Vance Crowe Podcast

21/08/2025

Tonight on Ag Tribes Report, we’ll dive into a trade dispute stranding harvest equipment at the U.S.-Canada border, the USDA’s plan to close a flagship research site, a new Texas facility to combat flesh-eating screwworms, and a game-changing acquisition in ag tech that’s flying under the radar.

This week, we have Tim Hammerich. Tim is a California-based agricultural communicator and host of the Future of Agriculture podcast, connecting farmers, innovators, and agribusiness leaders. As a storyteller amplifying ag’s diverse voices, he’s interviewed everyone from biotech pioneers to regenerative farmers.His insights spark crucial conversations across ag tribes, I personally felt this as I was recently on his show talking about how Bitcoin would demonitize farm ground and I got an explosion of calls and emails about this topic.

14/08/2025

Tonight We explore why global food prices are surging while crop prices plummet, leaving farmers squeezed despite a projected record U.S. corn yield of 16.7 billion bushels (USDA, August 2025).
The EPA’s new Diesel Exhaust Fluid rules, offering relief to farmers and truckers by easing equipment shutdowns, saving family farms an estimated $727 million annually.

This week, we have Jim Smith, who goes by on X. Jim is a dedicated swine nutritionist and farmer from Northeast Indiana, blending his Purdue Boilermaker expertise with hands-on experience in corn and soybean production. As host of the "Patio Pondering" podcast, he dives into ag challenges, from feed efficiency to market trends, helping producers optimize operations.

We also discuss the historic drop in U.S. alcohol consumption, hitting barley, hops, and grape growers hard with oversupplies. Finally, we address the Potter Valley water crisis, where PG&E’s sudden cuts threaten California farmers and ranchers (UNWON Substack, August 2025). We’ll also compare farmland and Bitcoin prices, hear Jim’s take on the Peter Thiel Paradox, and learn about their worthy adversary.

07/08/2025

Tonight on Ag Tribes Report, we’ll dive into whether corn yield estimates are a market manipulation scheme undermining farmers, if new tariffs on China are hurting corn and soybean exports, and how farmland values are hitting new highs but with slowing growth.

We’ll also compare farmland and Bitcoin prices, hear Jacob’s take on the Peter Thiel Paradox, and learn about their worthy adversary.

31/07/2025

Vance Crowe does a solo Ag Tribes Report diving into deportation notices disrupting an Iowa meatpacking plant, Oregon’s proposed rules threatening agritourism, and John Deere’s new digital repair tool addressing Right to Repair concerns.

12/12/2024

29/11/2024

Vance does a solo episode on thanksgiving to talk about his views on some of the biggest issues going on in Agriculture.

21/11/2024

Shaun Haney of Real Agriculture joins Vance Crowe on this week's Ag Tribes Report to discuss how the Trump appointments are seen by Canadian farmers, the sad reality of fraud in crop insurance and discuss a Canadian's least favorite thing: who they disagree with.

15/11/2024

This week host Vance Crowe is joined by organic dairy farmer Joshua Tranel- they talk about the Illinois farm bureau being banished by the larger American farm bureau, Sonoma county California voting in favor of CAFOs, the milk pricing system and who is going to be appointed head of the USDA.