The Big Show

Andy is out in the field today in Cedar County with host Kirk Anderson and Hertz Real Estate Services' Ryan Kay! Also on today's show, we talk with Muscatine Co. corn grower Logan Lyon, Taylor Purucker from Mosaic, and Al Kluis from Kluis Commodities!

It's another Clean Water Wednesday with Bob Quinn in Carroll County today with sponsor Practical Farmers of Iowa! Bob is joined by Sarah Carlson from the Practical Farmers of Iowa, land owner Ryan Tiefenthaler, and Ethan Thies from the Black Hawk Lake Water Quality Project. It's also Wyffels Wednesday with Carolyn Hetzel!

Alex Frazier from Frazier Nursery in Vinton, IA and DNR State Forester Jeff Goerndt join us to celebrate Arbor Day on The Big Show and talk about which tree might be right for you to plant. We talk to Mike Steenhoek from the Soy Transportation Coalition as Iowa is found in a new study to have the most structurally-deficient bridges in the nation. Spencer Chase brings us our word from Washington today as policies are in motion regarding agriculture. Don Roose is our market analyst today as we wrap up the month of April and move along with #Plant21!

Bob is joined by Mike Jackson for a field update from Mahaska County. Jeff Broin from Poet talks about the health of the Midwest ethanol industry and looks at a bill in the Iowa Statehouse. We get boot out in the field with John Long of Brevant. And Brian Hoops takes a look at the marketplace and how weather at home and in South America is swaying the markets.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announces the first phase of the Department of Agriculture's new project that includes 51 water quality initiatives in the Des Moines and Raccoon river watersheds! We are also joined by some of the people that are going to help make it happen: farmer Kurt Lehman, project manager from Polk County SWCD Tanner Puls, Sarah Anderson of USDA NRCS, Polk Co. Public Works water resources planner John Swanson, Keegan Kult from ADMC, and Jacob Handsacker of Hands on Excavating. It's also Wyffels Wednesday with Blake Ballard.

Bob is under the watchful eye of the DMACC Corn Cam with Travis Lautner, Michael King, and the gang at the Corn Cam site. He also chats with a few of the students in the Ag Business program at DMACC. Jamie Khoake is our market anaylst as corn and soybeans are making big double digit gains; nearby corn potentially on its way to $7 by week's end. Tim Meyer provides us our weekly land and equipment sale update from the Steffes Group.

So Wyffels Agronomist Doug Pooch drops by to give Bob some key indicators to use in order to decide when the time is right to begin planting and you have to hear his advice on planning for further down the line of the growing season. PLUS Garret Toay's expert market analysis AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

Today here is in Northwest Iowa, featuring good Big Show Buddy Sean McMahon and the Iowa Ag Water Alliance we we present the Watershed Coordinator of the Year Award to Colton Meyer and highlight all of the wonderful work he's doing year-around out on the countryside to continue his role in making Iowa's water quality higher than it's ever been. PLUS Don Roose's expert market analysis on a near-limit up move day in the grain and oilseed markets AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

With our friends at Quality Ag Service hosting the latest stop to discuss all the precision farming tools farmers are utilizing to target herbicide applications only where they are needed in the field. PLUS Brian Hoops' expert market analysis as grains and oilseeds take off again today AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

Andy Petersen is live from the convention at HyVee Hall in Des Moines to hear about experiences with FFA, future plans for students, and perspectives of the events. He is also joined by Lee Hine to talk about some key legislation. And on an up day in the grain markets, Al Kluis tells us why.