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The Independent Farmer Podcast — 222 episodes

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Expanding Your Offerings with Local Partnerships

2

Farmer Spotlight: Sweet Magnolia Farm

3

The Power of Story Brand Marketing

4

Pet Food For The Win

5

Build Recurring Cash Flow for Your Farm

6

Grow Your Bottom Line with Email Marketing

7

Shifting Your Farm Mindset for 6-Figure Success

8

How Onboarding Sets Your Farm Up for Success

9

5 Fastest Ways to Build a Successful Farm Business

10

Exclusive Content: The Farmer's Guide to Profitable Pork Sales

11

Biggest Farm Money Mistakes

12

5 Steps to Success with Delivery-as-a-Service

13

Scaling Your Farm to $1M through Farmers Markets

14

The 7-Figure Blueprint for Rural Farm Success

15

Balancing a Growing Farm and a Growing Family

16

Double Your Farm Revenue with Delivery as a Service

17

Pricing Strategies for Scaling Your Farm

18

Capture Every Sale: POS Built for Farmers

19

How Marketing Can Help Your Farm Succeed

20

The New Food Pyramid: How Your Farm Can Leverage New Dietary Trends

21

From Homesteading to 6-Figure Farm Business

22

The Power of Having a Team Behind Your Farm

23

Why Real Human Support Matters for Your Farm

24

Price for Profit: How Smart Packaging & Pricing Boost Farm Sales

25

"Not a Tech Person?" How Barn2Door's Onboarding Team Makes it Simple

26

Exclusive Content: Stop Wasting Time

27

How to Make Friends & More Money Selling Local Food

28

How to Minimize Effort and Maximize Profit every Delivery Day

29

Why Farmers Should Avoid AI Logos

30

Expanding your Farm Product with Value-Add Items

31

Growing a Successful Microgreens Business

32

Building Farm Partnerships in your Community's Local Loop

33

Establishing a Wholesale Customer List for your Farm

34

Many Tactics for Selling Pastured Poultry for Profit

35

Government Overreach in Independent Farm Operations

36

Selling Half and Whole Hogs from the Farm

37

Why Barn2Door? Software for Farmers

38

How to Build a Loyal Base of Local Customers for your Farm

39

The Hurdles of Farm Growth

40

*POPULAR* Grassroots Marketing Academy for Farmers

41

Farmer Spotlight: Sasquatch Family Farms

42

Busting Farm Marketing Myths

43

Attracting Local Buyers to your Online Farm Store

44

How to Sell Out of Chicken Subscriptions

45

Farmer Spotlight: Hopewell Farms

46

Direct to Consumer Strategies for Selling Whole Cows

47

How to Sell Beef Subscription Boxes

48

How to Allocate your Farm Marketing Spend

49

How the USDA's Proposed Salmonella Framework Affects Poultry Processors

50

From 1 to 1,000: How I Grew my Local Farm Customer Base

51

Exclusive Content: 5 Tips for Farms to Sell Out Before Next Season

52

Creating your Ideal Customer Profile for Farm Retail Buyers

53

Balancing Farm and Family

54

Farmer Spotlight: Yoder-Way Farm

55

Seamless Farm Sales with Combined Inventory

56

Farm Storefront Best Practices

57

Exclusive Content: Biggest Farm Mistakes

58

Farm Finance Reporting with Taylor Bridges

59

Farmers Market Best Practices with Bennett Farms

60

Simplify your Farm's Delivery Day

61

Increase your Farm's Average Order Value

62

Simplify Wholesale & Retail Orders

63

Farmer Spotlight: Veteran's Liberty Ranch

64

Exclusive Content: Farmers' Market Day? Double your Sales

65

Farmer Spotlight: Benoit Family Farmstead

66

$1 Million Farm Tactics

67

Farm Email Marketing Best Practices

68

Exclusive Content: Five Key Tips from CSA Farms Making Six Figures

69

How Electronic Ear Tagging Affects Independent Farmers

70

From Homestead to a Growing Farm Business

71

Exclusive Content: Planting for Profit

72

Your Farm Finance Checklist for 2024 - Start the Year Right

73

Veteran's Liberty Ranch Hits 6 Figures in 1 Year with POS

74

Investing in Marketing for Future Sales with Dan & Debbie's Creamery

75

Pricing Farm Products for Profit with Old Rich Valley Farm

76

Introducing: The Independent Farmer Podcast with Chucktown Acres

77

Farm Marketing: In Season vs. Off-Season with Old Rich Valley

78

Attracting & Retaining Buyers with Long Lane Farm

79

The 'Business' Side of Farming with Chucktown Acres

80

Save Time and Automate your Farm's Pick & Pack Experience

81

The Farm Logo Design Experience with Barn2Door

82

How to Double your CSA Membership with Tagge's Famous Fruit & Veggie Farms

83

From Hobby to Full-time Farmer with Bennett Farms

84

Increase Buyer Loyalty with Barn2Door + Mailchimp

85

Built For Farmers: A Simple and Easy Refund Experience

86

Building a Happy & Healthy Family Farm Business

87

Meet Zoe – National Sales Manager at Barn2Door!

88

Maximizing Pricing for Your Farm Products

89

Building a Farm Business: Five Tips Every Farmer Should Know

90

The Continued Success of a Fifth Generation Ranch

91

Exclusive Content: 5 Farms Making 6 Figures

92

Success, Security, and Simplicity with Barn2Door Point of Sale

93

Keeping it Simple: Starting a Successful New Farm

94

Global Trends Facing the Modern Day Rancher

95

Copy, Paste, and Post: The Barn2Door Marketing Toolkit

96

Exclusive Content: 5 Steps to Your Farm's First $100K

97

5 Simple Tactics to Setup for Next Season

98

The Key to Instagram Reels: Educating your Audience

99

Farm Legal Series #9: Buyer's Clubs or Herd Shares?

100

The ABCs of Social Media's 3 E's

101

Farm Commerce? 10 Questions to Find the Right Farm Business Solution

102

The Key to a Successful Farm Business - Customer Retention

103

Less is More: Tips to Streamline Your Farm Business

104

Farmers Streamline Their Social Media with Meta Business Suite

105

A Profitable Farm Business is a Sustainable Farm Business - Part 2

106

A Profitable Farm Business is a Sustainable Farm Business - Part 1

107

Does your Farm have a Google Business Profile?

108

The Rise of Vertical Farming Around the World

109

Raising Farm Prices & Finding Financial Freedom

110

Fostering Farmer Connections with Barn2Door Connect

111

Produce Packaging Basics

112

Taking Action in the Adirondacks

113

Finding Success with CSA Subscriptions: Tagge's Famous Fruit, UT

114

Announcing! Barn2Door Point-of-Sale

115

Keeping Dollars in the Community with Direct Farm Sales

116

Farm Legal Series #8: Understanding Meat Processing Possibilities

117

Preserving Watersheds and Beyond with Salmon Safe

118

Generating Sales With Retail & Wholesale Tactics

119

Growing a Sustainable Direct-to-Market Farm Business

120

Farm Legal Series #7: Navigating Requirements and Regulations with Farm Subscriptions

121

Using Data to Power Ranches with AgriWebb

122

Finding Opportunity to Build a "Farmers' Market on Wheels"

123

100 Episodes in Review: Barn2Door's Favorite Podcasts Picks

124

Scale Your Ranch Business & Own Your Supply Chain

125

Farmer Roundtable: How These First-Generation Farmers Found Success

126

Accessing Academies: What Barn2Door Academy Pass Can Unlock for Your Farm Business

127

Success on Socials: Tips for Growing Your Social Media Presence with Unconventional Acres

128

Announcing Ongoing Subscriptions on Barn2Door

129

Farm Finances Simplified - The New Barn2Door Finance Academy

130

Focusing on FOMs: How Farm Onboarding Managers Set the Foundations for Farm Success

131

Finding Fans on Facebook: How Dan & Debbie's Creamery Utilizes Social Media for Their Farm

132

220 Years Strong: How this Generational Farm Started Selling Direct with Hopkins Farms

133

Focusing on FAMs: How Farm Account Managers Can Help Your Farm Succeed

134

Impacting Packaging and Choice Subscriptions with Little River Farms

135

How to Save Hours on Delivery Day with Terra Firma Farm

136

Soilless Systems and Subscriptions with Local Appetite Growers

137

From Shipping Container to Kitchen with B3 Roots

138

Looking at Logos: Let's Discuss the Design Process

139

The Farming Student Has Become the Master w/ Chucktown Acres

140

Trading Pencil and Paper for Seeds and Soil - the Rodale Institute Farm Training Program

141

A Chimp, Software, and Farming... Let's Talk Email Marketing

142

Farm Legal Series #6: Can't Believe it's Raw Butter - The Legal Battle for Raw Food

143

A Farmer's Market(ing) Campaign to Grow Faster Online with Bennett Farms

144

Farmer Spotlight: BCS Livestock

145

Favorite FAN Feature: Old Rich Valley Farm

146

Farmer Spotlight: Little River Farm

147

Favorite FAN Feature: Grass Fed Cattle Co

148

How To Secure Sales Before the Busy Season

149

Farm Legal Series #5: Swine and Pork Laws, Sow what?

150

Feed the Soil, Not the Plant with the Real Organic Project

151

Direct Farm Tactics #5: Boost Your Bottom Line with Tipping

152

Employee Spotlight: Abby, Account Executive

153

Farm Legal Series #4: The Law on Raw... Produce.

154

2 Years On Barn2Door - Ashley Clark with Sacred Roots Maple

155

Death & Taxes - Two Things Your Farm Can't Avoid

156

Employee Spotlight: Caleb, Operations Manager

157

Direct Farm Tactics #4: Tips from our FANs

158

Farm Legal Series #3: Selling Bulk Meat? The Legal Side of Livestock Sales.

159

Direct Farm Tactics #3: Preparing for your Farm's Best 2022

160

Farm Legal Series #2: Poultry Pitfalls and Regulation

161

Acres USA and The Sustainable Farming Movement From The Soil Up

162

A Booming Berry Business - Angelica of Hayton Farms Berries

163

Farm Legal Series #1: Raw Milk Sales Explained

164

What if Farms started like Tech Companies? - Accelerate Rural N.C.

165

1 Year in Review Using Barn2Door with Daphne, Agricola Family Farm

166

Direct Brand Conference Recap

167

Barn2Door partners with ACRES USA for Eco-Ag 2021

168

Conservation, Development, and Use of Agricultural Resources for the Betterment of Native Farmers with Kelsey Scott and Kari Jo Lawrence of the Intertribal Agriculture Council

169

Direct Farm Tactics #2: Pre-Orders: Increased Stability, Increased Sales

170

Exponential Farm Growth - Four Years Running, Farmer Spotlight: Honey Bee Hills Farm

171

How Unconventional Farming Attracts an Audience, Farmer Spotlight: Unconventional Acres

172

Overcoming the Challenges Facing Pasture Poultry with Mike Badger, APPPA

173

Direct Farm Tactics #1: Barn2Door + Mailchimp Customer Journeys

174

Employee Spotlight: Allison, Software Engineer

175

Cultivating a Farm Brand to Connect the Community with Joelle Orem, Orem Farms

176

Connecting Local Farmers with their Communities with Jillian Childs, Florida Farm Finder

177

Balancing Retail & Wholesale Markets with Joe from Dirty Girl Produce

178

Terra Firma Farm Creamery: One-Stop Shop for Local Community

179

Employee Spotlight: Sam, Software Development Manager

180

Keeping Farmers Informed with Hunter McBrayer, Alabama Farmers Federation

181

DIRECT 2021: Behind the Scenes

182

Education in Agriculture is Backwards with Karoline Rose, Founder of Cattleman U

183

How to Simplify your Farms Accounting with Jacint Tumacder, Intuit QuickBooks

184

Farm Innovator Series: Tom's Tactics to Doubling Sales

185

How To Avoid a Sales Tax Audit on Your Farm Business with Matt Hammond, Avalara

186

The Benefits of Being Financially Nimble with Matt Jacocks, Intuit QuickBooks

187

Employee Spotlight: Miranda, Success Manager

188

Putting the Culture in Agriculture with Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott of DX Beef

189

Promoting the Future of Farming through Humble Exchanges with Russ Conser from Grassfed Exchange

190

How to Build Relationships with your Customers with Valerie from Grass Fed Cattle Co

191

The Importance of Diversifying Your Products and Markets with Karen McSwain of CFSA

192

Leveraging Government Engagement to Build Resiliency in the Food System with Judith McGeary of FARFA

193

Bringing Back Old McDonald's Farm and Selling Direct with Old Rich Valley Farm

194

Employee Spotlight: Richard, Sales Account Executive

195

Overcoming Paralysis with Analysis. Growing Your Farm Business with Jessica Evans from Evans Family Farm

196

How Route Optimization Can Help Save Time on Delivery, Promote Sustainability, and Increase Profits with Emma Cimolini from Routific

197

Planning for the Unexpected & Raising Money for your Farm Business with Tera Johnson

198

To Serve and Connect, By Selling Direct. Josie Rozum with Dan and Debbie's Creamery

199

Keeping up with Demand by Doubling Sales (Again) with Tom Bennett

200

From Wholesale to Retail: How CSA Subscriptions Fueled their Growth

201

Building Community and Revenue Through Growing Organically with Alice Varon from Certified Naturally Grown

202

Profit with Sustainable Agriculture and Insights with Christina Kostelecky from Pasa Sustainable Agriculture

203

Employee Spotlight: Tying mission together with the team featuring Lauren & Mackenzie

204

How Certifications Grow Customer Loyalty with Emily Moose from A Greener World

205

How Cooperation Empowers The Agricultural Community with Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

206

Save time and boost sales with practical email marketing tactics by Jamal Miller from Mailchimp

207

Telling An Authentic Story with Ashley Clark: Keeping Maple Traditions Alive

208

APPPA: Helping Pastured Poultry Farmers Succeed since 1997

209

Developing Your Brand Identity with Joelle Orem: From TractorHeels to Orem Farms

210

Convenience is King: Quality Products at the Right Price with Sheeder Cloverleaf Dairy

211

Getting Tactical with Easy Email Marketing to Maximize Your Farm Sales

212

Building a Brand Legacy That Lasts with Agricola Family Farm

213

Big Berry Farm makes fast, successful shift from Farmer Markets to Online Orders & Home Delivery

214

Reinventing Your Farm's Business Plan with Dirty Girl Produce

215

Berries, Brand and Barn2Door with Grace Lemley

216

Brand with Valerie Luhman: Saving Time and Connecting with Customers Online

217

Conference Keynote: Convenience with Karen Huh

218

Conference Keynote: Price with Paul Greive

219

Conference Keynote: Brand with Nona Jones

220

Conference Keynote: Quality with Paul Dorrance

221

Recap of the 2020 DIRECT Conference!

222

Introduction to DIRECT: Barn2Door and the 4 Levers