Discover Ag

Ep 281 | Cheap food, profitable farms, and a homegrown food supply — can America have all three?

This week on Discover Ag, Natalie and Tara react to Mike Rowe's sit-down with the Ag Secretary over imported beef, national security, and the farmers we keep losing. Then, they question Trump's red diesel executive order and share a raw milk take that might surprise you.

Montana Silversmiths' Callie Adams and former Miss Rodeo America Hailey Loven also join the show to reveal the craftsmanship behind every buckle, including this year's limited-edition National FFA Convention buckle.

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 Where the Ag Secretary stands on beef imports 🪩 The surprising numbers behind America's food imports 🪩 What the red diesel order actually means for farmers 🪩 Pediatricians' renewed push to ban raw milk 🪩 What the Western trend means for the belt buckle 🪩 Montana Silversmiths buckles from sketch to shipment

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro (00:56) Mike Rowe & Brooke Rollins on Imported Beef (22:59) Trump's Red Diesel Executive Order (30:50) Disco Debrief: Pediatricians Call for Raw Milk Ban (41:01) Montana Silversmiths: What a Buckle Really Means (48:37) Yellowstone, Pop Culture & Western Tradition (52:28) The 2026 National FFA Convention Buckle (54:20) The People and Craftsmanship Behind Every Buckle

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Ep 280 | Yoga mats in bread, bliss points, and mystery additives — how much of the big food story actually holds up?

In this episode, Natalie and Tara weigh in on Mike Rowe and Alex Clark's recent podcast on big food, whether a closer look at glyphosate will change anything, and why Airbnb is offering farmers up to $10,000 to welcome guests onto their farms. With Daylight Saving Time ending, they share its true origins and how farmers really feel about the time change.

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 Mike Rowe and Alex Clark's conversation on big food 🪩 The real history behind Daylight Saving Time 🪩 A new partnership to review the safety of glyphosate 🪩 How Airbnb is investing in agrotourism

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro 01:01 Mike Rowe & Alex Clark on Big Food 21:20 Daylight Saving Time: Who It's Really For? 30:53 Disco Debrief: EPA, HHS & Glyphosate 39:45 Airbnb's Farm to Stay Grants for Farmers

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Ep 279 | PETA crashed Fashion Week again, and this time it cost someone their job.

This week on Discover Ag, Natalie and Tara unpack the runway stunt that went viral, why they don't agree with PETA or the internet, and the issue PETA should actually be protesting. They also expose a fake dairy farm fooling so many on social media, why the farm-to-table movement keeps missing the mark, and the Montana nonprofit turning ranchers' donated livestock into protein for food banks and schools.

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 PETA's wool protest at New York Fashion Week 🪩 The truth behind many farm-to-table menus 🪩 An AI dairy account that should scare all of ag 🪩 The first nonprofit USDA-inspected meat processing plant

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro 00:54 PETA Crashes New York Fashion Week 16:14 Farm-to-Table Done Wrong (& Right) 27:45 The Fake AI Dairy Account 38:33 The Producer Partnership: Ranchers Feeding Montana

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Ep 278 | The U.S. is importing more beef and everyone is enraged... But plot twist: it's the beef you've been eating all along.

This week on Discover Ag, Tara sits down with journalist Keely Brazil Covello of America UNWON to break down everything going on with beef — the renewed push to label where beef comes from, what consumers don't understand about the industry, and why prices haven't gone down (and maybe they shouldn't).

They also discuss the New World Screwworm win the headlines skipped and how a UC Davis study proved ranchers right about wolves.

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 The biggest issue facing agriculture right now 🪩 What ranchers need to rebuild America's cattle herd 🪩 Where the beef you've been eating has really come from 🪩 A very hopeful New World Screwworm update 🪩 The very real threat wolves pose to cattle and ranchers

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro 01:15 Meet Journalist Keely Brazil Covello 09:37 Trump's New Executive Orders for Ranchers 18:15 Beef Imports, Labeling & The Value of Beef 35:21 Disco Debrief: New World Screwworm Update 43:08 The Debate on Delisting the Gray Wolf

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Ep 277 | A five-year-old walked half a mile in his neighborhood to collect goose feathers. Now, his mom is on a child abuse registry for the next seven years.

This week on Discover Ag, Natalie and Tara unpack the story that has the entire internet talking. Was it child abuse or good parenting?

They also share Dolly Parton's first posthumous song, a new bill that could change your state's food laws, and the controversy around a viral reel of chickens eating food scraps (chicken included).

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 A viral reel of chickens being fed chicken scraps 🪩 Dolly Parton's first posthumous song (and what she has planned for 2046) 🪩 The fight over who gets the final say on dyes, PFAS and your food 🪩 The mom convicted for letting her 5-year-old walk alone

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro 00:45 Chickens Eating Chicken & Food Waste 15:30 Dolly Parton's First Posthumous Song 26:18 The FRESH and Affordable Foods Act 35:51 Virginia Mom Convicted for Her Son's Solo Walk

🪩 WELCOME TO DISCOVER AG

A top-ranked podcast where agriculture meets pop culture. Hosted by https://instagram.com/nataliekovarik/?hl=en — western tastemaker & millennial cattle rancher — and https://instagram.com/taravanderdussen/?hl=en — sustainability expert & millennial dairy farmer. Every week, we dive into the top headlines in food, agriculture, and Western culture with a pop culture twist.

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Ep 276 | Somebody looked at cow's milk and decided we didn't need cows to make it. Welcome to the dairy aisle in 2026.

This week on Discover Ag, Natalie and Tara unpack how milk gets made without a cow (and ask who's actually asking for it), how much farming changed in one man's lifetime, and the real story behind the US Open's $23 cocktail. Plus, why farmers are getting sued over their own seeds and how a new bill is trying to change that.

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 How dairy proteins are being produced without cows 🪩 A reel of a 96-year-old farmer that has everyone emotional 🪩 The California farm behind the US Open's viral cocktail 🪩 The bill that could change who owns seeds

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro (01:28) Dairy Proteins Made Without Cows (15:09) A 96-Year-Old Farmer and Harvest Season (27:51) The US Open Honey Deuce (39:15) Why Farmers Can Be Sued for Seeds (44:03) The Fair Seeds for Farmers Act

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Ep 275 | Nobody was making work pants for women — until a 25-year-old with no business experience moved to a town of 900 people and made them herself.

This week on Discover Ag, Natalie sits down with founder Sarah Calhoun to look back on 20 years of Red Ants Pants. From starting the brand in a small rural town to launching a music festival in a cow pasture, you'll learn how she's built the company to fit every woman and keep giving back to them.

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 How the first women's workwear brand started 🪩 The benefits of starting a business in a small town 🪩 How the Red Ants Pants Music Festival grew over 15 years 🪩 The real cost of being a size-inclusive clothing brand 🪩 How the Red Ants Pants Foundation gives back to rural women

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro (03:44) The Origin Story (09:38) Early Years & The Old Saddle Shop (14:10) Building a Brand in Rural Montana (19:10) Starting the Red Ants Pants Music Festival (25:41) The Red Ants Pants Foundation (34:32) The Pants: What Makes Them Different (44:42) Burnout, Building a Team & Knowing Your Limits (48:23) 20 Years Later & What's Next

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Ep 274 | 1,000 years. That's how long it takes to build just one inch of Class One topsoil. Once it's gone, there's no getting it back.

This week on Discover Ag, Natalie and Tara break down Cal Poly's divisive proposal to develop its own farmland, why people are questioning who really grows the food at their farmers market, and how a sweet corn reel could have you reconsidering the standards we put on farmers.

Plus, Brantley Gilbert's Dirty Money doc has them wondering: what happens if farmers go on strike — or the next generation can't afford to farm?

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 Cal Poly's hotel proposal (and how students are fighting back) 🪩 The black market of farmers markets 🪩 What a sweet corn field says about consumer demand 🪩 Brantley Gilbert's new documentary on American farmers

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro (00:45) Cal Poly's Farmland Fight (11:11) Black Market Farmers Markets (15:00) Sweet Corn From Field to Can (29:01) Disco Debrief: Product of the USA & Imported Beef (33:57) Brantley Gilbert's Farming Documentary

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Ep 273 | What happens when an entire generation of American farmers retires?

What happens when an entire generation of American farmers retires? This week on Discover Ag, Natalie and Tara discuss the largest generational transfer of farmland we've ever seen: Who inherits the land and why aren't families talking about it?

Plus, Tara just got back from a women in farming panel at Brooke Rollins' family farm and Farm Progress announced this year's Women in the Field finalists.

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 The fake AI account you might be getting advice from 🪩 150 million acres of farmland is about to change hands 🪩 The 78-year-old woman who ran for the state legislature — and won 🪩 Women in the Field: Producer of the Year nominees 🪩 The mixed feelings around women-only awards in ag

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro (00:54) The AI Amish Man Giving Food Advice (16:22) Inside a Women in Farming Panel (33:12) The Largest Generational Transfer of Farmland (46:27) Women in the Field: Producer of the Year Award

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Millions once roamed the United States. Then fewer than a thousand were left.

This week on Discover Ag, Natalie and Tara head to Cross Timbers Bison Ranch to see what it really takes to raise one of our most iconic animals. From the near-extinction of the American bison to their incredible comeback, they get hands-on at a working ranch — covering the history, what makes them different from cattle (it's a lot), and the ranchers committed to keeping bison on the American landscape.

What We Discovered This Week 🤠

🪩 How bison ranching differs from cattle ranching 🪩 What it takes to fence and handle a wild animal 🪩 What "regenerative" means on a bison ranch 🪩 How bison improve the land they graze 🪩 The difference between beef and bison meat

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro (00:46) Buffalo or Bison? (01:33) The Fall & Comeback of American Bison (03:01) Meeting the Herd: Fencing & Handling (06:16) Breeding, Weaning & Shedding (08:20) Grazing & Regenerative Ag (09:34) Bison vs. Cattle (10:47) Bison Meat & Great Plains Genetics (13:41) Selling Bison in a Small Town (15:00) Why Bison: What We Discovered

Cross Timbers Bison Ranch:

https://www.crosstimbersbison.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC03QCrWypJc8RzS1gryG2SQ

🪩 WELCOME TO DISCOVER AG

A top-ranked podcast where agriculture meets pop culture. Hosted by https://instagram.com/nataliekovarik/?hl=en — western tastemaker & millennial cattle rancher — and https://instagram.com/taravanderdussen/?hl=en — sustainability expert & millennial dairy farmer. Every week, we dive into the top headlines in food, agriculture, and Western culture with a pop culture twist.

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