On-Farm: Conversations with Practical Farmers Podcast
1) On-Farm, Episode 022: Jorgen Rose
In this episode, we talk with Jorgen Rose, who is the habitat and policy coordinator for Practical Farmers of Iowa. We talk a little about what PFI is up to in the habitat world, why we started doing ...Show More
2) On-Farm, Episode 021: Adam Janke
In this episode, we talk with Adam Janke, who is the Wildlife Extension Specialist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. We talk a little about what wildlife habitat actually means, how t...Show More
3) On-Farm, Episode 020: John Rock
In this episode, we talk with John Rock, who raises cattle and row crops in northwest Iowa near near the picturesque Little Sioux River. We chat about his experience grazing cattle on neighboring land...Show More
4) On-Farm, Episode 019: Mark Quee
In this episode, we talk with Mark Quee, the Farm Manager at Scattergood Friends School, a boarding school near West Branch. The farm there raises organic fruits, vegetables and animals that the staff...Show More
5) On-Farm, Episode 018: Dick Sloan
In this episode, we talk prairie strips with northeast Iowa farmer Dick Sloan. We talk about why Dick decided to plant prairie strips, what they are, and what it takes to install and manage them. He w...Show More
6) Bonus Episode: Consider the Soil
In this special bonus episode in three acts, PFI member Gina Nichols weaves together the fiction and the non-fiction, science and art, past and future to paint a portrait of one of farming’s most imp...Show More
7) On-Farm, Episode 017: Maria and Ron Rosmann – Rosmann Family Farms
For the final episode of the first season of On-Farm, we visited the farm of Maria and Ron Rosmann of Rosmann Family Farms near Harlan. The Rosmanns have been instrumental in many of the most importan...Show More
8) On-Farm, Episode 016: Jamie Hostetler – Rolling Meadows Farm
This week on the show, we have Jamie Hostetler of Rolling Meadows. Jamie farms with his family near Bellevue in eastern Iowa, where they raise 100% grass-fed beef and sell Red Devon cattle for seed st...Show More
9) On-Farm, Episode 015: Earl Canfield – Canfield Family Farm
This week on the show, we have Earl Canfield of Dunkerton in northeast Iowa. Earl farms with his wife Jane and their four children. Their children represent the sixth generation of the Canfield family...Show More
10) On-Farm, Episode 014: Chris Teachout
Chris Teachout (left) This week on the show, we had Chris Teachout, who farms near Shenandoah in southwest Iowa with his wife Janenne. Chris is a fifth-generation farmer, and he and his family have b...Show More