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The Independent Farmer Podcast — 214 episodes

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5 Fastest Ways to Build a Successful Farm Business

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

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Biggest Farm Money Mistakes

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

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Scaling Your Farm to $1M through Farmers Markets

6

The 7-Figure Blueprint for Rural Farm Success

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Balancing a Growing Farm and a Growing Family

8

Double Your Farm Revenue with Delivery as a Service

9

Pricing Strategies for Scaling Your Farm

10

Capture Every Sale: POS Built for Farmers

11

How Marketing Can Help Your Farm Succeed

12

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

13

From Homesteading to 6-Figure Farm Business

14

The Power of Having a Team Behind Your Farm

15

Why Real Human Support Matters for Your Farm

16

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

17

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

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Exclusive Content: Stop Wasting Time

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How to Make Friends & More Money Selling Local Food

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How to Minimize Effort and Maximize Profit every Delivery Day

21

Why Farmers Should Avoid AI Logos

22

Expanding your Farm Product with Value-Add Items

23

Growing a Successful Microgreens Business

24

Building Farm Partnerships in your Community's Local Loop

25

Establishing a Wholesale Customer List for your Farm

26

Many Tactics for Selling Pastured Poultry for Profit

27

Government Overreach in Independent Farm Operations

28

Selling Half and Whole Hogs from the Farm

29

Why Barn2Door? Software for Farmers

30

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

31

The Hurdles of Farm Growth

32

*POPULAR* Grassroots Marketing Academy for Farmers

33

Farmer Spotlight: Sasquatch Family Farms

34

Busting Farm Marketing Myths

35

Attracting Local Buyers to your Online Farm Store

36

How to Sell Out of Chicken Subscriptions

37

Farmer Spotlight: Hopewell Farms

38

Direct to Consumer Strategies for Selling Whole Cows

39

How to Sell Beef Subscription Boxes

40

How to Allocate your Farm Marketing Spend

41

How the USDA's Proposed Salmonella Framework Affects Poultry Processors

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

43

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

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Creating your Ideal Customer Profile for Farm Retail Buyers

45

Balancing Farm and Family

46

Farmer Spotlight: Yoder-Way Farm

47

Seamless Farm Sales with Combined Inventory

48

Farm Storefront Best Practices

49

Exclusive Content: Biggest Farm Mistakes

50

Farm Finance Reporting with Taylor Bridges

51

Farmers Market Best Practices with Bennett Farms

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Simplify your Farm's Delivery Day

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Increase your Farm's Average Order Value

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Simplify Wholesale & Retail Orders

55

Farmer Spotlight: Veteran's Liberty Ranch

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Exclusive Content: Farmers' Market Day? Double your Sales

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Farmer Spotlight: Benoit Family Farmstead

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$1 Million Farm Tactics

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Farm Email Marketing Best Practices

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

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How Electronic Ear Tagging Affects Independent Farmers

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From Homestead to a Growing Farm Business

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Exclusive Content: Planting for Profit

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Your Farm Finance Checklist for 2024 - Start the Year Right

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

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

67

Pricing Farm Products for Profit with Old Rich Valley Farm

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Introducing: The Independent Farmer Podcast with Chucktown Acres

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

70

Attracting & Retaining Buyers with Long Lane Farm

71

The 'Business' Side of Farming with Chucktown Acres

72

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

73

The Farm Logo Design Experience with Barn2Door

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

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From Hobby to Full-time Farmer with Bennett Farms

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Increase Buyer Loyalty with Barn2Door + Mailchimp

77

Built For Farmers: A Simple and Easy Refund Experience

78

Building a Happy & Healthy Family Farm Business

79

Meet Zoe – National Sales Manager at Barn2Door!

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Maximizing Pricing for Your Farm Products

81

Building a Farm Business: Five Tips Every Farmer Should Know

82

The Continued Success of a Fifth Generation Ranch

83

Exclusive Content: 5 Farms Making 6 Figures

84

Success, Security, and Simplicity with Barn2Door Point of Sale

85

Keeping it Simple: Starting a Successful New Farm

86

Global Trends Facing the Modern Day Rancher

87

Copy, Paste, and Post: The Barn2Door Marketing Toolkit

88

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

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5 Simple Tactics to Setup for Next Season

90

The Key to Instagram Reels: Educating your Audience

91

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

92

The ABCs of Social Media's 3 E's

93

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

94

The Key to a Successful Farm Business - Customer Retention

95

Less is More: Tips to Streamline Your Farm Business

96

Farmers Streamline Their Social Media with Meta Business Suite

97

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

98

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

99

Does your Farm have a Google Business Profile?

100

The Rise of Vertical Farming Around the World

101

Raising Farm Prices & Finding Financial Freedom

102

Fostering Farmer Connections with Barn2Door Connect

103

Produce Packaging Basics

104

Taking Action in the Adirondacks

105

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

106

Announcing! Barn2Door Point-of-Sale

107

Keeping Dollars in the Community with Direct Farm Sales

108

Farm Legal Series #8: Understanding Meat Processing Possibilities

109

Preserving Watersheds and Beyond with Salmon Safe

110

Generating Sales With Retail & Wholesale Tactics

111

Growing a Sustainable Direct-to-Market Farm Business

112

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

113

Using Data to Power Ranches with AgriWebb

114

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

115

100 Episodes in Review: Barn2Door's Favorite Podcasts Picks

116

Scale Your Ranch Business & Own Your Supply Chain

117

Farmer Roundtable: How These First-Generation Farmers Found Success

118

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

119

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

120

Announcing Ongoing Subscriptions on Barn2Door

121

Farm Finances Simplified - The New Barn2Door Finance Academy

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

Impacting Packaging and Choice Subscriptions with Little River Farms

127

How to Save Hours on Delivery Day with Terra Firma Farm

128

Soilless Systems and Subscriptions with Local Appetite Growers

129

From Shipping Container to Kitchen with B3 Roots

130

Looking at Logos: Let's Discuss the Design Process

131

The Farming Student Has Become the Master w/ Chucktown Acres

132

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

133

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

134

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

135

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

136

Farmer Spotlight: BCS Livestock

137

Favorite FAN Feature: Old Rich Valley Farm

138

Farmer Spotlight: Little River Farm

139

Favorite FAN Feature: Grass Fed Cattle Co

140

How To Secure Sales Before the Busy Season

141

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

142

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

143

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

144

Employee Spotlight: Abby, Account Executive

145

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

146

2 Years On Barn2Door - Ashley Clark with Sacred Roots Maple

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

148

Employee Spotlight: Caleb, Operations Manager

149

Direct Farm Tactics #4: Tips from our FANs

150

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

151

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

152

Farm Legal Series #2: Poultry Pitfalls and Regulation

153

Acres USA and The Sustainable Farming Movement From The Soil Up

154

A Booming Berry Business - Angelica of Hayton Farms Berries

155

Farm Legal Series #1: Raw Milk Sales Explained

156

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

157

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

158

Direct Brand Conference Recap

159

Barn2Door partners with ACRES USA for Eco-Ag 2021

160

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

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

Overcoming the Challenges Facing Pasture Poultry with Mike Badger, APPPA

165

Direct Farm Tactics #1: Barn2Door + Mailchimp Customer Journeys

166

Employee Spotlight: Allison, Software Engineer

167

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

168

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

169

Balancing Retail & Wholesale Markets with Joe from Dirty Girl Produce

170

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

171

Employee Spotlight: Sam, Software Development Manager

172

Keeping Farmers Informed with Hunter McBrayer, Alabama Farmers Federation

173

DIRECT 2021: Behind the Scenes

174

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

175

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

176

Farm Innovator Series: Tom's Tactics to Doubling Sales

177

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

178

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

179

Employee Spotlight: Miranda, Success Manager

180

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

181

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

182

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

183

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

184

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

185

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

186

Employee Spotlight: Richard, Sales Account Executive

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

188

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

189

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

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

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

192

From Wholesale to Retail: How CSA Subscriptions Fueled their Growth

193

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

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

195

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

196

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

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How Cooperation Empowers The Agricultural Community with Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

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

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

200

APPPA: Helping Pastured Poultry Farmers Succeed since 1997

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

202

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

203

Getting Tactical with Easy Email Marketing to Maximize Your Farm Sales

204

Building a Brand Legacy That Lasts with Agricola Family Farm

205

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

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Reinventing Your Farm's Business Plan with Dirty Girl Produce

207

Berries, Brand and Barn2Door with Grace Lemley

208

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

209

Conference Keynote: Convenience with Karen Huh

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Conference Keynote: Price with Paul Greive

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Conference Keynote: Brand with Nona Jones

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Conference Keynote: Quality with Paul Dorrance

213

Recap of the 2020 DIRECT Conference!

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Introduction to DIRECT: Barn2Door and the 4 Levers