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…

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….

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….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/11Jan12-Ann-Burkholder.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)She was a very unlikely candidate to manage a cattle feedyard in central Nebraksa.  She grew up in Palm Beach…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/10Jan12-KRVN-Radio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)Many radio stations have interesting stories of how they were born.  This station in central Nebraska was the product of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/09Jan12-Jim-Stillman.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 1.4MB)In some parts of the Midwest, you can buy a brand new car for the same price as one acre…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/06Jan12-Ghana-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Today we meet the district farmer of the year.  A lady growing ten acres of corn–a farmer adopting some of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/05Jan12-Ghana-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Drive through farm country and you can find plenty of shiny new grain bins to hold ever increasing yields. Drive…

http://www.showmetractorcruise.com/audio/AmericanCountryside/04Jan12__Ghana2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Many farm events and banquets in the US begin with prayer.  This farm meeting opened with a joint prayer of…

http://www.showmetractorcruise.com/audio/AmericanCountryside/03Jan12__Ghana1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)I always enjoy the harvest on our farm.  Days spent in the combine or hauling grain to the bins are…

http://www.showmetractorcruise.com/audio/AmericanCountryside/02Jan12__Free_Range_Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book he found in his high school ag classroom, Herman decided…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/30Dec11-Best-of-2011-Barbara-Law.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Our best of 2012 continues today with a lady named Barbara who was a teenager living in Japan when World…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/29Dec11-Best-of-2011-New-Mallery-Abbey.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)When people began attending funerals here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/28Dec11-Best-of-2011-Santa-Anna.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 937.8KB)It’s been over 150 years since Illinois soldiers faced Santa Anna in the Mexican War. However, traces of that battle…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/27Dec11-Best-of-2011-Pioneers-of-Flight.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Today a transcontinental flight from New York to L.A. might take about five hours. But do you know how long…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/26Dec11-Best-of-2011-Helen-Netherton.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.0KB)It’s a tradition the last week of each year we give you the “Best of the American Countryside.” And in…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/23Dec11-Algona-Nativity-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)It was Christmas 1945. German POWs at Camp Algona in Algona, Iowa would be returning to Europe the next year….

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/22Dec11-Algona-Nativity-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)At first glance, it might appear to be an odd request. A U.S. commander asked a group of German POWs…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/21Dec11-Denver-Sleigh-Works-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Santa needs his sleigh to make deliveries around the world and this man makes sure he’ll never run out of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/20Dec11-Leroy-Keyes.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)In 1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy, but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting…