains/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingSkyGrains/ Email: [email protected] Phone: 406-521-5234    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.