Jeff VanPevenage, the President and CEO of Columbia Grain, sits down to chat with Delaney and Mike about pulse crop production in the US and what COVID-19 is doing to change the demand for these food products.
Happy Earth Day! Brian Philpot, the CEO go AgAmerica Lending, joins us to discuss how they help producers make financial decisions for the short run and long run on their operations.
Hugh Aljoe, Director of Producer Relations for the Noble Research Institute in Ardmore, OK, joined me to discuss the skills required to progress as an intentional manager. We talk about the intentional management of pastures, livestock, marketing, records, finance, and personnel.
Dairy farming is a life like no other. Over the past several years, their industry has been through the ringer. Tara from the New Mexico Milkmaid does a wonderful of telling the story of dairy farmers across the country. We speak to her about her family's operation, her role as an enviornmental scientist, and the effect that COVID-19 has had on the industry. A great conversation with such an influential woman. Go check Tara out online at https://newmexicomilkmaid.com/
Ian Mitchell-Innes is a world-renowned grazier and educator. He is a wealth of knowledge and communicates clearly and practically his passion to help people receive the maximum amount of benefit possible from the key resources entrusted to them. At the end of this episode I share some thoughts on how we can respond to this current time of uncertainty.
This week, we are joined by an incredible guest with some awesome insights into current consumer buying behavior. Janette Barnard has a deep background in the animal protein and agriculture supply chain arenas. We discuss why consumers are opting for more traditional protein sources, and leaving plant-based alternatives on the shelves. Janette takes us down a path of talking about how the agriculture supply chain is inflexible, but why that isn’t necessarily a bad thing (at least in non-pandemic times), how the alternative protein business may actually be more adapted to scaling up and down quickly, and what all these sudden changes mean for the face of our industry as we know it. She gets us really excited about the possibilities coming wide open for direct to consumer marketing, and shares insights of what this kind of sudden onslaught of innovation could mean for agricultural producers. This is one episode you don’t want to miss - fast paced and fun, Janette Barnard hits this week’s topic out of the park.
