Shows
The Vance Crowe PodcastChris Barron: The Communication AdvantageThis week Vance sat down with Chris Barron who has spent decades helping agricultural businesses become stronger. As founder of AgView Solutions, Chris works with farming families and business owners across North America to improve communication, succession planning, leadership, and long-term profitability. Unlike many consultants, he's still actively farming himself - giving him firsthand experience with the challenges his clients face. In this conversation, Chris explains why the biggest problems in business often aren't financial—they're human. He and Vance explore how better communication can transform family businesses, why mentorship matters more than ma...
2026-07-031h 12The Vance Crowe PodcastDan Kloeckener: A Life on the Cutting Edge This week Vance sat down with Dan Kloeckener who has spent more than four decades styling hair in St. Louis - but behind the chair is a remarkable life story… Dan reflects on his early years working in restaurants, the lure of easy money, his struggles with drugs and alcohol, and the unlikely path that led him into cosmetology. Along the way he shares lessons learned from thousands of conversations with clients, why gratitude became central to his life, and how faith helped him overcome decades of addiction. The discussion also ventures into unexpected territory—from su...
2026-06-261h 06The Vance Crowe PodcastFaith, AI, and Modern Life: A Conversation with Monsignor ShamlefferThis week Vance sat down with Monsignor Shamleffer for a wide-ranging conversation about faith, technology, human dignity, and the challenges facing society in an age of rapid change.They reflect on artificial intelligence, the role of work in human flourishing, and why technological progress must remain focused on serving people rather than replacing them. The conversation explores Catholic and Protestant approaches to faith, the importance of symbolism and tradition, the meaning of suffering and the vocation of the priesthood.Along the way, Monsignor Shamleffer shares insights from decades spent in pastoral ministry and what it...
2026-06-191h 41The Vance Crowe PodcastRemembering Jim Rutt: A Life Lived at the Ragged EdgeJim Rutt was a working class kid from the suburbs of Washington DC who somehow ended up at MIT, spent years hitchhiking around the country, stumbled into the world's first consumer online service, and eventually became CEO of Network Solutions and chairman of the Santa Fe Institute. He was a relentless reader — 100 books a year since age 10 — and one of the most genuinely curious people Vance ever sat down with. He died recently after a period of illness, and this episode is a tribute. What you'll find here is a compilation of the conversations Vance and Jim had t...
2026-06-161h 07The Vance Crowe PodcastChris Fisher on the Vance Crowe Podcast: Bitcoin, Chickens & Why Boomers Live in a Different CountryVance finally lands the guest he's been chasing for two years — Chris LAS, host of This Week in Bitcoin, the only podcast Vance listens to every single week. They open on an unexpected topic: Chris's fully automated chicken coop, complete with motion sensors, ammonia monitors, automated doors, egg trapdoors, and local cameras running on Frigate DVR — no cloud, no subscriptions, no Google watching your backyard. From there the conversation widens into surveillance, Flock cameras showing up in neighborhoods without public votes, and why the data being collected today may be the most dangerous in 2035 when AI is powerful enough to m...
2026-06-151h 32The Vance Crowe PodcastMark Reardon: St. Louis Radio, AI Fears & the Generational DivideVance sits down with St. Louis radio veteran Mark Reardon — 97.1 FM Talk — for a wide-ranging conversation that quickly reveals just how different two people's information worlds can be. Mark has been in talk radio since he was 15, has survived firings and format flips, and still believes in live local radio. But when Vance starts talking about the Bitcoin Clarity Act or Cynthia Lummis, Mark draws a complete blank — and neither of them finds that reassuring. The gap between boomer and younger media diets, they agree, is now so wide that the two groups are essentially living in different realities.
2026-06-111h 08The Vance Crowe PodcastMark Reardon: St. Louis Radio, AI Fears & the Generational DivideVance sits down with St. Louis radio veteran Mark Reardon — 97.1 FM Talk — for a wide-ranging conversation that quickly reveals just how different two people's information worlds can be. Mark has been in talk radio since he was 15, has survived firings and format flips, and still believes in live local radio. But when Vance starts talking about the Bitcoin Clarity Act or Cynthia Lummis, Mark draws a complete blank — and neither of them finds that reassuring. The gap between boomer and younger media diets, they agree, is now so wide that the two groups are essentially living in different realities.F...
2026-06-111h 11The Vance Crowe PodcastRob Long: AI, Scorpions in the Office & Why Local Optima Ruin CareersVance sits down with data engineer Rob Long — self-described as scoring near zero on the agreeableness scale — to dig into what professional AI use actually looks like. Rob walks through his work at Bayer building "Sales Companion," an iOS app that lets sales agronomists dump field notes, photos, and voice memos after customer visits, then uses an AI agronomy agent to surface product recommendations and flag crop disease issues the salesperson might have missed. It's a grounded, unglamorous look at how enterprise AI actually gets built and deployed.The conversation ranges widely, from the local optima prob...
2026-05-221h 53The Vance Crowe PodcastJoscha Bach on AI, Religious War, and Cyber AnimismJoscha Bach is back on the show, and Vance opens by asking the question almost everyone is asking right now: should we be afraid of AI? Joscha’s answer is no, and his reasons are not the usual ones. AI is creating more jobs than it removes, it’s already the most equitable technology ever built (a $20-a-month plan gives anyone in the world access to a thousand Einsteins), and most of the fear is a media reaction to a business model under threat — not a reflection of what’s actually happening in the economy.From there the conversa...
2026-05-191h 26The Vance Crowe PodcastWhy Alberta Wants to Leave Canada, with Dustin NewmanA federal judge just blocked Alberta's independence referendum from going on the ballot in October, ruling that the citizen-led petition — which gathered 300,000 signatures in four months — should have consulted First Nations first. Vance sits down with Dustin Newman, an Alberta oil company owner who helped collect those signatures and was active in the Wild Rose party, to figure out what just happened and what it means. Dustin walks through why the movement exists in the first place: a centralized federal system where Ontario and Quebec decide every election, billions of dollars in equalization payments flowing out of Alberta each...
2026-05-151h 02
AK PodcastWhat Great Communicators Do Differently with Vance CroweIn this episode, Mike Donaldson talks with Vance Crowe about the role communication plays in leadership, relationships, and agriculture.Vance explains how interest-based communication helps people better understand motivations, reduce unnecessary conflict, and improve conversations in both professional and personal settings. The discussion covers listening skills, negotiation strategies, and the importance of curiosity when navigating disagreements.🎙️ AK Podcast Insights 🔍 Exploring the latest in livestock nutrition, science and beyond with the best and the brightest in the business. Brought to you by Agri-King, an animal nutrition company based in Fulton, Illinois.💬 Follow us...
2026-05-1245 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastYour Body Runs on Ancestral Time: Modern Life Is Breaking It | Geneticist Kate CrosbyWhen Vance Crowe learned he needed half his thyroid removed, it sparked a deep question: what does it mean when your body's clock gets disrupted? In this candid and wide-ranging conversation, Vance brings on geneticist and light researcher Kate Crosby — someone he talks to almost daily — to explore the science behind the body's hidden timekeepers.They dig into how the thyroid regulates hormones and why losing it might put you on "synthetic time," why vitamin D and magnesium are so tightly linked, how intense exercise can unlock forgotten memories, and the surprising ways your ancestral latitude shapes everything from...
2026-05-021h 12The Vance Crowe PodcastShay Foulk: Theology, Military, and the Vibe Coding Death of Ag AppsVance is back in the saddle, kicking off the new run of the show with Shay Falk for a wide-ranging, live conversation that starts in ag-tech and rides straight into faith, leadership, and how AI is reshaping both business and culture. Shay unpacks the origin story of Farm Profit Manager — how he, his brother Mac, and cousin Sam transformed a 30-year consulting tool from AgView Solutions into free software, why they bet on connection and advisory work rather than SaaS fees, and how rapid feedback, GitHub discipline, and even mermaid diagrams are helping them ship fast. Van...
2026-04-251h 47The Vance Crowe PodcastAI Will Make Niche Farming Possible & Updates About VanceVance Crowe returns to the podcast after several months away with a vision for how AI agents are about to reshape commerce — and an explanation of where he's been. He argues the era of Google search is ending: websites built to communicate with AI agents, not human readers, will win the next decade. Using grass-fed beef as an extended example, Crowe walks through how AI agents will handle product discovery, payment, logistics, and recurring delivery on behalf of consumers, and what that shift means for small producers who have long struggled to reach customers directly. He also offers a ca...
2026-04-1737 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastBeing Humbled: A reflection on the new yearIn this solo episode, Vance Crowe shares why he is pressing pause on the AgTribes news rundown and shifting the show toward deeper, more human conversations. Over the holidays, a series of experiences brought him back to one theme: being humbled.Crowe talks about the moments that knock people to their knees, how they open a door of understanding between people, and why the richest friendships and stories often come from facing failure, anxiety, and shame—and choosing to look for the light at the end of the tunnel.Key Discussion PointsGetting Unstuck: He discusses a si...
2026-01-0925 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastATR: Europe failing and China is Deflating with @nnzp1730In this week’s Ag Tribes Report on The Vance Crowe Podcast, host Vance Crowe tosses the script and sits down with returning guest “NNZP,” a veteran CEO and global manufacturer who joins anonymously to speak candidly about the world economy. They dig into Europe’s rapid de-industrialization, energy policy missteps, and why cheaper Chinese imports may be a short-term fix with long-term strategic risks. NNZP explains China’s deflationary “involution,” the chasm between commanded capacity and real demand, and how that excess is being exported—pressuring Western industry and defense resilience. They explore supply-chain fragility from chips to pharma inputs, t...
2025-12-1237 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastVCP: Farm Management and Rural Appraisal in our chaotic ageIn this live episode recorded at an ASFMRA conference, Vance sit down with veteran farm manager and rural appraiser Dennis Raymond of Stalcup Ag Service to bridge two audiences: an in-room crowd steeped in modern agriculture and a wider listenership curious about how farmland is owned, managed, and valued. Dennis shares a career’s worth of perspective—from juggling farm management, appraisals, and sales in northwest Iowa to navigating today’s volatile costs, interest-rate swings, and the “heartstring” realities of legacy properties. We unpack why proposals to tax absentee landowners miss the mark, how to think in ratios like fertilizer...
2025-11-2755 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastATR: Secretary Rawlins; Cheerleader or Change Maker? with Elliot HendersonIn this week’s Ag Tribes Report, Vance Crowe is joined by entrepreneur, farmer, and Iowa Corn Growers director Elliot Henderson for a fast-moving breakdown of four big stories shaping agriculture. They react to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins’ media blitz and her tightly messaged take on trade, cattle, and screw worm—praising her talent while questioning how much of it reflects independent ag thinking. They unpack California’s Prop 50 and what partisan redistricting could mean for rural voices in the nation’s top ag state. They also look at the viral Danish claims linking cow deaths to the mandatory Bovear met...
2025-11-0742 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastATR: Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling bill BACK, China deal is a letdown with rancher Casey KimbrellIn this week's Ag Tribes Report, Vance Crowe is joined by fifth-generation Texas Panhandle farmer Casey Kimbrell for a fast, candid breakdown of three stories rocking agriculture. They unpack the touted Trump–Xi "soybean breakthrough," asking whether a 25 MMT annual commitment is progress or just a return to pre-trade-war status quo. Then they wade into the renewed push for mandatory country-of-origin labeling in beef, the packer vs. rancher incentives behind the current system, and why transparency matters more than ever. They close the news block with Bill Gates' pivot from climate alarmism toward prioritizing vaccines, and what a...
2025-10-3139 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastLuke Gromen "print the money or trigger the revolution"In this episode, Vance Crowe sits down with economist and FFTT founder Luke Gromen to unpack where inflation, debt, and commodities are pushing the global financial system—and what that means for farmers, savers, and investors. They explore how slow, sustained inflation erodes trust and value, why central banks keep choosing to “print the money or trigger the revolution,” and why gold and Bitcoin function as stores of energy in a world of rising fiscal strain. Luke explains the growing shift to pricing oil and other commodities outside the US dollar, the implications of central banks buying gold, the Cantil...
2025-10-281h 14The Vance Crowe PodcastATR: Trump takes credit for beef prices, SNAP benefits FROZEN? with JR BurdickIn this week’s Ag Tribes Report, host Vance Crowe is joined by dairy farmer and Bitcoiner JR Burdick for a fast-paced tour through the biggest stories shaping agriculture. They unpack President Trump’s viral post urging ranchers to lower beef prices and the backlash from cattle producers who point to low herd size, packer settlements, and market volatility driven by political posts. Then they dig into the looming SNAP crunch amid the government shutdown, how an AWS outage jammed up harvest logistics and farmgate payments, and the partial reopening of FSA offices to process $3B in producer payments—plus t...
2025-10-2450 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastVCP: Devon Eriksen on cowards, leftists and culture changeIn this episode, Vance Crowe sits down with author Devon Erickson to explore why he calls himself a compulsive explainer and how he sees the role of an intellectual: not to end debates, but to start them with powerful metaphors and fresh lenses. They dive deep into empathy as a writer’s core skill—simultaneously inhabiting a character’s inner world and anticipating the reader’s experience—and how that practice shapes Devon’s science-fiction novel, Theft of Fire. From first-person perspective and memory palaces to the mechanics of metaphor in thought, they wander into bigger terrain: how online discourse re...
2025-10-212h 28The Vance Crowe PodcastATR: Prop 12, Pig Butchering, and a Nestlé Shock; Vance SoloIn this solo-hosted Ag Tribes Report by Vance Crowe, Vance covers four major headlines shaping agriculture and adjacent markets after the scheduled guest drops out during harvest. The report dives into the unusual coalition of farmers and food companies backing state-level animal welfare laws like California’s Prop 12, unpacks the DOJ’s massive seizure tied to a Southeast Asian “pig butchering” crypto scam and what it could signal for government Bitcoin accumulations, assesses Nestlé’s 16,000-job global restructuring and what it may mean for supply chains and food inflation, and reacts to prosecutors seeking a prison term and restitution in the $4 m...
2025-10-1732 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastATR: Prop 12 gets new advocates, Nestle announces 16K firings; Vance Solo EpisodeIn this solo-hosted Ag Tribes Report by Vance Crowe, Vance covers four major headlines shaping agriculture and adjacent markets after the scheduled guest drops out during harvest. The report dives into the unusual coalition of farmers and food companies backing state-level animal welfare laws like California’s Prop 12, unpacks the DOJ’s massive seizure tied to a Southeast Asian “pig butchering” crypto scam and what it could signal for government Bitcoin accumulations, assesses Nestlé’s 16,000-job global restructuring and what it may mean for supply chains and food inflation, and reacts to prosecutors seeking a prison term and restitution in the $4 mill...
2025-10-1732 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastWorthy Adversaries: The Courage To Disagree. Vance Crowe speech at Flinchbaugh Ag Policy ForumIn this episode, Vance Crowe shares a keynote delivered at the inaugural Flinchbaugh Forum for Agricultural Policy in Manhattan, Kansas, honoring Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh’s legacy of courageous, civil discourse. Vance unpacks the concept of “worthy adversaries,” explaining how respect and even resentment can guide individuals toward those who sharpen their ideas, and offers practical tools for productive disagreement: steelmanning, providing “click” moments of fascination, asking “how” instead of “why,” saying “tell me more,” and diagramming arguments to debate ideas shoulder-to-shoulder rather than person-to-person. Vance also explores how the Overton window shifts what’s thinkable and why humility and openness to change are e...
2025-10-0245 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastATR: Tariffs = Farmer Checks and John Deer Layoffs with @HurstBlakeIn this week’s Ag Tribes Report, Vance is joined by Missouri farmer and former Missouri Farm Bureau president Blake Hurst. They cover John Deere’s latest layoffs amid a tough farm economy and what this downcycle means for equipment buyers, the Trump team’s floated idea to fund farm aid with tariff revenues (and Blake’s sharp critique of running money “in a circle”), and USDA’s push to expand U.S. ethanol exports to the UK, including a frank debate about mandates, price impacts at the pump, and ethanol as a strategic grain reserve. We also examine concerns from...
2025-09-1839 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastATR Special: Reflecting on Chaos: The Assassination of Charlie KirkIn this special edition of the Ag Tribes report, Vance reflects on the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk and its impact on our society. This episode deviates from our usual focus on agriculture to address broader cultural issues that affect us all. Vance shares his personal experience of learning about this tragic event and the profound respect I had for Charlie Kirk, a man who consistently chose dialogue over violence. His ability to engage respectfully with those who disagreed with him was admirable, and his loss is a stark reminder of the chaotic times we live in. Vance discusses...
2025-09-1220 minThe Vance Crowe PodcastATR: Bitcoin Shoot-Out; Cattle Rancher Jerod McDaniel Debates VanceIn this episode of the Ag Tribes Report, host Vance Crow welcomes Jared McDaniel for a deep dive into the world of Bitcoin and its implications for agriculture and personal sovereignty. Vance and Jared engage in a spirited discussion about the potential of Bitcoin to combat government inflation and preserve individual wealth. They explore the philosophical and practical aspects of Bitcoin, debating its role as a tool for freedom and its comparison to traditional assets like land. Jared shares his skepticism about digital currencies, emphasizing the importance of tangible assets and the risks of hyper-digitalization.The conversation...
2025-09-051h 22