In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Erin Arick and Mitchell Parks of Figured. Figured provides cloud-based management software to help farmers better run their business. We discuss how this solution works and how it can help farmers.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Paige Harding, a new attorney in Dodge City, Kansas. Paige grew up on a cow calf operation and after graduating from law school was able to come back to her hometown. Paige was also involved in several pageants and has developed a blog on benefits of rural living and even has time for her own cattle operation.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with John Schwarz, an attorney and farmer in Northern Indiana. John focuses on providing legal services to farmers including helping farmers circumvent the pitfalls of dealing with FSA and NRCS. John also farms non-gmo soybeans using irrigation.

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In today's podcast Paul does a solo webinar on the details of the $10 billion economic aid and $20 billion disaster aid that was enacted late last week by Congress. For those that would like to see the Power Point portion of the webinar, Paul is providing free access to the webinar at his blog www.farmcpareport.com. That webinar was posted early Monday morning.

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and this aid may be a Christmas gift for most farmers.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Austin Allred of Royal Family Farms in Central Washington State. Austin and his family have a very diversified farm operation including row crops, potatoes, dairy and beef. Austin also is in charge of their worm farm, and we spend a bit of time discussing how you farm worms and why this is important for their operations.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Brian O'Neill, owner of Huron Orchard Services. Brian and his team manages many almond and pistachio orchards near Fresno. We discuss how important water and labor is for growing these crops. We then dive into some of the key details on growing these nuts including estimated annual production, pricing and harvesting.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Mike Gustafson of Farmers First Trust. Mike grew up on a farm in NE Nebraska and is currently a principal in Farmers First Trust that offers an additional way to defer income taxes when selling farmland or certain other farm assets. He also shares a unique story regarding his brother and how he overcame losing an arm in a farm accident.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Matt Boos of Agrigrowth consulting. Matt helps farmers grow their business which may not just be the farm business. He is also a firm proponent of being part of a peer group.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Todd Welle of Honour Ag. Honour Ag provides both input and equipment financing for farmers and their motto is to make it easy. We discuss how they provide that financing and some of the industry trends.

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with Erik Oberbroeckling who farms with his family in NE Iowa. They also have a trucking operation that hauls silica sand, milk and other commodities on a year-round basis. We spend time discussing the farm and trucking operation and how diversification has helped both businesses.

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