What’s the Secret to a Farmer’s Lasting Success? w/Jim Cuddeback
Barn Talk
Tork and Sawyer Whisler
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Barn Talk! In today’s episode, we welcome seasoned farmer Jim Cuddeback to the barn. Jim Cuddeback shares his family’s extraordinary 335-year journey in agriculture, experiences weathering tough times, and the evolution of farming from hands-on chores to high-tech machinery.
This lively conversation covers everything from succession planning and land prices to the value of good relationships and faith on the farm. If you’re looking for wisdom, perspective, and real stories from a lifetime in farming, this is an episode you can’t miss!
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00:00 "Support Barn Talk: Share & Review"
08:58 "College Life and Farm Work"
11:21 "Planting Memories with Dad"
17:51 Family Migration to Iowa Farming
26:56 Sow Co-op Pig Farming Insights
28:29 Raising Pigs and Breaking Even
33:49 Surviving Tough Times Together
42:12 Farming, Respect, Service, Goodwill
44:15 "Technology, Farming, and Generational Handoff"
53:11 "Family Farm Wealth Longevity"
59:18 "Daily Rainfall Reporting Routine"
01:05:17 "Gratitude for Local Fortunes"
01:11:20 "Farming Requires Education & Income"
01:13:31 Feeding, Speech, Memories.
01:19:19 "Blue Tongue Deer Disease"
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| 0:55.7 | Farms are different in type, in size, and even in names. |
| 1:30.3 | Welcome to Barn Talk. What happens at the barn stays in the barn, but not today. We're going to let it all out for you guys. Today is going to be a great guest episode. We've got a lot of wisdom coming to the, coming to the barn today. We've got an old farmer, had a lot of experienced farming, has lived his life farming pretty much so i think there's going to be a lot to learn uh anytime we have on wiser guys than dad it always goes right |
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