Full Disclosure Farming: BrutallyHonest AgChats

We're highlighting a couple of our favorite conversations from 2024 and looking forward to a new and different 2025! Happy New Year pod-fam!

We are recording ON SITE at the Stockmanship and Stewardship event for the Eastern side of the US with Ron Gill and Curt Pate talking all things cattle handling. Also hear briefly from their BQA expert with details about the program. The audio isn't as crystal as we like because of the recording space but it's a worthwhile conversation + we hope you enjoy it!

We're finally back in the pod seats + providing an update from the last episode as well as moving on! Thanks for hanging around, I think you can confidently seek out regular episodes now that Fall is officially here. We're happy to be back in it.

Wow, we got lost in the hustle of summer but we're back for a chit chat on how it's okay to make mistakes, if you can learn from them!

We're chatting about the testosterone dump that is all too common in leaders + ways to mitigate that PLUS an adjusted summer schedule, which we've already started if you hadn't noticed.

We're back after skipping Fathers Day recording for the hay project. A lot has happened since we've been gone - here is the update + some reflection on the basis of success: people.

One of our favorite + most influential business associates joins us today after his annual visit to answer some questions and talk banking. Enjoy!

We're chattering today about working with your spouse successfully as result from a listener question. Send in more questions! We enjoy these discussions.

We're back - playing catchup on all that has been happening here around the farm + discussing the ever changing journey that is farming with family. We apprecite you all hanging around!

We're passing up on the full episode this week + will be back next week!

You'll realize the pun later BUT we're here to help you find your way into making sure you and your family are the most important part of your story!

We're continuing the saga today with an update and ultimately a conversation on valuing your peace of mind, enough to make changes that suit it. Sometimes you need to know when enough is enough!

This topic is a marathon not a sprint, so the saga continues. Managing family members is HARD and it's usually messy. Unfortunately it's an engrained part of Ag life and we're trying to make the best of it.

We're chatting all things change; we have some hopeful changes on the horizon to help us make this business benefit us more instead of us working endlessly to benefit the business!

We're revisiting last weeks topic briefly and bouncing onto imposter syndrome. A short one but a good one, let us know where we need to go next!

We're helping Joe vent and diving into why the humans are the way they are, rude comments and judgements on our teamwork.

We're sitting down after a long day of COLD filming to chat with Michelle Martin from the Ag Mag & videographer/photographer Aaron Trevino who were in town featuring Yankee Beef today for an episode of their Ag on Wheels segment. We chit chat about the good + bad of social media, our day of filming and whatever else comes up!

We're sitting down with Erica Leubner, from Central NY, she's on Tiktok as @farmercounselor and she is a farm business advisor / counselor therapist dedicated to specifically helping farm families and farm businesses be successful and transfer generations. Laugh with us, in what will be the first of several guest episodes with Erica.

In honor of Women's Day, we're chatting with Mrs. Yankee Farmer about her background and stepping into Ag as an outsider. We talk about women in male dominated industry, and then JJ joins us for some Q&A.

We're describing how we setup for calving season and our calf care protocols, plus chatting about the open house + our next upcoming guest!

This one is all over the place but we sought to address the more challenging Ag times that are ahead!

We sat down with Clayton and Blake Phelps to chat about almost everything under the sun. An enjoyable chat, which will be 1 of many.

We're casually discussing farm transition options when the next generation is either not interested, not up to it or there isn't a next generation to even talk about!

We're sitting down today to discuss the important of selling yourself and promoting agriculture in the proper fashion - we're using some of our favorite pages from Mrs. Yankee's Farm Biz Selling workbook as a guide! Workbook available at YankeeBeef.com

This episode, to summarize, is casual chaos. We had a topic we wanted to address and ultimately it way-laid into various stories and snippets. Call it a big, get to know us!   We will be back on the formal topic train next week, unless you enjoy this style and we can keep it in the rotation for now and again.

We're talking behaviors and trends that we believe should be "out" for 2024, things we want to keep fostering for 2024 - and some miscellaneous things in between. Join us in being a better Ag community all around!

Our long awaited guest today is Dr Catherine Cleveland, Joe's counselor that he has talked about extensively on tiktok. She is a fabulous thinker and speaker whom we enjoyed chatting with for y'all. Tune in for our lengthiest episode ever - but it's chock full of good information, you might want to listen twice!

We're launching 2024 with our first guest, Ryan Hanft, of Hanft's Hickory Hill Farm, where they raise show steers and also run their seasonal businesses; Hickory Hill Tent Rentals + Hanfts Brothers One Stop Deer Shop. You'll get to know Ryan with some formal questions as well as just good conversation. He's mature beyond his age + is blazing a successful path with a strong mindset and perseverance.

We're doing some reflecting and some goal setting as we turn over a new year + therefore a new season for the POD. Thank you for hanging out with us so far!

This one includes 3 different kind of opportunities in farming, also a quick chat on banking and some storytelling!

Well this is the big question right, is it worth all the fighting, drama and work to take over the family farm? You can take this question in any direction really, we chatted it through a couple different ways!

Here's a dandy question for you to ask yourself - who are you farming for? Have you taken time to consider how this farm is supposed to work for you? Or are you stuck farming for someone else's benefit + sacrificing your happiness for it?

We're jumping back into the swing of podcast things, giving our future selves advice on how to NOT be boomer-y when living life on the farm; business advice for all industries + just ways to be a better human for your family.

The impossible question of work life balance has come up several times this week as we have completed the Thanksgiving tasks and are barreling towards Christmas! We're touching on a few important things to remember as the holidays approach and the pressure on you is high to show up + be seen, whilst having a million things to do at home on your farm.

Listen to us chatter our way thru a basic guide to creating a brand, building it and maintaining it! This one is a funny one.

We have for you our longest episode ever, because there is no time limit on trauma. Our very own Farmer Joe is sharing a personal experience from his childhood that has ultimately led to his placing of an extremely high value on sound mental health and counseling. We address the important of mental health care and counseling for everyone in the farming and agriculture space. * TRIGGER WARNING for a traumatic farm safety / farm accident story, not suitable for all audiences.

The best way to be satisfied with your daily work is to customize it to fit you personally! We dissect several ways that you can tweak your operation and adjust things to best fit your situation, all in the name of success!

We are granting you permission to feel no guilt for going on vacations, making money at farming, and seeing a counselor to make yourself better! You need to prioritize yourself before you reach retirement age! We promise, you won't regret it.

The dreaded prenup conversation that typically happens when there is a family business at play. We dive into our prenup, general best practices and then onto some general farm marriage talk. Enjoy, party people!

This episode started off very focused on working on a farm with your spouse and took a quick derailment into marriage advice and being a good spouse in general. Have a laugh and enjoy!

One thing has become clear to us in our years of farming; it's expensive to be cheap! Not doing something the proper way is simply going to come back and bite you in the ass and cost you more money! We chat about various ways we've experienced that spending the proper money up front on something has paid off; in bulls, trucks, buildings and liquor.

Introducing the Full Disclosure Farming podcast + your married hosts, Erica + Joe from NY! Mrs.YankeeFarmer and BrutallyHonestAg on socials, they're bringing it to you real + unfiltered. This is by farmers, for farmers. The brutally honest truth about Ag; the good, the bad and the ugly experiences from farming with family, and always feeling broke to battling your mental health, and all the seasonal bullshit in between! If you're a young farmer who is working to find your place in Ag, listen up! We're here to help the next generation who is trying to take over their family farm, an industry "outsider" aspiring to buy into a generational farm, and the new farmers starting fresh!   Topic and episode suggestions always welcome via socials.   Mature language + topics.