Clink Fischer

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Farm4Profit Podcast · Strategic Succession Planning & Profit Growth with Brain Trust Ag · 7 Oct 2024 podcast

almost immediately, who has been involved for the last seven, eight weeks, said, hey, I woke up last night, about midnight, I woke up my wife and I said, I don't know if I can do this anymore. That's pretty heavy stuff. And do you mean farming? Do you mean life in general? Like, how can we help you? How can we support you as a group? And mind you, there was 13, 14 people on this call.

And he said, I just, the numbers aren't looking good. He says, I just didn't know what the heck to do. I needed to get on this call this morning to hear from other people who have similar issues, similar concerns, but also who are there to have a support network, a support system. And so we talked through that. And as a group, there were people who were contributing to that.

And okay, fast forward two hours after this group call happened, and I got an email from somebody who has been on every single one of our Zoom calls, but has never turned on his camera, has never said a word in any of our gatherings. And he emailed me and he said, hey, that was exactly what I needed to hear this morning. I'm so thankful I was part of that group this morning.

I know that you didn't prepare anything in advance. And I was going down a very dark path. So thank you. And it's like, oh, those things just kind of hit you, right? Right. And so we spend this podcast talking about farm business and transitions and what are we doing as an industry to facilitate some of these things.

Honestly, a lot of what Brain Trust Egg ultimately is, is let's talk about things that matter with trusted people who are there to support you, not chastise you.

So anyway, I wanted to share that, Tanner, since you had mentioned, you know, some of those other issues that are plaguing agriculture today.

Yep. Well, and I recognize that I just threw a wet blanket on our discussion, you know, bringing that up. But the reason I bring that up is, is just the importance of, you know, it's something where, yeah, we can have disagreements on, are we going to be no-till, strip-till, conventional-till? Are we going to have disagreements on, do we cover crop?

Do we not, you know, are we raising our cattle in a confinement setting? Are we, you know, grass-fed beef, things like that. But at the end of the day, aren't we all in this thing together? As agriculture, let's support all of the various ways that folks can get involved in agriculture. And man, I think that's really something that we ought to drive home a little bit more than maybe we do.

And part of that is, generally speaking, let's support each other Yes, from a mental health, mental fitness standpoint, and just let's support everybody involved who wants to either get into agriculture, who wants to expand their operation, and who also wants to transition out. And that's what we're ultimately trying to do.

So to that, to that point, Corey, people love him or hate him or have just no opinion on Dave Ramsey. Um, one of the things that I respect about him is that he owns a lot of real estate with cash. Okay. And so in 2008, obviously we had the great, you know, financial issue, but also, I mean, it really affected, it really impacted the real estate world.

And he said, this is a time for me to buy real estate at a bargain on discount. And because he was sitting on piles of cash and, you know, he didn't have those issues. And so he,

the last and this was a couple years ago i looked into it i mean he bought something like 10 15 million dollars worth of of of real estate income producing real estate in that you know right after that 2008 crisis that is now worth you know hundreds of millions of dollars and it to your point corey it's it's is this an opportunity for those good managers If so, then let's capitalize on it.

If you're not in that situation to take advantage of this as potentially an opportunity, what are you going to do from an operational standpoint to put yourself in that position going forward to capitalize on the next opportunity?

And I think those are the messages that we ought to be sending.

Agreed.

Love it, Tanner. Great, great summary. And here's my answer to your question. I'm not great at separating or carving off time from business. business endeavors to non-business endeavors. But what I will say is it is crucial and it is something I'm trying to get better at.

And I think it is so important for, especially in the agricultural world, whether you're a farmer or a rancher or an egg business owner, and you have all of these irons in the fire to unplug and to focus on family. And me personally, I focus, trying to focus more on faith and trying to understand there is more out there in this life that we have than just our farming operation. And so

How do I unplug? I have hobbies. I also have three daughters with a son on the way coming in October. Congrats. So a lot of my unplugging is hanging out with them. And I love them. And they're awesome. And I enjoy spending time with them and my wife. And so let's prioritize family. Let's prioritize faith. Let's prioritize mental health. And then the rest will kind of come together.

Shoot, it's probably been about 18 months.

Yeah, it's not trying to be engaging, chasing the algorithm. I talk about things that are near and dear to ag people's everyday's hearts. And I guess to answer your question is I try to explain here's a real life scenario. Here's a story. of somebody who I'm working with, how does that apply to your life? Because personally, I learn the best from stories. I expect other people do as well.

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