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Drift & Return

Drift & Return

By: Rodney Connor & Gabe Sheets-Poling
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 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.Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. Economics Science
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  • Episode 10 - It's all relative

    Episode 10 - It's all relative
    Aug 23 2025

    This episode Rodney & Gabe are joined by Dean Durdan of Orchard Point commodities. Dean shares his current view of the market, and goes quite deep into how he thinks of managing risk as a merchandiser (get that flat futures price risk outta' here!) and how to put that hat on when managing farm income.
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Episode 9 - Shrinking the gap between ignorance and execution

    Episode 9 - Shrinking the gap between ignorance and execution
    Aug 10 2025

    In this episode Kathryn Glowinski helps the team lean into the drift theme pretty hard - answering questions about how companies approach information security in a world where AI enables almost anyone take a reasonable shot at accessing information they have no right to. While AI in its current state allows people to skip developing expertise, the group considers how effective this actually is today. Unsurprisingly the conversation goes a bit down the nerd mine with some strong analogies using world of warcraft - so approach with caution.
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Episode 8 - Benchmarking your Benchmarks

    Episode 8 - Benchmarking your Benchmarks
    Jul 30 2025

    Rodney & Gabe convince Jake Mower to join this episode to have a talk about benchmarking pricing performance. Jake is the top of the call sheet when Gabe and Rodney face problems they're not sure how to approach, and he didn't disappoint. Jake brings his usual thoughtful approach to how one might realistically think about benchmarking someone's pricing performance and some common pitfalls.

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    1 hr and 35 mins
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