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Agriculture & Food · 2026
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Keynote Case Study: Protein Industries Canada — Think Bigger About the Future of Food
Protein Industries Canada brought Jim Carroll to Saskatoon as the closing keynote speaker for its annual gathering. The organization sits at the center of Canada's effort to build…
Keynote Case Study: National Association of Landscape Professionals — An Era of Fast Ideas
Jim spoke at the NALP Leaders Forum in Costa Rica to several hundred landscape industry leaders about the accelerating pace of change in design, technology, science…
Keynote Case Study: Texas Farm Credit — Agricultural Finance Had to Learn to Fund the Future
Texas Farm Credit brought Jim Carroll to Dallas to challenge an audience with a uniquely important role in the future of agriculture. Many of the people in the room served on…
The Future, Sector by Sector — Agriculture: Yesterday’s Farm Ran on Daylight, Tomorrow’s Runs on Data
Last stop on this tour — and it's where the whole idea started. Regular readers already know agriculture.jimcarroll.com and its companion PDF, The Future of Agriculture: Faster…
Yesterday’s Farm Ran on Daylight. Tomorrow’s Runs on Data.
I’ve just launched a new home for one of the longest-running threads in my career: agriculture. agriculture.jimcarroll.com is now live, along with a 20-page PDF you can grab right…
Megatrends One Year Later – #15: 24-Hour Farming & Agricultural Reinvention – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
“We are no longer restricted to only farming when the sun is up – and are witnessing the dawn of the digital harvest.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I…
The Trends Scorecard: Agriculture & Food - What I Predicted, and What Actually Happened
"The world's oldest profession became its most advanced. Tomorrow's farm runs on robots, sensors, and code." — Futurist Jim Carroll This is part of my Trends Scorecard series…
Decoding Tomorrow: Daily Inspiration - "Stop planning for a world that no longer exists!'
"Stop planning for a world that no longer exists" - Futurist Jim Carroll I came across an article about my keynote. few weeks ago for the Canadian Produce Marketing Association…
Event Highlight: CPMA — Stop Planning for a World That No Longer Exists
At the Canadian Produce Marketing Association’s Annual Convention and Trade Show in Toronto, I opened my keynote with a challenge: Stop planning for a world that no longer exists…
Keynote Case Study: CPMA — The Produce Industry Was Moving at Consumer Speed
For the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, Jim Carroll explored how consumer expectations, food transparency, automation, supply-chain change and health trends were reshaping…
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