Chapter 1: What are the trade-offs of farming?
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interesting how like the different reasons they give for prices doing what they're doing and then it does something complete opposite the next day yeah you know like uh all the argentina talk and then it might have gone down a little bit but then right after that it was up so it's always fun too for me to look at what the sale barn prices are for feeder cattle yeah even though feeder cattle's down on the board you look at the sale barn and they're steady to up good auctioneers
Yes, that's it. Great cattle, timing. You got to have placements. Some folks are just in it for it, you know? And I don't want to make like any predictions because I'll probably be wrong, but like the number of feeders are going down already. You would think with as much money as you could sell a heifer for and everyone's selling their heifers and not keeping them back.
It's going to keep going down.
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Chapter 2: How does Cavin balance humor and education in farming?
So I would think the live market would stay up. It's hard to not use your mind to say the same thing, right? If I can sell this heifer for more today, why would I keep it and hope the next three years, you know, right? You want a heifer to produce for three years so you can make money on the fourth and fifth. There is a podcast in Iowa. Funk for profit was named by the fakers.
We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Farm for Profit podcast. This is Tanner. We're really going? Yeah, we're really going. This is Corey. Yep, yep, we are. And this is David. And we're on... out there for so long and like we're not going to start and then I can't I'm actually working. Gotta get here. Let's go girl. Get in. Get out. Got a hot date tonight. Got places to be.
Got concrete coming in five. And really excited for this interview because our guest today has been one of the most requested guests and one of the very few times that both Corey and I reached out Without knowing that each other was reaching out, and Corey reached around. You reached around. Oh, my. Oh, Corey reached around. That's how we got him to drive here. That's how he came all the way.
It was honest things. But the only way we knew to ask this person is because you sent us an email to connect at farmforprofit.com, or you left us a comment, sent us a DM, or texted us, 515-207-9640. I thought it was really funny because the guest just looked where I was looking to try and figure out, like, who the hell is he talking to? Well, you are right there.
He's got this odd focus on his, yeah. We're not framed in right. Oh, my. And that's that's the fun part of Farm for Profit is you as the listener. So thank you so much, because we can't do it without you. And I mean it sincerely. I can't wait to tell one of our super fan stories as we dive deeper into this conversation.
But kicking off another great Farm for Fun interview, probably going to be one of the first ones of 2022. Wow, we're kicking it off with a good thing then. It's going to be a great one. Absolutely. Why don't you get the guest introduced? Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are live in studio. Love an in-studio guest, and Dave's here. Woo! I am, yeah, yeah, I am.
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Chapter 3: What unique challenges does Cavin face in his farming operation?
It's been a great day. It's a great day. We're actually ending the day. We've had a little bit of wine. We introduced Cody. We're doing a bunch of great stuff. So meet up with one of my, I'm going to say, favorite 2025 TikTok followers. This guy, I know he's been on TikTok longer than that, but I actually just followed him this year. Content came across. Fantastic. Great content. That's my word.
He's been shedding light in a uniquely humorous way to agriculture and all the things that we do on a daily basis. You can find him on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and his largest channel, TikTok, with over 26,000 followers. Please welcome from eastern Iowa, Mr. Stone Cold Cavan, Cavan Malloy. Woo! Yeah. Stone Cold. Let's go. What's up, buddy? Oh, not much. Thanks for having me. Yeah.
Good to be here. Look at Dave even busted out the fancy glassware. I did. For his Red Bull and a big bourbon ice cube. It's special. Special occasion. Let's shove the mic a little closer to your face because hopefully that'll block the camera angle out of that stupid logo on your shirt. Oh, is that what it was? Yeah. I just wanted to hold my own coming in here.
This is just a day or two after they just got their butt whooped up on the mat. That was my thing, too. I mean, I post about the Hawkeyes quite a bit, and I don't want people to think I'm just a fair weather fan. So I'm still going to be repping even if we lose. Respect. This was a brand move. Fair enough. Iowa State fans can respect the crap out of that because we had to do it a long, long time.
Have you seen the latest bowl prediction? I don't want to look. Because the Hawkeyes are 8-4 and the Cyclones are 8-4. They say that we should all just go to the Uni-Dome. And have a battle of the Iowa. Battle of Iowa? Yeah. I would go to that. I would go. I guarantee you Iowa fans want another crack at us because I've heard so many of them say, man, I wish we could play you now.
It'd be well attended. I'm good. That was mainly after we lost four in a row? Well, I'm a more like a... Maybe negative, where I'm like, we don't need to lose to you guys two times. Nothing against you guys. Could that happen? No, you'd have to get the funding. I'm sure all the bowl games are pre-funded and pre-set up. Yes, could we play Iowa somewhere?
I mean, Iowa as a whole, as a population, travels everywhere. Really good. Correct. Could we play each other in the Pinstripe Bowl? I'm sure you could. The last prediction that I saw has Iowa State either going to freaking Memphis. Oh, my God. To play in the whatever Memphis Bowl, to play Memphis in Memphis, you know, the home game for the Memphis team. Or they've got us going to shoot.
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Chapter 4: How does Cavin prepare for rain days and winter hours?
It doesn't matter because the show is going to come out. That's right. It's true. But you guys might get to go to Vegas. I haven't looked at that yet. I've been locked on wrestling right now, and then, of course, after Sunday. It's been a little upsetting, but I don't know. It's been a little upsetting. But then Iowa State, they went to a bowl game in Tennessee one time.
They drank the city out of Bush Light, right? Yes. So could you imagine if Iowa and Iowa State were in the same bowl game? That'd be a devastation for— They should just go hold it in St. Louis. You're right next to him. He's going to just tap a line over to the factory, the brewery there. But, no, I think they've drank multiple cities out of O'Shea.
Well, I can tell that you're a little bit nervous, which is totally fine. Yeah, I'm trying to relax. We'll get you to chill out. We'll get you to chill out. So let's talk wrestling because that's been a major part of your life for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about what's the background of wrestling look like in your life.
uh so i all my uncles my dad they all wrestled my brothers they wrestled and then uh i did two i was decent my brothers were both really good i was okay older brothers younger brother uh older i'm the youngest of four i have a sister too so um and then yeah ever since i graduated high school
i've been coaching a youth club and then this is my fourth year helping out the high school team oh really cool so yeah it's a big part of the winter and i don't know it goes into from basically from october until march it's all it's all wrestling did you guys litter in high school yeah i did not in wrestling what'd you litter in Track, which is funny. Freshman year, it was small school.
I hated running track, so then I went out for tennis. I lettered three years in tennis, two or three years in baseball. You played tennis? Yeah, I went to state in tennis. Wow, okay. What did you letter in? Doubles. Same thing, small school. Academics? I did letter and academics. Okay, fair enough. You did letter and academics? Yes. Yeah. I don't think I got one of those.
Would you expect anything less? But no, it was basketball, track, baseball. Huh. I think I might have in cross country. I don't remember if I made cross country lettering. I think I had to have. Because I could run. I never got a leather jacket, though. Oh, you didn't? No. Oh, I should hang mine in the studio. Oh, man. I did get the class ring, and I lost that.
My mom told me, you don't need that. You're going to lose it. Which is funny. My class ring actually looks oddly similar to my wedding ring. It's a silver with a couple of stones, the same color as the mascot. Yeah. But I didn't get the big old one because I didn't think I'd ever wear it. Well, I don't wear that one anyway. Yeah. It is weird.
I feel like I could judge you if you still wear your class ring later in life. Well, you kind of did something. Yes. Like won a Super Bowl or something. I don't know. That's the only reason I went out for wrestling. Was to letter? Was to letter because they didn't have anybody at 103. And so I was light enough that I was able to lose a little bit of weight. Could you imagine Dave at 103?
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Chapter 5: What challenges does Cavin face in the crop insurance world?
Like, you're looking at all the new programs and stuff they're coming out with every year. Yeah. It's like, is this just, like, give someone a job to do? Or is this like... Yeah. Am I not supposed to say that?
Chapter 6: What is Cavin's favorite aspect of farming?
Sorry. No, no, no. I went and got my license because I was thinking, okay, I'll sell for my in-laws and sell for my parents. And then they have a percentage of you can't just sell to family or relatives. Yeah, it's like 30%, I think, is what it is.
Chapter 7: How does Cavin balance farming with coaching youth wrestling?
Yeah, like, what? Now I have to know 60% other people. Yep. I just wanted to check. Still passed the test, got my license.
Chapter 8: What are Cavin's future plans for content creation?
It's just really hard to break into the crop insurance world when it's priced the same. Except for the extras, your extra products. So what is your favorite thing to do on the farm? Probably the livestock, I would say. Livestock too, okay. I'd say cattle, yeah.
i would say like when i was younger is probably row cropping but now i don't livestock just seems more interesting to me even with prices going down a little bit so you do you own any cattle yourself not no not yet and what is the dynamic is it fat cattle cow calf uh buy feeders and then finish them okay so uh so yeah my um
Dad and uncle, they both have their own separate, they're together, but they have their own separate lots at their own places. And so, yeah, and that's been interesting here. It has. I bet you didn't know this, but over 50% of our listeners have livestock. Really? What was it? I threw it away. It's 51. It was 51, but I wasn't sure. It was over 50. It was. I thought it was closer to 60. 59.
We just did an analytics episode. That's terrible. It was terrible. Yeah. It was not terrible. Some people like data. I can't remember what I was going to say. Don't worry about it. Cattle. Prices are going down, but they're still good. It's interesting how the different reasons they give for prices, doing what they're doing, and then it does something the complete opposite the next day.
Like all the Argentina talk, and then it might have gone down a little bit, but then right after that it was up. So it's always fun too, for me to look at what the sale barn prices are for feeder cattle. Yeah. Even though feeder cattle is down on the board, you look at the sale barn and they're steady to up. Good auctioneers. Yes, that's it. Great cattle, timing, you've got to have placements.
Some folks are just in it for a minute. I don't want to make any predictions because I'll probably be wrong, but you would think with as much money, so like the number of feeders are going down already, you would think with as much money as you could sell a heifer for and everyone's selling their heifers and not keeping them back, It's going to keep going down.
So I would think the live market would stay up. It's hard to not use your mind to say the same thing. If I can sell this heifer for more today, why would I keep it and hope the next three years? You want a heifer to produce for three years so you can make money on the fourth and fifth. Yeah. It's a lot of time that bad things happen. Absolutely. It's a lot of feed. It's a lot of management.
It's a lot of disease risk. Yeah, that's what we count. Lightning strikes. Who knows? We count calves. My wife is doing the math. She's like, hey, we should feed this deer out and give it to, you know, split side or whatever. She's like, by the time we feed, this is going to cost each person with a split side this much money. Like, yeah, better charge enough.
Otherwise, we're going to take the heat on it for feeding it. And she's like, we'll just sell it as a calf. Is there a way that you could hedge yourself on the board? I don't understand the cattle markets at all, like for three years down the road, or is that too far out? I don't think you can go three. I know you can go a ways.
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