Barn Talk

Weekly conversations on agriculture, business, investing and current events AI summary

Tork and Sawyer Whisler Visit website › Business · EN · 225 episodes · latest 2026-11-09

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Barn Talk is a weekly podcast, hosted by father-son duo Sawyer & Tork Whisler. We exist to share content that educates, inspires, and makes viewers laugh out loud. From the Ag business world to investing, current events, entrepreneurship and much, much more, our vision is to promote agriculture in a positive light, while relating with everyday Americans in discussing kitchen table topics.

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His Banker Called It The Dumbest Business Plan He’d Ever Heard

2026-11-09 · 2 hr 46 min

Tommy Wheeler told his farm credit banker he wanted to grow rice and lose about $250 an acre doing it. The banker called it the dumbest business plan he'd ever heard. Tommy's answer: he was already losing $500 an acre…
Cattle Prices Tripled And Ranchers Still Aren’t Rich

2026-11-01 · 2 hr 40 min

Garth Gatson is 33 years old and doesn’t own an acre of ground. He raises cattle for a living anyway, on his family’s place in Missouri, buying heifer calves and selling them as pairs into the biggest cattle market…
His Grandpa’s Jerky Recipe Made Dale Earnhardt Jr. A Partner

2026-10-26 · 1 hr 33 min

Dale Earnhardt Jr. liked Christian Koch's grandpa's no-sugar beef jerky so much he bought into the company. Grandpa never wanted to sell it, so Christian found the recipe in his mom's family cookbook and built the…
How A Craigslist Ad Turned Into A 350,000 Subscriber Business

2026-10-19 · 2 hr 3 min

Neil Koch walked away from a good job 4 miles from his house at almost 50 to go full time on YouTube. His channel, Dig Drive DIY, sits at 348,000 subscribers, and it started with videos of a backhoe he was trying to…
Would You Sell Your Farm For $26 Million?

2026-10-11 · 1 hr 29 min

Corn is over $5 and beans are near $13, and a lot of farmers still won't make any more money than they did at $4.50 corn. Every time the grain price goes up, something takes it back, and the front half of this Hot…
Brazil Is Coming For American Corn

2026-10-05 · 2 hr 13 min

You can't out-yield your way to profit anymore, so Will Cannon is chasing margin with 2 or 3 bucks an acre of homemade compost instead of $40 an acre of bugs in a jug. Two Iowa corn farmers came to the barn this week:…
The Day I Lost My Dad And The Day I Almost Lost My Son

2026-09-28 · 1 hr 28 min

Tork's dad lived to 99, flew fighters, practiced law, and paid for a farm. In July 2018 he fell down the basement stairs, and Tork brought him home to die in the same house he was born in. No guest this week. Sawyer and…
1.3 Million People Watch Him Pull Dead Trucks Out Of Iowa Fence Rows

2026-09-21 · 2 hr 30 min

He grew up with kiddie pools in the attic catching roof leaks and frost forming on the inside of his bedroom wall, and today 1.33 million people watch him drag dead cars out of Iowa fence rows. Kevin Brown runs Junkyard…
Only $278 In The Bank And 550 Cows To Feed

2026-09-15 · 2 hr 22 min

He stacked every FSA beginning farmer loan he could get, went from about 100 cows to 550 in roughly a year, and when the balance sheet finally settled he was positive by $278. That is the number this whole episode hangs…
The Big 4 Stole The Only Market Small Farmers Ever Built

2026-09-07 · 2 hr 40 min

Forty companies own 70 percent of the hogs in this country. Fewer than 100 plants slaughter 99.7 percent of them. Small farms running their own processing account for 0.3 percent of the pork on shelves, 2 percent of the…

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Oldest episode in feed: 04/2021 · over 5 years
Typical length: 1 hr 31 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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