In today's podcast, Paul has a conversation with Mike Downey of Next Generation Ag Associates. Mike and his team help with farm succession planning and have a specialty in helping farmers with no family successors find someone to take over the farm operation. 

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In today's podcast Paul has a conversation with John Nalivck of Sterling Marketing. John provides various economic and marketing information regarding beef and hog trends from the producer to the packer. We review what is happening in both industries currently and what may happen next year. 

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In today's podcast, Paul has a conversation with Marc Arnusch of NE Colorado. Marc and his family farm multiple irrigated crops but has always pivoted toward more value added crops. We also discuss how his aquifer has enabled his family to enjoy more off-farm income plus review his thought process of not doing a solar farm project and pivoting to a conservation easement.

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In today's podcast, Paul has a conversation with Krista Swanson, lead economist with the National Corn Growers Association. Krista grew up on a farm in Illinois and still farms with her husband near the Quad Cities along with four children. We review her background and some of the opportunities and challenges facing corn growers.

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In today's session Paul has a conversation with Alan Richardson. Alan helps coach farmers who may be stuck with making sound business decisions by using a process called EOS. We also discuss how this helps in the succession planning process too. 

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In today's podcast, Paul has a conversation with Steve Bruere of Peoples Company. Paul had a podcast with Steve a couple of years ago and Peoples Company has expanded in scope and regions since then. We have a discussion on farmland value trends and also review the upcoming Land Investment Expo that will be held in Des Moines on January 9, 2024.

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In today's podcast, Paul has a conversation with David Muth of Peoples Company Capital Markets. In the podcast, we discuss how a Delaware Statutory Trust can help farmers or others that are doing a 1031 tax-deferred exchange roll over all or part of their proceeds into farmland. 

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In today's podcast, Paul has a conversation with RD Schrader of Schrader Real Estate and Auction Company based in NE Indiana. We reviewed how real estate auctions work and the trends in both farmland values and farm equipment values.

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In today's podcast, Paul has a conversation with Jay Graham of Western Farm Advisors which provides M&A and other services to permanent crop operations primarily in the Pacific Northwest. There has a been a major trend of private equity coming into this space and we discuss how that is affecting these vertically integrated operations. 

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In today's podcast, Paul has a conversation with Bart Fischer of Texas A&M. We discuss his background but then have a deeper dive into the new farm bill. We review how an update or reallocation of base acres might affect farmers and then dig into the possible increase in the effective reference prices. But these prices can also go down and we discuss those aspects too.

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