Agweek Podcast
379 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAgweek brings you the latest agriculture news from around the upper Midwest. Our reporters give you the latest information you need to stay informed and tell the stories you need to hear from farming communities.
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Agweek Podcast Episode 30: Seed Research, Slow Planting Progress, Dairy Troubles feat Kevin Larson from Aberdeen Livestock Sales
April 23, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 64 MBThis week's topics include a seed researcher (and farmer) who's work to figure out which seeds to plant where was covered by our Fargo, ND based reporter, Mikkel Pates. We also discuss the overall slow planting progress across ND, MN, SD and MT and the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the already hurting dairy industry. Our guest this episode is Kevin Larson from Aberdeen Livestock Sales in Aberdeen, SD who shares his experiences and voices his opinions on the current state of the livestock,...
Agweek Podcast Episode 29: Ethanol Plant Pain Point, Schwan's Stay at Home Success, NDSU Professor Retirement feat Joe Heilman from Intelligent Ag
April 16, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 64 MBThis week's episode features more coronavirus impacts, this time on ethanol plants in the area. A Minnesota home food delivery service's success and good habits during these shelter in place times and an NDSU professor's retirement are also discussed. This week's guest is Joe Heilman of Intelligent Ag of Fargo who shares some of the exciting projects his company is working on. Reach out to the hosts with story ideas, questions or feedback: Jenny email: [email protected] Jenny Twitter...
Agweek Podcast Episode 28: COVID-19's Effect on Livestock, Flooded Roads & Farmers, Easter Ham Tips feat Randy Martinson with Martinson Ag
April 09, 2020 19:39 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBThis week's topics include the pandemic's effect on livestock producers, rural road flooding and the impact it has on farmers and residents along with some tips for the perfect Easter ham. Our guest this week is Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag in Fargo, who discusses the markets - not just ag markets - and how COVID-19 is shaking things up. Reach out to the hosts with story ideas, questions or feedback: Jenny email: [email protected] Jenny Twitter: www.twitter.com/jmreports Al emai...
Agweek Podcast Episode 27: Elevator Management Issues Trifecta, USDA Prospective Planting Report, Rural Broadband Infrastructure feat Dana Rosendahl from General Irrigation and Dyna Flo
April 02, 2020 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBOn this week's episode of the Agweek Podcast, hosts Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill discuss our recent coverage of the issues grain elevators are facing in light of the coronavirus pandemic, poor fall harvest conditions and ongoing trade wars. Also discussed: the USDA's Prospective Planting report that recently came out and a story on rural internet in the Dakotas and beyond. This week's guest is Dana Rosendahl from General Irrigation and Dyna Flo in Oakes, ND. Reach out to the hosts with st...
Agweek Podcast Episode 26: Irish Travelers Scam Update, COVID-19's Effect on Auctions & Sale Barns, Mental Health for MN Farmers
March 26, 2020 16:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBOn this week's episode of the Agweek Podcast, hosts Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill discuss our recent coverage of an "Irish Travelers" construction scam involving rural homeowners, the corona virus' effect on livestock, farm equipment and land auctions as well as a story on how Minnesota farmers are able to access mental healthcare in this time of social distancing. Reach out to the hosts with story ideas, questions or feedback: Jenny email: [email protected] Jenny Twitter: www.twitt...
Agweek Podcast Episode 25: Rural Coronavirus Coverage, Farmer John's in Haiti, Canola Outlook feat a Cheese Tasting with Carrie "Dairy Carrie" Mess
March 19, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBThis week is our 25th episode of the Agweek Podcast and we feature our coverage of the COVID-19 Coronavirus coverage in rural areas, Farmer John's sustainable ag education program in Haiti and Jon Knutson's story on the canola outlook for 2020. Our guest this week is dairy farmer/public speaker/ag influencer, Carrie Mess, also known as Dairy Carrie. Carrie and co-host, Al Winmill, do a little cheese tasting to celebrate 25 episodes. Link to Carrie's cheese box from Alp and Dell cheese stor...
Agweek Podcast Episode 24: Barn Collapse Recovery, Winter Corn Harvest, Rotating in Sunflowers feat Dr. Mohamed Khan from NDSU
March 12, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBThis week's episode of the Agweek Podcast features a farm family thriving after their barn collapsed, updates on this winter's corn combining and why some farmers are considering adding or keeping sunflowers in their crop rotation. Our guest is Dr. Mohamed Khan, the Extension Sugarbeet Specialist and professor at NDSU who shares a ton of great information on this Red River Valley crop, including some history on the plant.
Agweek Podcast Episode 23: H-2A Farm Labor Victory, Lower Input Costs, Good News for Sugar Beet Cooperatives feat Nick Revier from SESVanderHave
March 05, 2020 05:01 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBThis week's topics include a North Dakota ranching family's big win with the H-2A farm labor program, reports of lower than expected input costs for 2020 and some big disaster relief program news for area sugar beet cooperatives. This week's guest is Nick Revier from SESVanderHave, a regional manager of their sugarbeet sales program who will discuss his role and provide insights into the upcoming International Sugar Beet Institute in Grand Forks, ND.
Agweek Podcast Episode 22: FFA Week, Medical Professionals on Red Meat, New Agweek.com feat John Fetsch from Agweek
February 27, 2020 16:43 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBThis week's topics include the celebration of National FFA week (including a MN-AL exchange), new research on heart healthy lean beef and Agweek's new website launch. Our guest in the Superior Grain Equipment Studio is John Fetsch from Agweek's advertising sales team, who discusses the changes in ag marketing over the past 35 years.
Agweek Podcast Episode 21: CBD Processing in ND, Organic Fraud, MN Dairy Protein Breakthrough feat Wanda Braton & Laura Heinrich from ND State FSA
February 20, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThis week's topics include new CBD processing facilities in North Dakota and the rest of the region, an organic fraud case coming to light and an exciting development in a Minnesota dairy to help some people enjoy milk and other products they couldn't before. This week's guests are Wanda Braton and Laura Heinrich from the North Dakota State Farm Service Agency who share some important upcoming deadlines and program information for 2020 and beyond.
Agweek Podcast Episode 20: Precision Pollination, SD Zoning Transparency, Agweek + Agri News feat. Tim Tigges from ADM
February 13, 2020 17:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBThis week's topics include precision beekeeping for pollinating crops, South Dakota's zoning laws and how they affect agriculture and a recent announcement: Agweek's parent company acquired Agri News out of Rochester, MN and we will become one team in March of 2020. This week's guest is Tim Tigges from Archer Daniels Midland in Casselton, ND.
Agweek Podcast Episode 19: FM Diversion Impact, Caves and Soil Health, CRP Payments feat Doug Wenzel from Ag Concepts
February 06, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBThis week's topics include the impact the Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN area Red River Diversion project has on farmers, the connection between caves and soil health and CRP payments. We'll also discuss upcoming stories in Agweek Magazine and on AgweekTV. This week's guest is Doug Wenzel from Ag Concepts.
Agweek Podcast Episode 18: Cropland Rental Rates, Dairy Farm Closures, Precision Ag Stories, feat Stephanie Sinner from ND Soybean Council and Jean Henning from ND Corn Utilization Council
January 30, 2020 17:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBYou've found the 18th episode of the Agweek Podcast! Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill are both a little under the weather this week, so the first half of this episode was recorded off site instead of at the Superior Grain Equipment Podcast Studio in Fargo. Luckily, Stephanie Sinner (North Dakota Soybean Council) and Jean Henning (North Dakota Corn Utilization Council) were in the studio last week to record this week's guest interview with a healthy Al Winmill. Stories covered include cropland r...
Agweek Podcast Episode 17: Irish Travelers Scam, Hemp Policy Struggles, Weather Related Open Cows feat Andy Swenson from NDSU
January 23, 2020 22:54 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBJenny Schlect and Al Winmill discuss the following stories: an Irish Travelers scam involving taking advantage of older, rural residents looking for home or farm improvement help, the hemp industry's issues in the upper Midwest, an alarming number of open cows after 2019's strange weather conditions and a look into what's coming up in Agweek and on AgweekTV. This week's guest is NDSU's Andy Swenson who talks about the upcoming Northwest Farm Managers Association meeting in Fargo, ND.
Agweek Podcast Episode 16: Natural Gas Expansion, South Dakota Township Secession, Bismarck Sale Barn, feat Delore Zimmerman from Praxis Strategy Group
January 16, 2020 21:42 - 54 minutes - 101 MBWe made it to Episode 16! This week's episode features more on the stories we teased last week, including the expansion of natural gas availability to more rural homes, South Dakota townships trying to leave their counties over new livestock regulations and a new livestock sale barn opening up in Bismarck, ND. This week's guest is Delore Zimmerman, PhD., from Praxis Strategy Group who is helping to put on the upcoming Precision Ag Summit in Jamestown, ND next week.
Agweek Podcast Episode 15: Improved Markets Outlook, Jon Knutson's 2019 in Review, Natural Gas Availability to Rural Communities feat Verna Kragnes from Northern Plains Sustainable Ag Society
January 09, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBWelcome back! This week's episode features a look at improved grain and livestock markets (thanks to Michelle Rook's recent AgweekTV panels) and Jonathan Knutson's annual Year in Review for 2019 (and what a year it was!). We'll also preview a few stories you can find in upcoming issues of Agweek Magazine and episodes of AgweekTV including increasing natural gas availability to smaller communities and how some smaller townships in South Dakota are considering leaving their counties over new l...
Agweek Podcast Episode 14: Palmer Amaranth Policies, Japan Trade Deal, US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Silo Tragedies, feat Tamra Heins from Agweek's Advertising Team
January 02, 2020 17:00 - 45 minutes - 42.7 MBAnother week, another episode of the Agweek Podcast! The 14th episode brings us discussion on Palmer Amaranth and it's impact on states setting regulations on the noxious weed in fields and seed, lots of trade talk in North America and Asia and an unfortunate grain silo deaths. This week's guest is Tamra (Tami) Heins from Agweek's advertising team and the North Dakota Pork Council who shares her story living and working in agriculture in ND.
Agweek Podcast Episode 16: Rural Grocery Store Struggles, 80s Sugar Beet Troubles vs. Current Issues, 2020 Weather Outlook, feat Nick Horob from Harvest Profit
December 26, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThis week's episode brings us discussions on the struggles rural grocery stores - and their customers - are dealing with, some similarities between sugar beet farming issues that happened in the 1980s and those currently occurring and a weather outlook for this upcoming year from meteorologists in South Dakota. Our guest this week is Nick Horob, founder of Harvest Profit in Fargo. Harvest Profit's software provides cost and profit tracking for farmers who treat their farms as a business.
Agweek Podcast Episode 12: USMCA Trade Deal, Harvest Dragging On, Roger Johnson Stepping Down from NFU, feat Cami Erickson from North Star Ag
December 19, 2019 17:00 - 49 minutes - 46 MBThis week's episode of the Agweek Podcast features new trade deal talks, #harvest19's incredibly slow pace and Roger Johnson's departure from his role at NFU. Our guest this week is Cami Erickson from North Star Ag, a shortline equipment dealership located in Buffalo, North Dakota.
Agweek Podcast Episode 11: Cover Crop Seed, Crop Insurance/Disaster Assistance, Food Costs, Propane Shortage feat Jayson Menke from Acres & Shares
December 12, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBWe're glad to have you back for another episode of the Agweek Podcast! This week we'll talk cover crop seeds (big news for all the prevent plant acres this year), crop insurance + disaster assistance claims deadlines, an interesting take on food prices and more. Our guest this week is Jayson Menke from Acres & Shares, who discusses his business helping farmers buy/sell American Crystal Sugar shares as well as his style of helping facilitate farmland deals.
Agweek Podcast Episode 9: Silage Bales, Farm Economy Overview, Winter Meeting Season, Thankful for Ag, feat Roger Johnson from United Lease & Finance
November 28, 2019 17:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBOn this week's episode of the Agweek Podcast we discuss silage bales as an option for the cover crops they grew on prevented planting acres and the innovative ways they prepared these bales, farm bankruptcies and just how bad the issue is across the upper Midwest (all while farm income is up on the year), winter ag events and meetings coming up in North Dakota and Minnesota and a preview of our Thankful for Ag issue of Agweek Magazine and episode of AgweekTV. This week's guest is Roger Johns...
Agweek Podcast Episode 8: Sugar Beet & Potato Harvest, South Dakota Hemp, Cover Crop Bales, Hunter Hanson Sentenced, feat Mikkel Pates from Agweek
November 21, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBWelcome back for another episode of the Agweek Podcast! This week we discuss a rough sugar beet and potato harvest season (including leaving these root crops in the ground and beet farmers ending their year in the red), making silage bales or baleage from cover crops that were planted on prevent plant acres for livestock feed, and updates on South Dakota's delays on hemp legalization. Our guest this week is our very own Mikkel Pates, with some great insight on the Hunter Hanson trial as he's...
Agweek Podcast Episode 7: Ag & Climate Change, SD Cattle Sales, Hunter Hanson Pre-sentencing & Interview Video, feat Ben Sander of Amity Technology
November 14, 2019 17:00 - 42 minutes - 78.9 MBIn this week's episode of the Agweek Podcast, Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill discuss upcoming and ongoing Agweek stories, including livestock's effects on climate change, comparing fall cattle sales to pheasant hunting's impact on the South Dakota economy and plenty of news on Hunter Hanson, the fraudulent roving grain trader, who's set to be sentenced in the next few weeks. Our guest this week is Ben Sander from Amity Technology, who works with their Concord, Wil-Rich and Wishek brands of fa...
Agweek Podcast Episode 6: Drain Tile, Silage Teamwork, Cattle Market Issues, feat Justin Lundblad from Visjon Biologics
November 07, 2019 17:00 - 42 minutes - 40.1 MBThis week's episode features an Agweek story on how drain tile can help mitigate issues when we experience excessive moisture, farmers coming together to get their corn chopped for silage, consternation in the cattle markets and more stories from Agweek Magazine and AgweekTV. This week's guest is Justin Lundblad from Visjon Biologics, who discusses his company's seed innoculant products.
Agweek Podcast Episode 5: Silvopasture, more harvest weather impacts, drain tile, cattle market unrest feat Nolan Berg & Adam Spelhaug from Peterson Farms Seed
October 31, 2019 16:00 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBThis episode of the Agweek Podcast features this fall's hideous weather and it's impact on harvest, silvopasture - a practice that encourages trees in pastures, sugar beet harvest's hurdles, crop progress reports, ND's statewide emergency for agriculture, tile drainage info from Mikkel Pates and Michelle Rook's story on cattle industry unrest. This week's guests are a couple of seed & ag tech experts from Peterson Farms Seed: Nolan Berg and Adam Spelhaug.
Agweek Podcast Episode 4: Hunter Hanson ripple effect, cancer fundraiser battles his own cancer, silo gazebo, feat Kevin Sponsler from Dekalb/Asgrow
October 24, 2019 16:00 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBThis week's episode discusses the effect Hunter Hanson's grain trading fraud has had on the North Dakota Public Service Commission as well as the North Dakota Agriculture Department, plus a story on a North Dakotan who has organized horse riding fundraisers for cancer who's battling cancer himself. We also touch on harvest weather and learn more about a Rose Dunn story on a gazebo on top of a grain silo. Our guest this week is Kevin Sponsler, an agronomist and field product specialist for Ba...
Agweek Podcast Episode 3: NDFU's Farm Book for Kids, Ashby Elevator Update, UM Pig Research, Milk Prices feat Rodie Jelleberg from Superior Grain Equipment
October 17, 2019 16:00 - 44 minutes - 42 MBWelcome back to another episode of the Agweek Podcast! In our third episode, we'll dive deeper into a few stories from Agweek Magazine and AgweekTV including: a Mikkel Pates story about the North Dakota Farmers Union's new children's book about farmers with a modern twist, an update on the Ashby co-op manager case and creditor restitution, Jonathan Knutson reports on an interesting University of Minnesota research study on PRRSV (porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in pigs) a...
Agweek Podcast Episode 2: Ag Waste Plastic, Harvest Stories, Avoiding Cattle Deal Problems feat. Bruce Johnson from Summers Manufacturing
October 10, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBWelcome back for the second episode of the Agweek Podcast! This week's topics from Agweek Magazine & AgweekTV include: North Dakota State University's research project involving turning agricultural waste (corn and soybean components) into usable plastic, 2019's soggy and difficult harvest season, issues putting up hay, the push for a Livestock Dealers Statutory Trust to protect cattle and other livestock producers, our ongoing story about the comparisons to the 1980s farm crisis and today, ...
Agweek Podcast Episode 1: Farm Crisis, Ashby Elevator, Feedlot Foreclosure feat. Jake Overby from CNH Insurance
October 03, 2019 16:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBWelcome to the first ever Agweek Podcast! We'll start with an introduction to the hosts, Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill and touch on some topics from Agweek Magazine & AgweekTV: Comparing the 1980s Farm Crisis to present day challenges, updates on the fraud case brought against the manager of Ashby Elevator, and some further details on a feedlot foreclosure in South Dakota. Our guest this episode is Jake Overby from CNH Insurance who tells us about his role in agriculture, working with equipm...