MtoM Podcast

Hailey Swan was one of the youngest Iowa State Fair queens in the history of the event. When she earned the crown in 2018, she got to see the fair like never before. During the fair of 2021, she had a front-row seat with the new queen in the role of chaperone. Swan helped the new royalty get from the bubble blowing competition to the outstanding fair food winner presentation in short order. Click...

Jenny Lichty's first Iowa State Fair was as an FFA usher meaning she spent all day and night working Grandstand Shows, front gates and other needs at the Iowa State Fair. Now as she gets ready to wrap 15 years wearing and managing those wearing the yellow shirt, she talks about the mix of Iowa students who have seen some great shows, even if they can't remember them all, and the legacy of 70...

The rainfall in 2019 broke up a series of dry years in South Dakota. The 2020-21 winter wheat crop spent much of the year trying to grow in drought conditions. Now that harvest is almost complete, producers there are making decisions about planting the next winter crop into parched soils. We get a lay of the land with Reid Christopherson, the Executive Director of the South Dakota Wheat...

Dairy farmers are no strangers to early rise times. Neither are long-distance runners and commodity market analysts. Jacqueline Holland is still two of those three and grew up on a Jo Davies County, Illinois dairy farm before getting into agricultural economics - ending up at Farm Futures. She's still a tri-athlete and has been paying close attention to Olympic runner Elle Purrier St. Pierre - a...