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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….
A Palm Beach Girl on the Ranch
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…
The Snowstorm That Built a Radio Station
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…
A Unique Midwest Harvest
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…
Ghana’s District Farmer of the Year
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…
Corn Stored Under Tarps
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…
The Challenges of Growing Corn in Africa
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…
Corn Harvest in Ghana
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…
