Our annual FARMCON conference has connected our family with some of the real movers and shakers in agriculture. Now, through this new podcast, we’re bringing those conversations directly to you. If you’re looking to separate yourself from the crowd and hear about cutting-edge ag-technology, market insights, and hard-earned lessons you won’t find anywhere else, this podcast is for you. What makes it special is the willingness of guests to openly share not only their successes, but also their failures, ideas, and keys to growth.
Highly Volatile
Claim This Podcastby Kevin Van Trump
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60 episodes
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Our annual FARMCON conference has connected our family with some of the real movers and shakers in agriculture. Now, through this new podcast, we’re bringing those conversations directly to you. If you’re looking to separate yourself from the crowd and hear about cutting-edge ag-technology, market insights, and hard-earned lessons you won’t find anywhere else, this podcast is for you. What makes it special is the willingness of guests to openly share not only their successes, but also their failures, ideas, and keys to growth.
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August 4, 2026
FARMCON Conversations 08-05-2026: Special Guest, Dan Maycock, co-founder of Dataplai
<p><strong>This week’s FarmCon Conversations</strong> starts with what makes FarmCon different from a normal ag event: it is not built around vacation travel, generic networking, or people telling producers how to farm. Kevin explains why FarmCon is positioned as a room for serious producers, operators, ranchers, ag businesses, and decision-makers who are trying to make better business, market, and capital-allocation decisions.</p> <p>From there, Kevin and Todd move through corn, soybeans, wheat, macro markets, interest rates, investing, prediction markets, and the danger of falling in love with a good story before the numbers support it.</p> <p>The second half of the episode features Dan Maycock, co-founder and CTO of Dataplai, for a practical conversation about AI in agriculture — what it actually is, where it can help producers, where the hype is dangerous, and why farmers need to learn how to use the tool without letting it make decisions for them.</p> <p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p> <p><strong>0:00</strong> Why FarmCon is not designed like a normal ag conference, and why Kevin believes it should be a room where serious operators come to make better business and market decisions.</p> <p><strong>5:00</strong> Corn, the August WASDE setup, declining crop ratings, and why Kevin is not aggressively bullish even though he thinks USDA’s 183 yield may be high.</p> <p><strong>14:00</strong> Kevin’s current soybean view, including why he still likes the longer-term demand story but wants to buy bigger breaks rather than chase strength.</p> <p><strong>17:00</strong> The wheat discussion: Black Sea logistics, exportable supply, and why Kevin sees wheat as more of a war-and-weather story than a clean demand story.</p> <p><strong>23:00</strong> Macro markets, labor data, inflation, crude oil, and why Kevin does not currently believe the Fed needs to be aggressively hawkish.</p> <p><strong>31:00</strong> Kevin’s investing posture: why he remains conservative, overweight cash, and more interested in buying bigger breaks than chasing stocks at current valuations.</p> <p><strong>39:00</strong> Prediction markets, Kalshi, Polymarket, and why Kevin thinks these markets are here to stay and could become increasingly relevant in agriculture.</p> <p><strong>49:00 </strong>Dan Maycock joins the conversation for a practical discussion on AI in agriculture — what it is, where it can help producers, where the hype is dangerous, and why farmers need “flight school” before relying too heavily on the tool.</p>
July 28, 2026
FARMCON Conversations 07–29-2026 – Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn
<p>This week’s FarmCon Conversations starts with a FARMCON update, then corn, soybeans, wheat, but the better discussion is really about how Kevin thinks through risk, markets, business, and change.</p> <p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p> <p><strong>18:00 –</strong> Why Kevin believes producers should focus less on being right about the final yield and more on being right about how the market trades USDA’s number.</p> <p><strong>29:00 –</strong> How Kevin is thinking about corn’s wide trading range, with buyers watching the lower end and producers looking to reduce risk toward the upper end.</p> <p><strong>32:00 –</strong> Why Kevin is trading small, using options, and trying not to manage the “flip-flop” in a market that can move hard both directions.</p> <p><strong>36:00 –</strong> How soybeans are trading the gap between USDA’s 53 bpa yield and private estimates that may already be moving lower.</p> <p><strong>40:00 –</strong> Why Kevin thinks domestic soybean crush could become a bigger story this fall, especially if China adds fresh buying interest.</p> <p><strong>46:00 –</strong> Why Kevin is bullish wheat, but sees the story as more about Black Sea logistics, execution risk, and supply being out of position than a simple production shortage.</p> <p><strong>51:00 –</strong> Why Kevin is watching farmland values, subsidies, lending, and government support as potential long-term risks inside agriculture.</p> <p><strong>1:03:00 –</strong> Why Kevin questions whether farmland has already seen a major expansion in the buyer pool from funds, solar, data centers, and outside capital.</p> <p><strong>1:11:00 –</strong> How Kevin is positioning his investment accounts around AI, the Fed, ag stocks, gold, cash, and potential market pullbacks.</p> <p><strong>1:17:00 –</strong> Why Kevin pushes back against constant doom-and-gloom thinking around debt, deficits, and the economy.</p> <p><strong>1:25:00 –</strong> What Kevin tells young people about careers, flexibility, opportunity, and why chasing money alone can lead to bad decisions.</p> <p><strong>Key quotes from Kevin:</strong></p> <p>“As long as the USDA is in business, I think that’s what the world’s gonna trade off of.”</p> <p>“You can be as right as the day is long on the yield, but if you’re wrong the market and wrong where the USDA’s going with it, you’re just gonna get annihilated.”</p> <p>“I don’t wanna manage the flip-flop.”</p> <p>“I trade small here because with the volatility where it is, I don’t want to get knocked out.”</p> <p>“The key is get in early and leave early.”</p> <p>“Whoever can hold their breath the longest has got the best chance to survive.”</p> <p>“Learn, unlearn, relearn.”</p> <p>“Be the best that you can possibly be at whatever you pick to be.”</p>
July 21, 2026
FARMCON Conversations 07–22-2026: “Planning is over. Now it’s time to execute—and it’s going to be a grind.”
<p>This week’s FarmCon Conversations starts with corn, soybeans, wheat, and the latest USDA numbers, but the better discussion is really about how Kevin thinks through risk, markets, business, and change.</p> <p>Kevin and Todd talk through what has driven the recent grain rally, why producers should avoid becoming locked onto a single price forecast, and how to recognize when bullish headlines may be creating an opportunity to remove risk. From there, the conversation moves into collectible investing, business execution, mental flexibility, and why the ability to stay focused after the work becomes repetitive often separates successful people from everyone else.</p> <p>In this episode:</p> <p>Why Kevin believes producers should surf the markets rather than try to predict them, using rallies to reduce risk instead of waiting for one perfect price.</p> <p>How much of the recent strength in corn, soybeans, and wheat may be tied to speculative money, weather uncertainty, energy markets, and geopolitical risk.</p> <p>Why Kevin believes wheat may have the strongest underlying supply-and-logistics story of the three major grain markets.</p> <p>What Kevin looks for when investing in collectibles—and why scarce, elite assets can be easier to sell than average items with far more visible supply.</p> <p>Why successful people make a plan, commit to the execution, and resist the temptation to change direction simply because they become bored.</p> <p>How Kevin has produced The Van Trump Report consistently for more than 20 years by focusing on completing one report and one day at a time.</p> <p>Key quotes from Kevin:</p> <p>“As a producer, you’ve got to surf the market. You’re just trying to pick spots to take risk off the table.”</p> <p>“When you get focused on a number, it handcuffs you mentally and makes it difficult to remain flexible.”</p> <p>“Big bulls need to be fed regularly. I’m not sure the bullish news can continue at the pace it has been coming.”</p> <p>“Planning is over. Now it’s time to execute—and it’s going to be a grind.”</p> <p>“Your job isn’t to clean all the dishes. Your job is to clean one dish, and then keep doing that over and over.”</p>
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