Today it's just Mike and Bryan talking about starting Back to the Roots Podcast and what the plans for 2021 are.

This is  available in video on YouTube as well: https://youtu.be/B55ZTjcYZ54

Back to our regular schedule next week!

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace.

Topics Discussed:

Slow Markets to end year

Organic vs Conventional Corn Prices

Items to Watch in 2021

Sam Dobson (North Carolina), Thomas Heckman (Ohio), John Ihm (Wisconsin) and Jon Bansen (Oregon) join us to discuss their farming year of 2020. They give us an overview of their year, tell us about some positives and negatives and ask questions of each other.

Thanks to Sam, Thomas, John and Jon for their time in 2020! 

Elmwood Stock Farm is a certified organic farm in Georgetown, KY. They have a CSA, beef, poultry, pigs, turkeys and lambs. Mac Stone of Elmwood sits down with us to discuss their operation and what they have learned and implemented over their years being organic.

https://elmwoodstockfarm.com/

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace.

Topics Discussed

2020 Harvest Update

Organic Fluid Dairy Sales

Levelling off of Imports

Organic Grain Pricing

Regional updates from the farm by:

Thomas Heckman (Ohio)

Jon Bansen (Oregon)

Sam Dobson (North Carolina)

John Ihm (Wisconsin)

Mary Berry is the Executive Director and Founder of the Berry Center and daughter of Wendell Berry. She joins us to discuss the mission of the Berry Center, history of agriculture in Kentucky and what we can learn from that history to support rural communities into the future.

https://berrycenter.org/

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace.

Topics Discussed:

2020 Harvest Status

Organic Broiler and Turkey Production

Organic Trade Update

Organic Grain Price Outlook

Regional updates from the farm by:

Sam Dobson (North Carolina)

Jon Bansen (Oregon)

Thomas Heckman (Ohio)

John Ihm (Wisconsin)

Charlie Eselgroth, organic dairy farmer from Greenfield, OH, joins us to talk about his introduction to organic cropping, starting to dairy at 50 years old and the learning curve of managing dairy cows versus beef cows.