15 Minutes with a Farmer

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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