Between 2 Farms

Episode 8: Landoption with Eric Dinger

Eric Dinger, founder of Land Option, joined us at FBN Farmer to Farmer to talk farm programs. His pitch: there are roughly 1,100 programs nationally, any given farm qualifies for 50–80, and nobody has time to sort through them. Land Option solves it by training local trusted advisors — agronomists, accountants, crop insurance agents — to deliver field-by-field "game plans" to producers. Early numbers: ~$78/acre in new top-line revenue, $2/acre upfront, 10% on programs found. Eric's bigger point: out-efficiencying your neighbor on the same bushel is a race to the bottom. The farms that win the next decade will sell soil, water, and carbon alongside grain.

Episode 7: Andy Clean and his amazing farm soap

This episode of Between 2 Farms features Andy Pasztor , better known online as Andy Clean, a farmer from Tilsonburg, Ontario who turned a simple social media hashtag and sticker into a real agricultural cleaning brand. He walks through how the business started almost by accident, beginning with a viral idea, support from John Deere, and a grassroots community of farmers proudly showing off freshly washed equipment. From there, Andy explains how he built the brand before he even had a product, partnered with a soap manufacturer, hit the road with his dad to visit dealers across the Midwest, and slowly grew Andy Clean into a recognizable name carried through John Deere’s dealer network. The conversation goes beyond soap and leans into the bigger picture of entrepreneurship in agriculture, the value of personality and community in building a business, and the reality that farmers often need to create something beyond commodities to stay viable. Nathan and Quentin talk with Andy about equipment pride, perceived value, social media, networking, and why face-to-face relationships still matter in ag business. The episode has a loose, funny, road-trip kind of energy, but underneath it is a real discussion about taking chances, building something from passion, and how farm people are often better prepared for entrepreneurship than they realize.

Episode 6: Charles Baron, co-founder of FBN

Nathan Faleide and Quinten Connealy sit down with FBN co-founder Charles Baron at the Farmer to Farmer conference in Omaha to talk about how FBN got started, how it evolved, and where it may be headed next. They get into the early idea behind FBN as a farmer data-sharing and analytics platform, how that turned into a much bigger business around input purchasing, lending, crop marketing, and digital farm infrastructure, and why price transparency has been one of the biggest shifts FBN brought to the industry. The conversation also digs into what it really takes to make digital ag tools work in the real world. Charles talks about the challenge of combining software with the physical side of farming, the need for trust and human support even in online systems, and how AI could start tying together planning, products, finance, and decision-making on the farm. It’s a candid discussion about ag retail, competition, digital adoption, and the bigger question of how farmers can stay profitable in a tough farm economy.

Episode 5 - The FBN F2F conference and the Millennial Farmer crashing the party

Nathan Faleide and co-host Quentin Connealy record live from the FBN Farmer to Farmer Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, catching up on what's happening in agriculture heading into the 2026 growing season. The two dig into some timely topics including the USDA's request for information on improving crop reporting, the frustrations of FSA's outdated digital systems, and how precision ag data could be better utilized if farmers had the right incentives to share it. They also get into input cost pressures, nitrogen management strategies, and the ROI math that's pushing more growers to cut rates and rethink their fertility programs. The episode gets a bonus boost when Millennial Farmer Zach Johnson stops by for an unplanned cameo, dropping a few hints about upcoming John Deere announcements at Commodity Classic. Nathan and Quentin also share some laughs about property taxes, the chaos of government farm programs, and the creative (and questionable) ways farmers engineer solutions on the cheap. It's a candid, wide-ranging conversation straight from the conference floor — equal parts industry insight and real-talk from guys actually living it.

Episode 4: Travel times, Willy Wonka, and a Road show

In this weeks engaging conversation after a little 2 week unplanned break, we discuss various aspects of our fun farming experience right now, including the impact of dry weather down south, Q diggin fields in Feb, Nathan worried about excessive moisture this spring, Q's experiences at the National Young Farmers Conference in Hershey, PA (Willy Wonka reference), and much more. We also talk about our upcoming road show at the FBN Farmer2Farmer conference next week in Omaha, NE where we will be setting up the mics and cameras and talking to some startups, other farmers and Ag business people, and who ever else stops by and has something interesting to talk about in Ag. Hit us up at the show next week if you're going and enjoy the rest!