All Episodes

Ep. 401 (Coffee Time) What Happened to All The Different Tractor Companies??

Ep. 400 Iowa's New Trail Camera Rule, Cross Bows, Drones, CWD, and Is Iowa REALLY The Trophy Buck State?

Ep. 399 (Coffee Time) Harvest Week is Stressful! And Noise Pollution for People and Animals

Ep. 398 Hunting Trail Cameras, The Upcoming CRP Cliff, and Why Land Prices Are Stagnant

Ep. 397 (Coffee Time) Should Cover Crops Be Subsidized? A Review of the National Cover Crop Survey

Ep. 396 How We Run Our Prairie Farm and What It Takes To Start One

Ep. 395 (Coffee Time) Do Prairie Fires Keep Flies and Ticks Away And Wendell Berry Tribute

Ep. 394 How Big Meat Packer and Giant Grocery Stores Are Ruining Agriculture

Ep. 393 (Coffee Time) TRIVIA!! How much have you learned the past 100 episodes??

Ep. 392 What This Weather Scientist's Studies Tell us of The Midwest's Climate Future

Ep. 391 (Coffee Time) Which Prairie Species Are Invasive to The Rest of The World

Ep. 390 What Pesticide Companies Are Doing In Washington to Make Billions

Ep. 389 (Coffee Time) Should We Use Farmland for Solar and Who Wins... A Bison or Bull?

Ep. 388 The Status of Farming According to Bankers and Where is Agriculture Headed

Ep. 387 (Coffee Time) Bringing Back Grazing, but Importing Beef and The Iowa State Fair By The Numbers with Aaron Van Wyk

Ep. 386 How Jon Judson Created Some of The Best Reconstructed Prairies in The Midwest

Ep. 385 (Coffee Time) Mad Max on Cars, Conservation and Farming

Ep. 384 Gubernatorial Candidate Rob Sand

Ep. 383 (Coffee Time) Is Ethanol ACTUALLY a Quality Energy Investment? And a Farm Bill Update

Ep. 382 Secretary of Ag Candidate Chris Jones

Ep. 381 (Coffee Time) Why Are Wildfires Breaking Out Across The Whole World?? (And we’re hiring)

Ep. 380 Gubernatorial Candidate Zach Lahn

Ep. 379 (Coffee Shop) Cyclospora Lettuce and the Ins and Outs of Crop Insurance

Ep. 378 Why Emulating the Bison is the Secret to Profitable Farming w/ Peter Byck

Ep. 377 (Coffee Time) The Canadian Fires and the Depletion of the Colorado River

Ep. 376 Why The Midwest Uses Way Less Cover Crop Than The Rest of The World

Ep. 375 (Coffee Time) Are Pesticides Killing Our Oaks and Why Native Plants Are "In Fashion"

Ep. 374 How Rural Hospitals Affect Rural America and What Will The Big Beautiful Bill Do To Them

Ep. 373 (Coffee Time) Where Are Your Invasive Weeds ACTUALLY From

Ep. 372 The Pros and Cons of Grazing Cattle, Bison, Sheep, and Goats on Prairie

Ep. 371 (Coffee Time) Good News for CRP in the Farm Bill and What Littering Costs Rural America

(Bonus Episode) Advocacy Fatigue, Roadless Rule, and Mining Permits w/Travis Hall

Ep. 370 How State Legislation Determines the Quality of the Deer Herd w/Skip Sligh

Ep. 369 (Coffee Time) Will the Fed's Plan for Immigrant Labor Save Dairy Farms..?

Ep. 368 This man likely knows more about Iowa water quality than anyone

Ep. 367 (Coffee Time) We Answer Your 16 Most Frequently Asked Prairie Questions Part 2

Ep. 366 Are Pasture-Raised Pig Farms Viable?

Ep. 365 (Coffee Time) Does the Midwest ACTUALLY “Feed the world”?

Ep. 364 The Details of Our Fight for Public Lands w/Hal Herring

Ep. 363 (Coffee Time) We Answer Your 16 Most Frequently Asked Prairie Questions Part 1

Ep. 362 Inside Iowa’s Biggest Prairie Restoration and The Bison That Graze It

Ep. 361 (Coffee Time) How Tree Nut Farms Affect The Ecosystem and The Economy

Listen to the Land: Conversations about Conservation w/Doug Duren Ep. 3

Ep. 360 The Man Who ACTUALLY Does The Physical Work to Fix Water Quality With Prairie

Ep. 359 (Coffee Time) How E15, Trump in China, Straight of Hormuz, and El Niño Affect Commodity Prices

Ep. 358 How A Writer And Comedian From the Midwest Became The World’s First Celebrity

Ep. 357 (Coffee Time) Legalized Hunting on National Parks and Grazing Leases on BLM Ground

Ep. 356 What Great Habitat Looks Like and Why Hunters Are America’s Conservationists w/Travis Frank

Ep. 355 (Coffee Time) Does “No Mow May” ACTUALLY Help The Bees??

Ep. 354 The Man Who Manages the Most Diverse Prairie We’ve Ever Seen

Ep. 353 (Coffee Time) How Trees Affect Mental Health and A New Study on Agrochemicals and Cancer

Ep. 352 How to ACTUALLY Fix the Water Quality and Are Data Centers Good for Rural America

Ep. 351 (Coffee Time) The Pollinator Prairie Death Spiral and the Details on The Boundary Waters

Ep. 350 She's Read More Midwest Pioneer Journals Than Almost Anyone

Ep. 349 (Coffee Time) How Would Mandatory Set Aside Acres Economically Affect Your Rural County Today?

Ep. 348 Why Native Plants and Few Chemicals Grow Better Deer

Ep. 347 (Coffee Time) Our Worst Days In The Field! And Why Is The US Forest Service Moving Out of DC?

Ep. 346 Why We Can't Buy Our Way Out of a Broken Food System

Ep. 345 (Coffee Time) Nebraska Fires' Long Term Affects and Who Pays for Water Quality?

Ep. 344 How and When To Burn Your Prairie Fields From The Man Who Has Burned 100,000 Acres

Ep. 343 (Coffee Time) How People Use Auctions To Steal Machinery and How Awns Can Kill Bird Dogs

Ep. 342 Gubernatorial Candidate Eddie Andrews

Ep. 341 (Coffee Time) A Quick Farm Bill Update and Raising Tax Rates for Out of State Land Owners

Ep. 340 How and When to Plant a Prairie So It ACTUALLY Shows Up w/Justin Meissen

Ep. 339 (Coffee Time) Are You As Tough As A Pioneer Woman? And Using Fire To Eliminate Brome

Ep. 338 Are Small Dairy Farms Actually Viable??

Ep. 337 (Coffee Time) Tort Immunity for Bayer and CRP Grazing Might Be Headed Our Way

Ep. 336 The Rise and Fall of "Chief" Black Hawk

Ep. 335 (Coffee Time) The New FARM BILL!!

Ep. 334 Why Are Farmer Suicide Rates So High and What Can We Do About It

Ep. 333 (Coffee Time) Are Things ACTUALLY More Expensive Than They Used To Be?

Ep. 332 Which Prairie Species to Grow If You Want to Start a Prairie Farm

Ep. 331 (Coffee Time) These Iowa Politicians Killed a Bill That Could Enhance Water Quality...

Ep. 330 Where Does Your Produce ACTUALLY Come From

Ep. 329 (Coffee Time) Looming Farm Crisis -- These Crops Are Losing The Most Money

Ep. 328 This Lady Changed Midwestern Beer Culture and Now Want To Bring the Same Reform to Cancer and Nutrition in Iowa

Ep. 327 (Coffee Time) Iowa’s Proposed Healthy Water Bill and Congress’ E15 Fuel Issues

Ep. 326 How to Start Farming as a Young Farmer and the Nuts and Bolts of the Farm Crisis

Ep. 325 (Coffee Time) Which Apps Are Good For Us and Secretary Burgum Pulls Grazing Permits

Ep. 324 The Raw and Unfiltered Story of Inheriting a Prairie Farm Overnight

Ep. 323 (Coffee Time) The New Prairie Strips Pilot Program

Ep. 322 Getting Access To Hunting and What Is Deer Camp??

Ep. 321 (Coffee Time) What is Going On With These Beef Prices??

Ep. 320 The Extinction of Caribou on the Lower 48 and Are Mountain Lions a Threat to Humans?

Ep. 319 (Coffee Time) The Biggest Conservation Wins and Biggest Conservation Disgraces of the Year

Listen to the Land: Conversations about Conservation w/Doug Duren and Guests Ep. 2

Ep. 318 How to Get Pheasants on Your Land with The Bearded Uplander and Joy of All Trades

Ep. 317 (Coffee Time) Christmas Morning on the Farm in the 1940s, The Absurdity of Christmas Lights, and the Hazards of Antibacterial Soap

Ep. 316 Gubernatorial Candidate Zach Lahn

Ep. 315 (Coffee Time) The NFL, Bearded Uplander, and Smiley

Ep. 314 What Do Prairie Strips Accomplish? And Practical Incremental Changes for Conservation On Your Farm

Ep. 313 (Coffee Time) Stiff Goldenrod's Role in a Prairie and The Dead Zones of the World

Ep. 312 What Does Leaving Your Leaves Actually Do??

Ep. 311 Iowa' Wildlife Action Plan, Soybean Farming, Prairie Snow Fences

Ep. 310 Can You Make a Food Forest in Your Own Yard?

Ep. 309 (Coffee Time) Is Fast Fashion Actually Cheaper?

Ep. 308 Hunting Pheasants with Steve Hanson and Ryan Lynton

Ep. 307 (Coffee Time) Who's Responsibility is it to Pay for Iowa's Water Monitors

Ep. 306 Gubernatorial Candidate Brad Sherman

Ep. 305 (Coffee Time) Why Are Young People Leaving the Midwest?