The Big Show

It's ICE Manufacturing in Oelwein and they have quite the story to tell, from starting in the middle of a pandemic to amazing growth and you have to hear how they've done it. PLUS Don Roose's expert market analysis AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

Bob is in Oelwein, Iowa presenting ICE Manufacturing with the is month's Renew rural Iowa Award courtesy of Iowa Farm Bureau! He highlights their expanding business and what it means to have a business like theirs in a town like Oelwein!

Andy Petersen and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig are in Donahue, Iowa in Scott County presenting the first Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award in eight months to John and Joan Maxwell at Cinnamon Ridge Farms! Opening the show, Tanner Lawton brings us an update on the Governor's Charity Steer Show as it returns to the Fairgrounds after a one year stint in Ames! Tim Meyer from the Steffes Group keeps us up to date on the land and equipment markets. And Jamie Kohake has grain and live stock market analysis with corn and soybeans sharply higher behind more scattered rainfall than expected.

Ashley Hinson joins The Big Show to and shares her reaction to the Supreme Court decision allowing the EPA to grant new extensions of small refinery exemptions, overturning the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision from January 2020. Hinson says, "farmers in Iowa are constantly under attack from the administration right now." Hinson also discusses the revisiting of WOTUS, as well as derecho relief efforts, and the lighter topic of county fairs in Iowa!

Andy is on site at the Linn County Fair as a part of Re-Tree Iowa! He is joined by Sawyer Brown lead singer Mark Miller, headlining tonight's concert, as well as Kiley Miller and Lisa Williams from Trees Forever, Allison O'Connell who is a participant in Trees Forever's Growing Futures program, Linn County Fair VP Jennifer Dunn, former Diamond V CEO Jeff Cannon, Mike Peiffer from Ag & Business Legal Strategies, and a presenter from the Central City/Springville FFA! In hour two, Ashley Hinson joins The Big Show to and shares her reaction to the Supreme Court decision allowing the EPA to grant new extensions of small refinery exemptions and says, "farmers in Iowa are constantly under attack from the administration right now." To close the show, Chad Tentinger talks about the new Cattlemen's Heritage facility that will have a 1,500 head/day capacity.

With many updates and new events added to schedules, Heidi Steffen with the Linn County Fair, one of the first in the state, joins The Big Show to celebrate the return of Iowa's county fairs this year and explain some of their unique events. PLUS Brian Hoops expert market analysis AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

With our friends at the Practical Farmers of Iowa, and Sarah Carlson joins The Big Show to explain how they are making it more and more practical for you to include cover crops into your operation. PLUS she details several groundbreaking clean water initiatives they are also involved with AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

With our friends at Practical Farmers of Iowa, who have a unique collaboration with Smithfield Foods to buy small grains produced in the spring for cover crop seed. PLUS we couldn't be more thrilled to see county fair season return across Iowa AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

According to the latest report from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Services Uppder Midwest Region, and ISU's Joel De Jong in Northwest Iowa tells Bob and Andy this weekend's rain was a nice reprieve but much more is needed. PLUS you have to hear what's flying around our Kirkwood Crop Cam Applied Research Plots AND Garret Toay's expert market analysis.

We are joined by Nicole Stecklein, Technical Agronomist for Dekalb and Asgrow, talks crop conditions, heat, and drought with us. Senator Joni Ernst tells us what is going on in Washington as she prepares to come back to Iowa. And Al Kluis is the bearer of bad news this afternoon with corn down the limit and beans down nearly a dollar by the end of the show.