Peer Groups Episodes
Every Ag View Pitch conversation on peer groups — summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts.
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 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 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.
Episode 584
Putting faith in your peer group
Shay Foulk and Ken Stewart explain how a faith-based peer group runs: monthly all-day meetings, 12 members, one-on-one coaching, no industry twice.
Episode 578
Introducing Andy Hruby and Joe Paulson, the newest Ag View Solutions team members
Andy Hruby and Joe Paulson join Ag View Solutions as clients turned consultants, taking on Profit Manager, peer groups, and transition planning work.
Episode 507
Citizen data scientist program details and sign-up now open
Chris Barron, Shay Foulk, and Matthew Bertram lay out the 12-week citizen data scientist course: dates, the $1,500 fee, the 25-seat cap, and who fits.
Episode 489
Make the connection
Shay Foulk on using your ag network when a problem stonewalls you, plus a request for winter work for a trusted H-2A employee in North Dakota.
Jan 2023
75 Hard for the farmer: not the faint of heart
Four farmers who ran 75 Hard through harvest on the gallon of water, the night walks, the books they read, and what discipline did for their decisions.
Aug 2022
Part two: five additional best practices of top tier operations
Washington wheat farmer Jason Monson on a three-person board of directors, core values that drive hiring, and making decisions without analysis paralysis.
Aug 2021
Peer group perspective: Bringing value to the farm
Indiana farmer Brad Downing on hosting a 2.5-day peer group visit, the trust it takes to open your books, and the four pages of action items he left with.
Nov 2020
Mark Bowen talks lumber, grass-fed beef, and the 2020 conference
Mark Bowen left active duty in 1999 and built Meadowdale Farm: grass-fed beef, pastured poultry, hay, maple sap, and a sawmill feeding construction.
Feb 2020
Biologicals, profit management, and peer groups
Brad Downing explains what biologicals are, why there is no silver bullet, how to spot weak transparency, and why he orders live cultures in December.
Dec 2019
Importance of ag communication: practical applications from a non-professional
Shay Foulk explains how farmers and seed sellers can tell their story on LinkedIn, podcasts, and in person, and why genuine intent builds trust.
Nov 2019
Farmer Veteran Conference kickoff 2019
Michael O'Gorman on founding the Farmer Veteran Coalition, the 2006 study that started it, and growing from nine veterans to more than 17,000 members.
Oct 2019
Peer group mashup: easy combine listen
A 12-minute compilation of Ag View peer group members describing what two days of opening their books to six other operations actually did for them.
Oct 2019
Ag View Solutions: who we are, what we do
Chris Barron and Shay Foulk trace Ag View Solutions from Profit Manager to equipment cost per pass, business structuring, and farm peer groups.
Oct 2019
Dad's Wisdom: Tom Husnik
Tom Husnik on the four side businesses his family ran, why delivering the product earned premiums, and the cost-of-production rule his banker gave him.
Jul 2019
A dairy good peer group experience
Josh Meisner and Jerod Schmidt on their first Ag View peer group, running 2,600 cows and 5,000 acres in Wisconsin, winter kill, and transition planning.
Jul 2019
The most rewarding thing you can do for your farm
Mark and Julie Schaffer intercrop soybeans into standing wheat in north central Ohio using FlexiFinger pans, and describe what a peer group visit changed.
Jun 2019
Global agriculture: perspective, community, and eternal optimism with Anthony Lackore
Corteva's Anthony Lackore on the 40/70 rule for deciding with incomplete information, planning three months ahead, and what seed production faced in 2019.
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