The Big Show

Mike Naig Pack the Pantry program offering grants to help pantries with the need to refrigerate food for people in need. Senator Dan Zumbach gives us a crop update from Northeast Iowa and on his farm and talks about the hopes for in-person events soon in agriculture. With the final word on today’s show, Jamey Kohake says that the green numbers across the board nearing the close today are partly a result of farmers clearing the books ahead of an acreage report coming out Tuesday.

Meaghan Anderson is out in the field today among calf-high bean crops and says that she has been hearing of a lot of issues with drift. Jamey Kohake joins us with his expert market analysis and tells us about the effect of a long holiday weekend coming up and the bearish numbers that came from the hogs and pigs report last week. Tim Meyer from the Steffes Group has details about their recent online sales and in-person sales coming up in about a month.

Dale Lesline from the Dyserville Sales Company hay auctions talks about his work in getting a house file signed by Governor Reynolds to help truckers move oversized hay bales across the state of Iowa, which will be a ‘big boom’ in years in which there are surpluses of hay. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Kent Maurer from the Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers join Bob as we continue to celebrate our newest Wergin Good Farm Neighbor award winners: the Albright Family. Sue Martin from Ag & Investments sheds some light on a tough week in cattle markets with a resurgence of COVID-19 possibly leading to reduced demand.

Andy is with Jenn Dunn and Jim Grief at the Jones County Fairgrounds as we announce details for the 2020 Big Show Tractorcade. John Lawrence, Vice President from the ISU Extension, tells us about some of the details involved with getting students back on campus in the fall. Field agronomist Angie Reick-Hintz gives us her perspective of the 2020 growing season and its challenges in North Central Iowa.

We have a big announcement on today’s show as we prepare to hold one unified Big Show Tractorcade August 2-5 in Jones County! We will hear from Andy at the Jones County Fairgrounds along with John Harms and Clint Gray. Bill Hanigan from the Davis Brown Law Firm tells us about yesterday’s announcement from Bayer coming to a settlement in its glyphosate litigation in the amount of $10 billion.

UDSDA Undersecretary Bill Northey joins the Big Show and talks about how quickly the government has been able to send relief with the CFAP program and tells us how producers can fill out forms online. We take a look out in the field with Mark Storr from BASF for an update on the 2020 growing season. Don Roose gets the final word on today’s show and says that he expects good-to-excellent crop ratings to go up next week continuing a great year of crop conditions.

Corbitt Wall from Feeder Flash is talking with us about cattle trade and says that the pandemic made it more glaringly obvious that we need to get something done in price discovery. Our expert market analyst Don Roose says that the market report coming up on June 30 should still be a big market mover in the unique circumstances of 2020. Andy Petersen has the Three Big Things You Need to Know and Nathan Fischer updates us on worldwide cropping and harvesting conditions.

Dekalb technical agronomist in Northeast Iowa, Nicole Stecklein, tells us about the bacterial leaf streak and says we need to determine how it infects and if we have resistant crops. It is Linn County Virtual Fair Week and Andy is talking with JD Waybill about the online showings this week. Our market analyst, Brian Hoops from Midwest Market Solutions, says that we may have already hit the highs for the summer in corn unless there is a radical surprise.

No doubt soggy in some areas, but Champion Seeds Brett Hudnafield says it's not the wet conditions nor the cool temps in May that they are seeing as a cause of some of the stand and quality issues in corn, you have to hear what they have determined to avoid these mistakes in the future. PLUS one of the nation's leading pork industry experts Dr. Steve Meyer with Kerns and Associates joins Bob and Andy for an update on pork prices and exports AND Jamey Kohake's expert market analysis!

Yet there still is a sizeable back-up in the countryside, as good Big Show Buddy Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig joins Bob and Andy to remind you the deadline for sign-up for their disposal program is today and as harvest totals have returned to normal, they'll re-evaluate needs going forward. PLUS Jamey Kohake's expert market analysis and The Steffes Group's Tim Meyer offers his weekly land and equipment values update.