The Pacesetter Pod

Show Highlights:

• Is your profit leaking due to hidden inefficiencies? [00:00:24]
• Unlock three key questions for your problem-solving framework. [00:02:13]
• How to navigate the cost–benefit dilemma. [00:04:48]
• The importance of practical, feasible improvements. [00:07:57]
• Gain a realistic approach to problem-solving. [00:08:19]

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn: https://wwaw.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• Follow Jim's case study, an instructive client story. [00:00:24]
• Discover the concept of working to constraints, not until them. [00:03:02]
• Strategies to optimize existing resources for maximum efficiency. [00:06:17]
• The importance of staying true to your processes despite the slack. [00:08:20]
• How to agilely monitor constraints before they emerge. [00:10:34]
• Advice on applying Jim's concept to your business. [00:12:10]

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• Discover Upstream Ag, the essential ag newsletter. [00:02:44]
• Innovation and its Red Queen race effect explained. [00:08:29]
• Explore the tension between innovation and certainty. [00:12:45]
• What is innovation culture vs. innovation theater? [00:17:14]
• Tell-tale signs of novelty infatuation in a business. [00:23:46]
• Why the revolutionary Michelin PAX tire failed. [00:28:31]
• Analyze John Deere's thoughtful innovation strategy with See & Spray. [00:34:04]
• How to ensure genuine problem-solving innovation. [00:42:45]
• Gain learnings from Amazon's Fire Phone failure. [00:45:12]

Connect with Shane Thomas at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanethomasag/, and to learn more about Upstream Ag, go to https://www.upstream.ag/.

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• Introducing the MABA 2024 Outlook Conference. [00:00:25]
• Discover Mike Fossum, an unlikely contributor to ag. [00:01:12]
• What does an astronaut have to teach about dissension? [00:02:36]
• What if dissension isn't a threat, but an opportunity? [00:04:28]
• Five ways an additive vs. agitative use of dissension de-risks strategy. [00:07:01]

To learn more about the Michigan Agri-Business Association (MABA), go to https://miagbiz.org/.

To access the MABA 2024 Outlook Conference, please visit https://maba.swoogo.com/2024outlookconference/5536252.

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• How a 100-year-old ag leader successfully applies sustainability. [00:05:07]
• Truterra's matchmaker role for Fortune 500 companies and farmers. [00:06:01]
• Can farming realities meet consumer-driven sustainability goals? [00:10:00]
• Why a value-first path is best trodden in agronomic advice. [00:13:22]
• Discover Truterra's customer-centric strategies. [00:20:00]
• What a really lean hog reveals about new asset classes. [00:23:37]
• Insights on Red Barn Farms' failure to innovate. [00:28:06]
• Gain valuable advice on ag market opportunities. [00:30:30]

Learn more about Truterra by visiting https://www.truterraag.com.

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• Find out why business success breeds its own enemy. [00:02:01]
• Learn to spot the end of a groove and its risks. [00:04:53]
• The only strategy to stop success from killing your business. [00:07:51]
• How reading habits obstruct your crisis readiness. [00:09:57]
• Do you have a trusted circle of business advisors? [00:10:43]
• Discover leading metrics to monitor for agribusiness continuity. [00:13:10]

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• How Farmer Direct Foods provides the perfect wheat. [00:02:28]
• Discover the benefits of regenerative agriculture. [00:07:38]
• Learn top product-adoption and branding strategies. [00:11:40]
• The importance of an operational focus in direct grower deals. [00:21:14]
• Explore the unique asymmetrical agreements in ag. [00:26:31]
• Insights on transitioning governance to an investor-led model. [00:30:34]
• Investing in friends and fiduciary accountability. [00:36:24]
• Cautionary advice on growers staying in ownership. [00:39:36]
• Find out how equity dilution affects farmers. [00:44:14]
• The power of healthy tension in an organization. [00:47:51]

Visit https://www.farmerdirectfoods.com/ to learn more about Farmer Direct Foods.

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• How validation bias can mislead innovation. [00:00:21]
• Learn about the perils of singular data points. [00:02:10]
• Are your data sources credible and courageous? [00:04:38]
• The "ifs" method of confronting idea conditionality. [00:10:12]
• How to approach data if an idea needs a miracle to succeed. [00:15:11]
• Consider the ultimate benefit of challenging ideas. [00:16:37]

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• Get CoBank's latest labor-market data for ag. [00:06:25]
• Labor-participation rates in layman's terms. [00:09:35]
• Is rural ag predicted to survive an aging workforce? [00:13:15]
• Explore automation as a solution for labor shortages. [00:18:29]
• Gain a fascinating generational analysis of farmers. [00:26:10]
• Uncover the $68T reason behind non-working men. [00:32:29]
• Strategies to bridge generational gaps in labor. [00:36:37]
• Find out potential ways to utilize Gen-Z labor. [00:40:08]
• How to benefit from CoBank's Knowledge Exchange. [00:46:07]

To learn more about CoBank's Knowledge Exchange, go to https://www.CoBank.com/knowledge-exchange, or email Jacqui Fatka at [email protected].

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

Show Highlights:

• The issue today's ag-industry headlines expose. [00:00:20]
• Explore the realities of limits to growth in ag. [00:01:35]
• Berkshire Hathaway's historical growth performance. [00:03:30]
• How growth has constrained Berkshire Hathaway. [00:05:46]
• What is the law of large numbers? [00:08:25]
• Gain concise growth vs. sustainability considerations. [00:11:06]
• Tips for a forward-thinking approach to constraints. [00:14:09]

If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.