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Farm and Fiddle

Farm and Fiddle

Farm and Fiddle is the world"s oldest radio program covering sustainable agriculture and local food systems. We air every Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 p.m. central time, from KOPN 89.5 fm, Columbia, Missouri. We speak to the best experts in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, animal husbandry, and cover topics like how to resist factory farms in the neighborhood and what to do if your crop is knocked out by too much or too little rain, or by a neighbor"s sloppy poison application.

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56:55

"We Are The Ones: Co-operative Power Rooted in People...

Farm and Fiddle ·

2025/11/10

This is the fourth and final episode of "We Are The Ones: Co-operative Power Rooted in People and Place" produced by Davika Thomas and funded by Missouri Humanities. This episode is a conversation between Davika and Margot McMillen, one of the hosts of Farm and Fiddle. Besides providing an overview of the project, the program features clips from several of the interviews that Davika has conducted. The program aired on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 on KOPN radio Columbia Missouri and

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57:41

"We Are The Ones: Co-operative Power Rooted in People...

Farm and Fiddle ·

2025/11/10

This is the third in a series of four podcasts produced by Davika Thomas with funding from Missouri Humanities. The series marks the significance of the United Nations declaration of 2025 as the International Year of the Co-op. This episode moves from the theoretical aspects of co-op organizations and includes visits to co-ops in Missouri and Wisconsin and interviews with significant members about the experience of belonging to and working for a co-op. There are contrasts to work in an

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58:09

"We Are the Ones: Co-operative Power Rooted in People...

Farm and Fiddle ·

2025/10/26

This is episode #2 of a 4-part series. Producer Davika Thomas explores the history, culture and context of co-operatives in rural life through decades of challenges to the rural economy. 2025 is the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives and their slogan “Cooperatives Build a Better World” showcases the impact that co-ops have everywhere including mid-Missouri. Funded by Missouri Humanities, KOPN’s Davika Thomas has produced a 4-part series,“We are the Ones: Cooperative Power

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56:29

“We are the Ones: Cooperative Power Rooted in People...

Farm and Fiddle ·

2025/10/26

This is episode 1 of a four-part series funded by Missouri Humanities and produced by Davika Thomas, longtime KOPN radio producer. The series calls on many experts and explores the history, culture, context and necessity for co-operative ventures in America. 2025 is the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives and their slogan “Cooperatives Build a Better World” showcases the impact that co-ops have everywhere including mid-Missouri. The series was broadcast on KOPN 89.5 and

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59:52

Sustainable Music by Howard Marshall and Friends

Farm and Fiddle ·

2024/03/17

As the oldest radio program in the world to talk about sustainability, Farm and Fiddle loves taking a break from farming to talk about sustainable music. In this episode, old-time fiddler Howard Marshall plays old-time dance music with bass player Kathy Gordon, guitarist Heinrich Leonhard and multi-instrumentalist Asher Ferguson. Marshall talks about where the music comes from and all the musicians talk about how they found their sounds and their beloved musical instruments.

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29:34

Melissa Vatterot of Missouri Coalition for the...

Farm and Fiddle ·

2024/03/04

Melissa Vatterot, policy director of MCE, talks about bills that have been introduced in the Missouri legislature that affect water quality and definitions of ownership of water. She gives suggestions about how people can help protect water quality for today and tomorrow.

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30:44

A conversation with Tim Gibbons

Farm and Fiddle ·

2024/03/04

Missouri Rural Crisis Center was started in the 1980s when farmers were losing their lands due to government programs that left them in the lurch. Today MRCC continues to work against industrial takeovers that started in animal agriculture with giant facilities that raise thousands of animals in overcrowded buildings, polluting creeks, air and rivers for miles around. Tim Gibbons discusses these issues plus the takeover of Missouri farmland by foreign corporations.

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27:54

Susan Burns, founder of Mid-Missouri Landowners Alliance

Farm and Fiddle ·

2024/03/03

When Green Belt Express announced they were putting massive electric lines through North Callaway and Boone Counties, other national green-power corporations came into neighborhoods to access farm land for solar and wind "farms" to ship electricity to big cities in the east. These properties are expected to take land out of farming forever but Susan Burns and Mid-Missouri Landowners Alliance are fighting back. The issue has split rural communities that are unprepared for the problems of

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27:46

Conversation with James Owen of Renew Missouri

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2024/03/01

James Owen is Executive Director of Renew Missouri, an organization working to bring more sustainable energy options to the state. Among other topics is the legislative effort to allow community solar in Missouri. Many other states have this option so that developers can include electric generation in their plans for subdivisions, apartment complexes, commercial buildings and so forth. In Missouri at present, only power companies recognized by the Public Service Commission can sell power to

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56:19

The future of rural hospitals is the future of community

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2022/10/10

Dave Dillon is Vice President of Public and Media Relations. A St. Louis native, he chose to go to college in Fulton and has spent much of his career working on rural issues, partly with the MO Department of Agriculture. In this interview with Margot McMillen, Dillon talks about why rural hospitals are having such a hard time and what this means for rural communities. It's more than the health of the population: Employers and new residents look for health care when they choose a

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42:56

Road Trip!!! Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

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2022/07/17

This podcast features interviews with three of the staff of Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Ryan Fielder, music conservator, Gabe Francisco, draft animal coordinator and Kitty Durham, farm manager, talk about their jobs and the Shaker community legacy. While the village today has restored buildings and added modern electricity and internet, the heritage is deep: 100 years ago, a religious group that wanted to practice equality between men, women and all races,

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29:39

Factory Farms in the Oceans??

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2022/06/07

Consumers from the mainland are usually ignorant--or don't care--where their ocean fish comes from and we certainly don't think about it coming from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, suspended just a few miles offshore. And these CAFOs aren't in the news even though we read about plastic pollution and chemicals flowing from farmland into the Gulf of Mexico. Don't Cage Our Oceans is a coalition bringing together businesses, environmental groups, food safety advocates and

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67:55

Celebrate World Fiddle Day with the Champ!

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2022/05/19

Fiddle player and performer Mike Fraser and Howard Marshall, champion fiddler and author of three books on Missouri fiddling, gave this workshop as part of the Big Muddy Folk Festival in Boonville, Missouri, on May 15, 2022. Their teaching style is conversational and they cover a wide range of topics, from the differences in fiddle styles to variations in tuning to where fiddle tunes come from. To illustrate their points, they play their fiddles, ably backed up by Kathy Gordon, Heinrich

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54:35

Deb Hudman, Missouri's tick specialist

Farm and Fiddle ·

2022/05/12

In this episode, Deb Hudman of A.T. Still University, talks about her project and the various ticks and their diseases. Missourians can mail ticks to her lab--and we've sent her thousands of them--and she classifies them then looks for disease that they might transfer to humans, our pets, our livestock or the wild creatures living in our many ecosystems. On her website, she has begun to post maps and data and you can mail ticks to her to be sure your county gets attention. Download this

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37:24

Meet Peng Tian, plant diagnostician

Farm and Fiddle ·

2022/05/12

In this episode of Farm and Fiddle, which aired at 6 p.m. Central Time on KOPN 89.5 FM in mid-MIssouri and KOPN.org on the worldwide web, plant diagnostician Pent Tian tells about his laboratory and his work identifying plant problems. His advice is sought by professionals and amateurs in all kinds of plant businesses or avocations. This year, Missouri has had a very wet, chilly spring, which means Peng will see a lot of fungus problems. He tells how to identify those and what to do about

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41:47

How corporate agriculture manipulates farmers

Farm and Fiddle ·

2022/02/18

North Carolina farmer Craig Watts had a 2-year honeymoon with the poultry industry, built four poultry barns and struggled to pay them off with a contract under corporate rule. He learned too late that the corporations hold all the cards. In this interview, Watts explains how the system works. The farmer takes on all the debt but has no control over the inputs supplied by the corporations. They can bring a farmer "sorry" birds or even let the farmer run out of feed. The corporations supply

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33:11

Sherri Dugger, Executive Director of Socially...

Farm and Fiddle ·

2022/02/18

Sherri Dugger, Executive Director of The Socially Responsible Agricultural Project, talks about how SRAP helps communities faced with problems caused by Industrial Livestock Farming. Many communities learn about the health problems, water pollution, and air pollution caused by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. If a community learns that a CAFO is coming into the neighborhood, SRAP will help with organization and find experts with proof that other communities have been ruined by a

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64:12

What's going on with the mid-Missouri cattle business?

Farm and Fiddle ·

2022/02/07

Beef prices at the grocery store are sky high, but cattle ranchers aren't seeing new profits. It turns out that the giant corporations are squeezing consumers and blaming supply chain problems, but cattle ranchers suffer from lack of competition because only a few corporations own all the markets. And consumers don't know where their meats come from because labeling is misleading. Labels that say "USA" can be used for meat imported from other places and processed here. In this podcast, 4th

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65:22

Afghan Refugees Find A Warm Welcome in Mid-Missouri

Farm and Fiddle ·

2022/02/07

When Afghan refugees come to mid-Missouri, they find welcome from community organizations with direction from Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri. In an interview with Margot McMillen, three organizers tell how these new neighbors come to the community and how community members can help them adjust to their new homes. McMillen talks to Dan Lester, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri, Frishta Aslami, Afghan Program Coordinator and Ashley

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42:57

Let's learn about Missouri prairies with Missouri...

Farm and Fiddle ·

2021/11/30

This interview originally aired on 9-22-21 with Carol Davit and Margot McMillen. Carol talks about what makes a prairie, what plants and animals depend on prairie ecosystems and where you can find prairies in mid-Missouri.

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