Ep 5. Lynn Thacker - Two Scientists Farming With Inspiration From The Crusades

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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