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.

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Jason Haglund is a fifth generation Iowa farmer and founding member of rural policy partners, which helps rural communities with behavioral health policy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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