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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...
Conversation with Stephen G. Jeffery, attorney
Farm and Fiddle hosts Rhett Hartman and Margot McMillen begin the conversation with Steve Jeffery with the questions, "what is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation"...
Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center: A mid-Missouri Pioneer
Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center was an early entry into the magic of horse therapy for people of all ages, with all kinds of needs. In this episode, founder Kare...
Wood Hat Distillers: Missouri heritage corn, Missouri barrels, Missouri water, Missouri whiskey
Agronimist Gary Hinegardner spent a career studying heritage corn types--corn that tastes good even though it might not yield as high as commercial hybrids. Then, he w...
A conversation with Josh Stevens, forester
Josh Stevens, forester, talks to Rhett Hartman about forest products--medicinal, food and wood--and how to manage them in Missouri forests. It turns out that, besides ...
Susan Williams and Tena Potts: she-roes won't give up the fight against factory farms
When Cooper County neighbors heard that a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) had requested licensing in their community, a citizens' group was quickly formed...
Steve Jeffery, part 2
Second part of a conversation with Steve Jeffery, Missouri attorney, who has worked with several neighborhoods to resist the incursion of factory farms into their comm...
Conversation with Scott Dye, activist
Scott Dye is a team member of the Socially Responsible Agriculture Program. This group, based in Salem, Oregon, is perhaps the only national organization focused on fi...
Conversation with Diane Rosenberg of Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors
Diane Rosenberg heads up the Iowa organization called Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors or JFAN. While the rest of Iowa is drowning in hog manure from Concentrate...
An interview with attorney Steve Jeffery, part one
Attorney Steve Jeffery started his career as an environmental lawyer for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. As he learned, the DNR is hampered by legislatio...