Episode Details

AgrisAcademy-Founders Jeff Kazin and Mike Rohlfsen

www.steinbauer.us

www.agrisacademy.com

• Jeff:    spent 30 years in the grain trade.   Tell us some of the craziest/interesting  things you saw
• HTA squeeze on corn during the early days of farmers and HTA-  No illegal behavior 😊
• Customer inspectors from buying countries
• Dead rats
• Found in a jail in Houston
• a first gen farmer.     Can you describe your operation and how your day job as a merchant/trading leader impacted it.     (the tailgate comparison of cost with our local BTO and friend)
• Mike:    includes 20 years in the grain trade before moving to the ag start up side of the industry.
• Cargills first employee in Ukraine.   What type of things did you see as you arrived post communist rule.
• How are things now in Ukraine?
• not from a farming family.   What was the draw  into ag and trading?
• What’s something wild you saw in the US trade
• Still wild today?

• Jeff& Mike          What was the trade/series of trades you made the most money?

Agris Academy

• Jeff and Mike founded AgrisAcademy.   We have hundreds of brokers/advisors serving the ag industry.   You make it clear your business is neither broker or advisor.
• You focus on education
• WHY?  “You cant win”
• “We see millions of dollars that should go from the market to farmers
• Story-  SE corn farmer
• “the buyer/bully”     Story of harvesting late corn in MN
• Clients scattered across the US corn belt.    Is there one thing in common they could do to improve their merchandising and marketing?
• AgrisAcademy has three different practices.
• Producer, industry partners, commercial
• Banks -Seed companies - Peanut crushers- other consumers
• Jeff:   You guys are putting on a Masters Class in merchandising and risk management  this fall.   Why?
• Comment from young lady post speaking engagement-  “They don’t want to teach us these skills”
• No platform available to learn at this level
• Ability to share information to a broader group than our retained clients
• Can you describe the Masters Class
• 10 weeks / 2x per week/ 2 hours instruction + 1 hr open interaction  40hours +, evening live class starting December, Office hours for 1-1 instruction, Recorded classes if unable to attend
• How does a producer sign up for the class?    How are you going to handle the amount of time needed?
• Limit class size -Interactive teaching with live QA -Scheduled office hours
• How can someone connect if they are an industry partner or a commercial looking for help?
• Website / email
• Micro consulting

If you could go back to yourself at age 18 – what advice would you give?

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