Finance Episodes
Every Ag View Pitch conversation on finance — summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts.
Episode 632
Brazilian farmer struggles: Weekly market outlook Nov 25-29
Angie Setzer reports what Brazilian farmers actually face, and why selling when it feels counterintuitive is how the commercial side always plays it.
Episode 625
Post harvest price opportunities - weekly market outlook: Oct. 21-25th
Jarod Creed explains why cheap option volatility argues for turning grain into cash and buying the upside back, and how fast harvest distorts basis.
Episode 623
October sales opportunities?
Jim McCormick traces a grain rally back to Fed policy rather than yield, and explains what a flat fund position means for the rest of harvest.
Episode 621
Part I: How to get your financial house in order
Jeremy Doetch shows the two August steps: pin down next year's cost of production, then build the marketing plan with target prices your banker can read.
Episode 617
Are the harvest lows in already? Weekly market outlook: Sept. 9-13th
Ryan Moe explains why the old farmer selling calendar broke, how to price the cost of hope, and why interest rate risk belongs beside basis risk.
Episode 616
Farm buying toolbox with Grant Wiese: Farm 640
Grant Wiese explains why working capital per acre beats plain working capital, and what to line up before you bid at your first farmland auction.
Episode 614
Cautiously optimistic - weekly market outlook: Aug. 26-30th
Jarod Creed explains why a crop tour shows trend not yield, when the crop insurance floor stops protecting you, and why 2025 is the bigger risk.
Episode 612
USDA report: good news or bad news? Weekly market outlook, August 12-16th
Chad Hart explains why storage now competes with interest rates, why basis and futures are separate decisions, and how to prepare for a crowded harvest.
Episode 609
Future proofing your farm finances: strategies for success in an uncertain ag economy
A banker, a CPA and a risk manager explain working capital targets, contribution margin math, cost of carry, and how to prep for a tough loan renewal.
Episode 604
Dad's wisdom with Tom Brink: Michigan farmer
Michigan farmer Tom Brink on selling no number two corn, buying his parents out by age 70, and keeping the debt ratio his father set for the farm.
Episode 599
Land Values and Access to Capital
Ben Gordon of Fractal Ag covers farmland value trends by land class, interest rate effects, and how equity capital helps farmers buy more land.
Episode 598
Hot weather rally possibilities: weekly market outlook Jun. 17-21
Jarod Creed turns a crop insurance guarantee into bushels you can market, and shows how far a rally must run to lift that guarantee to your cost.
Episode 590
Spring rallies and WASDE review - weekly market outlook: May 13-17th
Jim McCormick explains why planting-delay rallies fade, how fund drawdowns trigger short covering, and when to sell cash and reown upside with calls.
Episode 583
Lender communication
Joe Paulson and lender Jeremy Doetch on what to share with your banker, why to come with a plan, and getting in early when the year goes sideways.
Episode 576
30,000 foot view - weekly market outlook: March 25-29th
Jarod Creed and Chris Barron on why a margin target beats price chasing, what carrying unsold corn really costs, and how to defend a strong balance sheet.
Episode 574
Dad's wisdom: With Mike Oberbroeckling
Mike Oberbroeckling on buying good used equipment, using credit as a tool, a hog expansion that failed, and the land he wishes he had bought sooner.
Episode 572
Financial happiness and wealth creation revisited
Mike Finley breaks down loads and fees: 5.75% up front, 2 to 3% a year, 100% first-year whole life commissions, and where farm cash earns 5.27% instead.
Episode 571
The state of the ag economy
Ag lender Jeremy Doetch on tighter credit in 2024: the 1.25 debt service coverage banks want, working capital burn rates, and how they judge character.
Episode 565
What is FBN?
FBN co-founder Charles Barron and sales director TJ Wilson on seed price transparency, generic crop protection, and farm operating and land loans.
Episode 564
How low do we go? Weekly market outlook: Feb. 19-23
Jeff Fichtelman names the fear of selling the low, shows what unpriced grain costs in interest, and explains how trend following funds actually think.
Episode 562
Harvest Profit with Nick Horob
Nick Horob on why farmers stay frustrated after a rally, what subscription software should deliver, and the daily journal habit he says slows time down.
Episode 558
Equity capital and how to leverage it
Ben Gordon explains how Fractal buys under 45% of a field you already own, what the 4.5% to 5.1% annual payment covers, and when equity beats more debt.
Episode 556
The magic corn price
Clark Neighbors explains why unsold farmer inventory caps both futures and basis, and how the calendar, not the chart, forces the next wave of selling.
Episode 553
Do business better
Damian Mason on four entrepreneurial traits, why improvement is a marathon, and why net worth is the only number on the balance sheet that matters.
Episode 552
A new paradigm: weekly market outlook Jan. 8-12th
Jeff Fichtelman on the psychology that freezes grain marketing, buying cheap upside after a sale, and treating carry as a reason to hedge bins.
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