News, Insights & Interviews Archive

Listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts . This year has brought six months of uncertainty and chaos for farm producers and...

They didn’t start with black raspberries, peaches, gooseberries, or currants. But they also didn’t know that customers would drive...

Mary Swander’s show is back on the road with the same mission: to use a unique way to get farm families across the country thinking about...

While members of Congress, lobby groups, and impacted Americans argued over the ramifications of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill Act,”...

If the Drost family had a mission statement on the welcome mat at their front door, it might include this word: “balance.” Jackson and...

Since a Wyoming farm boy who expected a longer career as a lighting technician for film and television never anticipated that he would...

Diesel engine not running right? Need help combining? Looking for help in how to master the sales industry? Rob Taylor can help with all...

Jolene Riessen lost her husband of 32 years, David, to cancer in 2019, so she understands the concerns about the state’s rising rate of...

A challenge for his industry is an opportunity for Connor McMahon. That is why this California transplant from rural Iowa gets out on the...

In the early 2000s, corn prices were hovering around $1.80 a bushel. It was a bleak economic reality that pushed many American farmers,...

Most Americans aren’t farmers. Only about 2% of adults in the United States are farmers or ranchers. Most Americans don’t understand how...

Tariff skeptics are plentiful these days. Chad Tentinger is not one of them. Tentinger is a lifelong cattle farmer from northwest Iowa...

California’s farmland values have been falling, much like Scott Bozzo, the state’s American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers 2025 farm manager of the year, expected. A rising number of bankruptcies, fortunately, have not sent those values into a free fall. But the state has still lost an estimated $17 billion in farmland value over the past year, Bozzo estimates.

Interest rates are not as high right now as some fear, and the policymakers in charge of setting those rates should be free from...

What really became evident in the fourth quarter of 2024 will be a trend to watch in 2025, according to Luke Worrell, Worrell Land...

Andre Faul, Jr., never expected to be running a fundraiser just to break even on 1,300-pound meat delivery to a local school district....

Strong agricultural communities – which are primarily smaller, rural towns – rely on the need for certain foundational strengths: access...

Change can be difficult. Talking about it might be even tougher sometimes. But when the subject comes to the future viability of your...

Small towns can bring big opportunities, and Natalie Kovarik is working on making that true for her family, too. Kovarik grew up in a...

Despite concerns that GLP-1 weight loss drugs might reduce food demand, new research from Kansas State University economist Dr. Glynn Tonsor