07/10/26 Life on A Farm with Ryan Jenkins

Farmer Ryan Jenkins from Life on a Farm joins us to discuss: farming can be a dangerous profession, does safety day every year, a lot of people have older, smaller tractors which lose their starting mechanism and sometimes they lose their safety features; rural and family lands program has millions in budget - 1 structure to 30 acres vs 15 acres?; preserving farmland we need to provide our own food rather than depend on another country to feed us; crops are about a moth behind due to weather we tarted w a drought we got some rain that made it a little later for farmers, cotton is growing - growth regulator on cotton; corn crop looks really good this year; last year w budget shutdown missed a funding source - will this be an issue since crops are behind? Not that big of an issue since its only a month, high fuel prices and high fertilizer prices. Farm fact: July 4th American Farm Bureaus says cookout for ten people cost $73.82 (seems low) its a 4 percent increase from this time last year.