If you’re gonna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. In this week’s episode, Claire and Gracie are joined by special guest Rodney Weinzierl (also known as “Dad”), who…
Agriculture
Why is public policy important to agriculture? Who represents ag in those conversations? Are politics really as ruthless as portrayed in House of Cards? This week, we talk with Kristen…
“Have you heard the good news about sustainability?” In this episode, Claire and Gracie dive into the topic of sustainability and explore why it often sounds like a sales pitch…
It’s county fair season! This week, Claire and Gracie cover a little bit of county fair history and their favorite 4-H fair memories, which include specific projects, fair foods, and…
If you like to keep up with the GMO and science literacy conversation, you’ve probably heard about the conversation not happening over on Stonyfield’s Facebook page this week. Stonyfield makes…
Christmas seems like forever ago, but I finally got around to packing up my tree and putting away the red and green (leaving the blue, snowmen, and penguins because it…
Happy National Ag Day! Have you ever sat down to think about where you’d be without agriculture? I haven’t, and this is an especially important day to do so. In college,…
It’s now been about six weeks since the corn was planted. Last weekend (May 21 and 22), the farmers side-dressed most of the corn on the farm (I say most…
Remember that post I wrote a few weeks ago about why we were planting pink soybean seeds? Here’s some of the “blue” corn we planted. The blue color simply comes…
Planting is one of the busiest and most important times of the year for a farmer. It’s the start to a new growing season and holds promise for a good…