In today's podcast Paul does another solo session on what changes might be coming to income taxes. The Senate passed a budget resolution last week that effectively authorizes up to $6 trillion of tax cuts over 10 years. Paul dives into the changes that might happen to the Trump Tax Cuts and other possible tax law changes.

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In today's podcast Paul does a solo podcast on the new Emergency Commodity Assistance Program plus an update on what might happen with income taxes this year. Paul touches briefly on ECAP and how farmers might qualify for an increased payment limit and the restrictions on that for certain legal entities. On income taxes, he reviews how the situation in 2017 is different from 2025 and then goes over the various options for doing income tax cuts or raising tax revenue. This will not be the final podcast that Paul does this year on taxes.

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In today's podcast, Paul has another conversation with Mike Rohlfsen and Jeff Kazin of AgrisAcademy. Their company provides risk management training for farmers and we discuss an update from the last time we had them on the podcast.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Kimberly Ratcliff of Texas. She is the 2025 Top Producer Woman in Agriculture winner and has a unique story of leaving New York City to move back to the farm.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Mark Hanna, a farmer in North Central Iowa that was a 2025 Top Producer finalist. Mark and his family have a row crop and hog operation, but Mark has also been involved with investing and helping over 50 ag startups.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with John Guglielmi, executive director of Total Acre. Total Acre provides help to farmers to improve their yields by utilizing data provided by both their farm and other farms. Total Farm was started by David Hula and Randy Dowty who have won numerous corn and soybean yield contests.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Chris Barron of Ag View Solutions. Chris has been on the podcast before and today we discuss 2025 corn and soybean budgets. As expected corn looks better than soybeans at least right now. Farmers should try to maximize yield and revenue versus just looking at costs.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Dave Janson of Strategic Farm Marketing. The crop insurance decision is coming soon and there are even more products available that can help farmers maximize their risk coverage. Plus ECO discount has gone up by almost 50% this year compared to last and many farmers should consider this option.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Tara Smith of the Torrey Advisory Group based in Washington DC. Tara is an advocate for the ag industry and grew up on a corn and soybean farm in central Illinois. We discuss the prospects for a new Farm Bill and how crop insurance is the best risk management option for farmers.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Kaden Stein a young CPA based in Dodge City, Kansas. Kaden purposely came back home to be a CPA which also allows him to support his cattle habit. Although there are challenges to being a rural CPA the rewards more than make up for it.

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