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Farm To Table Talk

Is it best that our food is Local and Organic or Big and Conventional? Our view is “Both, and..” We don’t come to the table with a bias, except that good farming like good food comes in all shapes and sizes. Farm to Table Talk explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed. The host, Rodger Wasson is a food and agriculture veteran. Although he was the first of his family to leave the grain and livestock farm after

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It’s the Food – Scott Faber

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2025/11/21

Extreme steps taken to make food look more appealing, last longer and be addictively delicious is detrimental to our health. State Legislatures from West Virginia to California are not waiting for federal solutions. CA Asssembly-member Jesse Gabriel says "our public schools should not be serving students ultra-processed food products filled with chemical additives that can harm their physical and mental health and interfere with their ability to learn,” Scott Faber leads the Environmental Working

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Allergic, Intolerant or Diet – Dylan McDonnell

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2025/11/14

In addition to wanting to know where their food comes from and where it's grown, thirty three million Americans have a diagnosed food allergy. Fifty million have an intolerance that is not technically allergic but certain foods disagree with them in some way. For a variety of reasons over seventy million follow life style diets. That means over half of the country needs to know what is in their food. Dylan McDonnell is the Founder and CEO of Foodini, a company that strives to make it easy for

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Farmers, Families and SNAP – Gus Schumacher

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2025/11/06

When debates over SNAP funding heat up, it’s worth remembering leaders like Gus Schumacher ---the late USDA Under Secretary who championed farm-to-family connections and bipartisan solutions. This Farm To Table talk episode revisits his insights on SNAP innovation, nutrition incentives and lasting ways to strengthen food access for all. Gus Schumacher, who passed away in 2017, was a respected agricultural economist and former Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture. He served as Under Secretary

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39:53

Real Rural Life – Jim Ennis

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2025/10/30

Real rural life today ranges from hope to nostalgic ideals to real world crisis that directly affect farmers and ranchers, their famiies, their communities and ultimately all of us. The rate of suicide in rural communities is 50 % higher than the rate in non-rural communities. And with farmers the rate is 3 times higher than urban. What is going on? Why must we care and how can we help or be helped? Jim Ennis is the Executive Director of Catholic Rural Life. www.catholicrurallife.org

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Saké’s Napa Valley – Matt Bell

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2025/10/24

Saké rice grown at Isbell Farms in Central Arkansas supplies Origami Sake. Grown with water from a deep aquifer, it is ideal for saké because it is soft and contains negligible amounts of iron or magnesium. Based in Hot Springs, Origami Saké, which launched in 2023, is the fastest growing US saké brand (and recently was theonly US brewer to win a Gold Medal at the Tokyo Saké Challenge 2025). Origami is also the largest domestically-owned saké brewery in the USA, 100% powered by solar energy and

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46:35

Messed Our Nest – Art Cullen

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2025/10/17

Iowa has been under stress 50 years as the economy changed fundamentally from diverse independent farmers and business and a union to concentrated cooperative agriculture and Walmart, Dollar General and no union. Art Cullen won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for exposing what corporate agriculture was doing to his Iowa farmingommunity. His new book "Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest" reveals what's really happening in rural food systems from someone who's lived and reported there for decades. His

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51:43

Flu Flew In – Maurice Pitesky, DVM

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2025/10/10

Animals have been domesticated for 10,000 years and the current outbreak of avian flu is the largest and most complex animal disease outbreak in history, with serious risks beyond poultry. Avian influenza risk especially rises when waterfowl migrate in the fall, Maurice Pitesky, University of California Cooperative Extension poultry specialist has developed the Waterfowl Alert Network to help farmers manage their cattle and poultry’s exposure to migratory birds when they are nearby. If farmers are

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45:58

Closed Loop Local Food – Leslie Person Ryan

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2025/10/03

How long can a community last if there were no open roads or grocery stores? During the tragic California fire caused mudslides of 2018, the town of Summerland was cut off from the rest of the world and the food supply chain. The devastating effects of the tragedy and the consequences of no grocery stores in Summerland reached a turning point when customers started fighting over stale sandwiches or snacks left at Liquor stores or gas stations. These experiences led to the establishment of Sweet

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52:33

Feeding a Divided Country – Gilles Stockton

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2025/09/26

There is a growing rural urban divide and it is effecting our food system locally, globally and nationally, especially in this climate change era. Gilles Stockton is the owner and manager of a sheep and cattle ranch in Montana and an expert in livestock production, livestock marketing, and economic development of pastoral areas, with experience in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. He pursued a dual career, managing and working the family ranch since 1975, and accomplishing numerous assignments

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32:27

Sacramento Farm To School at Terra Madre – Kelsey...

Farm To Table Talk ·

2025/09/18

Sacramento School District's Central Kitchen is revolutionizing the way to feed over 40,000 students with scratch made, nutritious, local foods. Kelsey Nederveld, is the Director of Nutrition Services at Sacramento City Unified School District, was instrumental in building and designing the district's own Central Kitchen, a food processing facility that is focused on scratch made, locally sourced ingredients to create wholesome meals, with the support of local chefs and farmers--revolutionizing

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37:27

Make America Healthy Again Report – Dr. Jerold Mande

Farm To Table Talk ·

2025/09/10

The MAHA Commission Report to President Trump, outlines the administration's strategy to "Make Our Children Healthy Again". Dr. Jerold Mande, CEO of Nourish Science and Rodger Wasson, host of Farm To Table Talk podcast, review the report and discuss what it is in it and what is missing. www.nourishscience.org

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Best Farm Questions – Bill Moyers

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2025/09/05

Farm to Table Talk is about good conversations and no one was better at facilitating conversation than Bill Moyers who has passed away at the age of 91. A journalist, minister, Peace Corps and Great Society leader, Bill Moyers also showed his interest and support of farmers, such as his thoughtful interview with the legendary Wendell Berry. He told Rodger Wasson it was fine with him to have his Wendell Berry conversation shared on the Farm To Table Talk podcast so in his honor, at his passing is

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59:33

Debunked By Nature – Mollie Englehart

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2025/08/28

When vegan chef Mollie Englehart finally became a farmer, she had the big idea to create a farm where nothing had to die. Animals would live out their days munching grass, with no blood on her hands--straight out of her vegan chef playbook. Mollie built her successful LA Vegan restaurants on that ethical stance: compassionate food, no suffering, all love. in LA, feeding people while saving the planet. . Farming would be the next step: acres of peace—a sanctuary where every goat, duck, and sheep got

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More People, Worse Climate, Less Food – Richard Sexton

Farm To Table Talk ·

2025/08/14

Climate change, population growth, demand for animal products, pest resistance to traditional treatments and misguided policies lead to food shortages and escalating food prices. In 2023, 733 million people faced hunger and 2.3 billion were moderately or severely food insecure. Policies to support biofuels, organic agriculture, local foods, and small farms and to oppose genetically modified foods all reduce food production on existing land.--leading to higher food prices, increased carbon

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38:30

Sharing the Welsh Farm – Anna Jones

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2025/08/08

Anna Jones is a farmer based in the Welsh uplands who brings a thoughtful and practical perspective on sustainable livestock farming. Although she came into agriculture later in life, Anna grew up on her family’s sheep and beef farm and returned in her mid-20s to help keep it in the family. She now works alongside her father and is gradually introducing more sustainable and data-informed practices to the farm. They supply Waitrose a high-end grocery store chain in the UK, known for its quality

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Wolves, Water and Wildfires – Grace Woodmansee

Farm To Table Talk ·

2025/08/01

Natural resources, rural communities and agriculture come together in Siskiyou County where California borders Oregon. Wolves have been reintroduced, wildfires are a continuous concern, dams have been removed and efficient water sharing requires community engagement. Assisting with these needs is Grace Woodmansee University of California Cooperative Extension Service Livestock and Natural Resources Adviser. A key project is the Siskiyou Climate Collaborative (SCC) that is working to help a broad

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Regenerating Earth – Kelsey Timmerman

Farm To Table Talk ·

2025/07/24

Farmers around the world are resisting industrial monoculture in favor of biodiversity and soil-first practices with practical land stewardship rooted in indigenous knowledge, community building and long-term economic resilience. Regenerating Earth: Farmers Working with Nature to Feed Our Future by Kelsey Timmerman (Patagonia Books) provides a global exploration of regenerative agriculture as told through the stories of farmers transforming the land—and their communities. Timmerman, who lives in

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58:39

Stress Less Farming – Michael Kilpatrick

Farm To Table Talk ·

2025/07/18

It is 100% true that small farms can be profitable however small farms increasingly need to do further processing. Just selling vegetables to a Farmers Market may no longer be a sufficient business model. Just a single farmer by themselves faces a very hard farm life. To be the best that it can be a single farmer will be better with a group or a couple people focused on making it happen. Michael Kilpatrick is a farmer and educator who is passionate about providing farmers with tools and systems that

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58:39

Thriving Farms – Michael Kilpatrick

Farm To Table Talk ·

2025/07/18

Small farms can be profitable farms, especially if they adapt and grow to include adding value to their production. Michael Kilpatrick is a farmer and educator who is passionate about equipping farmers with the tools and systems they need to thrive! He offers educational resources as host of the Thriving Farmer podcast and through his virtual summits and online community Small Farm University. He also runs his own farm operation with his wife Savannah and their four children at the Farm on Central

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56:34

Connection and Contribution- Blake Hurst

Farm To Table Talk ·

2025/07/10

Although it is appealing to go solo, succeeding in the food system today requires working in cooperation with others: family, neighbors, associations, boards, committees, suppliers, or customers. Working out a partnership or agreeing to serve on a board or committee, may not be what you signed up for but good luck trying to go it alone. Blake Hurst is a farmer in North East Missouri, former President of the Missouri Farm Burieau, occasional guest farm column author in the WallStreet Journal and

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