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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…

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Posted in American Countryside international Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside international Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside international Podcast

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…

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Posted in American Countryside international

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…

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Posted in Miscellaneous

Free Range Chickens

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Podcast

Best of 2011: Barbara Law

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Podcast

Best of 2011: The New Mallery Abbey

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…

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Best of 2011: Santa Anna

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…

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Best of 2011: Pioneers of Flight

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri Podcast

Best of 2011: Helen Netherton

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Iowa Podcast

A POW-built Nativity

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….

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An Odd Request

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri Podcast

The Denver Sleigh Works

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Indiana Podcast

Leroy Keyes

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…

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Posted in American Countryside Best of Missouri Podcast

The New Madrid Earthquake

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/19Dec11-New-Madrid.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Although California and Alaska are most often the epicenter of major earthquakes in the United States, it was the Midwest…

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Posted in American Countryside Missouri Podcast

Keith’s Cafe

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/16Dec11-Keiths-Cafe.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)In Memphis, Missouri, there’s a café where great food has been served for about 65 years now. This is the…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

Leading Tours of the Underground Railroad

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/15Dec11-Alton-Illinois-Underground-Railroad-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Imagine unearthing history from nearly two centuries ago to find the secret routes people used to gain their freedom. That’s…

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Posted in American Countryside Illinois Podcast

A Railroad Town

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/14Dec11-Alton-Illinois-Underground-Railroad-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Railroads spanned these two cities on opposite sides of the Mississippi River, but it was a secret railroad that had…

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The Ketch

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/13Dec11-Ketchum-Sheep.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in–thousands of them, in fact. This place became one of the largest…

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