Rodney & Gabe are joined by crop Insurance Agent - Ryan Leifheit to discuss some of the biggest changes in crop insurance as a result of 2025 legislation (OB3). Rodney and Gabe close with this sentiment, but crop insurance is where every risk management plan in the US begins - not using crop insurance, when you can, is throwing away some of the biggest subsidies US farmers have access to. The 2026-27 program is one of the more generous we've seen in the programs current edition.

If you're looking to better understand how to optimize the choices in front of you Ryan is ready to assist - you can email him at rleifhe@1stfarmcredit.com

After an end of year break, Rodney and Gabe catchup on how they spent the holidays but also venture back into risk management territory, covering how time should be part of your marketing plan and some specifics on how to work around it.

Rodney and Gabe get a chance to talk with Yasha Protnoy of EarthAcre about how a technologist create solutions for corralling data from the physical world that doesn't smoothly lend itself to systematic integration - in this case where government managed title searches aren't the norm for determining land ownership. We also talk about EarthAcre's unique and intuitive approach to assessing biodiversity, that creates an alternative path to evaluating ecosystem health and diversity.