Agweek Podcast

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Deirdre Birmingham, owner and operator of the Cider Farm in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Birmingham talks about how she's  enhanced the pollintaor habitat on her certified organic orchard by  planting a 30-acre prairie, putting prairie strips around the orchard, adding milkweed seeds for monarchs, alternating the mowing in alleyways so every other row is floweri...

Heat moves in and likely will linger in some places, the Fed raises interest rates three quarters of a percent and the markets get a three day weekend. Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discuss how the markets are handling all of that and what may be on the horizon in the June 30 acreage report on this week's Agweek Market Wrap, sponsored by...

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Kristi Boswell, counsel in the legislative and public policy group at the firm Alston & Bird, and former senior advisor to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Boswell gives an overview of the H-2A program, the work she's done to help streamline it, and how H-2A reform has been a priority issue for decades. She also weighs in on the USDA's recent announce...

The June WASDE was generally neutral wheat, negative corn and friendly to soybeans, Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management told Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network on the Agweek Market Wrap. With that out of the way and the USDA's acreage report still a few weeks out, all attention turns to the weather.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish sits down with Bryan Humphreys, CEO of the National Pork Producers Council, at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines on June 8, 2022. Humphreys talks about his upbringing on an Iowa pork farm, the challenges that the pork industry faces today and the new brand the NPPC unveiled at the World Pork Expo.

Randy Koenen of the Red River Farm Network talks to Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management about the impact weather, planting progress and global issues have had in bringing down the wheat, corn and soybeans markets on this week's Agweek Market Wrap, sponsored by Gateway Building Systems.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Don Savelkoul, vice president of range operations for Fellers Ranch. Fellers Ranch is a partnership between a third-generation family farmer, a 75 year-old family-owned butcher shop and several seasoned ranchers. Savelkoul talks about the vision the company has for top-quality Wagyu beef raised in south-central Minnesota.

With planting dates near or already over for some crops in the northern Plains, all eyes will be on the forecast over Memorial Day weekend, according to this week's conversation on the Agweek Market Wrap between Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management and Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish talks with Eunice Biel, a dairy and crop farmer from Harmony in Fillmore County, Minnesota. Biel is also the new chairperson of Minnesota's Farm Service Agency state committee, along with holding several other leadership roles in agriculture. Biel talks about the history of their farm as well as her and her family's history with Minnesota Farmers Union and more.

The markets — and the wheat markets in particular — started off on fire this week, said Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network. But as he and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discussed on this week's Agweek Market Wrap, sponsored by Gateway Building Systems, most of the gains were lost by the end of the week.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Jim Roemer, registered commodity trading adviser who also has 38 years of experience as a meteorologist. He runs the meteorology and commodity analysis company, Best Weather, Inc. He's also the co-founder of Climate Predict, a long-range global weather forecast tool, and one of the first meteorologists to become a National Futures Association registered Commo...

Even as the central and eastern parts of the Corn Belt finally are making some planting progress, the western Corn Belt and northern Plains remain mired in wet, cold weather that has kept tractors at a near-standstill, especially in North Dakota and Minnesota, Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discussed on the Agweek Market Wrap. 

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Emily Krekelberg, University of Minnesota Extension farm health and safety educator. Krekelberg talks about new resources Extension has created to help farmers deal with compassion fatigue and other forms of job stress as the avian influenza outbreak has led to depopulation of more than 2 million commercially raised birds in 20 Minnesota counties. She also ta...

Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discuss what late planting in the northern Plains and Corn Belt could mean for corn, wheat and soybean markets, as well as what the Fed is doing on inflation, what inflation means for markets, how world events are impacting the markets and what to watch for in the coming week.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Ted Galaty, who owns and operates Willow's Keep Farm in Zumbrota, Minnesota, where he's been growing hemp since 2018. Galaty talks about educating the public about cannabis, the future of industrial hemp and the conundrums of hemp regulations.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish was at the 2022 FFA State Convention held April 24-26 on the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campuses. On this episode we hear from Val Aarsvold, executive director at the Minnesota FFA Foundation, who talks about the role of the foundation and the new Minnesota FFA/4-H license plates,   and Stacy Fritz, advisor for Chatfield FFA, which third in the National Chapter...

There's not a lot of rationing happening in the grain market right now, with grains trading at some "pretty lofty levels" during a "choppy week," Don Wick of Red River Farm Network said. Wick joined Randy Martinson, of Martinson Ag Risk Management, on this week's Agweek Market Wrap, sponsored by Gateway Building Systems.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Rocky Casillas Aguirre, the new executive director of Sharing Our Roots, a nonprofit which owns a 100-acre parcel of land in Northfield that will be used this year by a diverse group of vegetable and livestock farmers.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Megan Roberts, executive director of the Southern Agricultural Center of Excellence, to break down data from the 2021 release on Minnesota farm income by experts from University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota State Agricultural Centers of Excellence.

The Agweek Market Wrap comes a day early this week, as markets are closed April 15 for Good Friday. AgweekTV's Michelle Rook and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discuss what a northern Plains blizzard may mean for corn, wheat and soybean markets, as well as an up week for cattle and hogs.

The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report didn't make many changes that would have an impact on the markets, but the weather and the forecasts are pushing grains, AgweekTV's Michelle Rook and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management said on this week's Agweek Market Wrap.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish talks with McKayla Wingert, multi-media marketing specialist for Agweek. Wingert talks about growing up in Southeast Minnesota, how she picked her career path and why she loves the networks within ag communities. She can be reached at mckayla@agweek.com .

On this week's Agweek Market Wrap, AgweekTV's Michelle Rook and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discuss the record soybean numbers and a hit to corn acres in the Prospective Plantings Report.

Agweek reporter Noah Fish is joined by Abby Schuft, an Extension educator with the University of Minnesota, who works with poultry farmers across the state on applied biosecurity. Schuft talks about the tips for farm workers and service providers to prevent Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) from getting into poultry flocks.

AgweekTV's Michelle Rook and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management talk about high prices in the grains, including a near-historically high soybean price, and about the upcoming Prospective Plantings report.