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Cherry Farmer Ben Lacrosse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/02/08Feb12-Cherry-Farmer-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Many Americans are growing more concerned about their health and diet. That means this farmer has to put some thought…
Growing a Crop Everyone Loves
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/02/07Feb12-Cherry-Farmer-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Ben LaCrosse grows a crop just about everyone enjoys eating. However, it’s a crop that is difficult to harvest and…
The Ceremony Before the Presidential Inaugeration
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/02/06Feb12-They-Also-Ran-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Every four years this nation holds the inauguration of the President of the United States. However, few people know that…
They Also Ran
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/02/03Feb12-They-Also-Ran-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)Tilden, Bryan, Landon, Wilkie–they are just some of the names enshrined here. It’s a place created by a bank president…
The Story of Kent Feeds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/02Feb12-Kent-Feeds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KWPC in Muscatine, Iowa. Listeners there know an ag company there is…
From Lumber Company to Feed Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/01Feb12-Kent-Feeds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It all began with a lumber yard in Indianola, Iowa. Of course, today you don’t know this company for its…
Preparing for Agriculture’s Future
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/31Jan12-Dr-Beth-Walker-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)The next 40 years are predicted to bring an ever increasing population both here and around the world. Food needs…
Resolving Controversies in Animal Agriculture
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/30Jan12-Dr-Beth-Walker-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)It used to be that controversies in agriculture revolved around which color of tractor to buy or what kind of…
Maximizing Animal Production and Producers’ Time
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/27Jan12-Dr-Beth-Walker-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)There are an increasing number of farmers in this nation who also have off-farm jobs. However, the farm can be…
Flying a World Record Endurance
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/26Jan12-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)If you’ve ever flown into the Las Vegas airport, you may have noticed a colorful Cessna airplane hanging from the…
The 24 Hour Las Vegas Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/25Jan12-Las-Vegas-Endurance-Plane-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)You may recall we recently discussed a pair of brothers in Mississippi who in 1935 set a record by keeping…
The World’s Longest Flight
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/24Jan12-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)The longest nonstop commercial flight in the world is currently a Singapore Airlines route from Newark to Singapore. It’s in…
Iowa’s Aviation Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/23Jan12-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)For the past few days we,ve been in Greenfield, Iowa, home to the Iowa Aviation Museum. You probably never realized…
Charles Levine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/20Jan12-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Chalres Lindburgh was the first person to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. But lost in our history books…
Landing A Plane on a Boat
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/19Jan12-Iowa-Aviation-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today, aircraft carriers and the planes they transport play a vital role in country’s military might. However, have you…
Root Capitol
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/18Jan12-Root-Capitol.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Willy Foote saw farmers and farmer cooperatives in developing nations often struggle to survive. What resulted was a vision that…
Pearl Harbor Survivor Al Bodenlos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/17Jan12-Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Al can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on surfaces…
Chattanooga Battlefield
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/16Jan12-Chattanooga-Battlefield.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine being a slave at the beginning of the Civil War only later to have an opportunity to join the…
Turkey Tracks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/13Jan12-Route-66-Turkey-Tracks.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 1.4MB)There is definitely an art to tracking and calling a wild turkey. Jerry Law had no trouble tracking this turkey….
The Luna Cafe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/12Jan12-Luna-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In front of the Luna Café, on old route 66 near Mitchell, Illinois, you’ll find a beautifully restored neon sign….
