Drift & Return

About Drift & Return

Hosts Rodney Connor and Gabe Sheets-Poling do their best to understand how people make decisions, the challenges we face along the way and bring that all back to helping farmers and ranchers think about markets and risk from a different perspective. Opinions expressed are personal not the position of any associated or mentioned companies.

Publisher

Rodney Connor & Gabe Sheets-Poling

Category

business · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 May 2025

Latest episode

2 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Aug 2026

   Episode 21 - There and back again

   Nic Kumbalek joins Rodney & Gabe to talk a bit about energy, the challenges of shippers (and shipping) in the current environment and the challenges with hedging shipping costs.  We touch briefly on Cyclospora - A plug for - Little Leaf Farms (as well as other indoor growers) are free and clear on this type of pathogen - so contrary to Rodney's hopes he doesn't really have an excuse to pass the produce aisle.Finally - Gabe rode 84 miles on a bike for charity, and comedically drank 32 gallons of water to make it the distance - he's not built for endurance.  If you're interested in supporting cancer research please don't hesitate to share a couple bucks - https://profile.pmc.org/pmc/GS0282

2. 

   30 May 2026

   Episode 20 - Let's talk about communism and free markets

   Cole Stock of Western Grain Marketing joins the podcast this time.  Some heady topics around the idea of "fairness" in markets.  Is zone bidding ok?  The group talks about some alternatives to trailing stops to help defer pricing and finally make some poorly informed guesses as to what corn cash price will be as we roll into harvest.

3. 

   29 Apr 2026

   Episode 19 - Cash and Time Travel

   Rodney and Gabe are joined by lender Jacob Chapman for some discussion around NPV and better understanding what Jacob on the banking side really digs into before underwriting a loan. Some technical difficulties on this one so it's a bit more edited than normal If you're interested in our take on Iran and current markets the TL;DR is Rodney and Gabe remain wary but hopeful.  How can the duo hold both views at the same time?  They're human, contain multitudes and may in fact contradict themselves from time to time.

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