Agweek Podcast

This week, we talk to Agweek reporter Mikkel Pates about how a North Dakota legislator fears that a focus on the future of the coal industry may hurt value-added agriculture efforts in the state. For more on this subject, read and watch Mikkel's cover story. If you're interested in that story, you may also be interested in Mikkel's piece talking to landowners deciding whether to allow wind turbine...

AgweekTV's Michelle Rook and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management talk about wheat's big moment, the disappointments in the corn market, the outlook for soybeans and spinning wheels in the cattle market.

AgweekTV's Michelle Rook and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management talk about why a little sell-off in the markets may be a good thing, the outlook for $12 soybeans, the near future in China trade and more.

The Agweek Market Wrap talks high soybean and corn prices, how wheat continues to lag those two crops, the somewhat bullish Cattle on Feed report and continued processing fears for livestock markets.

This week's episode discussions involve farmers' involvement with the military, a new hemp marketplace and information on the Rochester, MN farmers market and how they're handling the pandemic this winter. This episode is brought to you by Hefty Seed Company. Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Twitter: www.twitter.com/jmreports Al email: alec@agweek.com Al Twitter: www.twit...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released some friendly reports for grain this week, and AgweekTV's Michelle Rook talks to Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management about where prices ended up and what drivers are likely to influence them in the coming weeks and months. Rook and Martinson also discussed cattle and hog markets and much more.

This week's episode discussions involve the surging COVID-19 case count and how that impacts rural communities and the hospitals that serve them, CRISPR technology and how it compares to GMO and how the 2020 election went for agriculture in our region and beyond.  This episode is brought to you by Hefty Seed Company. Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Twitter: www.twitter.c...

This week's interview episode features Jeremy Hughes, product manager at Horsch in Mapleton, ND. He discusses their company's products as well as a background on Jeremy and his journey on the way to his current role with Horsch.  Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Twitter: www.twitter.com/jmreports Al email: alec@agweek.com Al Twitter: www.twitter.com/al_winmill  

This episode of the Agweek Podcast is our first episode with just ag news with deeper insights from the reporters bringing the stories to life. This week we chat with Mikkel Pates who covers a Minnesota House of Representatives race, a hemp growing operation in Minnesota and ways Lutheran Social Services is helping farmers with stress.  Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Tw...

This week's guest is Randy Martinson from Martinson Ag Risk Management. Randy, also an Agweek contributor, talks the recent WASDE report, the upcoming election's implications for farmers and ranchers and also gives us an overall market update. John Fetsch from Agweek joined hosts Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill to chat with Randy.  Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Twitter:...

This week's episode features a unique poultry operation that replicates the jungle-like environment poultry is being raised in the Midwest, a Minnesota company growing organic produce and a few stories on pumpkin patches in the region and how they've handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Mikkel Pates chats with a couple of grain marketing experts from NDSU, Frayne Olson & Bryon Parman, in the second half...

This week's topics include the struggle farmers and ranchers are having with finding help on their operations, economic uncertainty amid coronavirus issues & weather impacts, an update on harvest progress in the region. Our guest this week is Becky Newell, founder and president of Levridge, an agricultural software company.  Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Twitter: www.t...

This week's topics include farmers testing out 60" corn rows with cover crops in between, issues with brown-bagging seed, information on the new CFAP coronavirus relief program and instead of a guest this week, we've got audio from Thom Petersen and Michelle Rook from a recent interview.  Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Twitter: www.twitter.com/jmreports Al email: alec@a...

This week's topics include rural infrastructure, discovery of Palmer Amaranth and Dicamba news. No guest this week, we're featuring more audio from our Agweek Corn/Soybean Crop Tours. Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Twitter: www.twitter.com/jmreports Al email: alec@agweek.com Al Twitter: www.twitter.com/al_winmill

This week's episode discusses the recently completed Agweek Corn and Soybean Crop Tours as well as some Noah Fish stories on black farmers in Minnesota, including the 40 Acres & a Mule project as well as Grow a Young Black Farmer. Our guest is Jon Massman, a soybean scientist and Technology Lead with Corteva.  Contact the hosts: Jenny email: jschlecht@agweek.com Jenny Twitter: www.twitter.com/jmre...

This week's episode focuses on the 35th anniversary of Agweek.

This week's topics include a farm that looks a little different than the "traditional" Red River Valley of ND/MN farm, a story about how a centennial farm has evolved to stay profitable and a very large sugar beet statue and Jenny and Al discuss Al's desire for having chickens in his backyard. This week's episode's second half is an audio interview from Mikkel Pates from our Agweek Cereal's Crop T...

This week's topics include a story about manure hauling and spreading and how recent trends have affected companies that custom haul/spread and the farmers who use this fertilizer. We'll also discuss Minnesota's Hmong farmer's market growers and talk about the cattle market. Our guest this week is Jamie Schurhamer from Hefty Seed Company in Wilton and Hurdsfield, North Dakota who shares his backgr...

This week's topics include a female rancher who is the main operator - but the USDA keeps sending correspondence to her husband, who is the secondary operator with an off-the-farm job. Also discussed are a large July 3rd part in south-central North Dakota and the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program from the USDA Farm Service Agency. Guests this week are experts from the North Dakota State FSA who...

This week's discussion includes recent farm accidents, beer (and the barley used to make it), mental health in Minnesota and plenty of tax tips in time for this year's pushed-back Tax Day in July. Justin Frye returns as our guest this week. Justin is a CPA based in Fargo, ND specializing in farm, ranch and agribusiness tax, payroll and other accounting services. Reach out to the hosts with story i...

This week's topics are stories about a North Dakota sunflower seed company's rollercoaster year with a lack of road trips and baseball games, the regions drought conditions (while some areas are way too wet) and a few meat stories including more lenient restrictions and a new family-run meat market in Minnesota. We gave our guests a week off for Independence Day week, we'll be back to our normally...