Agriculture of America

Tuesday, June 9th (MIKE ADAMS)
1) Doug Fricke, Director of Trade Show Marketing, NPPC, 
2) Hunter Carpenter, Senior Director of Government Affairs for Agricultural Retailers Association, 
3) Senator Chuck Grassley, 
4) Dr. Joana Colussi, Research Assistant Professor, Purdue Ag Economy Barometer,

Monday, June 8th (MIKE ADAMS)
1) Darin Newsom, Barchart, 
2) John Baranick, DTN Weather, 
3) Michael Dykes, IDFA, 
4) Dr. Russ Daly, SD State Extension Veterinarian,

On this episode of AOA: Weekend Edition, we kickoff the show with news headlines followed by a conversation about autonomy in agriculture with Tim Bucher, co-founder and CEO of Agtonomy. Then in Segment Three, FARM's Susan Littlefield shares a conversation about pork demand with Neal Hull from the National Pork Board and Tony Menker from Schnucks. Then in Segment Four, we learn more about American Farmland Trust's new podcast on farmland transition called LANDED as co-hosts Brooks Lamb and Megan Faller join the show.

On Friday's AOA, we begin the show by hearing part of our recent conversation about cattle market dynamics with Charley Martinez, Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee followed by a conversation with USDA Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce about base acre allocation and more in Segment Two. In Segment Three, we discuss ATV/UTV safety and learn about Nationwide's Let's Champion Rider Safety initiative as Laramie Sandquist from Nationwide and Kristen Almer, executive director and co-founder of the RideSafe Foundation, join us for a conversation. Then we close the show in Segment Four as FARM's Susan Littlefield shares an interview with Ben West, executive director of Farmers for Soil Health.

On today's AOA, we begin the show with some perspective on blocking out the noise with your grain marketing and some discussion on ag labor reform in Segment One before we hear part of a recent conversation that Jesse had with Trent Klarenbach from The Klarenbach Grain Report discussing the dangers of leverage, particularly with farmland, as he highlights the work he is doing in his The Margin Call series. Then in Segments Three and Four, we share another recent conversation that Jesse had with Alan Doering, Senior Scientist from the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, to discuss the work they are doing at AURI trying to find new uses for alfalfa.