Agweek Podcast

Another week, another episode of the Agweek Podcast! The 14th episode brings us discussion on Palmer Amaranth and it's impact on states setting regulations on the noxious weed in fields and seed, lots of trade talk in North America and Asia and an unfortunate grain silo deaths. This week's guest is Tamra (Tami) Heins from Agweek's advertising team and the North Dakota Pork Council who shares her s...

This week's episode brings us discussions on the struggles rural grocery stores - and their customers - are dealing with, some similarities between sugar beet farming issues that happened in the 1980s and those currently occurring and a weather outlook for this upcoming year from meteorologists in South Dakota. Our guest this week is Nick Horob, founder of Harvest Profit in Fargo. Harvest Profit's...

This week's episode of the Agweek Podcast features new trade deal talks, #harvest19's incredibly slow pace and Roger Johnson's departure from his role at NFU. Our guest this week is Cami Erickson from North Star Ag, a shortline equipment dealership located in Buffalo, North Dakota. 

We're glad to have you back for another episode of the Agweek Podcast! This week we'll talk cover crop seeds (big news for all the prevent plant acres this year), crop insurance + disaster assistance claims deadlines, an interesting take on food prices and more. Our guest this week is Jayson Menke from Acres & Shares, who discusses his business helping farmers buy/sell American Crystal Sugar share...

On this week's episode of the Agweek Podcast we discuss silage bales as an option for the cover crops they grew on prevented planting acres and the innovative ways they prepared these bales, farm bankruptcies and just how bad the issue is across the upper Midwest (all while farm income is up on the year), winter ag events and meetings coming up in North Dakota and Minnesota and a preview of our Th...

Welcome back for another episode of the Agweek Podcast! This week we discuss a rough sugar beet and potato harvest season (including leaving these root crops in the ground and beet farmers ending their year in the red), making silage bales or baleage from cover crops that were planted on prevent plant acres for livestock feed, and updates on South Dakota's delays on hemp legalization. Our guest th...

In this week's episode of the Agweek Podcast, Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill discuss upcoming and ongoing Agweek stories, including livestock's effects on climate change, comparing fall cattle sales to pheasant hunting's impact on the South Dakota economy and plenty of news on Hunter Hanson, the fraudulent roving grain trader, who's set to be sentenced in the next few weeks. Our guest this week is...

This week's episode features an Agweek story on how drain tile can help mitigate issues when we experience excessive moisture, farmers coming together to get their corn chopped for silage, consternation in the cattle markets and more stories from Agweek Magazine and AgweekTV. This week's guest is Justin Lundblad from Visjon Biologics, who discusses his company's seed innoculant products.

This episode of the Agweek Podcast features this fall's hideous weather and it's impact on harvest, silvopasture - a practice that encourages trees in pastures, sugar beet harvest's hurdles, crop progress reports, ND's statewide emergency for agriculture, tile drainage info from Mikkel Pates and Michelle Rook's story on cattle industry unrest. This week's guests are a couple of seed & ag tech expe...

This week's episode discusses the effect Hunter Hanson's grain trading fraud has had on the North Dakota Public Service Commission as well as the North Dakota Agriculture Department, plus a story on a North Dakotan who has organized horse riding fundraisers for cancer who's battling cancer himself. We also touch on harvest weather and learn more about a Rose Dunn story on a gazebo on top of a grai...

Welcome back to another episode of the Agweek Podcast! In our third episode, we'll dive deeper into a few stories from Agweek Magazine and AgweekTV including: a Mikkel Pates story about the North Dakota Farmers Union's new children's book about farmers with a modern twist, an update on the Ashby co-op manager case and creditor restitution, Jonathan Knutson reports on an interesting University of M...

Welcome back for the second episode of the Agweek Podcast! This week's topics from Agweek Magazine & AgweekTV include: North Dakota State University's research project involving turning agricultural waste (corn and soybean components) into usable plastic, 2019's soggy and difficult harvest season, issues putting up hay, the push for a Livestock Dealers Statutory Trust to protect cattle and other l...

Welcome to the first ever Agweek Podcast! We'll start with an introduction to the hosts, Jenny Schlecht and Al Winmill and touch on some topics from Agweek Magazine & AgweekTV: Comparing the 1980s Farm Crisis to present day challenges, updates on the fraud case brought against the manager of Ashby Elevator, and some further details on a feedlot foreclosure in South Dakota. Our guest this episode i...