The Big Show

From the Iowa Department of Ag, so good Big Show Buddy Mike Naig joins Bob and Andy to announce the details and provide some ideas that producers consider as we work to strengthen the local food supply chains. PLUS ISU's Mike Witt delivers some yield results as harvest continue AND Jamey Kohake's expert market analysis.

Yet none is in the forecast for the next couple weeks and USDA's Midwest Climate Hub chief Dennis Today joins Bob and Andy to explain why, and also you may be surprised to find out a couple benefits of the end of the growing season. PLUS Garret Toay's expert market analysis AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

In some cases, yes, says good Big Show Buddy Meaghan Anderson, ISU's outstanding field agronomist in Central Iowa, and you have to hear what she tells Bob and Andy are the primary reasons. PLUS Wyffels District Sales Manager Blake Bradford is impressed with yield results AND Brian Hoops expert market analysis.

Of course, we celebrate farmers every day on The Big Show yet today is extra special and it's October WASDE report day so one of the best market analysts in the business Don Roose joins Bob and Andy to break down the bearish report. PLUS ISU's Allison Robertson takes us out in the field with some up-to-the-minute breaking news about black mold being found AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

Thanks in part to our friends at WW Homestead Dairy in Waukon, and the co-proprietor and good Big Show Buddy Tom Weighner joins The Big Show to announce a new cheese curd flavor, of which part of the proceeds from every bag sold during our round up campaign at Fareway stores will go to plant Trees, and Tom has a couple new awards to celebrate as well. PLUS Emily Severaid asks you to help Iowa youth on Iowa 4-H Giving Day AND Ag West's Paul Mussman provides his expert market analysis.

Bob is presenting Dan Potter of Great River Maple in Garnavillo, Iowa with the Iowa Farm Bureau Renew Rural Iowa Award!

Which is something we learned after 2012 the hard way, when there was record nitrate run-off, so Dr. Michael Castellano from Iowa State joins Bob and Andy to offer guidance on how to keep perhaps keep that nitrogen around for our next cropping season. PLUS Sean McMahon from the Iowa Ag Water Alliance offers cover cropping partnership funding and Paige Frautschy with The Nature Conservancy provides nitrogen management tools, AND Jamey Kohake's expert market analysis.

With our friends at Montag Manufacturing, as Anthony joins The Big Show to explain how they are making it easier than ever to plant cover crops, which are proven to, among other things, reduce run-off by 30 percent. PLUS the Realtors Land Values Institute Iowa Chapter releases the results of their semi-annual Land Trends and Values Survey showing a big jump AND corn a beans find some strength in the marketplace ahead of tomorrow's big USDA report.

As yields increase and the weather windows for harvest continue to get smaller, Governor Kim Reynolds has once again provided some relief to Iowa farmers with the Harvest Weight Proclamation, and ICGA President Lance Lillibridge joins Bob and Andy to explain what it all means.

Presented exclusively by our friends at the Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers, and on top of that Lisa is celebrating retirement after 21 years at a local bank and a local Ag Group honoring the family with a Lifetime in Ag Achievement Award so it was quite the day. Secretary of Ag Mike Naig was on hand for all of it, and of course joins The Big Show to offer congratulations as well as a crop progress report from his trip to LeMars AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.