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Episode 785
Bloody June for grain markets - weekly market outlook: June 8-12
Daniel Elsner explains how a crowded fund long unwinds, when accumulator contracts make sense, and why marketing plans belong ahead of field season.
Episode 783
Fund selling pressures grain markets: weekly market outlook, Jun. 1-5
Jeff Fichtelman explains how fund liquidation moves nearby futures, when basis contracts pay, and why waiting for a nickel costs farmers real dollars.
Episode 782
Vance Crowe on Better Conversations, Family Business, and Hard Disagreements
Vance Crowe shows how to ask judgment-free questions, name emotions before they run a meeting, and use family stories to handle disagreement on the farm.
Episode 779
Will your farm survive 8 generations?
Quint Pottinger explains how outside investors solved his succession problem and how autonomy let him sell equipment and return $400,000 to the farm.
Episode 778
Are the highs in for grain markets?
Brian Splitt shows how to read uptrends, fund positioning and energy markets, and why standing target orders beat watching screens during planting.
Episode 777
Corn basis, China and planting: weekly market outlook, May 11th-15th
Ryan Moe of StoneX explains why Western Corn Belt basis dies at harvest, how to judge a bump worth hitting, and why your competitor is global, not local.
Episode 774
SDRP payment #2 details
Paul Neiffer explains why the second SDRP payment doubles your first, the $125,000 per-year limit, the August 12 deadline, and mid-May payment timing.
Episode 773
Farm Profit Manager: the history and the why
Chris Barron and Shay Foulk trace Profit Manager from 1990s DOS spreadsheets to a free app, and explain why cost of production drives every decision.
Episode 770
Succession with Johnny Klemme
Johnny Klemme and Shay Foulk on the $1.5 trillion of farmland changing hands, why succession takes 7 to 10 years, and how to start the hard conversation.
Episode 769
Spring agronomy update: planter settings, spray tips, and on-farm trials
Agronomist Troy Deutmeyer on planter depth checks worth 8 to 12 bushels, spray tip wear, 3 to 4 pounds of AMS, and 140,000 soybean populations.
Episode 768
Better Landlord and Contract Management
Ron Dunker of Oaken explains how digital lease tracking stops missed renewals and payments, and keeps rented acres through the coming land transfer.
Episode 766
Animal deterrent systems with Mike DeSa
Marine turned ag tech founder Mike DeSa on using AI vision and a green laser to move flocking birds off crops, feedlots and aquaculture ponds.
Episode 765
Grain markets quiet, headline fatigue builds: weekly market outlook, April 6-10
Daniel Elsner explains headline fatigue, why big on-farm corn stocks cap basis, and how to judge whether an early spring high was the top of the year.
Episode 764
Tires = profitability
Ben Paskowitz of NTS Tire Supply explains how dropping field tire pressure below 15 PSI cuts compaction, wins back 5 to 6 bushels an acre and saves fuel.
Episode 763
Farm Profit Manager app release
Shay Foulk walks through the Farm Profit Manager app: free online and Excel versions, field-level cost analysis, equipment costs, and benchmarking.
Episode 761
Protein sovereignty: autonomous chicken tractor
Zack Smith on six years of StockCropper: pigs, sheep and chickens grazed between corn strips, 434.9 bushel corn at PTI, and $15,000 an acre gross.
Episode 758
Drone for the farm?
Matt Hatcher on what a spray drone really costs: 3,000 to 6,000 fungicide acres per drone, $2,500 to $3,500 chemical liability, and tender sizing.
Episode 757
Hold your breath: weekly market outlook, Mar. 9th-13th
Daniel Elsner separates headline rallies from fundamental ones, and stacks insurance and program payments onto cash sales to show total farm revenue.
Episode 756
Harvest Guard Solutions debut
Nathan Albert shows how Harvest Guard Solutions pulls John Deere Operations Center data into one maintenance app and adds technician support behind it.
Episode 753
Proactive farm planning for future success
Ben Gordon breaks down rented acre risk, the three-year capital plan, and why scale swings $200 to $300 an acre in buying and selling power.
Episode 751
Carrot or stick; water quality looming large
Zack Smith says voluntary conservation has stalled near 1.5% adoption on the Des Moines Lobe, and explains the nitrogen timing tax he would put in place.
Episode 749
Beans, beans, the magical fruit! Weekly market outlook: Feb. 9-13th
Garret Brown cross-checks NOPA against USDA crush data, explains why farmers hold grain longer than advisers like, and how to avoid forced decisions.
Episode 748
Dad's wisdom with Steve Hess: family governance, succession planning, and tough times lessons
Steve Hess on the five year rule for coming home to the farm, building family governance, and what the 1980s taught him about surviving thin margins.
Episode 747
Conference debrief 2026
The 2026 Ag View conference debrief: building an AI advisory board, steelmanning family arguments, and why you should bring three people next year.
Episode 745
Brazil big crop, Argentina risk - weekly market outlook: Jan 26th - 30th
Ryan Moe and Brian Splitt explain why money may rotate from record-high metals toward cheap grains, and why low volatility favors buying options.
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