American Soybean Association Chairman Alan Kemper explains just how important the Panama FTA is historically for America's soybean growers, and what they can expect when it goes into effect on the...
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Audio: Big Change for Beef Prices
Audio courtesy of Gary Crawford with USDA.After a period of sustained losses, feedlots and packers with no access to forage have been sending more animals to market sooner, and because of that, USDA Price Economist Ricky Volpe explains the shift we'll see in retail...
Audio: To Cover Crop or Not To Cover Crop
Putting down a cover crop like the rye grain pictured above is one of the first lines of defense against a drought.Barbara Stewart is Iowa's state agronomist with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. In the following clip, she explains the benefits of laying...
Audio: New Report Due By December 15th
Nick Bunse grows corn and soybeans on his farm near Newton, and so far this year has had a good stand of cover crop in spite of the drought. However, when he found out about the Farm Service Agency's new reporting requirements for fall seeded small grains and...
Audio: Cattle on Feed Report Analysis
USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam gives some of the most significant numbers from USDA's cattle on feed report, which you can read in its entirety here.http://iowaagribusinessradionetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/SimmonsForWeb.mp3Audio courtesy of Gary...
Audio: An Egg A Day
Speaking from the World Food Prize, president of Elanco Animal Health Jeff Simmons explains the effect a daily egg can have in children's development, and what needs to happen by 2050 to keep production...
Audio: The Sustainable Future Is Now
As has been well established at the World Food Prize, the future of agriculture for many countries is sustainability. Sir Gordon Conway is the Professor of International Development at London's Imperial College; he says for some nations, the future is...
Audio: Technology or Juju Medicine?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. ClarkeSusan Godwin, a farmer from Nigeria, received assistance from an Oxfam agricultural program aimed at teaching farmers to become farm managers, and in the following clip shares...
Audio: Voices of the Iowa Hunger Summit
On the first day of the World Food Prize, the downtown Des Moines Marriott hosted the Iowa Hunger Summit, which addresses undernourished and hungry Iowans.In addition to talks from figures like Jo Ann Jenkins of the AARP and Howard G. Buffett with the Howard G....
Audio: How About Them Apples?
A freeze in late spring devastated apple orchards across the Midwest, but the drought actually helped what few apples survived. Iowa Orchard in Urbandale is run by Bryan Etchen; this year the orchard took losses, but by reducing wholesaling and donations, customers...