AcresUSA: Tractor Time

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AcresUSA: The Voice of Eco-Agriculture. Our guests are the top names in modern farming and ecology, including doctors, agronomists, authors, soil scientists and more.

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AcresUSA: Tractor Time episodes:

06.25.2019
Tractor Time Episode 31: Rodale Institute’s Pigs, and Cathy Payne, author of Saving the Guinea Hog
Hosted by Ryan Slabaugh & Ben Trollinger / Sponsored by BCS America Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast, brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. I’m your host, Ryan Slabaugh, and as always, I want to...
05.20.2019
Tractor Time Episode 30: Carey Gillam, Environmental Journalist, Author
Hosted by Ryan Slabaugh Sponsored by BCS America Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. I am your host, Ryan Slabaugh, and we are humbled to bring you the 30th...
04.23.2019
Tractor Time Episode 29: Glen Rabenberg, Soil Expert
Hosted by Ryan Slabaugh Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. I’m your host Ryan Slabaugh, and today our episode is focused on soil health, and the philosophies of...
04.11.2019
Tractor Time Episode 28: Dr. Paul Dettloff, V.M.D., Author, Livestock Specialist (from 2007)
Good day, and welcome to Tractor Time podcast brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the voice of eco-agriculture. This is a special episode, our 28th in our series, that will feature a friend and guest to Acres U.S.A., Dr. Paul...
03.27.2019
Tractor Time Episode 27: Jodi Helmer, Author, Protecting Pollinators
Good day and welcome to Tractor Time, brought to you by Acres USA, the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. I’m your host, Ryan Slabaugh, and it feels like a spring day here in Greeley, Colorado, where we are recording episode 27 on...
02.25.2019
Tractor Time Episode 26: Will Winter, Matt Maier, Thousand Hills Beef Cattle in Minnesota
Good day and welcome to Tractor Time, brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. I’m your host Ryan Slabaugh, and I’m happy to bring you the 26th episode of our podcast. Thanks again to Albert Lea seeds...
01.29.2019
Tractor Time Episode 25: Fred Provenza, Author & Animal Behavior Expert
Welcome to Tractor Time, brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco_Agriculture. I’m your host Ryan Slabaugh, and lucky enough to be the GM/Publisher of Acres U.S.A., and very lucky enough to sit down and produce our 25th...
01.04.2019
Tractor Time Episode 24: Jeff Moyer, Rodale Institute, 2018 Eco-Ag Award Winner
Hosted by Ryan Slabaugh. Sponsored by Albert Lea Seed. Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. We are happy to be bringing you another episode, our 1st of season 3 starting...
11.28.2018
Tractor Time Episode 23: The 2018 Eco-Ag Preview Special
Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. We are happy to be bringing you another episode, our 11th this year and 23rd overall, and I think we’re going to...
11.16.2018
Tractor Time Episode 22: On Assignment, the Tropical Agriculture Conference in Belize
Hosted by Ryan Slabaugh This episode is a bit unique from the others, which are usually done in the comforts of my office back in Greeley, Colorado. For most recordings, it’s me, a microphone, an interview guest and my dog snoring...
10.03.2018
Tractor Time Episode 21: Daniela Ibarra-Howell, CEO of The Savory Institute
Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast. I’m your host, Ryan Slabaugh, the GM of Acres U.S.A., and we are excited to bring you another fun hour of conversation about ecology, agriculture, smart farming, human health – and more. I...
09.13.2018
Tractor Time Episode 20: David Montgomery & Anne Biklé, Authors & Scientists
Good day and welcome to Tractor Time, a podcast brought to you by Acres U.S.A. Today’s podcast features two guests. Both live together in Seattle, and are writers, advocates and change agents and, it should be noted, both are quite...
09.07.2018
Tractor Time Episode 19: Judith McGeary, Founder of Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance
Good day and welcome to Tractor Time podcast brought to you by Acres USA. I am your host, Ryan Slabaugh, and we are excited to bring you another episode – this one will be about advocacy, and how to get...
08.02.2018
Tractor Time Episode 18: Charles Walters, Then, Today and Tomorrow (from 2006)
Welcome to Tractor Time, brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture. I’m your host, Ryan Slabaugh, the GM and publisher of Acres USA. Last week, I took a trip. I spent about 36 hours in the car driving...
07.12.2018
Tractor Time Episode 17: Brendon Rockey, Potato Farmer, Speaker
Today’s guest is Brendon Rockey, a third-generation Colorado potato farmer. He spoke last October at a soil health conference near Greeley, close to our office, and when I wandered down to hear his talk, I was a bit surprised. We...
06.21.2018
Tractor Time Episode 16: Douglass DeCandia, Farmer and Advocate Against Food Apartheid
Welcome to our 16th episode of Tractor Time podcast, brought to you by Acres U.S.A., the voice of eco-agriculture. My name is Ryan Slabaugh, and we are fired up to bring you another hour of conversation about ecology, agriculture, and...
06.08.2018
Tractor Time Episode 15: Dr. Nasha Winters, Author and Health Consultant
Good day and welcome to Tractor Time Podcast by Acres USA. I’m your host, Ryan Slabaugh, and today’s guest is Dr. Nasha Winters. I met Dr. Nasha Winters last year at our conference in Columbus, Ohio. I had heard about her...
05.21.2018
Tractor Time Episode 14: Neal Kinsey, Hands-On Agronomy
It’s that sound again – tractors, the voice of Charles Walters, and that happy little strum. It all means we are launching into a second season of Tractor Time Podcast by Acres U.S.A., the podcast for farmers who care about...
12.21.2017
Tractor Time Episode 13: 2017 Conference Highlights — Dr. Vandana Shiva, André Leu and Ronnie Cummings
Welcome to another great episode of Tractor Time. We’re coming off a high from our 42nd annual Eco-Ag Conference & Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio, and wanted to use this podcast to help us celebrate the highlights. There were many. They...
11.03.2017
Tractor Time Episode 12: Edwin Blosser, Farmer & Founder of Midwest Bio-Systems
It’s Tractor Time podcast, brought to you by Acres USA, the Voice of Eco Agriculture. This was recorded on Nov. 2, 2017, in Greeley, Colorado. We’re going deep into eco-agriculture this hour. This episode's guest is Edwin Blosser, a longtime instructor in...
10.25.2017
Tractor Time Episode 11: John Kempf, Founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture
Tractor Time is back, after harvest, to get back into the swing of recording and broadcasting interviews with your favorite people in sustainable agriculture. And we’re coming back with some thunder. Our guest today is a good friend of Acres USA....
08.24.2017
Tractor Time Episode 10: Mark Shepard, Water Control on the Farm
In this week’s podcast, we are featuring Mark Shepard's talk from the 2016 Eco-Ag annual conference in Omaha, Nebraska, where he spoke to a very full hall on his sustainable water practices he uses on his farms. It’s also the...
08.03.2017
Tractor Time Episode 9: Ben Hartman, How to Make a Living on One Acre
In this week's podcast, we’re going all the way back to last year’s Acres USA Eco-Ag Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. There, an author-farmer named Ben Hartman spoke for more than an hour about a little miracle he and his wife,...
07.21.2017
Tractor Time Episode 8: Andre Leu, Author of The Myths of Safe Pesticides
In the Acres USA world, Andre Leu is becoming much more than a household name. Leu, who has written for our magazine for years, published The Myth of Safe Pesticides in 2014. He has spoken on the dangers of pesticides...
06.08.2017
Tractor Time Episode 7: John Slack and Soils from a Geological Perspective
This week, we’re dipping into the archives back to 2005. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and YouTube was founded, and in 2005, John Slack also took the stage at our Eco-Ag conference and spoke about rocks. But we are...
05.25.2017
Tractor Time Episode 6: Joel Salatin, the Most Famous Farmer in the World
We know how busy farmers are this time of year, so we feel especially lucky to have our guest on today’s show. He really needs no introduction, but we’ll give it a shot anyway. Joel Salatin is known around most agricultural...
05.18.2017
Tractor Time Episode 5: Jerry Brunetti, Soil as a Super-Organism
On this week's podcast,we thought it’d be good to turn back the clock to a talk from 2009 at our Eco-Ag conference. Jerry Brunetti, rest in peace, was a fearless advocate for soil management and gave a presentation then called...
05.08.2017
Tractor Time Episode 4: Susan Sink and the American Farmland Trust
In this week's episode, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Susan Sink, vice president of development and external relations at American Farmland Trust, a nonprofit organization who collaborates with farmers around the world to help save farmland from...
05.04.2017
Tractor Time Episode 3: Charles Walters and A Return to Intellectualism
As Charles Walters, founder of Acres U.S.A., said in his talk in this week's podcast, if he had asked his father in 1945: “Are you an organic farmer, he would have said 'What’s that?'" In less than a century, we’ve...
04.27.2017
Tractor Time Episode 2: Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, The Story of the Green Man
On this week’s Tractor Time podcast, we interviewed author and regenerative agriculture guru Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin. His story is not only inspirational, but transcends genres.His book, “In the Shadow of Green Man,” documents this. It speaks to growing up in poverty,...
04.20.2017
Tractor Time Episode 1: Abbey Smith and Charles Walters
In our inaugural episode, we interview Abbey Smith with the Savory Institute about her travels, sustainable grazing methods, and how she manages her own ranch in Northern California. Then, we finish with an archived speech from Charles Walters, the founder...

What's AcresUSA: Tractor Time about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

AcresUSA: Tractor Time episodes:

Tractor Time Episode 31: Rodale Institute’s Pigs, and Cathy Payne, author of Saving the Guinea Hog

Tractor Time Episode 30: Carey Gillam, Environmental Journalist, Author

Tractor Time Episode 29: Glen Rabenberg, Soil Expert

Tractor Time Episode 28: Dr. Paul Dettloff, V.M.D., Author, Livestock Specialist (from 2007)

Tractor Time Episode 27: Jodi Helmer, Author, Protecting Pollinators

Tractor Time Episode 26: Will Winter, Matt Maier, Thousand Hills Beef Cattle in Minnesota

Tractor Time Episode 25: Fred Provenza, Author & Animal Behavior Expert

Tractor Time Episode 24: Jeff Moyer, Rodale Institute, 2018 Eco-Ag Award Winner

Tractor Time Episode 23: The 2018 Eco-Ag Preview Special

Tractor Time Episode 22: On Assignment, the Tropical Agriculture Conference in Belize

Tractor Time Episode 21: Daniela Ibarra-Howell, CEO of The Savory Institute

Tractor Time Episode 20: David Montgomery & Anne Biklé, Authors & Scientists

Tractor Time Episode 19: Judith McGeary, Founder of Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance

Tractor Time Episode 18: Charles Walters, Then, Today and Tomorrow (from 2006)

Tractor Time Episode 17: Brendon Rockey, Potato Farmer, Speaker

Tractor Time Episode 16: Douglass DeCandia, Farmer and Advocate Against Food Apartheid

Tractor Time Episode 15: Dr. Nasha Winters, Author and Health Consultant

Tractor Time Episode 14: Neal Kinsey, Hands-On Agronomy

Tractor Time Episode 13: 2017 Conference Highlights — Dr. Vandana Shiva, André Leu and Ronnie Cummings

Tractor Time Episode 12: Edwin Blosser, Farmer & Founder of Midwest Bio-Systems

Tractor Time Episode 11: John Kempf, Founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture

Tractor Time Episode 10: Mark Shepard, Water Control on the Farm

Tractor Time Episode 9: Ben Hartman, How to Make a Living on One Acre

Tractor Time Episode 8: Andre Leu, Author of The Myths of Safe Pesticides

Tractor Time Episode 7: John Slack and Soils from a Geological Perspective

Tractor Time Episode 6: Joel Salatin, the Most Famous Farmer in the World

Tractor Time Episode 5: Jerry Brunetti, Soil as a Super-Organism

Tractor Time Episode 4: Susan Sink and the American Farmland Trust

Tractor Time Episode 3: Charles Walters and A Return to Intellectualism

Tractor Time Episode 2: Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, The Story of the Green Man

Tractor Time Episode 1: Abbey Smith and Charles Walters