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Bovine Banter

Penn State Extension

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Bovine Banter focuses on management, production, and profitability to help make farms more successful. Join the Penn State Extension Dairy Team for informal educational conversations with dairy producers, industry representatives and Penn State faculty and research. Each week we will cover hot topics in the dairy industry that will help dairy producers become more profitable. Guests will compare research with experiences of what has and has not worked on their farms and provide tips to help ...
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Our goal is to discuss American Agriculture from a farmers point of view. We'll discuss current farming trends, machinery from the past and present, how the farming community has changed for the better and worse, and the sometimes unintended consequences of ag policies from Washington D.C. Grab a cold beer and come join us!!!
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Down to Earth is a podcast about regenerative agriculture, and it’s for everyone who eats. We invite you to meet the people shaping a healthier food system—farmers, ranchers, scientists, land managers, writers, and many others. Designing a future that draws on both tradition and innovation, they’re on a mission to change the paradigm so that the food we eat is healthy and long-term sustainable—for families and growers, for wildlife and water, for climate and planet. downtoearthradio.com
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Engineering Your Farm

Field Agricultural Engineers

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This podcast is produced and hosted by the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Field Agricultural Engineering Team. We are a group of agricultural engineers that work with farmers and agribusiness professionals to help improve the efficiency, profitability, and environmental outcomes on farms. This podcast will feature information and interviews with ISU Extension field ag engineers and others with expertise in engineering and environmental issues in agriculture. We will cover a var ...
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Midnight Vespers, weekly Podcast Creator playing Goth, Post Punk, EBM, EDM, Techno, Industrial, New Wave, Dark Electronic, Dark Wave, Death Rock and Gothic Music. New Episodes Every Friday Morning at 6AM. All the Music we play is purchased, please support the artist by going to their pages and buying their music. I also discuss concerts, events, new music, old music, life experiences, record stores, clothing stores and general happenings in the scene.
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Women have been invisible in agriculture for too long: not counted in the census, not taken seriously for their work and management achievements, excluded from access to capital and credit––and even farm equipment is not made for their bodies. We talk to Jules Salinas of Women Food and Agriculture Network, which is addressing these issues in ways r…
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Doug Fine was an international journalist before he moved to New Mexico to start a polyculture farm and embrace a rural way of life. He's the author of six books, including four on hemp and cannabis, and his film American Hemp Farmer won Best New Mexico Documentary Feature at the 2024 Santa Fe Film Festival. He's a vociferous advocate for hemp as a…
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Sarah Wentzel-Fisher is executive director of Quivira Coalition. A native of South Dakota, she came to her work in agriculture and leadership via a circuitous path that included the creative arts, writing, community and regional planning, collective problem-solving. In this podcast we discuss everything from the purpose of scientific inquiry in reg…
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Phoebe Suina grew up on Cochiti and San Felipe Pueblos in New Mexico, where she learned about land, water, and cultural values and practices from her extended family and community. With advanced degrees in engineering and management from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, she returned to New Mexico to found High Water Mark, a Na…
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In this episode, dairy educator Kasey Hower interviews Doug Kennedy, an independent dairy nutritionist serving farms throughout Pennsylvania. They will discuss some different strategies you may want to consider for your feed program as we get into the hotter months of the year. Learn about water accessibility and the importance of measuring dry mat…
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode comes to you from Shaftsbury Vermont, where we visit with Lisa McDougall of Mighty Food Farm. We start off the episode with a tour through her seven greenhouses and glance at some of the equipment that she’s using to farm over 14 acres of vegetables. We then pull up a stool in the greenhouse and have a deeper…
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Join Dairy Educator Emily Fread as she interviews Katie Ballard, Director of Research at the W. H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute in Chazy, NY about episodic heat stress in the Northeastern U.S. Not only does Katie manage the research at Miner, she is also a dairy farmer. Her family milks 210 Holsteins on a bicentennial dairy in Georgia, Ver…
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A decade ago, filmmaker Peter Byck assembled a group of scientists who were looking at agriculture from a whole-system perspective to study regenerative and conventional grazing side by side. The result is an extraordinary new documentary, Roots So Deep You Can See the Devil Down There. It's a fascinating and enormously entertaining journey into th…
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s Episode comes to you from Danville Vermont where we visit with Jacob Mills of McDonald Farm Stand. We start off the show with a tour of a newly built 30x40 wash/pack space. Then continue through several high tunnels and talk about spinach, tomatoes, tulips and more. We talk about field production as well and wrap the…
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Seed Savers Exchange is a small non-profit that's making a big difference. For a half century, they've been saving seeds, getting them out into gardens, telling their stories––and cultivating biodiversity that has been badly diminished with the rise of corporate agriculture and seed production. Located in Decorah, Iowa, Seed Savers has a large farm…
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Dirt Capital Partners takes a "slow money" perspective on investing, helping farmers get land access and regenerate not only the soil but also their communities. Their goal is to not only transform how agriculture is done in the US, but how investing itself is done, by focusing on the real impact of investment, and the good––or harm––that it does t…
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode comes to you from Charlotte Vermont, where we visit with Adam Hausmann and Jessica Sanford of Adam’s Berry Farm. Today’s visit is part 2. The previous episode was a farm tour and a field walk through the berry plants, high tunnels and barn. This episode shares the growing practices, farming history, and steps…
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Matt Skoglund grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, went to law school, and for ten years worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council doing policy work to protect bison in Yellowstone. Always happy in the outdoors and with an interest in both hunting and conservation, he started a bison ranch in 2018 near Bozeman, Montana. North Bridger Bisonis a…
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode comes to you from Charlotte Vermont, where we visit with Adam Hausmann and Jessica Sanford of Adams Berry Farm. Our visit today will be split into two episodes, the first one, is a walking tour of his blueberry fields, and strawberry patches, and raspberry plantings. We step inside the high tunnels to look at…
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Will Harris's ranch, White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, has been in the Harris family for over 150 years. His ancestors had a polyculture farm, but when industrial tools came to ranching, his father, and then Will, went all in––corporate ranching allowed their family to make a good living. But one day, in a life-changing moment of clarity, Ha…
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Austin Frerick grew up in Iowa, which in his youth had a robust regional food system that offered abundant produce and meat from family farms. But because of one "baron"––that's the name Frerick calls the men whose monopolistic corporations profoundly reshape markets and communities––rural areas were hollowed out, farmers were driven off their farm…
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode comes to you from Lancaster County Pennsylvania in a town called Lititz, where we visit John and Peter Shenk of Shenk’s Berry Farm. While their farm may not ring a bell, you may have seen these guys at a trade show or recognize their side business especially if you are into strawberries as they also run the c…
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In 1985 Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young organized a concert to benefit farmers and spread awareness of the crisis U.S. farmers were facing. The concert raised $7 million and spread awareness across the country. Since then Farm Aid has become a force advocating for farmers, promoting healthy, farm-grown food, providing a hotline and r…
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In this episode, we talk with Dr. Camilla Hughes, Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology in the Department of Animal Science at Penn State University. Dr. Hughes shares her background and how she got into research, some of her current research projects, and how her findings may be able to help dairy producers in the future.…
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Midnight Vespers - 02/29/2024 Weekly Podcast playing Goth, Post Punk, EBM, EDM, Industrial, Techno, Hard Techno, New Wave, Dark Electronic, Dark Wave, Death Rock and Gothic Midnight Vespers 2/29/2024 Featuring : SIERRA, Karl Casey, Revolting Cocks, The Gruesome Twosome, Meat Beat Manifesto, Skinny Puppy, Cryo, Bigod20, Rotersand, The KLF, Wolfsheim…
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Nick Mendoza grew up in a cattle ranching family in New Mexico, but when he moved to San Diego he fell in love with the ocean and got hooked on fish and marine science. Taking the lessons from regenerative cattle production to the oceans, he studied Environmental and Marine Resources at Stanford University, and earned a graduate degree in graduate …
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Midnight Vespers - 02/08/2024 Weekly Podcast playing EBM, Goth, Post Punk, EDM, Industrial, New Wave, Dark Electronic, Dark Wave, Death Rock, Electronic Music, Hard Techno, and Techno. Midnight Vespers Favorite songs released in 2023/24 featuring: Ashbury Heights, Night Club, SIERRA, Portion Control, Noisuf-X, Seelennacht, Eisfabrik, [:SITD:], Laze…
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Carbon credits were designed as a market mechanism to incentivize projects that sequester carbon and reduce carbon emissions. The idea is to pay people who are doing climate friendly projects, and sell credits to emitters. But do they work? Is there independent verification that carbon is really being sequestered? What does it mean when people are …
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DJ Mikhail AG Konov of A Cross Between and Dvngeons is in the studio 1/30/2024 playing a DJ Set of Hard Techno and does an interview after. DJ Mikhail talks his Boston show and playing in Florida and what's next for A Cross Between. Part I of Interview. Thank you for listening! Be sure to find me on X, Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube. Midnight Ves…
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Send us a Text Message. Today’s episode comes to you from Plainfield, New Hampshire where we visit with Pooh Sprague of Edgewater Farm. This episode is a bit of a ramble as a 50 year career in farming is expected to be! That being said in this episode Pooh Shares: How he got started in the early 70’s Selling bedding plants Labor challenges 100 acre…
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Katherine Miller, author of At The Table: The Chef's Guide To Advocacy, began her work toward a healthier food system with a deep background in political advocacy. She trains chefs to use their position as influencers to make change on issues like healthy and regenerative food sourcing, food waste, sustainability, fair wages, anti-sexism and -racis…
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Midnight Vespers - 01/11/2024 Weekly Podcast playing Goth, Post Punk, EBM, EDM, Industrial, Techno, New Wave, Dark Electronic, Dark Wave, Death Rock and Gothic Part II of Midnight Vespers Fav songs released in 2023 featuring: A Cross Between, 3TEETH, SIERRA, 3 (Crosses), KANGA, BRVMES, HEALTH, Drab Majesty, VV, SKOLD, Glass Spells, Male Tears, Plat…
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Beehives take up little space on the land, but, like other livestock, bees need space to roam, and they need a varied diet. Beekeeper Melanie Kirby is a "landless farmer," who sets up her beehives on farms and ranches, where the bees can thrive and the agrarians can take advantage of their pollination services. In fact pollination services have bec…
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Midnight Vespers - 01/04/2024 Weekly Podcast playing Goth, Post Punk, EBM, EDM, Industrial, Techno, New Wave, Dark Electronic, Dark Wave, Death Rock and Gothic Part I Favorite songs released in 2023 featuring: Reichsfeind, Aesthetic Perfection. Beborn Beton, Faderhead, Mental Discipline, Any Second, BlakLight, Lifelong Corporation, Chainreactor, ES…
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Midnights Vespers - 12/28/2023 Weekly Podcast playing Goth, Post Punk, EBM, EDM, Industrial, Techno, New Wave, Dark Electronic, Dark Wave, Death Rock and Gothic This Week Featuring Songs from : Eisfabrik, Extize, Phase Fatale , Mental Discipline, [distatix], Dvngeons, Neon Space Men, SynthAttack, Train To Spain & Tolchock, X Marks The Pedwalk, Plat…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode comes to you from South Royalton Vermont Where we visit with Geo Honigford of Hurricane Flats Farm. He’s grown mixed vegetables, popcorn, and hay for 26 years. He also made the decision to sell his farm just a few years ago and pursue a different career path. I thought this was unique and wanted to chat with him…
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Midnights Vespers - 12/21/2023 Weekly Podcast playing Goth, Post Punk, EBM, EDM, Industrial, Techno, New Wave, Dark Electronic, Dark Wave, Death Rock and Gothic This Week Featuring Songs from : Omnimar, Reichsfeind, Dvngeons, Lazerpunk & Max Brhon, Max Brhon, Brigade Enzephalon, Night Club, Mondträume, Beborn Beton, Psy'Aviah, Seabound, Helalyn Flo…
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Anica Wong is Quivira Coalition's communications director and she had the idea for an "ask me anything" episode with Down to Earth host Mary-Charlotte Domandi ... and here it is! Listeners asked questions and we answered as best we could, in a wide-ranging discussion about everything from to Anica's urban farm to our favorite podcasts to Plato's Re…
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Photographer Sally Thomson's gorgeous new book of photographs and texts, Homeground, is a deep exploration of rangelands in the Southwest––landscapes, livestock, water, wildlife, and the stewards who keep the land thriving. With her deep background in landscape architecture, conservation, and land use planning, Thomson photographs in ways that reve…
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