On Life and Land Podcast
1) Dave Underwood: How John Deere Supports Veterans' Success
What happens after service ends? In this inspiring conversation, John Deere Global Executive Recruiter and Governance Lead Dave Underwood, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, shares h...Show More
2) John Deere | Sowing the Seeds of Service: Lessons from FFA
Over the course of nearly 100 years, Future Farmers of America has given millions of members the tools they've used to build careers in agriculture and agribusiness, education, research, even sports a...Show More
3) John Deere | The Path Forward for U.S. Corn
High yields, low prices, shifting demand – it’s been a strange and unsettling few years for U.S. corn growers. In this episode of John Deere’s On Life and Land, we speak with Neil Caskey, CEO of the N...Show More
4) John Deere | Agriculture Around The Word with Steve Werblow
Steve Werblow, field editor for John Deere's The Furrow magazine and president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists, has seen agriculture on six continents. In this episode, we ...Show More
5) John Deere and U.S. Manufacturing
From Missouri to Tennessee to North Carolina to Iowa, John Deere plans to invest nearly $20 billion in U.S. manufacturing over the next ten years. In this episode, we chat with Jon Chase, Vice Preside...Show More
6) The Ground Underfoot: Bill Spiegel on Soil Health
What have we learned about soil health in the last 10 years? And wow do we even define soil health? Is it simply organic matter content? And what can farmers start doing right now to help boost the he...Show More
7) Lesley Kelly on Mental Health for Farmers
During a 2017 live-stream from their own kitchen table, Canadian farmers Lesley and Matt Kelly admitted they had both recently suffered mental health crises...Lesley from post-partum depression, Matt ...Show More
8) Jim Patrico: DIspatches from Farm Country
If there were to be a Mount Rushmore of ag journalism, the face of Jim Patrico would occupy a position of honor. Jim spent a decades-long career telling ag's story, most notably for The Progressive Fa...Show More
9) Jim Whitaker on Stewardship
Jim Whitaker and his family are model stewards, and operate by the belief that "What's good for the land is good for the farmer." Their approach to stewardship has paid off in reduced water, fertilize...Show More
10) Staying on the Farm: The Smeltzly Brothers of Illinois
The decision of whether or not to stay on the family farm after graduation is a personal one, and can be difficult for those who have never known a life off the farm. But Travis, Trent, and Tyler Smel...Show More