15 Minutes With a Farmer

Patrick Brown is a fourth-generation farmer from Warren County, North Carolina, and a winner of the 2024 Small Farmer of the Year Award from North Carolina A&T. He is actively involved in caring for his family's farm, the environment, and his community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Arlene Hunter and Caite Palmer are hosts of the Barnyard Language podcast which focuses on running farms and raising families. Arlene is a Canadian dairy farmer with four kids, and Caite is an American beef and sheep producer with two children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jodie Nay is a farmer and rancher from Hereford, Colorado with a photographer’s eye. Even though she describes her home as, “in the middle of nowhere,” she sees the beauty in everything from ordinary chores to spectacular sunsets, and shares her stunning images on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Wyckoff is a New Jersey Christmas tree grower and president of the National Christmas Tree Association, and has supplied Christmas trees to the White House and to the vice president's home. He shares the challenges Christmas tree growers face and offers advice to new growers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hannah Klitz has gotten marketing and shipping her farm’s beef directly to consumers down to a science. Now, she is monetizing her knowledge of the process through an online course she has developed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special Thanksgiving episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with John Zimmerman, a second-generation corn, soybean, and turkey producer from Northfield, Minnesota. He is also the 2024 chairman of the National Turkey Federation. This week, he is escorting two turkeys from his farm to Washington, D.C., to present to the president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

Sarah Morton, a third-generation farmer from Virginia, is this week’s guest. Through her nonprofit and community efforts, she works to promote equity, access, local food sovereignty, and sustainability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special Veterans Day episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Brent Rendel. His family has been farming in Oklahoma since before it was a state. We talk about what led him to join the military, how his farm background helped his Navy career, and what made him decide to return to the farm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, guest host Adrienne Held has a chat with Kris Klokkenga, an organic producer in Illinois who has also farmed in the African country of Ghana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Margie Weiss, a dairy and crop farmer from Frankenmuth, Michigan. She and her family welcome visitors to their centennial farm with tours, baking classes, and a fun harvest experience that includes a corn maze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My guest today is recent Daily Point of Light Award recipient Bill Gross. He grew up on a North Dakota farm and went on to found the non-profit organization Farm Rescue, which provides planting, harvesting, haying, and livestock feeding services at no cost to farm and ranch families who have been affected by a major illness, injury, or natural disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Kathy Fahy. She is a farmer from northeast Iowa and a crusader for mental health. Thanks to her efforts, hundreds of farmers in her county have received information on local resources, and she's just getting started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with father and daughter Jeremy and Kiley Heim. They are third- and fourth-generation dairy farmers from Algoma, in eastern Wisconsin, near Lake Michigan. The Heim family works together to focus on cow health and sustainability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Billi J Miller. She is a farm wife, mom, photographer, and author living on a century cattle and grain farm on the prairies of Alberta, Canada. Her photos and books tell the story of agriculture from unique perspectives, documenting voices that have often gone unrecorded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Blake Kerns. He grew up on a corn and soybean farm in northeast Iowa, and started his own sweet corn business on two acres when he was a teenager. Today he is growing row crops plus sweet corn and green beans, which he supplies to local farm stands and grocery stores across the Midwest and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Wendy Johnson. She grew up on her family's farm near Charles City in northeast Iowa, and after 18 years away, came back to farm with her dad. Wendy is reviving the farm through conservation and diversification, and best of all, she describes herself as a happy farmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Jaclyn Wilson, a rancher in the Sandhills of northwest Nebraska. She is invested in conservation, active in producer groups, and involved as an ambassador for American beef production around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Alex Rodgers. He is an ag educator, coach, and FFA advisor at Southeast Warren Community School District in South-Central Iowa. At a recent FFA banquet, his students introduced him in the most fitting way: a single dad of 152 kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Brian Reisinger. He grew up on his family’s fourth-generation Wisconsin dairy farm and is the author of a new book, Land Rich, Cash Poor: My family's hope and the untold history of the disappearing American farmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Jean Gottenborg and Erin Michalski. This mother-daughter duo is part of the family team at Eagle Rock Ranch near Jefferson, Colorado. They discuss getting into the ranching business later in life, direct-marketing beef, instituting environmentally sound practices, and ranching at 9,000 feet above sea level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Brian Lundell, a farmer and hog producer in northwest Iowa. He and his wife, Lisa, restored the former pharmacy in the town of Ida Grove and turned it into a soda fountain and coffee shop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Leah Peterson. She is a 5th generation farmer and rancher from Custer County, Nebraska, but is better known to her social media following as Clear Creek Ranch Mom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater sits down with Gabrielle Roesch-McNally. She is the director of American Farmland Trust’s Women for the Land Initiative, working to ensure women landowners have access to the resources they need to become leaders in conservation and building resilient agrifood systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Paige Tuggle, who farms and raises cattle near Ithaca, Michigan. She has two off-farm jobs, both in agriculture: Paige is a regional sales agronomist with Stine Seed Company and also has her own part-time crop insurance business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater sits down with Jason and Mandy Dittmer, who farm near Lacona, Iowa. Last year, Mandy was placed on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Against all odds, Jason was a match. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices