Family Episodes
Every Ag View Pitch conversation on family — summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
Episode 695
Managing people, plants, and urban markets
Karl Shlagel farms 150 acres of fresh market vegetables 23 miles from Capitol Hill. He walks through H-2A crews, farmers markets, and family transition.
Episode 694
Farming, family and strip-till
Three generations of the Foulk family on anhydrous-only strip-till, soil structure after 5 inches of rain, sharing equipment, and handing a farm over.
Episode 692
Friday rewind: strategic resource teams for your farm
Chris Barron and Shay Foulk cover 10 roles every farm needs on its strategic resource team, from lender and CPA to attorney and peer advisory board.
Episode 686
Friday rewind: 4 D's, threats to farm businesses
Chris Barron and Shay Foulk on updating the will, buy-sell agreements, disability coverage, and matching insurance carriers before you share equipment.
Episode 682
Friday rewind: Dad's wisdom part II, the retirement years with Dean Fehl, Iowa farmer
Dean Fehl retired in 2015 and explains the three phases of transition, why he started early, how hobbies filled his days and what he does on the farm.
Episode 680
The path to prosperity: building wealth that lasts
Mike Finley on custodial Roth IRAs, $100 a month index investing, avoiding 2 percent advisor fees, and teaching kids money before they leave home.
Episode 668
Dad's wisdom: Lessons from the farm and the ledger with Paul Neiffer
Paul Neiffer explains why splitting a farm is not failure, how to track deferred tax liability every year, and how 5% yearly gains compound over a decade.
Episode 663
Farming, Family, and Mental Health
Researcher Josie Rudolphi shares farmer anxiety and depression data, warning signs to watch for, and practical boundaries between farm and family life.
Episode 649
Building wealth beyond the farm: a conversation with Mike Finley
Mike Finley on diversifying beyond land: low-cost index funds, custodial Roth IRAs for working kids, and why a 1% fee costs hundreds of thousands.
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.
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