The Future Herd
Convening agricultural leaders at the intersection of technology, policy, and practice.
The Future Herd is a podcast and gathering space for agricultural leaders navigating the pressures of technology adoption, policy change, and systemic disruption in the food and farming sector. Jesse hosts and convenes conversations that bring together farmers, rural advocates, policymakers, and technologists — working across the divisions that usually keep those voices apart.
Why agriculture
Jesse's farm is not a hobby or a metaphor. It is a working operation and an epistemic discipline — a place where feedback loops are immediate, resource constraints are real, and the gap between policy and practice is measured in soil and seasons. That grounding shapes how he reads technology claims, governance proposals, and market signals.
The agricultural sector sits at the convergence of several of the largest forces of our time: AI-driven precision agriculture, supply chain fragility, climate adaptation, rural-urban political fracture, and the restructuring of global food systems. It is one of the few domains where technology, ecology, economics, and governance collide at the same time and the same scale.
Herding leaders
The Future Herd brings together people who rarely share a table: operators managing multi-generational farms, policy officials designing rural programs, agri-tech founders, researchers, and Indigenous land stewards. The shared premise is that no one sector has the full picture, and that good decisions require deliberate cross-pollination.
Jesse's role is to host, provoke, and synthesize — drawing on his background in technology policy, media analysis, and systems thinking to keep the conversations grounded and consequential.
The intersection
Jesse's work in agriculture, policy, and technology is not three separate careers. It is one practice viewed from three vantage points:
- Technology without an understanding of ground-level systems produces adoption failures and governance gaps.
- Policy without operational knowledge of farming produces rules that work on paper and fail in practice.
- Agriculture without engagement with technological and political change produces vulnerability and missed leverage.
The Future Herd is where those threads converge — in conversation, in research, and on the land.
Visit thefutureherd.ca to listen and engage.