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Episode 744
Farm succession starts with better communication
Vance Crowe on asking how questions, handing the quiet sibling a marker, and switching the observer to stay level headed in farm transition talks.
Episode 741
Index funds and USDA preview
Joe Vaclavik separates trend-following hedge funds from long-only index funds, and explains why thin corn margins put the focus on basis and carry.
Episode 739
Invest your time like it's money
Andy Caygeon Junkin shows farmers how to plan a week with a boot journal, pick three priorities, price each task by the hour, and track hours to cut resentment.
Episode 738
Business lessons from 2025, solutions for 2026
The Ag View team names what 2025 taught them: right-size machinery, track your time, delegate faster, and build a State of the Farm talk for your banker.
Episode 735
Rethinking your marketing plan: weekly market outlook, Dec. 22nd-26th
Jarod Creed explains why crop insurance and farm program payments can make a price rally shrink total farm revenue, and how to market around that.
Episode 734
Trending higher to end 2025?
Garret Brown of Codak Risk Advisory on December price action, why he questions harvested acres, and why lender talks get harder heading into 2026.
Episode 731
The brain of your business: why a farm office changes everything
The Toquam family moved bookwork out of the kitchen and into a $300,000 farm office. What changed in communication, efficiency, and vendor meetings.
Episode 728
How to build bulletproof farm partnerships with Andy Caygeon Junkin
Andy Junkin explains why farm partnerships fail, how weekly habit changes reset family conflict, and why better decisions lift farm profitability.
Episode 726
Don't sleep on 2026: weekly market outlook, Nov. 17th-21st
Daniel Elsner explains why a disciplined base layer of sales, sized to your variable costs, beats chasing rallies and waiting for a seasonal window.
Episode 725
2026 farm cash flow shift: Weekly market outlook Nov 10-14
Jarod Creed shows how insurance, farm programs and grain sales now arrive as one revenue bucket on very different timelines, and how to plan cash flow.
Episode 723
Navigating market noise: weekly market outlook, Oct. 27th-31st
Greg McBride explains why headline rallies move soybeans without changing fundamentals, and how to have offers ready before the news actually breaks.
Oct 2025
Personal and professional goals with your spouse
Chris and Alissa Barron walk through the flip chart exercise they use to write out each other's personal and business goals and review them twice a month.
Sep 2025
Family Succession: Issues and Opportunities
Andy Junkin explains why 77% of family farms lack a succession plan and how monthly habit changes rebuild the trust that makes transition possible.
Sep 2025
Friday rewind: Dad's wisdom with Roger Toquam
Roger Toquam of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, on conservation tillage since 1966, giving each of his three sons a role, and managing to a margin.
Episode 716
Grain baggers: costs, logistics, and market opportunities
What grain bagging really costs: 8 cents a bushel for the bag, about 25 cents in and out, bag sizes, moisture limits, and when the market carry pays.
Sep 2025
Friday rewind: Dad's Wisdom, Ron Dykshoorn from Alberta, Canada
Ron Dykshoorn on a 1907 Alberta homestead, farming with horses in 1941, lentils to India, and why he hands decisions to his sons Sam and Chet.
Episode 710
To fert or not to fert: Dr. Hart, Lewis Stearns
Chad Hart and Lewis Stearns on why potash cannot be cut, when to book fall anhydrous, and how soil test data sets a fertilizer budget for 2026.
Episode 709
May to Sep: what's changed?
Garret Brown revisits his spring call, explains why big corn yields get revised down later, and how to hedge without getting blown out on margin.
Sep 2025
Profit Manager 101
Chris and Shay explain how Profit Manager builds a one-page cost of production, why return to management overhead gets missed, and how to cost each pass.
Aug 2025
The brain of your farm business
Why a dedicated farm office pays: Shay covers the $100,000 to $350,000 price tag, five reasons to build one, and the three reasons farms put it off.
Episode 701
Millennial Farmer Zach Johnson, west central Minnesota
Zach Johnson on splitting farm roles with his dad, selling corn at 10 under Chicago, a 45-acre prevent plant call, and the Millennial Farmer channel.
Episode 702
American Family Farmland; new book
Johnny Klemme's book helps heirs name their values before the farm lands in their lap, bridge farming and non-farming heirs, and use worksheets to talk.
Episode 700
Crop prospects 2025: fact vs. fiction from the field
Agronomist Lewis Stearns reports 17 more bushels of corn and 6 more of soybeans from one fungicide pass, plus why 2025 looks like a Toyota Corolla crop.
Episode 699
Dads wisdom with Mike Paulson and Randy Fiddelke
Randy Fiddelke and Mike Paulson on restructuring debt in the 1980s, why accrual numbers beat tax returns, and building a CPA, attorney and lender team.
Episode 697
How to Start the Farm Transition Planning Conversation
Junior partner stuck waiting on a transition plan? Chris Barron and Shay Foulk share how to open the conversation, plus six free starter resources.
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