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A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture

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…

A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture

Episode 023 – We Have Issues

Why is public policy important to agriculture? Who represents ag in those conversations? Are politics really as ruthless as portrayed in House of Cards? This week, we talk with Kristen…

A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture

Episode 022 – Hashtag Sustainability

“Have you heard the good news about sustainability?” In this episode, Claire and Gracie dive into the topic of sustainability and explore why it often sounds like a sales pitch…

A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture

Episode 020 – Down at the County Fair

It’s county fair season! This week, Claire and Gracie cover a little bit of county fair history and their favorite 4-H fair memories, which include specific projects, fair foods, and…

Stonyfield stirring it up

Stirring It Up

If you like to keep up with the GMO and science literacy conversation, you’ve probably heard about the conversation not happening over on Stonyfield’s Facebook page this week. Stonyfield makes…

The Country Christmas Connection

The Big Reveal – TCCC 2017

Christmas seems like forever ago, but I finally got around to packing up my tree and putting away the red and green (leaving the blue, snowmen, and penguins because it…

What Agriculture Means To Me

Happy National Ag Day! Have you ever sat down to think about where you’d be without agriculture? I haven’t, and this is an especially important day to do so. In college,…

Side-Dressing Corn

It’s now been about six weeks since the corn was planted. Last weekend (May 21 and 22), the farmers side-dressed most of the corn on the farm (I say most…

What’s A Refuge Crop?

Remember that post I wrote a few weeks ago about why we were planting pink soybean seeds? Here’s some of the “blue” corn we planted. The blue color simply comes…

What Happens During Planting?

Planting is one of the busiest and most important times of the year for a farmer. It’s the start to a new growing season and holds promise for a good…