In this episode of A Farm Kid’s Guide to Agriculture, Claire and Gracie interview their middle sister, Hannah Weinzierl, an ag teacher in Northern Illinois. They cover her experience as an ag teacher, what advice she has for new ag teachers, and for the latest on the state of school lunches. And listen as Claire…
Author: Gracie Weinzierl Pierson
The farm kid behind A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture. Coffee drinker. Cat enthusiast. Borderline plant hoarder. History buff. Lover of all things agriculture. Co-host of AgBookClub. Find my posts on FarmKidBlog.com and AgBookClub.com. Follow me on Twitter at @FarmKidBlog.
Episode 026 – #TeamCorn
We’re back with another episode of the podcast with the Corn Whisperer, also known as Rodney Weinzierl of the Illinois Corn Growers Association. This week, we discussed the ins and outs of the Illinois Corn Marketing Board (AKA, the Illinois corn checkoff) and the Illinois Corn Growers Association, covering topics such as the differences and…
Episode 025 – Meet the Corn Whisperer
If you’re gonna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. In this week’s episode, Claire and Gracie are joined by special guest Rodney Weinzierl (also known as “Dad”), who not only works full time for the Illinois Corn Growers Association, but is also the third generation maintaining the family farm near Stanford, Illinois. Listen…

