Profiles

These profiles cover the gamut of people involved in the agriculture industry from innovative farmers to executives of ag companies to the founders of start ups.
Gabrielle Roesch-McNally hosts a women's learning circle for American Farmland Trust.
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Gabrielle Roesch-McNally works for women in ag
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15 minutes with attorney Brook Duer
Paige Tuggle
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Paige Tuggle’s life in ag
Jason and Mandy Dittmer
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Jason and Mandy Dittmer are a perfect match
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15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Get on the bus with Kyle Metzger
Mark McLaughlin
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Making plans with Mark McLaughlin
Mark Eisele stands in front of cattle in an NCBA button down
Meet NCBA president, Mark Eisele
The Malloy family of Brainerd, Minnesota
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Raising Wagyu cattle in Minnesota
Lacey Singleton of Sober Cowboy
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Lacey Singleton supports sobriety in the wild West
Keisha Thompson
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: How FFA brought Keisha Thompson back to ag
Amy Marcoot, Audie Wall, and Beth Marcoot of Marcoot Jersey Creamery
15 Minutes with a Farmer: Marcoot Jersey Creamery
Deanne Frieders in kitchen
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: The woman behind ‘This Farm Girl Cooks’
Amy Marcoot, Audie Wall, and Beth Marcoot of Marcoot Jersey Creamery
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Seventh-generation sisters bring added value to family dairy
Gil Tinsey and Fred Hasen
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Michigan friends have been farming together for 60 years
Dr. Melinda McCall, DVM
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Dr. Melinda McCall discusses ‘Driving Home Naked’
Senator Charles Grassley and Lisa Foust Prater
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Senator Charles Grassley
Senator Charles Grassley on his Iowa farm
Senator Charles Grassley reflects on careers in farming, government
Annaliese Wegner
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Dairy farmer and ‘Modern-day Farm Chick’ Annaliese Wegner
Cheryl Walsh
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Cheryl Walsh, pork producer and industry leader
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15 minutes with Iowa Renewable Fuels Association co-founder Daryl Haack
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15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Daryl Haack, renewable fuels pioneer
Tom Bradley takes bids for Dream Dirt Auctioneers at a Grundy County land auction.
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Tom Bradley, farm auctioneer
Rosemary Anderson (center) with her "A.I. girl gang," Hazy Delzer (left) and Clara Schmid (right).
15 Minutes With a Farmer podcast: Rosemary Anderson, Nebraska rancher
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Q&A with Rachel McGreal
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15 Minutes with a farmer: Wayne Humphreys
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Q&A with Eric Boeck, regional director, North America Seeds, Syngenta
Clayton Mooney stands next to shelves of greens growing inside his Ames, Iowa farm
Meet Clayton Mooney, the drive-through salad farmer
Aaron LaPointe is helping the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska reclaim and farm its own land.
Bringing farming back to the Winnebago Tribe
Sketch of Corteva Agriscience toxicologist Reza Rasoulpour
Q&A with Reza Rasoulpour, Corteva regulatory & stewardship leader
Bob Ruth National Pork Board
15 Minutes with Bob Ruth, National Pork Board President
Jake Degler
15 minutes with Jake Degler, Pennsylvania custom crop farmer
Lori Stevermer
15 Minutes with Minnesota pig farmer Lori Stevermer
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15 minutes with Mary Pat Sass
Cookbook and flower display for Arlene Prater
Remembering the good stuff
Lisa Foust Prater on the Washington Island Ferry
2023 Reporter's Notebook: On the road again with Lisa Foust Prater
Karen Jones wearing a pink shirt
A year of change and growth for machinery editor Karen Jones
Meagan Kaiser and Lucas Lentsch
United Soybean Board announces new CEO
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Q&A with Rod Snyder, EPA senior advisor
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15 Minutes with farmer Rod Pierce
Man in a blue polo and jeans stands next to the Trimble sign at the entrance to their campus.
Trimble teaches dealers to meet customers' needs
Illustration of a bearded man wearing a blue jacket, a blue hat with the Verdant Robotics logo on it in green, and dark-framed glasses.
Q&A with CEO of Verdant Robotics, Gabe Sibley
Illustration of a Black woman wearing a white cowboy hat and a blue collared shirt.
15 Minutes with rancher Kimberly Ratcliff
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Q&A with Revital Kremer, SupPlant chief technology officer
Kyle Durham owns and operates a woodworking business in town.
Missouri hometown hero Kyle Durham
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Meet XtremeAg's Chad Henderson
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Navy veteran Brent Rendel takes a science approach to farming
Sketch of Taylor Purucker
Q&A: Taylor Purucker, Mosaic crop nutrition lead
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Q&A: Eric Hansotia, CEO of AGCO
Stephanie Greene
Q&A with Stephanie Greene, seed curator at preservation facility
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Q&A with Nakita Hemingway, cut-flower farmer and politician
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Q&A: Eric Raby of CLAAS
Q&A: Julie Borlaug
Q&A: Julie Borlaug
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Q&A: Mindi Vanden Bosch