A pleasure to have Scott Day on this week’s episode, the Director of Agronomy at Fall Line Capital. He is a fifth generation farmer from Manitoba, Canada where he was an early practitioner and advocate of no-till agriculture.

Scott brings a wealth of knowledge in no-till agriculture and a practical approach to soil conservation. His insights into managing farms, preserving topsoil, and navigating the intersection of agriculture and investment align with our podcast's focus on exploring innovative and sustainable practices in various industries.

Episode highlights:

• Preserving Topsoil as the Ultimate Goal

Connect with Scott:

Website: https://www.fall-line-capital.com/

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Delighted with our conversation featuring Benina Burroughs Montes, the current Owner and Manager of Burroughs Family Farms, her century-old family business.

Benina's unwavering commitment to exploring diverse opportunities in agriculture and her vision for a sustainable future align seamlessly with our podcast's mission to elevate conversations on social, intellectual, and economic capital within the farming community. Her insights may spark a reconsideration of traditional farming approaches, potentially paving the way for individual success and community development in this ever-changing agricultural landscape.

Episode highlights:

• Diversity as a Driving Force

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We are pleased with the conversation with Shay Foulk, a business consultant at Ag View Solutions who also runs Monier Seed.

Venturing beyond traditional investment paths, Shay’s diverse background in agronomy and military service sheds light on the ever-changing dynamics of the agricultural industry. His perspectives may inspire a reconsideration of unconventional approaches, potentially fostering individual success and community development within the farming sector.

Episode highlights:

• AgView Mission: Thriving Farms

Connect with Shay:

Cost Production tool - farmprofitmanager.com 

Consulting / Conferences / Peer groups - agviewsolutions.com

Seed business - monierseed.com

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An enriching conversation with Marcus Arredondo - the ingenious founder and managing partner of EdgeWest Capital.

Diverging from conventional investment routes, Marcus's experiences illuminate the evolving landscape where stability and growth may differ. His insights could encourage you to consider alternative avenues, contributing to personal prosperity and community enhancement.

Episode highlights:

• Diversified income, scalable ventures.

Connect with Marcus:

Linkedin: Marcus Arredondo

Website: https://edgewestcap.com/

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We enjoyed having Corey Peterson on Farmers Capital Conversations this week. Corey, CEO of Kahuna Investments, owns a $250 million real estate portfolio and sourced millions in investor capital. He has written bestsellers and hosts the Multifamily Legacy podcast.

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• The World of Greenhouses and Hoop Houses

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Website: www.bootstrapfarmer.com

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Hello and welcome to Farmers Capital Conversations. Our podcast aims to expand your social, intellectual, and economic capital. Investing on and off the farm is hard enough. Here, we will provide insightful stories and resources to help out. 

Jim Schultz is the driving force behind Open Prairie. He is a fifth-generation Illinoisan with deep roots in agriculture. Over the past 24 years, Jim's leadership has led to the creation of over 4,000 jobs across industries in the United States, from Ag tech to medical devices.

2:00 What is Open Prairie?

4:30 What criteria do they use to select Ag tech companies for investment?

8:15 How many applications do they get in a year?

9:10 Process of building a relationship once they invested

12:20 The ownership they have with their investment

15:10 Where are they getting the capital from?

16:40 Family Offices

17:40 What are they expected to get on the five-year exit?

23:20 Sample of his Success story

28:05 Ag Tech - Historical and future perspective

Connect with Jim: 

Email - [email protected]

Website - www.openprairie.com

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Hello and welcome to Farmers Capital Conversations. Our podcast aims to expand your social, intellectual, and economic capital. Investing on and off the farm is hard enough. Here, we will provide insightful stories and resources to help out. 

Joe Vaclavik is the founder and president of Standard Grain. He spent the first 13 years of his career at the Chicago Board of Trade prior to relocating to Nashville, Tennessee. Vaclavik deals directly with a number of large scale farms, feedlots, and commercial grain facilities within the US. 

1:33 An overview of his experience in the grain market

4:27 what are some of the ways that you're simplifying the grain markets and in some of those services and products or just even evaluating the risk and opportunities in the future that you're providing to people?

7:00  what other aspects of running. Grain farms. Are you helping others look at outside of the margin?

08:33 How do you, how do you do that? Get people past that FOMO. 

10:09 what are some other, other emerging trends and shifts you're kind of noticing in the grains right now?

13:45 can you just give us an overview of what that podcast looks like? 

16:29 are you looking at supply and demand and international markets as well?

18:00 so when you're looking at the, the weather patterns of South America, you know, how are you using that information into what you're doing

20:01 Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

23:30 Standardgrain.com

25:12 Takeaway from Joe

Connect with Joe:

Website

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Hello everyone and welcome back to the Farming for Passive Income show where we strive to educate the agricultural community on how to create alternative income streams and diversification through commercial real estate private equity.

Mat Sorensen is the founder and CEO of Directed IRA and Directed Trust Company. Directed IRA has over 1 billion in assets and provides self-directed accounts to investors in all 50 states. Mat is an attorney, real estate investor, bestselling author, international speaker, and expert on self-directed retirement accounts.

3:00 Self-Directed IRA

8:40 Key features of a standard self-directed IRA account, its relationship with Roth IRAs, and the relevance of solo 401(k)s.

13:58 Solo 401K

20:47 The risk in Investing using ROTH IRAs

23:00 Peter Thiel story

30:00 Fidelity IRAs

31:00 Process of Transferring Fidelity IRAs

Connect with Mat:

Website

Podcast: Main Street Business / Directed IRA

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Hello everyone and welcome back to the Farming for Passive Income show where we strive to educate the agricultural community on how to create alternative income streams and diversification through commercial real estate private equity.

Mitchell Hora, a seventh-generation farmer founded Continuum Ag back in 2015 as an agricultural consulting company specializing in the Haney soil health test. Today Continuum is a soil health data intelligence company that uses its topsoil software to enable farmers to profit from improving their soil health.

2:00 “One of the principles of soil health is Diversity.”

2:54 Diversity on the Farm

04:18 Relay Cropping

6:05 Region Roadmap

10:24 The impact they observed herbicide and pesticide usage as a result of implementing relay cropping in their farming practices

14:12 Relay Cropping process

15:30 “The only thing that builds soil structure is roots.”

17:20 Does Continuum Ag have resources for the Pacific Northwest?

19:50 COP26

21:14  Low Carbon Biofuel Tax credit.

27:48 The Formula for his carbon intensity score

29:24 What are the general steps for an Oregon farmer interested in implementing relay cropping or other regenerative practices, and do they have recommended partners or resources for them in that region?

34:32 His Commercial Real Estate journey

42:35 Takeaway from Mitchell

Connect with Mitchell:

Website