Pro Ag Podcast

Join Rachel for a fast and furious wolf update as well as an update on the new ag representative CPW Commission appointee and my email from PETA over a chicken billboard in Wyoming. A weird news week for sure. Then, CSU Ag Next's Dr. Pedro Carvalho was a source for me a week or so ago and I knew you would enjoy hearing from him. He's a gem, I tell you. A gem! This podcast is made possible...

Join Rachel and Chris Whitney, former Colorado Brand Commissioner and likable attorney. Today's intro includes Lane Nordlund from the family ranch on the Ft. Belnap Indian Reservation in Montana. Lane and Rachel are both following closely the indictments of Charles and Heather Maude in South Dakota. This episode of ProAg Podcast is brought to you by the generous support of Premier Farm Credit,...

Join Rachel and John Michael Williams, the doctor and hunter behind Colorado Wolf Tracker. This episode of ProAg Podcast is brought to you by the generous support of Premier Farm Credit, Iliff Custom Cabinetry, and Anywhere Cam. Follow us on The Facebook, share, subscribe, and listen wherever you get your podcasts. And, please, check your cows, check your fields, and check your neighbors.

Join Rachel to visit with CSU's Dr. Jennifer Martin about the potential implications of a ballot question seeking to ban slaughterhouses in the City and County of Denver. It's truly a question of priorities, beliefs, and morals. This episode of ProAg Podcast is brought to you by the generous support of Premier Farm Credit, Iliff Custom Cabinetry, and Anywhere Cam. Follow us on The Facebook...

Join Rachel and Earl Oesterling to talk about wolves and their role in destroying the hunting industry in Colorado. Earl's final advice? Play chess, not checkers. This episode of ProAg Podcast is made possible by the generous support of Premier Farm Credit, Iliff Custom Cabinetry, and Anywhere Cam. Follow us on The Face Book and subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. We grow when...

Do you remember the day Lane Frost died at Cheyenne Frontier Days? Do you remember the first time you watched – and cried – through the movie 8 Seconds? All roads lead to the Daddy this week and the guest this week is Brad Hughes, one of the producers of LANE: Life | Legend | Legacy. This episode of ProAg Podcast is made possible by the generous support of Premier Farm Credit, Iliff Custom Cabinet...

Join Rachel for a visit with NCBA's Ethan Lane on proposed changes to the Packers and Stockyards Act, a look back at Denver's beefy history, and a tale of ag influencers and Anywhere Cam. Spoiler alert- ProAg50 is the BEST discount code around for your Anywhere Cam... Please join us July 15th at Sterling Livestock. This is an amazing event set up to raise awareness about the increasing sui...

Join Rachel and Jason Santomaso for a visit with Rachelle Maker and hear why it's so important to stand together and remove cell phones from schools. Please join us July 15th at Sterling Livestock. This is an amazing event set up to raise awareness about the increasing suicides in our agriculture community. We would love to fill the shop with people. PLEASE JOIN US. https://facebook.com/events...

Join Rachel and Jason Santomaso for a visit with newly crowned World Champion Auctioneer Wade Leist. Rachel kicks off the episode with a recap of her week speaking to brilliant people and the only piece of legislation she supports in 2025. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, AnywhereCam, Cattlemen's Resource, Inc., and Premier Farm Credit. Join us in comp...

Join Rachel and Jade Meinzer, a good Colorado-raised ranch kid now ranching and leading his family in Nebraska. He prays over us all at the end and that's not even close to the most powerful part of his story. Whoa. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and Premier Farm Credit. Join us in completing this course! As par...

Join Rachel and Kaycee Monnens Cortner to talk about her experience with the suicide of a friend and how she made sense of it at the intersection of Catholicism and cowboy culture. You can find Kaycee at thepreservationoffire.com. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and Premier Farm Credit. Join us in completing this cou...

Join Rachel, Jason Santomaso, and Jared Sonnenberg for a frank conversation on depression, anxiety, and stress. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and Premier Farm Credit. Join us in completing this course! As part of Farm Credit’s mission to support farmers in good times and bad, Farm Credit has developed training mate...

Join Rachel and Russell Nemetz, a longtime farm broadcaster and owner of Western Ag Network. The two unpack Rachel's huuuuuuge project honoring the work and story of Dr. John Matsushima. She absolutely asked Russell to come on the show not only because Western is playing a big role, but because if not, she would still be talking. Still. Light a candle and buy Nemetz a beer. Please help us than...

Join Rachel and Farmer Wants a Wife participant Brandon Rogers, a potato and barley grower from Center, Colo. Her second guest is Mike Peterson of Pasture Perfect Beef speaking about their journey into the direct to consumer beef business and connecting with the ideal consumer. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and Premier...

Join Rachel as she unpacks the legislative session (amen) with Sen. Byron Pelton and Rep. Mike Lynch. A little salty? Indeed. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and Premier Farm Credit. Join us in completing this course! As part of Farm Credit’s mission to support farmers in good times and bad, Farm Credit has developed...

Join Rachel for an update on ag news and hear directly from wolf country ranchers and Grand County Commissioner Merrit Linke. He's truly one of my favorite humans. Rad. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and Premier Farm Credit. Check your cows, check your fields, check your neighbors. Rural Mental Health Resources...

Join Rachel for an update on ag news and hear directly from one of the ranchers hardest hit by wolf kills. Stay to hear big news about Rachel's newest Agriculture in the Classroom book. Stick around for our guest today, Anne Herbst, a journalist at 9News in Denver and a darn good human. She talks about pitching ag stories to mainstream media and speaking to the media as well. We love her, man....

Join Rachel for an update on ag news and a visit with three of her dearest pals who are all working in ag journalism and communications from the ranch. Carrie Stadheim, editor of Tri State Livestock News; Maria Tibbetts, communications, UNL Beef Program; Heather Maude, columnist, Daywriting. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Co...

Join Rachel for an update on ag news and a visit with Haylie Shipp. This Glasgow, Montana, ranch gal is the force communicating for Ranchers Stewardship Alliance and she has some things for ranchers to think about as they're facing down giants. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and AnywhereCam. Check your cows, che...

Join Jason and Rachel for a visit with Shad Sullivan, a yearling man from Texas via Crowley County, Colorado. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and AnywhereCam. Check your cows, check your fields, check your neighbors. Rural Mental Health Resources ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.thecoffeebreakproject.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://...

Join Jason and Rachel for a heavy chat about a mental health crisis and death in the ag community that took shape on social. Check your neighbors, friends. Stay as Rachel sits down for a visit with Dan Gates for an update on all things from the Hook and Bullet Club. We're fighting the same fights. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Com...

Join Jason and Rachel for four sticky notes of updates ranging from celebrations to frustrations. Stay as Jason sits down for a visit with Sixto Paiz, the champion of the first Meat in Auctioneering Contest, and an up-and-coming legend in the making. Please help us thank our sponsors, Adam Rose's Iliff Custom Cabinetry, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, and AnywhereCam. Check your cows, c...

Join us for a visit with Eric Gabel about how livestock judging helped build us and Maranda Miller on rural mental health and specifically, COMET training. Please help us thank our sponsors, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, Sterling Livestock Commission Company, Crowley County Meat In, and AnywhereCam. Check your cows, check your fields, check your neighbors. Rural Mental Health Resources ⁠⁠...

Join us for a visit with Kelly Dore, a warrior for victims of human trafficking. Senators Pelton and Fields and Rep. Winter's trafficking bill will be heard before the House Judiciary committee on 3/12 and we're rallying for it to pass. I also spoke to Colorado Politics' Chief Legislative Reporter Marianne Goodland. Goodland is a gem and has a sharp eye for the goings on beneath the do...

Join us for a visit with CD 3 candidate Adam Frisch (@adamforcolorado) and hear insight on rural values and agriculture from his perspective. And Shake The Hand That Feeds You with From the Farm Founder/CEO (@fromthefarmus) A.J. Richards. Check his 'gram for a look at the tin foil cowboy hat. He has an interesting take on food and he heard some thoughts from both Jason and Rachel. Get your 202...