Episodes
July 18, 2023
The Co-op’s Cut with Scott Hardy
What makes Cooperatives great? What makes them struggle? We chat with retired Co-Op Veteran, Scott Hardy, to discuss all he has seen over the years with Boards, GMs, Mergers, Patronage, and more. Some high quality insight for...
June 27, 2023
Blackberry Storytime with Grain Veteran Scott Hardy
Lovingly and famously known as "The July 1st Story," friend of the show and grain industry mentor to many, Scott Hardy, shares his harrowing tale from his days on the road visiting grain elevators. Over his 40 years of creati...
May 23, 2023
What Does It Even Mean?
Having exhausted this month's supply of market quips, the guys discuss the sayings of the grain biz that may or may not have any bearing on reality.
May 11, 2023
What Game are you Playing?
Roger recently listened to an insightful podcast which of course is a foreign concept to us, so Roger shared some of the big concepts from it and the guys discuss how these insights apply to our business. As a credit to Arkan...
May 4, 2023
Psychology of a Merchandiser
The guys are back from hiatus with a lively discussion on how merchandisers are coping with the current basis and spread environment and how that is affecting their plans for the next season. What should we be doing now? How ...
March 1, 2023
Capturing the Farmer’s Attention
We delve into the farmer-elevator relationship from the perspective of the farmer with Kansas farmer, Adam Baldwin. What communication is the farmer looking for, what gets their attention, and how do they like to interact wit...
Feb. 2, 2023
Master Management Cut
The guys delve into the pressing challenges, opportunities, and ideas from the largest annual conference of exclusively basis traders in history. Some great concepts on managing your business and how we see it applied in the ...
Jan. 10, 2023
2023 Opening Cut
What do GMD, Free DP, and Runza all have in common? This episode. Join us as we talk through it all and memorialize our 100,000th download.
Dec. 20, 2022
Trucker’s Cut
The guys chat up Jared Flinn of Bulkloads.com and discuss the finer points of elevator/trucker relationships.
Dec. 8, 2022
Live from CEC
The guys were invited on stage at the NGFA's annual Country Elevator Conference in St. Louis. This episode is a live recording of the panel they hosted about the upcoming merchandising and financial challenges that this crop ...
Dec. 1, 2022
Spreadmageddon
The guys delve into some of the aspects of what separates the haves and have-nots among merchandisers during years with flat/inverted market structures.
Nov. 21, 2022
6 Degrees of Dan Mehochko
Known to many as the nicest guy in the grain business, Dan shares his wealth of experience with us in this episode. He shares some stories from his decades in the commercial grain business and tells us about the importance of...
Nov. 17, 2022
Potent Potables and Wild Basis Tales
The guys are back with some news! Big upcoming event details. Then we psychoanalyze some of the things we say in the grain business and why. Finally, we finish on some of the exciting basis trading stories from this harvest g...
Oct. 3, 2022
The River’s Cut
The guys have a discussion with Susan David of No Bull (@SusanNOBULL) on the recent disruption in the barge freight market. What's causing it? How will it be resolved? Who is benefitting? And what does it all mean to the rest...
Sept. 7, 2022
Basis Trading Through Inverses with Phil Luce
The guys chat with White Commercial CEO and Basis Guru, Phil Luce, about managing basis, spreads, and expectations in these crazy times.
Aug. 23, 2022
Opening Call’s Cut
In this episode the guys speculate about what they’re delve into on the episode just before they record the episode.... and are immediately proved wrong.
June 22, 2022
The British Cut
The guys connect via transoceanic technology to our friend and fellow elevator advocate across the pond, Dan Murphy, aka @GrainPirateDan, in the grain growing East Midlands region of England. Dan shares both the differences a...
June 1, 2022
The Specialty Cut
The guys chat with Kellee James, CEO and Founder of Mercaris, to delve into the mysterious realm of specialty grains. If $42/bushel soybeans doesn’t grab your attention, we don’t know what will! Shout out to cauliflower rice ...
May 17, 2022
Fees Up, Basis Down
The guys tackle springtime basis in light of inversions, and discuss what an elevator’s fee structure signals to farmers. Just remember kids, keep your eye on the ball, be you a merchant or a farmer… just understand which bal...
April 5, 2022
The 2022 Demand Market Cut
As we look forward to a summer of diminishing grain stocks with big inversions and a new crop year of little to no carry in the spreads, how the heck is anyone going to make any money and what should grain merchants be doing ...
March 29, 2022
The Limit’s Cut
After some wild times following war news, the guys discuss why things happened the way they did in the cash market during days of locked limit up futures markets in Chicago. Why did people shift their bids to different months...
March 3, 2022
CEO’s Cut
The guys bring in Phil Luce, new CEO of White Commercial, to share his keynote talk about decision making during volatile times in the grain business. Celebrating Easter early, we put some Easter eggs at the end for you.
Dec. 28, 2021
Festivus Cut
It's a Festivus Miracle! The guys are back with another episode. In this one we air our grievances about "knowing the markets," having a bunch of screens, and why people look at risk the opposite of the way Merriam Webster do...
Dec. 21, 2021
Random Thoughts from the Summer, Released in the Winter
The guys discuss the latest ways to #winbasis from last summer. Step 1: Volatility Step 2: Derivatives Step 3: ??? Step 4: #WinBasis