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The future of rural hospitals is the future of community
Dave Dillon is Vice President of Public and Media Relations at MIssouri Hospital Association. In this interview, he talks about why rural hospitals are so important to...
Road Trip!!! Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
More than 100 years ago, a religious group that wanted to practice equality between men, women and all races, came to America from England. These Shakers practiced sus...
Factory Farms in the Oceans??
In May 2020, Donald Trump signed an executive order to speed up the addition of factory farms for fin fish in the oceans. These Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations ...
Celebrate World Fiddle Day with the Champ!
This podcast features an uncut version of a fiddle workshop at the Big Muddy Folk Festival given by Mike Fraser, Ozark fiddler and performer and Howard Marshall, autho...
Deb Hudman, Missouri's tick specialist
For the last two years, Deb Hudman has been collecting and studying Missouri ticks from every county in the state. Since our state is most diverse--prairies, woodlands...
Meet Peng Tian, plant diagnostician
Peng Tian isn't a gardener, but he knows everything there is about diagnosing plant problems for gardeners, farmers, landscapers, foresters and anyone else interested ...
How corporate agriculture manipulates farmers
North Carolina farmer Craig Watts had a 2-year honeymoon with the poultry industry, built four poultry barns and struggled to pay them off using the corporate system. ...
Sherri Dugger, Executive Director of Socially Responsible Agricultural Project
The Socially Responsible Agricultural Project helps communities faced with problems caused by Industrial Livestock Farming. If a community learns that a Concentrated A...
What's going on with the mid-Missouri cattle business?
Beef prices at the grocery store are sky high, but cattle ranchers aren't seeing new profits. It turns out that the giant corporations are squeezing consumers and blam...
Afghan Refugees Find A Warm Welcome in Mid-Missouri
When Afghan refugees come to mid-Missouri, they find welcome from community organizations with direction from Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri. In a...
Let's learn about Missouri prairies with Missouri Prairie Foundation Director Carol Davit
Carol Davit, Executive Director of Missouri Prairie Foundation, gives an excellent summary of the many ecosystems working together to keep prairies functioning for the...
Black voices in agriculture: NAACP brings attention to a forgotten group of farmers
Webster Davis, Secretary to Missouri's NAACP chapter, and a black farmer, talks about challenges and progress in the agricultural community. Davis focuses on new legis...
Leading the Way in Missouri's Hemp Industry: Interview with Boone County's Dan Kuebler
Organic grower Dan Kuebler has been well-known to mid-Missouri farmers and consumers for decades. Now he is working to convert part of his farm to the growing of hemp,...
Legislative Update
Update on bills working through the state capitol this session. Josh visits with Brian Smith, lobbyists with the Missouri Rural Crisis Center (MRCC). The mission of MR...
Veterans Day 2020 Broadcast
Rhett & Josh (both veterans) discuss topics and issues related to veterans. Special Guest Doug Bannister calls in and shares his experiences as a veteran.
Missouri Organic Association: Into the Future with New Ideas
Missouri Organic Association has recently received the gift of buildings for offices in Hartsburg. Their new Boone County location will benefit farmers and other food ...
The Archives: Wood Stove Safety, Natural Dyes and More!!
KOPN community radio has been around since 1973, so the archives provide a treasure trove of information, much of it passed from person to person in interviews before ...
Iowa's Art Cullen: Editor of the Storm Lake Times
Art Cullen and the Storm Lake Times made history a few years ago when the small-town newspaper won a Pulitzer for editorial reporting. In a state where conservative va...
Chatting with Howie Shucard, award-winning dog trainer
Howie Shucard of Ashland, Missouri, is an award-winning dog trainer specializing in curing aggression problems. Especially important during lockdowns, he wants all dog...
Opponents of Cooper County Cafos and Dr. Elliott Murphy
This program, which aired on July 8, 2020, begins with regular feature, "Agriculture in the News," focusing on land grabs by investment firm TIAA in Brazil. Then, the ...
July 15 2020 BONUS Interview Material
The interview went longer than the episode could contain. This bonus episode is provided in order to share with you everything that Dr. Lawrence shared with us.
July 15 2020 Interview with Dr. Robert Lawrence about public health risks that CAFO's create.
Josh interviews Dr. Robert Lawrence who shares stories about health studies and crisis that have occured as a result of CAFO presence in a community.
July 1, 2020: Discussion with Nadia Navarette Tindall about foraging, growing and eating native plants
Josh and Nadia Navarette Tindall discuss several native plants available for consumption and planting in home gardens.
Big win! Victory Against the E.P.A. on the Dicamba Issue!
Steve Smith is Agriculture Director of Red Gold Tomatoes and has led the charge against the overuse of chemicals on farm fields. In this conversation he talks about th...
An Introduction to Rodale Institute in Iowa
Rodale Institute was the first farming organization to experiment and promote organic principles. Indeed, Rodale was the inventor of organic farming, insisting that th...
Growing Hemp in Mid-Missouri
In 2017, the Missouri State Legislature passed a law allowing the cultivation of hemp in Missouri. Dan Kuebler of the Salad Garden in Boone County is one of the early ...
Pete Buttigieg at the Iowa Farmers Union Annual Meeting
"Mayor Pete" admits that he is from an urban background, but adds that his young life was much like that of rural youngsters who grow up thinking "success is getting o...
Cory Booker at Iowa Farmers Union
Cory Booker is from New Jersey, but he has family in Iowa and he has studied issues in rural America hard, even traveling across the midwest and visiting farms to lear...
Amy Klobuchar at the Iowa Farmers Union
Amy Klobuchar has received the Farmers Union Golden Triangle award several times in gratitude for work she has done for family farms. A Minnesotan, in her speech she t...
Bernie Sanders at the Iowa Organic Association Conference
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders laid out plans for USDA under his administration, including ideas like reinstating Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) which is nec...