Are you feeling lost in the Fog of Farming? 📍 Fertilizer prices are through the roof. 📍 Commodity prices keep falling. 📍 Unpredictable weather makes every decision feel like a gamble. It’s easy to feel like the enemy is all around you—but you don’t have to go it alone. Join us for a podcast that brings together the best minds in agriculture to help you: ✅ Cut through uncertainty and gain clarity. ✅ Leverage the right tools to protect your margins. ✅ Make the best decisions for your farm in 2025. 🎯 Featured Experts: David Sullivan from Global Ag Risk Solutions: Insights into whole-farm insurance strategies. Carl deConinck Smith: A seasoned grain farmer who's mastered precision agriculture on his 10,000-acre farm. Dean Klippenstine from MNP: Expert advice on keeping your ag business profitable. Looking forward to the clarity that will come from this conversation.
Most farm risk plans are built on break-even. The market does not care what your break-even is, and neither does the insurance behind it.
This live session, presented with Global Ag Risk Solutions, put four perspectives on the same problem: Dave Sullivan from Global Ag Risk, Dean Klippenstine and Tyson Kenneth from MNP, and producer Carl DeConnick Smith, known for a contrarian but disciplined approach to planning. They work through how insurance options, AgriStability, and forward pricing fit together, what a well-thought-out plan does for a farm when volatility hits, and how a young farm with no history gets started. Live questions from the audience shape much of the conversation.
What's Inside
- How the major insurance options and AgriStability work together, and where each one stops
- Why a plan built before volatility arrives changes how a farm behaves when it does
- How a new farmer with no production history approaches coverage
- What one producer's plan looks like when everything seems to be going against him
- The one number the panel agrees every farm should know before it plans the year
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