In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Matt Noggle a rancher in Southeastern Michigan that finishes about 200 head in his feedlot and raises about 100 cows. He and his wife have an active direct to consumer business that markets his cattle. Matt is also a business coach for Legacy Farmer and works actively with about 50 farmers in their operation.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Gavin Willis of the Washington Red Raspberry Commission. Most of the frozen raspberries grown in the US comes from Whatcom County in Washington state due to the unique soil conditions and weather. These growers are facing issues related to labor and foreign competition but are very resilient. It can cost upwards of $50,000 to put in an acre of raspberries and mother nature does not always cooperate.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Joe Whitworth of the Freshwater Trust based in Oregon but works for farmers throughout the West to help them economically enhance their irrigation systems to help conserve water and reduce fertilizer flows into streams. They currently have a large project in the Snake River Basin to help farmers change from flood irrigation to pivots.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Tim Welles of CIC Services. This firm acts as a manager of captive insurance companies and in the podcast we review how captives work and the advantages that may occur to certain farm operations.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Reece Langley of Langley Consulting LLC. Reece has been actively involved in the farm bill process and served many years on the Rice and Cotton organizations before starting his own consulting business a few years ago specializing in Ag Policy. Reece is currently involved in trying to get manufacturers a tax incentive to buy domestic production.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Siddhartha (Sid) Jha of Arbol. Arbol provides various types of climate risk insurance alternatives and data analytics to help farmers and agribusinesses manage climate and other risks. They continue to research additional risk management products that can help farmers.

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In today's podcast Paul does a solo session on the SDRP Double Up. Paul received a lot of emails, texts and calls on the SDRP payment limits; how to increase the limits; and whether we will get an additional top up later this summer.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Seth Meyer director of FAPRI at the University of Missouri. Before starting that role, he was the chief economist for USDA starting in the first Trump administration and continuing through the Biden administration and the state of the second Trump administration. We discuss those roles and how FAPRI is operated today.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Shay Foulk of Ag View Solutions. Ag View has converted the Excel based Profit Manager to a free online Farm Profit Manager that is available to all farmers.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Jeremy Matuszewski of Thunderstruck Ag Equipment based in Manitoba Canada. Thunderstruck represents several ag related products including the Razors Edge Concave that Jeremy developed himself a few years ago.

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