Scott Keugel, a third-generation farmer from Kentucky, shares his journey through farming, family dynamics, and the challenges of modern agriculture. He discusses the importance of family in farming, the thrill of achieving high yields, and the complexities of financial management in the agricultural sector. Scott emphasizes the need for farmers to understand their numbers and manage their finances effectively to ensure sustainability and success in farming. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Jul 05, 2025•15 min
Mark Crave is general manager and operating partner for Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese. With the help of 11 family members across three generations and 85 full-time employees, the Craves milked 2,200 cows and farmed 3,300 acres in southern Wisconsin. Thanks to sustainability efforts, including an anaerobic digestion system, the farm produces enough power for its entire operation plus 300 area homes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 28, 2025•15 min
Mike Koehne is a first generation corn, soybean and specialty crop grower from Greensburg, Indiana. He shares the challenges of breaking into farming without a family legacy, the joys of bringing his son into the operation and the importance of representing agriculture on industry boards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 23, 2025•15 min
Mark Watney is a North Dakota farmer and 12-time president of the North Dakota Farmers Union. He joined me for a discussion about technology on the farm, his decision not to seek a 13th term, and the Washington, DC, restaurant franchise started by the North Dakota Farmers Union. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 16, 2025•14 min
Tim Deal is a Minnesota sugar beat grower who joined me for a conversation at Commodity Classic. Earlier this year, Tim testified before the Senate Committee on Agriculture on behalf of the American Sugar Beet Growers Association, educating farmers about the challenges facing fellow farmers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 09, 2025•15 min
Rudy Balala from Maui, Hawaii, became a seasonal worker on a pineapple plantation at age 14. Today, he is the general manager of Maui Gold Pineapple. Rudy explains the process of growing pineapple and discusses the differences and similarities to traditional row crop farming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 02, 2025•16 min
My guests today are Dana and Lauren Cavalea. They raise cattle and direct market beef from Freedom Farms in upstate New York, but they are newcomers to agriculture. Before moving to their farm, they lived in New York city where Lauren worked for ABC News and Dana was a coach for the New York Yankees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 26, 2025•16 min
Dan Nerud, of Dorchester, Nebraska, serves as a member of the Corn Board of the National Corn Growers Association, a farmer-led trade association with offices in St. Louis and Washington. Nerud farms with his two sons on a dryland and irrigated farm consisting of corn, soybeans, alfalfa, grass hay and runs a cow-calf operation. Additionally, he also does construction work (dozer, excavator, scraper, track loader) as time permits.Nerud serves as NCGA liaison to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Assoc...
May 19, 2025•13 min
Emma Coffman is a first-generation cattle rancher from Temple, Texas. She has worked in several roles in the cattle industry and is now a full-time advocate for agriculture. Emma was named the 2024 Advocate of the Year by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association for her creative use of storytelling across social media platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 12, 2025•16 min
My guest today is Amanda Freund, a Connecticut dairy farmer and entrepreneur. She recently appeared on the TV show shark tank, pitching her product, Cow Pots, biodegradable plant pots made from composted manure produced by the farm’s holstein herd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 05, 2025•16 min
Carla Schultz wants consumers to know food produced by American farmers is safe, whether it’s GMO, organic, or anything in between. The Michigan farmer, direct marketer, and grain merchandiser builds trust with consumers at Detroit markets and beyond by having honest conversations about GMOs, animal care, and regenerative farming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 28, 2025•17 min
Meet Logan Lyon: an eastern Iowa farmer, ag risk manager, and crop insurance agent who also serves as a district director for the Iowa Corn Growers Association. Tune to hear about grounded insights from the field, ag policy perspectives, and Logan's personal story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 21, 2025•16 min
Trey Braswell is a fourth generation feed and egg producer from Nashville, North Carolina. His family was a founding member of Egglands Best and they have been honored to supply eggs for the White House Easter egg roll multiple times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 14, 2025•16 min
Asia Kalcevic is a fifth generation farmer from Eastern Colorado. Asia shares her experience as a young woman in agriculture and how her family's farm uses regenerative farming practices and the latest technology to care for their soil and reduce the cost of inputs. She also highlights the evolving role of social media in promoting sustainable agriculture and the farm's brand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 07, 2025•15 min
Guest host Sophie Winkelpleck, a senior at Iowa State University serving an apprenticeship with us at Successful Farming, has a chat with Nate Eggena, who splits his time between Montana and running a hay business and farming with his family in Northeast Iowa. Nate has a passion for filming ag related content with the drone or GoPro and sharing on social media where he has more than 82,000 followers. While in college at Montana State, Nate joined the rodeo team as a steer wrestler, despite havin...
Mar 31, 2025•16 min
Dennis Bulani is a fourth generation Saskatchewan farmer and CEO of Rack Petroleum. He joined me in the Successful Farming booth at Commodity Classic to talk about farming, business and his new book, What a Farmer Wants You to Know About Food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 24, 2025•17 min
Susan Watkins is the secretary and a six-year director for the United Soybean Board and grows soybeans, corn, and wheat on her family farm in Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 17, 2025•15 min
Danyelle Chinn is a cattle producer from Northeast Missouri. She is Also, a livestock economist working for the rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center, where she interprets statistics and market reports into shareable stories that resonate with farmers and ranchers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 10, 2025•18 min
Lucas Hoge is a Nashville recording artist who grew up on a farm near Hubbell, Nebraska. He released his first album in 2002 and has a new autobiographical album coming this summer. A single from that album, Farmhand, was just released. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 03, 2025•17 min
Patrick Montgomery is a former U S army ranger turned rancher and entrepreneur. He's raising and direct marketing Wagyu beef through his ranch, Kansas city cattle company, and bringing producers together through his direct to consumer marketplace, Valor provisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 24, 2025•18 min
Tanner and Lakaya Tenley are winners of Iowa Farm Bureau Federation's Grow Your Future award. They plan to use their $10,000 prize to expand their direct-to-consumer beef, pork, and milk business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 17, 2025•16 min
Nathan Faleide grew up in a North Dakota farm family and followed in his dad's footsteps in the ag satellite imagery business. Today he's a thought leader in the ag tech sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 10, 2025•18 min
Scott Davin is a veteran member of the pit crew for world champion Indycar driver Alex Palou of Ganassi Racing. Off the track, Davin is a new farmer, putting down roots on his Indiana property and finding mentorship from neighbors and farmers on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 03, 2025•18 min•Ep. 56
Todd Western III splits his time between Minnesota and the family farm in Iowa, and also actively volunteers with many non-profits, including serving on several boards of directors. Western is the co-founder of Iowa Farmers of Color, which just held its second annual conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 27, 2025•18 min•Ep. 53
Jason Haglund is a fifth generation Iowa farmer and founding member of rural policy partners, which helps rural communities with behavioral health policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 20, 2025•18 min•Ep. 52
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater talks to Quentin Connealy, a 5th generation corn and soybean grower from Tacama, Nebraska, right along the Missouri river. He is better known as the Wakeboarding Farmer after a video of him wakeboarding across a flooded field went viral in 2017. Now he uses that platform to share the story of agriculture on his family farm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 13, 2025•16 min•Ep. 51
As an expert on family farm succession and conflict resolution, Elaine Froese has worked with farm families across North America for more than 30 years. In this episode of the 15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast, Elaine and host Lisa Foust Prater discuss communication goals for farm families in the new year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 06, 2025•17 min•Ep. 50
Patrick Brown is a fourth-generation farmer from Warren County, North Carolina, and a winner of the 2024 Small Farmer of the Year Award from North Carolina A&T. He is actively involved in caring for his family's farm, the environment, and his community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 30, 2024•19 min•Ep. 49
Arlene Hunter and Caite Palmer are hosts of the Barnyard Language podcast which focuses on running farms and raising families. Arlene is a Canadian dairy farmer with four kids, and Caite is an American beef and sheep producer with two children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 23, 2024•19 min•Ep. 48
Jodie Nay is a farmer and rancher from Hereford, Colorado with a photographer’s eye. Even though she describes her home as, “in the middle of nowhere,” she sees the beauty in everything from ordinary chores to spectacular sunsets, and shares her stunning images on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 16, 2024•17 min•Ep. 47
