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SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS How many newspapers do you get delivered to your home? How many magazines? If you are a typical household,...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCAST Dave Chatterton studies the past and present and tries to predict what will happen in the future. “Strive to...

Randy Feenstra was sitting in a new office in Washington, D.C. And he was surrounded by drama. The drama had nothing to do with his...

Take optimism, frustration, and family and combine that with experience in writing, politics, and public policy. And you get Brian...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS “Adversity creates opportunity.” That is Terry Engelken’s motto. These days, he sees plenty of adversity...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS “Where Capital Meets Conservation.” “Global Outlook. Contrarian Perspective.” Those statements serve as...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS Dr. Ernie Goss looks, listens, and studies many things. What do numbers show? What do they mean? What do...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS What do a media and entertainment icon, an Oklahoma billionaire, a future president, two people who helped lead...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS Is debt a four-letter word? OK, yes, it is in a literal sense. But do you consider debt a bad  word, a bad...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS Denise Greer Jamerson doesn’t have banker’s hours. Neither does her father, husband, or son. Theirs is a...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS Farm kid. Baron buster. A lot happened since the former. A lot would have to happen still before the latter...

Spotify   | Apple Podcasts From his office about 165 miles away, Ron Kean can’t help but wonder what the heck just happened to a chicken...

Spotify | Apple Podcasts This complicated life may not be what Beth Hoffman envisioned for herself decades ago when she was going to...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS “Retirement” doesn’t mean no work for Esther George. It also doesn’t mean a time to rip her former colleagues...

Maybe, just maybe California’s nut business is getting better, Carl Evers III believes. But the wine industry may continue to stagnate...

Commodity prices remain too low. Input costs remain too high. Curt Covington believes that something will have to give. And that...

Use a word like “adjustments.” But “panic” or “collapse?” No, those words don’t describe Curt Blades’ feelings or his views about what he...

When a computer scientist discovered that software wouldn’t be his preferred solution for his next project that he thinks will benefit...

Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour, where he and a team of 100 volunteers inspect corn and soybean fields across seven states. Grete talks...

Paul Neiffer is a farm boy by birth. As an adult, he now owns farms in three states. So, he still believes in the future of farmland. But...