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Barn Talk

by Tork and Sawyer Whisler
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  • How A Craigslist Ad Turned Into A 350,000 Subscriber Business

    October 19, 2026 · 2 hr 3 min

    Neil Koch walked away from a good job 4 miles from his house at almost 50 to go full time on YouTube. His channel, Dig Drive DIY, sits at 348,000 subscribers, and it started with videos of a backhoe he was trying to sell on Craigslist. He…

  • Would You Sell Your Farm For $26 Million?

    October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    Corn is over $5 and beans are near $13, and a lot of farmers still won't make any more money than they did at $4.50 corn. Every time the grain price goes up, something takes it back, and the front half of this Hot Topics episode is about…

  • Brazil Is Coming For American Corn

    October 5, 2026 · 2 hr 13 min

    You can't out-yield your way to profit anymore, so Will Cannon is chasing margin with 2 or 3 bucks an acre of homemade compost instead of $40 an acre of bugs in a jug. Two Iowa corn farmers came to the barn this week: Will, an Iowa Corn…

  • The Day I Lost My Dad And The Day I Almost Lost My Son

    September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

    Tork's dad lived to 99, flew fighters, practiced law, and paid for a farm. In July 2018 he fell down the basement stairs, and Tork brought him home to die in the same house he was born in. No guest this week. Sawyer and Tork each picked…

  • 1.3 Million People Watch Him Pull Dead Trucks Out Of Iowa Fence Rows

    September 21, 2026 · 2 hr 30 min

    He grew up with kiddie pools in the attic catching roof leaks and frost forming on the inside of his bedroom wall, and today 1.33 million people watch him drag dead cars out of Iowa fence rows. Kevin Brown runs Junkyard Digs out of Ames…

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  • Only $278 In The Bank And 550 Cows To Feed

    September 15, 2026 · 2 hr 22 min

    He stacked every FSA beginning farmer loan he could get, went from about 100 cows to 550 in roughly a year, and when the balance sheet finally settled he was positive by $278. That is the number this whole episode hangs on. Luke and…

  • The Big 4 Stole The Only Market Small Farmers Ever Built

    September 7, 2026 · 2 hr 40 min

    Forty companies own 70 percent of the hogs in this country. Fewer than 100 plants slaughter 99.7 percent of them. Small farms running their own processing account for 0.3 percent of the pork on shelves, 2 percent of the beef. So when a…

  • The $280 Collar That Doubled a Ranch's Grazing Overnight

    September 4, 2026 · 2 hr 25 min

    A rancher outside Kansas City put collars on 30 cows and went from moving them every two days to every four or five days on the same ground, at the same cow condition. That is double the carrying capacity overnight, and we spent most of…

  • Ranchers Finally Got Paid So Washington Wants 300,000 Tons of Beef

    August 23, 2026 · 1 hr 51 min

    Welcome back to Barn Talk! In today’s Hot Topics episode, the conversation focused on what’s really going on across the ag markets and beef industry. The discussion explored the effects of recent government moves to import more foreign…

  • I Lost Everything at 26. Here's How I Built It Back

    August 9, 2026 · 2 hr 42 min

    Welcome back to Barn Talk! In this episode, Tork and Sawyer sit down for an open and honest conversation comparing their lives and mindsets at the age of 26. Tork reflects on his experiences coming up in the late 1990s from the financial…

  • Why Blue-Collar Jobs Are the Only Safe Careers Left in America

    August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

    Welcome back to Barn Talk! In this episode, Sawyer and Tork are diving headfirst into some of the hottest topics shaping our world right now, with a special focus on the rapid rise of AI and its ripple effects across farms, industry, and…

  • He Quit Corporate. Now He Runs One of America's Best BBQ Joints

    July 26, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

    Welcome back to Barn Talk! In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into the world of barbecue, entrepreneurship, and rural revival with special guests Garren and Kelly Kirkman of John G’s Barbecue in Peachland, North Carolina. Hosts Sawyer…

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About the show

Barn Talk is a weekly podcast, hosted by father-son duo Sawyer & Tork Whisler. We exist to share content that educates, inspires, and makes viewers laugh out loud. From the Ag business world to investing, current events, entrepreneurship and much, much more, our vision is to promote agriculture in a positive light, while relating with everyday Americans in discussing kitchen table topics.