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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…

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Posted in American Countryside Miscellaneous

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…

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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…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Nevada Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Nevada Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

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…

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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…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of

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…

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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…

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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…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

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….

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

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….

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Posted in American Countryside cattle Nebraska Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Nebraska Podcast

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…

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