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Corn is over $5 and beans are near $13, and a lot of farmers still won't make any more money than they did at $4.50 corn. Every time the grain price goes up, something takes it back, and the front half of this Hot Topics episode is about what's doing the taking.

Diesel is $6.13 in Iowa. One Illinois farmer spent $1,000 filling a single semi. Anhydrous is close to $1,000 a ton, up 25% from a year ago. Refineries over there are putting out about 60% of the diesel they did before the Iran war, so more oil doesn't mean cheaper diesel. The White House is letting dyed diesel run on the road for the rest of the year with the federal tax deferred, about $640 million of relief by USDA's count. Deferred, not forgiven.

Then the bigger point. Farming spent decades specializing, and that bill is coming due. We don't think 10,000 acres is big enough to win on scale anymore, and at that size you're a CEO, not a farmer. For everybody else the answer is diversity: livestock back on the ground, manure in place of high priced nitrogen, shared equipment. And China cut tariffs on corn, wheat, meat and dairy but kept 10% on soybeans, so bean marketing is about politics now, with Brazil getting better every year.

Also in this one: 17,000 fewer cattle through the packing plants in one week, why immigration reform keeps dying with no middle left in politics, a Kentucky family turning down $26 million for 900 acres, 70 to 80 trucks showing up to pull a sick neighbor's beets, and a 2,598 pound pumpkin.

Maybe that's why we don't just grow corn and soybeans on every acre. Maybe we need to diversify.

What's taking the $5 back on your operation this fall? Drop it in the comments and we read them.

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00:00 Hot Topics before the pigs get chored

02:35 Why Tork came in fiery this morning

05:25 Tearing out Grandpa's 1970s hog barns

08:16 Market Update presented by Conterra Ag

10:30 $5 corn that pays no better than $4.50

11:28 The red diesel order and $640 million

14:46 Presented by AcreEdge Soil NXT

15:25 Diesel hauls everything you buy

18:43 We've hit the end of specialization

19:27 10,000 acres doesn't catch it anymore

21:43 Put livestock back on the land

23:02 No money behind you? Don't start in grain

23:34 The answer to high priced nitrogen

26:04 Red diesel vs green diesel, explained

29:31 Deferred, not forgiven. Who pays?

31:31 17,000 fewer cattle processed in a week

33:54 Why ag needs immigration reform

36:32 The death of the middle in politics

41:56 Packing plants were always the starter job

44:50 The post World War II order is ending

51:43 Why we want Peter Zeihan at the barn

52:55 China cut tariffs on everything but beans

54:05 Bean marketing is about politics now

57:27 Why Brazil worries every young farmer

1:00:20 100 year old locks and dams

1:02:44 Data centers are coming for farmland

1:04:40 $26 million for 900 acres, and they said no

1:08:59 Why Tork says they get built anyway

1:10:39 Great Grandpa would call me an idiot

1:15:56 Take the principles, not the assets

1:16:34 The good: College GameDay in Iowa City

1:17:52 70 to 80 trucks show up for Bill Cotton

1:18:41 The 2,598 pound pumpkin

1:23:09 Big plans for 2027

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You can't out-yield your way to profit anymore, so Will Cannon is chasing margin with 2 or 3 bucks an acre of homemade compost instead of $40 an acre of bugs in a jug. Two Iowa corn farmers came to the barn this week: Will, an Iowa Corn Growers director from near Prairie City, and Paul Gieselman, president of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, from near Morning Sun.

Will has run cover crops on 100 percent of his acres for about 18 years. He has seen 0 to 10 bushels back from his compost, and 50 on one tough spot. Paul got out of hogs in 1998, farmed on his dad's money for 10 years, and went out on his own in 2008. Today he runs just under 1,000 acres and 25 British White Park cows. And Japan is now the number 2 buyer of American corn, behind only Mexico.

Then Paul said the hard part out loud. He has watched a lot of his equity drain away, and if either of his boys came home today there would not be room for them. He doesn't figure he'll be the one doing the consolidating. He figures he's the one getting consolidated. Will sees the other side: the biggest handoff of farm assets in peacetime history, and real opportunity 5 to 7 years out for young guys who stay patient.

Also in this one: the wettest fall either of them can remember, why cattle belong back on row crop ground, the USDA fertilizer hearing in Ogden, E15 in NASCAR, Brazil's 90 million acres it hasn't farmed yet, and what the checkoff actually pays for.

Put it on just enough acres that it's a little painful, so you pay attention to it, but not so many it hurts you long term.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Two guests and a harvest stuck in the rain

05:02 Out of hogs in 1998, farming on Dad's money

06:19 2008, buying the gear and going out alone

10:53 Why he runs British White Park cattle

13:18 A teacher's son goes full time farming

14:25 The bachelor farmer who handed over his acres

19:12 See us at Gateway Farm Expo and HayCon

20:58 A homemade strip-till bar for a couple grand

24:08 No paid-off land, but no ghosts either

27:01 Try it on enough acres that it hurts a little

29:34 You can't out-yield your way to profit

34:01 Do cover crops actually pay?

39:34 The resident hippie's homemade compost tea

41:57 $3 an acre vs $40 of bugs in a jug

45:25 Putting cattle back on row crop ground

48:23 $4.75 a day for hay out west vs stalks here

53:53 Stuck in the first 2 acres of harvest

58:22 How two farmers ended up on the Corn boards

1:03:13 Checkoff vs Corn Growers, who does what

1:05:53 Ethanol was Granddad's, bio-based is yours

1:08:20 Did the ethanol boom encourage bad habits?

1:11:10 Japan is now our number 2 corn buyer

1:14:43 Why buyers in Asia want to meet the farmer

1:22:12 NASCAR, E15, and the Cy-Hawk game

1:27:47 Mexico's GMO fight began in his machine shed

1:34:26 Most farmers just haven't been asked

1:36:24 Corn Growers is like going to church

1:40:28 Equity draining and no room for the kids

1:44:59 Fertilizer, the DOJ, and phosphate duties

1:48:13 Biggest farm wealth handoff in peacetime

1:50:00 What farmers want vs what they need

1:54:29 Brazil's 90 million acres it hasn't farmed

2:00:46 Tip of the Hat

2:05:58 How to join Iowa Corn

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You can't out-yield your way to profit anymore, so Will Cannon is chasing margin with 2 or 3 bucks an acre of homemade compost instead of $40 an acre of bugs in a jug. Two Iowa corn farmers came to the barn this week: Will, an Iowa Corn Growers director from near Prairie City, and Paul Gieselman, president of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, from near Morning Sun.

Will has run cover crops on 100 percent of his acres for about 18 years. He has seen 0 to 10 bushels back from his compost, and 50 on one tough spot. Paul got out of hogs in 1998, farmed on his dad's money for 10 years, and went out on his own in 2008. Today he runs just under 1,000 acres and 25 British White Park cows. And Japan is now the number 2 buyer of American corn, behind only Mexico.

Then Paul said the hard part out loud. He has watched a lot of his equity drain away, and if either of his boys came home today there would not be room for them. He doesn't figure he'll be the one doing the consolidating. He figures he's the one getting consolidated. Will sees the other side: the biggest handoff of farm assets in peacetime history, and real opportunity 5 to 7 years out for young guys who stay patient.

Also in this one: the wettest fall either of them can remember, why cattle belong back on row crop ground, the USDA fertilizer hearing in Ogden, E15 in NASCAR, Brazil's 90 million acres it hasn't farmed yet, and what the checkoff actually pays for.

Put it on just enough acres that it's a little painful, so you pay attention to it, but not so many it hurts you long term.

What are you trying on 40 or 80 acres next year? Drop it in the comments and we read them.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Two guests and a harvest stuck in the rain

05:02 Out of hogs in 1998, farming on Dad's money

06:19 2008, buying the gear and going out alone

10:53 Why he runs British White Park cattle

13:18 A teacher's son goes full time farming

14:25 The bachelor farmer who handed over his acres

19:12 See us at Gateway Farm Expo and HayCon

20:58 A homemade strip-till bar for a couple grand

24:08 No paid-off land, but no ghosts either

27:01 Try it on enough acres that it hurts a little

29:34 You can't out-yield your way to profit

34:01 Do cover crops actually pay?

39:34 The resident hippie's homemade compost tea

41:57 $3 an acre vs $40 of bugs in a jug

45:25 Putting cattle back on row crop ground

48:23 $4.75 a day for hay out west vs stalks here

53:53 Stuck in the first 2 acres of harvest

58:22 How two farmers ended up on the Corn boards

1:03:13 Checkoff vs Corn Growers, who does what

1:05:53 Ethanol was Granddad's, bio-based is yours

1:08:20 Did the ethanol boom encourage bad habits?

1:11:10 Japan is now our number 2 corn buyer

1:14:43 Why buyers in Asia want to meet the farmer

1:22:12 NASCAR, E15, and the Cy-Hawk game

1:27:47 Mexico's GMO fight began in his machine shed

1:34:26 Most farmers just haven't been asked

1:36:24 Corn Growers is like going to church

1:40:28 Equity draining and no room for the kids

1:44:59 Fertilizer, the DOJ, and phosphate duties

1:48:13 Biggest farm wealth handoff in peacetime

1:50:00 What farmers want vs what they need

1:54:29 Brazil's 90 million acres it hasn't farmed

2:00:46 Tip of the Hat

2:05:58 How to join Iowa Corn

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Tork's dad lived to 99, flew fighters, practiced law, and paid for a farm. In July 2018 he fell down the basement stairs, and Tork brought him home to die in the same house he was born in. No guest this week. Sawyer and Tork each picked three days that changed their lives, and this is all six.

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He grew up with kiddie pools in the attic catching roof leaks and frost forming on the inside of his bedroom wall, and today 1.33 million people watch him drag dead cars out of Iowa fence rows. Kevin Brown runs Junkyard Digs out of Ames, two hours up the road from the barn, and this one is mostly about what being broke actually builds.

The house sagged corner to corner and the ceiling collapsed while the family was gone for a weekend. Four of them lived in one room of an office building in town, no walls, three beds, for three years of his high school life. His dad pulled his entire 401k to put up a shell so they could finish the inside themselves. He paid for Iowa State by joining the National Guard as a Chinook mechanic, deployed to Kuwait and Iraq, and built the channel from a cot on government internet. He came home with 130,000 subscribers and two paychecks.

His rule is the part worth sitting with. He would not quit engineering school until the channel paid double an engineer's starting salary. He says the first time in his life he felt safe was the day the math cleared, not the day the subscribers did.

The farming is the cheapest operation in this state. Four and a half acres, a John Deere 620 with three gallons of gas in the oil pan, a $500 planter, and a 6600 combine he bought for $2,200 and drove home. He put $212 into inputs one year and sold the crop for $2,000.

Also in this one: only 3 percent of channels ever crack 100,000 subscribers, a million Shorts views that paid $412, copper at a record and the wire in your grain bin, and why his dad said the 1980s sucked while his buddy's dad called them the best years of his life.

His advice at the end sounds exactly like his dad: do not put your hands in your pockets. Learn to work hard and you will not fail in life.

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00:00 Cold open and guest introduction

04:25 800 shirts in three weeks for a stranger's roof

13:22 Sponsor break, Propane Farm Research Program

14:16 Kiddie pools in the attic, frost inside the walls

16:08 Four people, one room, three years

16:35 What being broke gave him that money never could

21:27 The Guard paid for college, so he fixed Chinooks

25:12 Building a channel on Army internet in Iraq

27:00 Home with 130,000 subs and two paychecks

30:47 Sponsor break, AcreEdge Soil NXT

33:15 No quitting until it paid double an engineer

35:13 His wife's 45 minute video got a million views

41:15 Get it running and drive it home, no trailer

58:26 Make it run, make it move, make it safe

1:04:19 The Junkyard Digs farming operation, laid out

1:07:15 A $2,200 combine with no reverser

1:12:45 $212 in, $2,000 out, most profitable farmer around

1:18:06 The part of being a creator nobody sees

1:25:11 Only 3 percent of channels ever crack 100,000

1:27:59 A million Shorts views paid $412

1:34:18 Can you build a whole life in rural America now

1:35:40 Nobody should ever move to Iowa, and he means it

1:40:46 What is actually killing small towns

1:55:12 His dad said the 80s sucked, his buddy's dad loved them

2:02:55 If 1995 did not get the hog guys, 1998 did

2:05:53 Is AI actually coming for the trades

2:12:17 25 CRT TVs, 15 VCRs, and 300 VHS tapes

2:16:26 The first time in his life he felt safe

2:21:47 Do not put your hands in your pockets

2:22:10 Tip of the Hat

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He stacked every FSA beginning farmer loan he could get, went from about 100 cows to 550 in roughly a year, and when the balance sheet finally settled he was positive by $278. That is the number this whole episode hangs on.

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Forty companies own 70 percent of the hogs in this country. Fewer than 100 plants slaughter 99.7 percent of them. Small farms running their own processing account for 0.3 percent of the pork on shelves, 2 percent of the beef. So when a menu names a farm, the math says it almost never is one.

Greg Gunthorp is a fourth generation pastured hog farmer in Indiana, 400 sows on 275 acres, with a USDA-inspected plant on his own farm and pork sold by name at Rick Bayless restaurants, including inside Disney. In 1998 hogs were bringing 8 cents a pound minus trucking. He maxed his credit cards, pulled pennies out of his daughter's piggy bank for a school field trip, and drove a pig packed in ice in the back of his wife's Suzuki Swift into Chicago, where Wine Spectator had just named the restaurant he was selling to the best in the world.

Then the big packers noticed. He calls it winning a few battles and losing the war, shadow brands priced 25 to 40 percent over commodity, selling the same conventional product the independent farmers built their name on. Until January of 2026, foreign meat repackaged here could legally say Product of USA on the label.

Also in this one: why farmers get 14 cents of every food dollar, the JBS bribery scandal and the 97 day pause on Brazilian imports, why he ranks solar grazing above his own kill floor, why 70 percent of the lamb sold in America is imported, and the same four point reform pitch that landed the same way with a MAHA crowd and an antitrust crowd.

His line on what these farms actually export: the topsoil and the kids.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Cold open and guest introduction
04:45 In '94 his dad said the little guy was done
05:29 40 companies own 70 percent of America's hogs
06:20 600 acres, woven wire fence, hogs on pasture
10:14 172 dollars an acre, and a 17,000 dollar silo that same year
12:07 A home equity loan, a foreclosure notice, a piggy bank
14:01 1988, an exchange trip, sheep farms selling straight to restaurants
16:24 Sponsor break, Propane Farm Research Program
17:04 Purdue, 1994, buying the family sow herd
20:01 8 cent hogs, and nobody was cheap enough to survive
22:21 A cold call to a chef who never answers
25:30 A hog packed in ice in a Suzuki Swift to Chicago
27:06 The best restaurant in the world, by accident
28:17 Rick Bayless becomes his biggest customer
32:01 Why he had to own the processing himself
43:41 Built the plant, maxed the cards, went all in
44:31 Farm to table dies, the big guys copy the label
45:36 0.3 percent of pork, 2 percent of beef
52:02 Box primals with somebody else's label on them
58:38 A pallet of pig rectums bound for Thailand
1:02:19 What greenwashing actually costs a shopper
1:04:01 Product of USA meant nothing for over a decade
1:15:09 JBS bribed up to 2,100 officials, then paused 97 days
1:19:06 Argentina's beef, antibiotics, and a 25 percent discount
1:23:00 Same four reforms, a MAHA crowd and an antitrust crowd
1:26:07 275 acres, 15 employees, a USDA plant on the farm
1:29:58 Two thousand ewes and a bet on solar grazing
1:34:46 Why 70 percent of American lamb is imported
1:37:42 Ranking every enterprise, slaughter dead last
1:47:06 How to actually fight the USDA and win
1:56:12 Farmers get 14 cents of the food dollar
2:01:11 Term limits, campaign finance, a balanced budget
2:04:21 Born on third base, cheering the home run
2:11:23 Delegating, risk, and farming with his son
2:23:54 Topsoil and kids, what we really export
2:28:19 Tip of the Hat

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A rancher outside Kansas City put collars on 30 cows and went from moving them every two days to every four or five days on the same ground, at the same cow condition. That is double the carrying capacity overnight, and we spent most of this episode on how virtual fencing works and what it costs.

The collar runs $280 plus a subscription. Users report getting back 8 to 10 hours a week. The GPS is accurate to about 4 or 5 feet, which is roughly one fat cow in any direction. One challenger cow averaged 800 sound warnings a day for three weeks, about one every 30 seconds she was awake, while other cows in the same group got one a week. When a cow does get out, she is back inside 80 percent of the time within 5 to 10 minutes, because her friends are still there. There are around 6,000 of these collars in North America and they only started selling here in June.

Then we put the skeptic hat on. What happens to your herd if the company runs out of money. Who owns the data. Why he tells customers to never trust a virtual fence alone along a highway, because the liability is too big. And what happens to cattlemen when Silicon Valley decides cattle are a robotics problem.

Also in this one: an engineer who quit a VP title in Norway, visa on Monday and a plane on Friday, a farmhouse built in 1318 and the man who will not give it up, why so many farmers keep a town job for the insurance, and what a Norwegian thinks of American water, groceries, and youth sports.

Low profit is the one problem every farmer in every country has in common. The other is that not one of them thinks he owns the land.

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00:00 Fencing cattle without building any fence

04:00 A Norwegian engineer lands in Kansas

06:24 The engineer who got pulled into sales

07:43 Back from paternity leave to 30% cuts

08:57 The gala dinner that changed everything

12:35 The news story that started a company

14:05 Seven engineers, a prototype in 2 months

18:57 Propane Farm Research Program

19:28 Their US hire quit before he ever moved

21:20 Dying broke with a bank of good stories

23:10 Visa on Monday, gone by Friday

27:32 A float trip with people who bought nothing

33:48 Kruger Dunning and the Mountain of Stupidity

43:18 So what is virtual fencing, exactly

44:18 A sound first, then a shock she remembers

51:46 One cow tested it 800 times in a day

54:42 Splitting 100 acres into 5 acre paddocks

01:00:19 Carrying capacity doubled overnight

01:04:01 Cell service, GPS, and 4 feet of drift

01:10:20 Most escapees walk back in within 10 minutes

01:14:53 $280 a collar and 10 hours a week back

01:19:22 Never trust it alone along a highway

01:22:34 Every farmer, every country, same problem

01:33:21 A farmhouse that was built in 1318

01:34:24 When Silicon Valley calls cattle robotics

01:49:16 The Skeptic Block

01:50:03 What if the company runs out of money

01:52:10 Who actually owns your cattle data

01:55:14 Only 6,000 collars, and why pick them

02:10:05 Raising robust kids on purpose

02:13:40 Rapid Fire

02:16:16 Tip of the Hat

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Welcome back to Barn Talk! In today’s Hot Topics episode, the conversation focused on what’s really going on across the ag markets and beef industry. The discussion explored the effects of recent government moves to import more foreign beef, the ripple impact of packing plant closures, and what all of this means for ranchers, feedlots, and rural towns like ours. One concept discussed was how these short-term fixes and political decisions rarely touch the real, deep-rooted issues behind cattle shortages and rising grocery prices.

A key theme that emerged was the vulnerability of independent cattle producers as big packers consolidate and government policies seem more aimed at quick wins than long-term solutions. Several points were raised, including how these structural problems are leaving producers with less leverage, what needs to change to keep rural America strong, and why supporting local, independent food systems matters more than ever. If you care about the future of American beef and the backbone of rural life, this episode is a must-listen.

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00:00 Promoting the Barn Talk Newsletter

05:28 Ethanol production in Indiana

14:01 Attending a well-organized event

16:18 Value of Live Experiences

24:46 Impact of Guns N' Roses on music

26:52 Trump's foreign beef import plan

34:11 Impact of cattle prices on consumers

39:01 American agriculture and political influence

44:10 Supporting rural America through livestock

50:41 Consolidation of beef packers

55:26 Challenges in the cattle industry

01:02:35 Challenges in cattle industry

01:06:31 Sterile fly program update

01:14:03 Childhood memories of lamb chops

01:18:56 US-Canada trade tensions

01:21:01 US-Canada trade negotiations stall

01:30:55 Global debt crisis concerns

01:32:08 Concerns about future entitlements

01:37:58 Longtime friendship and staying connected

01:44:40 Thanking the audience and supporters

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Welcome back to Barn Talk! In this episode, Tork and Sawyer sit down for an open and honest conversation comparing their lives and mindsets at the age of 26. Tork reflects on his experiences coming up in the late 1990s from the financial pressures and risks of running a farm to weathering the collapse of the hog market. Sawyer, now 26 himself, shares what it's like navigating business, investing, and rural life in today's world, where information is everywhere and opportunity looks different than it did for his father.

Together, they explore generational shifts in work ethic, financial lessons, risk-taking, relationships, and the role of faith. Through personal stories and real-world examples, Tork and Sawyer highlight what’s stayed the same and what’s changed for young people trying to build a meaningful life in rural America. This episode is full of hard truths, honest reflections, and valuable advice for anyone thinking about their own journey no matter their age.

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00:00 Discussing Midwest corn crop outlook

18:24 Financing the First Property

30:49 Buying a Camaro as a teen

36:28 Discovering Business and Investing

49:08 Following in kids' footsteps

01:02:17 Family dynamic and generational gap

01:05:02 Childhood memories and adventures

01:18:15 Importance of delegating tasks

01:27:58 Transitioning to construction work

01:42:33 Surviving the hog market collapse

01:54:51 Father's tough love lesson

02:03:56 Importance of Communication in Relationships

02:08:30 Family and church discussions

02:23:14 Valuing old friends and partners

02:30:46 Audience poll and listener feedback

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