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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…