Tom Kertshcer is a journalist for the Wisconsin Watch. He has done a couple stories on the Ai Data centers in Wisconsin including one on stranded assets and one on Data center companies signing NDA's with local government.

Austin has spent most of his life figuring out what lead to the destruction of rural Iowa, the consolidation of farms and our food system as a whole. In this episode my father Bob Atwell and I discuss this matter with Austin. We focus heavy on what is happening in rural Wisconsin and how to keep it from becoming as bad as Iowa.

Joe Tomandil started an apprenticeship program for dairy grazing that mimics that of the trades. It attempts to solve two problems within agriculture. It gives people who are looking to get into agriculture a way to learn and people who looking for a successor but have none to find one. Joe and I talked about what the goals and process with this program is and his thoughts on how dairy grazing can be scaled.

The 765 powerline project is something people in Vernon and Crawford county Wisconsin have a lot of questions about and none of them seem to be being answered. In this episode I talk again with Travis Klinkner and Carl Volden about this powerline project.

In this episode I talk with Matt Rinella from the Hunt Quietly podcast. Matt and I talked about the current state of the hunting entertainment industry predominately some of effects of hunting influencers and the companies that sponsor them.

In this episode I discuss the possible project that would put massive powerlines through the heart of the driftless area of Wisconsin. I talk about this with a local organic dairy farmer Travis Kilnker.

In this episode I talk with Will Harris from White Oak Pastures. We discus a lot about the regenerative agriculture movement and Will's own motivations for the way he farms.

In this episode I talk with Dr. Patrick Keyser on grazing native warm season pasture. Dr. Patrick is highly nonweldable in pretty much all things native warm season grasses and has studied them for a very long time.

In this episode I talk with Dr. Randy Jackson about the Grassland 2.0 project. The project focuses and aims to facilitate an agricultural system based on perennial grasslands.

In this episode I talk with Mat Williams about the relationship between deer and fungi. He studies this topic and has started his own mushroom food plot company called MycoHabitat.