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Growing a Crop Everyone Loves

Tom — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:01:59 +0000

Ben LaCrosse grows a crop just about everyone enjoys eating. However, it’s a crop that is difficult to harvest and one that is finicky when it comes to where best to grow it. Today we head to his farm fields for a look at 700 acres of an item that, on average, each of us will annually consume three quarters of a pound…..

The Ceremony Before the Presidential Inaugeration

Tom — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:01:48 +0000

Every four years this nation holds the inauguration of the President of the United States. However, few people know that just minutes before that ceremony takes place, another inauguration is held in Norton, Kansas…..

They Also Ran

Tom — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:38 +0000

Tilden, Bryan, Landon, Wilkie–they are just some of the names enshrined here. It’s a place created by a bank president who thought men such as these deserved to be honored…..

The Story of Kent Feeds

Tom — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:01:46 +0000

Today we say hello to our listeners on KWPC in Muscatine, Iowa. Listeners there know an ag company there is turning 85. But why was this company at one time helping make tires? It all has to do with the history of one of America’s best known livestock supply brands…..

Free Range Chickens

Tom — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:01:28 +0000

When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book he found in his high school ag classroom, Herman decided some of the productions were still relevant today…..

The Dusenberg

Tom — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:01:06 +0000

In Northeast Indiana, there’s a town that once produced the top cars of the day. In this very showroom, some of the world’s biggest stars purchased their very own King of the Road……

Reenactment of the Civil War

Tom — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:01:49 +0000

Perhaps you’ve been hearing quite a bit about the Civil War. For the next four years, many sites will hosts 150th Anniversary reenactments of battles and events that took place during that war. It also means Jacob Thomson will have to do more fighting…..

A Museum for Osteology

Tom — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:01:14 +0000

It’s called the Museum of Osteology. It’s a one-of-a-kind place. But many of you are asking what’s osteology?

Using Self Defense Against the Americans?

Tom — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:01:54 +0000

Barbara Law was a teenager living in Japan when World War II ended. Her country’s surrender signaled many changes in her life, including instruction on how to deal with the American GI’s that would soon land on her homeland’s soil…..

Farming a Different Way

Tom — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:01:14 +0000

In agriculture there is sometimes infighting between groups that support organic or conventional production methods. The two do not have to be mutually exclusive and both hold keys to achieving bigger yields with less resources. Gary Zimmer helps farmers see the possibilities…..