Eric Dinger, founder of Land Option, joined us at FBN Farmer to Farmer to talk farm programs. His pitch: there are roughly 1,100 programs nationally, any given farm qualifies for 50–80, and nobody has time to sort through them. Land Option solves it by training local trusted advisors — agronomists, accountants, crop insurance agents — to deliver field-by-field "game plans" to producers. Early numbers: ~$78/acre in new top-line revenue, $2/acre upfront, 10% on programs found. Eric's bigger point: out-efficiencying your neighbor on the same bushel is a race to the bottom. The farms that win the next decade will sell soil, water, and carbon alongside grain.

This episode of Between 2 Farms features Andy Pasztor , better known online as Andy Clean, a farmer from Tilsonburg, Ontario who turned a simple social media hashtag and sticker into a real agricultural cleaning brand. He walks through how the business started almost by accident, beginning with a viral idea, support from John Deere, and a grassroots community of farmers proudly showing off freshly washed equipment. From there, Andy explains how he built the brand before he even had a product, partnered with a soap manufacturer, hit the road with his dad to visit dealers across the Midwest, and slowly grew Andy Clean into a recognizable name carried through John Deere’s dealer network.

The conversation goes beyond soap and leans into the bigger picture of entrepreneurship in agriculture, the value of personality and community in building a business, and the reality that farmers often need to create something beyond commodities to stay viable. Nathan and Quentin talk with Andy about equipment pride, perceived value, social media, networking, and why face-to-face relationships still matter in ag business. The episode has a loose, funny, road-trip kind of energy, but underneath it is a real discussion about taking chances, building something from passion, and how farm people are often better prepared for entrepreneurship than they realize.

Nathan Faleide and Quinten Connealy sit down with FBN co-founder Charles Baron at the Farmer to Farmer conference in Omaha to talk about how FBN got started, how it evolved, and where it may be headed next. They get into the early idea behind FBN as a farmer data-sharing and analytics platform, how that turned into a much bigger business around input purchasing, lending, crop marketing, and digital farm infrastructure, and why price transparency has been one of the biggest shifts FBN brought to the industry.

The conversation also digs into what it really takes to make digital ag tools work in the real world. Charles talks about the challenge of combining software with the physical side of farming, the need for trust and human support even in online systems, and how AI could start tying together planning, products, finance, and decision-making on the farm. It’s a candid discussion about ag retail, competition, digital adoption, and the bigger question of how farmers can stay profitable in a tough farm economy.