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The Independent Farmer Podcast — 219 episodes

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Pet Food For The Win

2

Build Recurring Cash Flow for Your Farm

3

Grow Your Bottom Line with Email Marketing

4

Shifting Your Farm Mindset for 6-Figure Success

5

How Onboarding Sets Your Farm Up for Success

6

5 Fastest Ways to Build a Successful Farm Business

7

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

8

Biggest Farm Money Mistakes

9

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

10

Scaling Your Farm to $1M through Farmers Markets

11

The 7-Figure Blueprint for Rural Farm Success

12

Balancing a Growing Farm and a Growing Family

13

Double Your Farm Revenue with Delivery as a Service

14

Pricing Strategies for Scaling Your Farm

15

Capture Every Sale: POS Built for Farmers

16

How Marketing Can Help Your Farm Succeed

17

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

18

From Homesteading to 6-Figure Farm Business

19

The Power of Having a Team Behind Your Farm

20

Why Real Human Support Matters for Your Farm

21

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

22

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

23

Exclusive Content: Stop Wasting Time

24

How to Make Friends & More Money Selling Local Food

25

How to Minimize Effort and Maximize Profit every Delivery Day

26

Why Farmers Should Avoid AI Logos

27

Expanding your Farm Product with Value-Add Items

28

Growing a Successful Microgreens Business

29

Building Farm Partnerships in your Community's Local Loop

30

Establishing a Wholesale Customer List for your Farm

31

Many Tactics for Selling Pastured Poultry for Profit

32

Government Overreach in Independent Farm Operations

33

Selling Half and Whole Hogs from the Farm

34

Why Barn2Door? Software for Farmers

35

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

36

The Hurdles of Farm Growth

37

*POPULAR* Grassroots Marketing Academy for Farmers

38

Farmer Spotlight: Sasquatch Family Farms

39

Busting Farm Marketing Myths

40

Attracting Local Buyers to your Online Farm Store

41

How to Sell Out of Chicken Subscriptions

42

Farmer Spotlight: Hopewell Farms

43

Direct to Consumer Strategies for Selling Whole Cows

44

How to Sell Beef Subscription Boxes

45

How to Allocate your Farm Marketing Spend

46

How the USDA's Proposed Salmonella Framework Affects Poultry Processors

47

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

48

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

49

Creating your Ideal Customer Profile for Farm Retail Buyers

50

Balancing Farm and Family

51

Farmer Spotlight: Yoder-Way Farm

52

Seamless Farm Sales with Combined Inventory

53

Farm Storefront Best Practices

54

Exclusive Content: Biggest Farm Mistakes

55

Farm Finance Reporting with Taylor Bridges

56

Farmers Market Best Practices with Bennett Farms

57

Simplify your Farm's Delivery Day

58

Increase your Farm's Average Order Value

59

Simplify Wholesale & Retail Orders

60

Farmer Spotlight: Veteran's Liberty Ranch

61

Exclusive Content: Farmers' Market Day? Double your Sales

62

Farmer Spotlight: Benoit Family Farmstead

63

$1 Million Farm Tactics

64

Farm Email Marketing Best Practices

65

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

66

How Electronic Ear Tagging Affects Independent Farmers

67

From Homestead to a Growing Farm Business

68

Exclusive Content: Planting for Profit

69

Your Farm Finance Checklist for 2024 - Start the Year Right

70

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

71

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

72

Pricing Farm Products for Profit with Old Rich Valley Farm

73

Introducing: The Independent Farmer Podcast with Chucktown Acres

74

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

75

Attracting & Retaining Buyers with Long Lane Farm

76

The 'Business' Side of Farming with Chucktown Acres

77

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

78

The Farm Logo Design Experience with Barn2Door

79

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

80

From Hobby to Full-time Farmer with Bennett Farms

81

Increase Buyer Loyalty with Barn2Door + Mailchimp

82

Built For Farmers: A Simple and Easy Refund Experience

83

Building a Happy & Healthy Family Farm Business

84

Meet Zoe – National Sales Manager at Barn2Door!

85

Maximizing Pricing for Your Farm Products

86

Building a Farm Business: Five Tips Every Farmer Should Know

87

The Continued Success of a Fifth Generation Ranch

88

Exclusive Content: 5 Farms Making 6 Figures

89

Success, Security, and Simplicity with Barn2Door Point of Sale

90

Keeping it Simple: Starting a Successful New Farm

91

Global Trends Facing the Modern Day Rancher

92

Copy, Paste, and Post: The Barn2Door Marketing Toolkit

93

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

94

5 Simple Tactics to Setup for Next Season

95

The Key to Instagram Reels: Educating your Audience

96

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

97

The ABCs of Social Media's 3 E's

98

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

99

The Key to a Successful Farm Business - Customer Retention

100

Less is More: Tips to Streamline Your Farm Business

101

Farmers Streamline Their Social Media with Meta Business Suite

102

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

103

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

104

Does your Farm have a Google Business Profile?

105

The Rise of Vertical Farming Around the World

106

Raising Farm Prices & Finding Financial Freedom

107

Fostering Farmer Connections with Barn2Door Connect

108

Produce Packaging Basics

109

Taking Action in the Adirondacks

110

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

111

Announcing! Barn2Door Point-of-Sale

112

Keeping Dollars in the Community with Direct Farm Sales

113

Farm Legal Series #8: Understanding Meat Processing Possibilities

114

Preserving Watersheds and Beyond with Salmon Safe

115

Generating Sales With Retail & Wholesale Tactics

116

Growing a Sustainable Direct-to-Market Farm Business

117

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

118

Using Data to Power Ranches with AgriWebb

119

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

120

100 Episodes in Review: Barn2Door's Favorite Podcasts Picks

121

Scale Your Ranch Business & Own Your Supply Chain

122

Farmer Roundtable: How These First-Generation Farmers Found Success

123

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

124

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

125

Announcing Ongoing Subscriptions on Barn2Door

126

Farm Finances Simplified - The New Barn2Door Finance Academy

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

Impacting Packaging and Choice Subscriptions with Little River Farms

132

How to Save Hours on Delivery Day with Terra Firma Farm

133

Soilless Systems and Subscriptions with Local Appetite Growers

134

From Shipping Container to Kitchen with B3 Roots

135

Looking at Logos: Let's Discuss the Design Process

136

The Farming Student Has Become the Master w/ Chucktown Acres

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

Farmer Spotlight: BCS Livestock

142

Favorite FAN Feature: Old Rich Valley Farm

143

Farmer Spotlight: Little River Farm

144

Favorite FAN Feature: Grass Fed Cattle Co

145

How To Secure Sales Before the Busy Season

146

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

147

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

148

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

149

Employee Spotlight: Abby, Account Executive

150

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

151

2 Years On Barn2Door - Ashley Clark with Sacred Roots Maple

152

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

153

Employee Spotlight: Caleb, Operations Manager

154

Direct Farm Tactics #4: Tips from our FANs

155

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

156

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

157

Farm Legal Series #2: Poultry Pitfalls and Regulation

158

Acres USA and The Sustainable Farming Movement From The Soil Up

159

A Booming Berry Business - Angelica of Hayton Farms Berries

160

Farm Legal Series #1: Raw Milk Sales Explained

161

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

162

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

163

Direct Brand Conference Recap

164

Barn2Door partners with ACRES USA for Eco-Ag 2021

165

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

166

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

167

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

168

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

169

Overcoming the Challenges Facing Pasture Poultry with Mike Badger, APPPA

170

Direct Farm Tactics #1: Barn2Door + Mailchimp Customer Journeys

171

Employee Spotlight: Allison, Software Engineer

172

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

173

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

174

Balancing Retail & Wholesale Markets with Joe from Dirty Girl Produce

175

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

176

Employee Spotlight: Sam, Software Development Manager

177

Keeping Farmers Informed with Hunter McBrayer, Alabama Farmers Federation

178

DIRECT 2021: Behind the Scenes

179

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

180

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

181

Farm Innovator Series: Tom's Tactics to Doubling Sales

182

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

183

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

184

Employee Spotlight: Miranda, Success Manager

185

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

186

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

187

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

188

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

189

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

190

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

191

Employee Spotlight: Richard, Sales Account Executive

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

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

196

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

197

From Wholesale to Retail: How CSA Subscriptions Fueled their Growth

198

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

199

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

200

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

201

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

202

How Cooperation Empowers The Agricultural Community with Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

203

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

204

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

205

APPPA: Helping Pastured Poultry Farmers Succeed since 1997

206

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

207

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

208

Getting Tactical with Easy Email Marketing to Maximize Your Farm Sales

209

Building a Brand Legacy That Lasts with Agricola Family Farm

210

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

211

Reinventing Your Farm's Business Plan with Dirty Girl Produce

212

Berries, Brand and Barn2Door with Grace Lemley

213

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

214

Conference Keynote: Convenience with Karen Huh

215

Conference Keynote: Price with Paul Greive

216

Conference Keynote: Brand with Nona Jones

217

Conference Keynote: Quality with Paul Dorrance

218

Recap of the 2020 DIRECT Conference!

219

Introduction to DIRECT: Barn2Door and the 4 Levers