FoA 302: Farm Business Strategy with Kristjan Hebert

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today's episode is brought to you by Sound Agriculture: <a href= "https://www.sound.ag/">https://www.sound.ag/</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kirstjan Hebert: <a href= "http://www.kristjanhebert.com/">http://www.kristjanhebert.com/</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">HGV: <a href= "https://hebertgrainventures.com/">https://hebertgrainventures.com/</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maverick Ag: <a href= "https://maverickag.com/">https://maverickag.com/</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kristjan Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/KristjanHebert">https://twitter.com/KristjanHebert</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joining me on today’s show is Kristjan Hebert. Kristjan is the managing partner of Hebert Grain Ventures (HGV), a 30,000 acre grain and oilseed operation in southeast Saskatchewan. After a brief stint at accounting firm Meyers Norris Penny, he came back to farming with a focus on profitability. He is a graduate of Texas A&M’s The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers (TEPAP), which you will hear reference a couple of times today.  Danny Klinefelter of TEPAP, whose name will also come up in the interview, refers to Kristjan as “one of the most progressive young farmers he knows”. On top of all of that, Kristjan is also the co-founder of online farm labor platform WorkHorse Hub as well as Maverick Ag - providing custom designed lending, accounting, and insurance solutions to producers.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For this interview, I’m doing something I almost never do: I’m splitting it into two episodes because I thought there was so much here worth your time. In part one today, we talk about the financial lessons he learned from being a CPA that he now applies to his farm, the importance of building a team, dealing with landlords, how is thinking about policy and sustainability, and more. Next week we will go over the operating system he uses to do all o