Leadership Episodes
Every Ag View Pitch conversation on leadership — summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts.
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 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 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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 687
Opportunity management
The Ag View team on sizing up 1,000-acre opportunities: capacity, culture, collaboration with neighbors, debt service in a trough, and what you say no to.
Episode 672
Jeremy Doetch joins Ag View Solutions
Jeremy Doetch spent 20 years as an ag lender before joining Ag View Solutions. He explains working capital, bank questions farmers avoid, and hog barn ROI.
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 631
Lessons from the ethanol boom: weekly market outlook, Nov 18-22
Jeff Fichtelman reads cash markets against the USDA balance sheet and explains why knowing your own lean, and your own numbers, beats predicting price.
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 613
You can't screw with space! Weekly market outlook Aug. 19th-23rd
Angie Setzer explains why space needs are your first bushels sold and how revenue per acre beats price per bushel when yields run above average.
Episode 606
Professional Peer Group Opportunities
Two peer group members explain how 8-farm executive groups work: SWOT reviews, action items with accountability partners, and 4-year meeting structure.
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