
Protect and Profit: Farming for the Future
Make your farm more productive and more sustainable! 'Protect and Profit: Farming for the Future' provides information and tips from agrology experts, research scientists, farmers and ranchers.
Topics include maximizing rangeland and pastures, growing good forage, solving issues with marginal acres including salinity and weeds, buying and selling land, winter wheat as a cash crop, sod seeding to increase productivity and protecting land through conservation easements.
Produced by Ducks Unlimited Canada and hosted by Glen Kirby.
Podcasting since 2024 • 13 episodes
Protect and Profit: Farming for the Future
Latest Episodes
2025 04 April - Avian Influenza
Avian influenza, or the bird flu, is affecting and infecting people and animals in many countries…including Canada. To separate fact from fiction on the H5N1 strain is Dr. Matt Dyson, a research scientist with the Institute for Wetland and Wate...
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Episode 1
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2025 03 Conservation Agreements
Conserving land can be a big decision. June Cowan, a third-generation farmer from Elkhorn Manitoba, explains why conserving her family farm was important…both morally and financially. And Kylie Plett from Ducks Unlimited Canada explains how the...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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29:29

2025 02 February - Establishing Forage
Establishing a successful forage crop depends on a number of variables. Luck should not be one. On this episode, tips for getting that great forage catch from the winning farmers in Ducks Unlimited Canada's Top 5 Forage Establishment competitio...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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36:56

2025 01 January - Planned Giving
Efforts to cure cancer, fight against hunger or conserve natural habitat all come at a price. As Canada’s largest conservation group and a registered charity, Ducks Unlimited Canada relies on financial gifts to support its efforts. Heather Gray...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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33:11

2024 12 December - Habitat Asset Management
Cam Dodds remembers when Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) constructed a dam on his family's farm in the 1950s; one of 240 DUC structures in Manitoba that preserve wetlands. He shares those childhood memories and talks about collaborating with DUC i...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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