The Elevator’s Cut Podcast

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The Elevator’s Cut Podcast episodes

February 02, 2023 Master Management Cut
The guys delve into the pressing challenges, opportunities, and ideas from the largest annual conference of exclusively basis traders in history. Some great concepts on managing your business and how we see it applied in the grain industry. They discuss a possible monumental shift in preferred snacks of the show as well as new podcast swag in the works.
36 min
January 10, 2023 2023 Opening Cut
What do GMD, Free DP, and Runza all have in common? This episode. Join us as we talk through it all and memorialize our 100,000th download.
31 min
December 20, 2022 Trucker’s Cut
The guys chat up Jared Flinn of Bulkloads.com and discuss the finer points of elevator/trucker relationships.
43 min
December 08, 2022 Live from CEC
The guys were invited on stage at the NGFA's annual Country Elevator Conference in St. Louis. This episode is a live recording of the panel they hosted about the upcoming merchandising and financial challenges that this crop year holds. We chat with bankers and merchants about how best to approach the year.
46 min
December 01, 2022 Spreadmageddon
The guys delve into some of the aspects of what separates the haves and have-nots among merchandisers during years with flat/inverted market structures.
40 min
November 21, 2022 6 Degrees of Dan Mehochko
Known to many as the nicest guy in the grain business, Dan shares his wealth of experience with us in this episode. He shares some stories from his decades in the commercial grain business and tells us about the importance of building and maintaining relationships throughout his career. Dan also fills us in on what the heck a data scientist is and how they will help our industry grow into the future.
40 min
November 17, 2022 Potent Potables and Wild Basis Tales
The guys are back with some news! Big upcoming event details. Then we psychoanalyze some of the things we say in the grain business and why. Finally, we finish on some of the exciting basis trading stories from this harvest given the historic basis volatility.
28 min
October 03, 2022 The River’s Cut
The guys have a discussion with Susan David of No Bull (@SusanNOBULL) on the recent disruption in the barge freight market. What's causing it? How will it be resolved? Who is benefitting? And what does it all mean to the rest of us? She gives us a great breakdown of what is going on.
40 min
September 07, 2022 Basis Trading Through Inverses with Phil Luce
The guys chat with White Commercial CEO and Basis Guru, Phil Luce, about managing basis, spreads, and expectations in these crazy times.
37 min
August 23, 2022 Opening Call’s Cut
In this episode the guys speculate about what they’re delve into on the episode just before they record the episode.... and are immediately proved wrong.
32 min

About The Elevator’s Cut Podcast

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The grain merchandisers podcast where Roger and Jason capture the big topics and challenges of the grain industry with humor, pragmatism, and simplicity. With a few decades of combined experience in the basis trading, brokerage, and farm marketing spheres, they use their experiences and knowledge of their area of the grain business to shed some light on what they can, and debunk some myths and exaggerations that exist in the grain industry.