15 Minutes With a Farmer
On each episode, we have a quick 15-minute conversation with a farmer to hear their story and share the advice we can all learn from them.
Mon, April 14, 2025
15 Minutes with Trey Braswell
Trey Braswell is a fourth generation feed and egg producer from Nashville, North Carolina. His family was a founding member of Egglands Best and they have been honored to supply eggs for the White House Easter egg roll multiple times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, April 07, 2025
15 Minutes with Asia Kalcevic
Asia Kalcevic is a fifth generation farmer from Eastern Colorado. Asia shares her experience as a young woman in agriculture and how her family's farm uses regenerative farming practices and the latest technology to care for their soil and reduce the cost of inputs. She also highlights the evolving role of social media in promoting sustainable agriculture and the farm's brand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 31, 2025
15 Minutes with Nate Eggena
Guest host Sophie Winkelpleck, a senior at Iowa State University serving an apprenticeship with us at Successful Farming, has a chat with Nate Eggena, who splits his time between Montana and running a hay business and farming with his family in Northeast Iowa. Nate has a passion for filming ag related content with the drone or GoPro and sharing on social media where he has more than 82,000 followers. While in college at Montana State, Nate joined the rodeo team as a steer wrestler, despite having no previous rodeo experience. Not surprisingly, his advice to other young farmers is to get out of their comfort zone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 24, 2025
15 Minutes with Dennis Bulani
Dennis Bulani is a fourth generation Saskatchewan farmer and CEO of Rack Petroleum. He joined me in the Successful Farming booth at Commodity Classic to talk about farming, business and his new book, What a Farmer Wants You to Know About Food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 17, 2025
15 Minutes with Susan Watkins
Susan Watkins is the secretary and a six-year director for the United Soybean Board and grows soybeans, corn, and wheat on her family farm in Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 10, 2025
15 Minutes with Danyelle Chinn
Danyelle Chinn is a cattle producer from Northeast Missouri. She is Also, a livestock economist working for the rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center, where she interprets statistics and market reports into shareable stories that resonate with farmers and ranchers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 03, 2025
15 Minutes with Lucas Hoge
Lucas Hoge is a Nashville recording artist who grew up on a farm near Hubbell, Nebraska. He released his first album in 2002 and has a new autobiographical album coming this summer. A single from that album, Farmhand, was just released. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, February 24, 2025
15 Minutes with Patrick Montgomery
Patrick Montgomery is a former U S army ranger turned rancher and entrepreneur. He's raising and direct marketing Wagyu beef through his ranch, Kansas city cattle company, and bringing producers together through his direct to consumer marketplace, Valor provisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, February 17, 2025
15 Minutes with Tanner & Lakaya Tenley
Tanner and Lakaya Tenley are winners of Iowa Farm Bureau Federation's Grow Your Future award. They plan to use their $10,000 prize to expand their direct-to-consumer beef, pork, and milk business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, February 10, 2025
15 Minutes with Nathan Faleide
Nathan Faleide grew up in a North Dakota farm family and followed in his dad's footsteps in the ag satellite imagery business. Today he's a thought leader in the ag tech sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, February 03, 2025
15 Minutes with Scott Davin
Scott Davin is a veteran member of the pit crew for world champion Indycar driver Alex Palou of Ganassi Racing. Off the track, Davin is a new farmer, putting down roots on his Indiana property and finding mentorship from neighbors and farmers on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, January 27, 2025
15 Minutes with Todd Western
Todd Western III splits his time between Minnesota and the family farm in Iowa, and also actively volunteers with many non-profits, including serving on several boards of directors. Western is the co-founder of Iowa Farmers of Color, which just held its second annual conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, January 20, 2025
15 Minutes with Jason Haglund
Jason Haglund is a fifth generation Iowa farmer and founding member of rural policy partners, which helps rural communities with behavioral health policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, January 13, 2025
15 Minutes with Quentin Connealy
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater talks to Quentin Connealy, a 5th generation corn and soybean grower from Tacama, Nebraska, right along the Missouri river. He is better known as the Wakeboarding Farmer after a video of him wakeboarding across a flooded field went viral in 2017. Now he uses that platform to share the story of agriculture on his family farm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, January 06, 2025
15 Minutes With Elaine Froese
As an expert on family farm succession and conflict resolution, Elaine Froese has worked with farm families across North America for more than 30 years. In this episode of the 15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast, Elaine and host Lisa Foust Prater discuss communication goals for farm families in the new year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, December 30, 2024
15 Minutes with Patrick Brown
Patrick Brown is a fourth-generation farmer from Warren County, North Carolina, and a winner of the 2024 Small Farmer of the Year Award from North Carolina A&T. He is actively involved in caring for his family's farm, the environment, and his community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, December 23, 2024
15 Minutes with Arlene Hunter and Caite Palmer
Arlene Hunter and Caite Palmer are hosts of the Barnyard Language podcast which focuses on running farms and raising families. Arlene is a Canadian dairy farmer with four kids, and Caite is an American beef and sheep producer with two children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, December 16, 2024
15 Minutes with Jodie Nay
Jodie Nay is a farmer and rancher from Hereford, Colorado with a photographer’s eye. Even though she describes her home as, “in the middle of nowhere,” she sees the beauty in everything from ordinary chores to spectacular sunsets, and shares her stunning images on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, December 09, 2024
15 Minutes with John Wyckoff
John Wyckoff is a New Jersey Christmas tree grower and president of the National Christmas Tree Association, and has supplied Christmas trees to the White House and to the vice president's home. He shares the challenges Christmas tree growers face and offers advice to new growers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, December 02, 2024
15 Minutes with Hannah Klitz
Hannah Klitz has gotten marketing and shipping her farm’s beef directly to consumers down to a science. Now, she is monetizing her knowledge of the process through an online course she has developed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sun, November 24, 2024
Episode 44: 15 Minutes with John Zimmerman
In this special Thanksgiving episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with John Zimmerman, a second-generation corn, soybean, and turkey producer from Northfield, Minnesota. He is also the 2024 chairman of the National Turkey Federation. This week, he is escorting two turkeys from his farm to Washington, D.C., to present to the president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, November 18, 2024
Episode 43: 15 Minutes with Sarah Morton
Sarah Morton, a third-generation farmer from Virginia, is this week’s guest. Through her nonprofit and community efforts, she works to promote equity, access, local food sovereignty, and sustainability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, November 11, 2024
Episode 42: 15 Minutes with Brent Rendel
In this special Veterans Day episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Brent Rendel. His family has been farming in Oklahoma since before it was a state. We talk about what led him to join the military, how his farm background helped his Navy career, and what made him decide to return to the farm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, November 04, 2024
Episode 41: 15 Minutes with Kris Klokkenga
In this episode, guest host Adrienne Held has a chat with Kris Klokkenga, an organic producer in Illinois who has also farmed in the African country of Ghana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, October 28, 2024
Episode 40: 15 Minutes with Margie Weiss
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Margie Weiss, a dairy and crop farmer from Frankenmuth, Michigan. She and her family welcome visitors to their centennial farm with tours, baking classes, and a fun harvest experience that includes a corn maze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, October 21, 2024
Episode 39: 15 Minutes with Bill Gross
My guest today is recent Daily Point of Light Award recipient Bill Gross. He grew up on a North Dakota farm and went on to found the non-profit organization Farm Rescue, which provides planting, harvesting, haying, and livestock feeding services at no cost to farm and ranch families who have been affected by a major illness, injury, or natural disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, October 14, 2024
Episode 38: 15 Minutes with Kathy Fahy
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Kathy Fahy. She is a farmer from northeast Iowa and a crusader for mental health. Thanks to her efforts, hundreds of farmers in her county have received information on local resources, and she's just getting started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, October 07, 2024
Episode 37: 15 Minutes with Jeremy and Kiley Heim
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with father and daughter Jeremy and Kiley Heim. They are third- and fourth-generation dairy farmers from Algoma, in eastern Wisconsin, near Lake Michigan. The Heim family works together to focus on cow health and sustainability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, September 30, 2024
Episode 36: 15 Minutes with Billi J Miller
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Billi J Miller. She is a farm wife, mom, photographer, and author living on a century cattle and grain farm on the prairies of Alberta, Canada. Her photos and books tell the story of agriculture from unique perspectives, documenting voices that have often gone unrecorded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, September 23, 2024
Episode 35: 15 Minutes with Blake Kerns
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Blake Kerns. He grew up on a corn and soybean farm in northeast Iowa, and started his own sweet corn business on two acres when he was a teenager. Today he is growing row crops plus sweet corn and green beans, which he supplies to local farm stands and grocery stores across the Midwest and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, September 16, 2024
Episode 34: 15 Minutes with Wendy Johnson
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Wendy Johnson. She grew up on her family's farm near Charles City in northeast Iowa, and after 18 years away, came back to farm with her dad. Wendy is reviving the farm through conservation and diversification, and best of all, she describes herself as a happy farmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, September 09, 2024
Episode 33: 15 Minutes with Jaclyn Wilson
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Jaclyn Wilson, a rancher in the Sandhills of northwest Nebraska. She is invested in conservation, active in producer groups, and involved as an ambassador for American beef production around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, September 02, 2024
Episode 32: 15 Minutes with Alex Rodgers
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Alex Rodgers. He is an ag educator, coach, and FFA advisor at Southeast Warren Community School District in South-Central Iowa. At a recent FFA banquet, his students introduced him in the most fitting way: a single dad of 152 kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, August 26, 2024
Episode 31: 15 Minutes with Brian Reisinger
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Brian Reisinger. He grew up on his family’s fourth-generation Wisconsin dairy farm and is the author of a new book, Land Rich, Cash Poor: My family's hope and the untold history of the disappearing American farmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, August 19, 2024
Episode 30: 15 Minutes with Jean Gottenborg and Erin Michalski
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Jean Gottenborg and Erin Michalski. This mother-daughter duo is part of the family team at Eagle Rock Ranch near Jefferson, Colorado. They discuss getting into the ranching business later in life, direct-marketing beef, instituting environmentally sound practices, and ranching at 9,000 feet above sea level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, August 12, 2024
Episode 29: 15 Minutes with Brian Lundell
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Brian Lundell, a farmer and hog producer in northwest Iowa. He and his wife, Lisa, restored the former pharmacy in the town of Ida Grove and turned it into a soda fountain and coffee shop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, August 05, 2024
Episode 28: 15 Minutes with Leah Peterson
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Leah Peterson. She is a 5th generation farmer and rancher from Custer County, Nebraska, but is better known to her social media following as Clear Creek Ranch Mom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, July 29, 2024
Episode 27: 15 Minutes with Gabrielle Roesch-McNally
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater sits down with Gabrielle Roesch-McNally. She is the director of American Farmland Trust’s Women for the Land Initiative, working to ensure women landowners have access to the resources they need to become leaders in conservation and building resilient agrifood systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, July 22, 2024
Episode 26: 15 Minutes with Paige Tuggle
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Paige Tuggle, who farms and raises cattle near Ithaca, Michigan. She has two off-farm jobs, both in agriculture: Paige is a regional sales agronomist with Stine Seed Company and also has her own part-time crop insurance business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, July 15, 2024
Episode 25: 15 Minutes with Jason and Mandy Dittmer
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater sits down with Jason and Mandy Dittmer, who farm near Lacona, Iowa. Last year, Mandy was placed on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Against all odds, Jason was a match. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, July 08, 2024
Episode 24: 15 Minutes with Kyle Metzger
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a chat with Kyle Metzger, who farms in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, Marty, mother-in-law, and adult children. Kyle wears many hats on the farm, but she has become well known for the tricked-out school bus she uses to serve meals to a hungry crew during planting and harvest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, July 01, 2024
Episode 23: 15 Minutes with Mark McLaughlin
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater sits down with Mark McLaughlin, an associate with Farm Financial Strategies, co-owner of Farm Estate GPS in Ankeny, Iowa, and one of the fifth generation to own his family's farm near Defiance, Iowa. He has been helping farm families across the Midwest develop their farm succession strategies for nearly 20 years, and is a regular contributor to the feature, "Can Their Problem Be Solved?" in each issue of Successful Farming magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, June 24, 2024
Episode 22: 15 Minutes with Travis Malloy
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater sits down with Travis Malloy and his family at their farm near Brainerd, Minnesota, to talk about raising Wagyu beef and working together with extended family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, June 17, 2024
Episode 21: 15 Minutes with Lacey Singleton of Sober Cowboy
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Lacey Singleton. As the founder of the non-profit Sober Cowboy, she combines her love of rodeo and ranching with her passion for helping others overcome and avoid addiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, June 10, 2024
Episode 20: 15 Minutes with Keisha Thompson
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Keisha Thompson, an Iowa farmer, ag educator, and entrepreneur. They discuss how FFA helped bring Thompson back to agriculture, teaching kids about farming, and selling beef directly to consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, June 03, 2024
Episode 19: 15 Minutes with Deanne Frieders
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Deanne Frieders, an Illinois farmer better known as a cookbook author and the woman behind the blog and podcast This Farm Girl Cooks. They discuss how Frieders found her role on her husband's family farm, the importance of friendship, and the art of making the perfect field meal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, May 27, 2024
Episode 18: 15 Minutes with Beth Marcoot
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Beth Marcoot of Marcoot Creamery. She and her sister, Amy, are seventh-generation dairy farmers in Greenville, Illinois, and have added to the family business by becoming cheesemakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, May 20, 2024
Episode 17: 15 Minutes with Gil Tinsey and Fred Hasen
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Gil Tinsey and Fred Hasen, two Michigan farmers in their eighties who have been farming together since 1966. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, May 13, 2024
Episode 16: 15 Minutes with with Dr. Melinda McCall
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Dr. Melinda McCall, a large-animal veterinarian and author of a new memoir called Driving Home Naked and Other Misadventures of a Country Veterinarian. They discuss the challenges of being a female farm vet, mental health concerns for veterinarians, and the importance of mentors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, May 06, 2024
Episode 15: 15 Minutes with Senator Charles Grassley
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Senator Charles Grassley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, April 29, 2024
Episode 14: 15 Minutes with Annaliese Wegner
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Annaliese Wegner, a mom, wife, dairy farmer, and social media influencer from Wisconsin. They discuss working with family, managing multiple roles, and how farmers can share their stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, April 22, 2024
Episode 13: 15 Minutes with Cheryl Walsh
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Cheryl Walsh, a fourth-generation farmer and livestock producer from Peoria County, Illinois. She is also the 2024 president of the Illinois Pork Producers Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, April 15, 2024
Episode 12: 15 Minutes with Daryl Haack
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with farmer Daryl Haack, one of the founding board members of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association and Little Sioux Corn Processors, an ethanol plant in northwest Iowa. He has watched the biofuels industry grow from the ground up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, April 08, 2024
Episode 11: 15 Minutes with Tom Bradley
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Tom Bradley, an Iowa farmer, dad, land broker, and agricultural auctioneer with Dream Dirt. They discuss raising kids on the farm, the behind-the-scenes work involved with auctions, and how the Farm Crisis of the 1980s helped Tom be a better auctioneer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, April 01, 2024
Episode 10: 15 Minutes with Rosemary Anderson
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Rosemary Anderson, a Nebraska rancher and AI technician who has served on the Executive Committee for the US Meat Export Federation and as director for the Nebraska Cattlemen. She is currently a director for the Nebraska Beef Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 25, 2024
Episode 9: 15 Minutes with John Schwarz
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with John Schwarz, a farmer who grows food-grade soybeans in Indiana. He is also an attorney specializing in ag law, helping farmers with estate planning and other legal issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 18, 2024
Episode 8: 15 Minutes with Marshal Sewell
In this episode, Lisa Foust Prater has a quick conversation with Marshal Sewell, who grew up on his family’s Florida produce farm. After losing his father to suicide, Marshal founded Mind Your Melon, a mental health resource for farmers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 11, 2024
Episode 7: 15 Minutes with Rod Pierce
On this episode, David Ekstrom has quick conversation with Rod Pierce, who farms with his family in central Iowa. Rod explains how networking helped kickstart his life-long farming legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, March 04, 2024
Episode 6: 15 Minutes with Brett Kenzy
On this episode, David Ekstrom has a quick conversation with Brett Kenzy, who is a cattle rancher, Army veteran, and president of R-CALF. Brett runs a permitted feedlot and farms for feed with his brother near Gregory, South Dakota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, February 26, 2024
Episode 5: 15 Minutes with Stuart and Autumn Mager
On this episode, David Ekstrom has a quick conversation with Stuart and Autumn Mager. Stuart has worked to make things better than he found it by implementing sustainability-minded management practices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, February 19, 2024
Episode 4: 15 Minutes with Austin Carlson
On this episode, David Ekstrom has a quick conversation with Austin Carlson, who is a young farmer and soil health technician. Austin takes the skills he learns and applies them to his family’s farm operation while helping other farmers take advantage of the soil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, February 12, 2024
Episode 3: 15 Minutes with Brent Rendel
On this episode, David Ekstrom has a quick conversation with Brent Rendel, from Miami, Oklahoma. As a former Navy submarine officer and nuclear engineer, Brent takes a science-minded approach to agriculture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, February 05, 2024
Episode 2: 15 Minutes with Kimberly Ratcliff
On this episode, David Ekstrom has a quick conversation with Kimberly Ratcliff, who is a cattle rancher near Oakwood, Texas, and owner of Ratcliff Premium Meats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mon, January 29, 2024
Episode 1: 15 Minutes with Mary Pat Sass
Welcome to the premiere of 15 Minutes with a Farmer. On this episode, David Ekstrom has a quick conversation with Marty Pat Sass who is a farm wife, mother, farmer, and social media creator from Northern Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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