Delaney and Mike discuss the USDA's May reports and note the market movements as well as have a conversation about the US pork industry from Dallas Hockman, Vice President of Industry Relations with the NPPC. Pork is loved in America as well as around the world, and Dallas tells us where the industry is moving over the next few years.
Today, the crew talks about Mike's problems with keeping machinery running, we hear another question from Secretary Perdue's town hall in Nevada, and Dave Malkin from Drax Biomass joins to discuss the process of harvesting yellow pine in the Southeast for manufacture in to wood pellets for power generation in England. It's a side of agriculture that those of us in the midwest don't get exposed to that often, but there certainly are some similarities.
Delaney and Mike run through some news and play a question from the town hall portion of Secretary Perdue's meeting in Nevada Iowa last Friday. They also break down the markets with Darin Newsom, and he explains how this weeks "first look" at the 2017 crop is anything but.
Mike and Delaney head to Nevada, Iowa where Secretary Sonny Perdue holds his first policy related speech. Be sure to tune in early next week when AND brings the Q&A portion of the event.
Gretta Irwin joins Mike and Delaney to talk turkey; but first an update on today's news and closing market prices.
Today Mike and Delaney chat about weather conditions in the Great Plain states, RFS vapor requirements, and talk to Steve Bruere about land values across the U.S.
Mike and Delaney talk the latest news, read closing market prices and talk to Rob Sharkey; an Illinois boy. There really are no good words to describe the conversation with Sharkey, so just tune in and find out for yourselves!
On May Day this year, Delaney and Mike talk through the changes in school lunch policy and ask for listener's help naming a new segment. Also, the rain, snow and wind over the weekend prompted the markets to do some nice moves to upside, and we spent some time with Angie Setzer trying to decipher just what the future holds.
Today the conversation gets real with Daren Williams from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and Mike and Delaney discover the real truth about eating beef. Check out more from Daren at http://darenwms.blogspot.com/.
Mike and Delaney talk news, commodity markets, where cattle have gone LIMIT UP, and talk to Marji Guyler-Alaniz about the movement she has started among women in agriculture.