SMART Farmer Podcast 2018

AgWired Animal, AgWired Precision, SMART Farmer, USFRA

Welcome to the first SMART farmer podcast of 2018! In 2017, we interviewed 22 farmers and ranchers and other agriculture industry people from across the country for the SMART farmer podcast to learn how they use the latest technology in their production of food and fiber for the world, like poultry barns with environmental controls on smart phones, using GPS … Read More

SMART Farmer Lauren Arbogast

AgWired Animal, Audio, Poultry, SMART Farmer, USFRA

Lauren Arbogast is a city girl who married into the farm and found it so interesting that she started a blog about it. On her blog “Paint The Town Ag”, which has also become her Facebook and Twitter platform, Lauren shares photos of musings of life on the farm with her husband and two “mini farmer” sons. She became a … Read More

SMART Farmer Rochelle Krusemark

AgWired AgNewsWire, AgWired Animal, AgWired Precision, Audio, podcasting, SMART Farmer, Soybean, USFRA

Rochelle Krusemark is a Minnesota grain and soybean farmer, a state and national soybean board and USFRA board member, wife, mother and grandmother – all at the same time! Obviously a busy lady, Rochelle squeezed in time as she was watching her two toddler grandsons to tell us what being a SMART farmer means to her, and why she is … Read More

SMART Farmer Katie Roth

AgWired AgNewsWire, AgWired Animal, Audio, Dairy, SMART Farmer, USFRA

Katie Roth and her husband TJ farm with their partners John and Luann Shea in the southwest corner of America’s Dairyland in Wisconsin where they milk Holsteins and grow all of their feedstuffs on the farm including corn, soybeans, alfalfa and wheat. In addition, she serves as one of the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance’s (USFRA) Faces of Farming & … Read More

SMART Farmer Anne Meis

AgWired Animal, AgWired Precision, Audio, SMART Farmer, Soybean, sustainability, USFRA

Anne Meis is a family farmer from Elgin, Nebraska who raises corn, soybeans, and beef with her husband Jim, and serves on the boards of the Nebraska Soybean Board and the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA). In this SMART farmer podcast episode, she talks about the importance of technology such as genetically modified crops for smart farmers. She also … Read More

SMART Farmer Carla Wardin

AgWired Animal, Animal Agriculture, Dairy, SMART Farmer, USFRA

Our SMART Farmer in this episode comes from Michigan where she and her husband have a dairy operation that has been in her family for over a century. Carla Wardin is dedicated to telling the real story of dairy farming through her blog Truth or Dairy, and in 2014 was chosen to represent agriculture as one of the USFRA Faces … Read More

SMART Farmer Jennifer Houston

AgWired AgNewsWire, AgWired Animal, Animal Agriculture, Audio, Beef, Livestock, NCBA, SMART Farmer, USFRA

This edition of the SMART Farmer podcast features Tennessee native Jennifer Houston, a livestock market owner and beef cattle industry leader, who talks about how the business of producing and marketing beef cattle has become smarter in recent years. Houston is currently Vice President of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and serves on the board of the U.S. Farmers and … Read More