Episodes

  • S6 - Ep#10 - Special pre-election podcast with soy bean grower Blake Hurst and Farm to Table Talk host Rodger Wasson
    Nov 1 2024

    Are tariffs good for American Agriculture? It is a very important question in the days before the election. Hear a large-scale, no-till, commodity soy bean farmer, describe his experience and knowledge about the impact of tariffs on the nation’s farmers. A special broadcast provided by Rodger Wasson from his show Farm to Table Talk.

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    49 mins
  • S6 - Ep#9 - What do Ducati motorcycles and organic dairy farming have in common? Shelina Moreda, a fearless campaigner to save family farms
    Oct 14 2024

    Animal right activists placed the terribly written anti CAFO Measure J on the November 2024 Sonoma County ballot. It threatens the future of this small and mid-scale farming community and others like it across the nation. Professional Ducati motorcycle racer, organic dairy woman and Covergirl model Shelina Moreda is co leading a campaign to stop this misdirected measure while still keeping the dialogue open with her opponents.

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    51 mins
  • S6 - Ep#8 - Cole Mannix, Old Salt Co-op, on improving the land and the lives of those who raise good meat for Montanans
    Sep 14 2024

    Cole Mannix’s family has ranched in the Black Foot Valley of Montana
    since 1882. Even with thousands of acres and hundreds of cattle, the return on
    investment is bleak. Learn how his family and four other ranches have come
    together to create the Old Salt Co-op and beef brand with two restaurants, online sales and an annual ranch event all in order to ensure these agrarian families thrive rather than just survive.

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    46 mins
  • S6 - Ep#7 - Lisa Hamilton, Author of The Hungry Season & Deeply Rooted, on the Strength and Power of Uncommon Agrarians
    Jul 13 2024

    Today Michael talks with Lisa Hamilton, a great chronicler of uncommon agrarians, and the author of the new book, The Hungry Season. Agrarians are those who live from working in agriculture. With only 2.2 million agrarians are less than 1% of the US population. These few feed our nation and much of the world. An even smaller percentage of those few farm or ranch outside the mainstream, the conventional commodity system.

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    55 mins
  • S6 - Ep#6 - Dairy in California: Opportunities and Challenges Today and Tomorrow
    Jun 19 2024

    Nutritionist and leader of the Dairy Council of California, Amy DeLisio, and 6th generation organic dairy
    farmer from Humboldt County, Cody Nicholson Stratton, dialogue with Michael around the opportunities and challenges related to nutrition and the environment faced by California’s gargantuan dairy industry.

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    51 mins
  • S6 - Ep#5 - Three Gen Zers speak their minds about food, farming and the future
    May 22 2024

    If you are hearing the news lately you know the campuses, now educating Gen Z, are rocked by angry students on both sides of the war in Israel. This is an energized group and may indicate a sea change in the level and type of activism in the country in the years ahead. In this episode we’ll learn from three members of “Gen Z” if they believe the passions of their generation could also be felt intensely in efforts to change our food and farming system.

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    52 mins
  • S6 - Ep#4 - From the rice fields of California one sees the future of agriculture
    Apr 16 2024

    Tim Johnson CEO of California Rice Commission shares how rice growers are
    modeling the future of agriculture by delivering a fabulous array of ecosystem services, wealth creation and delicious, healthy food for California and the world.

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    54 mins
  • S6 - Ep#3 - Alegria De La Cruz, a Weaver and a Warrior for Equity and Justice
    Mar 19 2024

    Alegria De La Cruz has a history of creating spaces and moments for farmworkers and other historically marginalized brown and black people to fairly and wisely engage the powers that be: employers, judges and policy makers.

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    1 hr and 23 mins