The Big Show

Andy is out on location again today with our friends at Hertz Real Estate Services talking about Midwestern land markets, the results of this year’s RLI survey, commodity prices, and their 75th anniversary coming up next year with Randy Hertz, Doug Hensley, Dick Pringnitz, Elliott Siefert, and Matt Vegter. We have an update on this year's harvest activity and seed choice considerations for next season with David Schlake with Syngenta. Spencer Chase with Agri-Pulse provides us our weekly update from Washington D.C. after the passage of CCC funds as the presidential election race heats up.

Andy is in Benton County with Brian Waddingham and Kent Mowrer of the Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers at the farm of Todd Wylie helping clean up damage from last month's derecho winds. We also are proud to present Podium Ink in Mount Ayr, Iowa with the Renew Rural Iowa Award along with Sandy Ehrig from Iowa Farm Bureau. We also hear from our market analyst Jamey Kohake as the grain markets are seeing some movement downward from harvest pressure.

On the Les Tisdale farm with our friends at Hagie Manufacturing and Montag Manufacturing, who have developed an innovate way to see cover crops which you have to hear about. PLUS USDA Deputy Undersecretary for Rural Development drop by with a big ethanol funding announcement AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

The celebration of Clean Water in Iowa and cover crops in Slater, Iowa continues with Hagie Manufacturing and Montag Manufacturing. We also hear how the equipment is being put to use from Amanda Reed - Chief of the Watershed Management Sction of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment!

We are celebrating clean water in Iowa in Buena Vista County with Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Drew Mogler with the Iowa Pork Producers. And Kristina TeBockhorst tells us about the Benton County Assistance Fair at the Benton County Farigrounds TONIGHT!

Bob is on the road in BeeBeetown, Iowa with Kylie Peterson of the Iowa Beef Industry Council and the Iowa Cattlemen's Association to name the winner of this year's Best Burger in Iowa contest - Twisted Tail Steakhouse and Saloon! Jamie Kohake joins us as markets are taking a big turn around in the red after big gains last week. And Tim Meyer from the Steffes Group joins us to talk about land and equipment auctions as land buying is on the rise late in the season.

Phillip Brasser from Agri-Pulse brings us our weekly report from the nation's capitol as the announcement has been made today for the second round of CFAP payments and he says it will cover just about everything, including crops covered in the first round. Jeff Frank gives us a view from out in the field after doing some soybean combining yesterday. Alan Brugler wraps this week of the Big Show with market analysis after the third straight day of double-digit gains in the soybean market; thanks in large part due to Chinese buying, he says.

Mainly from drought or weather damaged crops, and around expectations says ISU's Angie Reick-Hinz, and you have to hear what those numbers really are. PLUS Carter Oswald tells us about the ReGreenCR effort he has going with our friends at Frazier Nursery AND Alan Brugler's expert market analysis as soybeans are up double digits again today.

That's what they're called now, not rodeo clowns, and at times they turn out to be the stars of the show. Cody Webster will be one of the bull fighters at the rodeo in Des Moines this weekend and she joins The Big Show to share his experiences. PLUS Al Kluis' expert market analysis on another up day in soybeans AND the Three Big Things You Need to Know.

We continue talking Clean Water in Perry, IA on the Big Show today with Tom Vincent, Sean McMahon, and Jonathan Gano. We are also joined by Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig in celebrating Clean Water in Iowa Starts Here; no matter where here is. Wrapping up this Wednesday edition of the Big Show, Don Roose of US Commodities tells us how buying activity in China is helping boost soybean prices with near-20-cent gains today.