Farm-country news with market consequence.
Agweek Podcast is a practical agriculture news feed built from market wraps and reported Agweek TV segments. It tracks the forces producers actually feel: weather, trade, crop pressure, input costs, livestock management, processing capacity, and rural community strain.
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Agweek Podcast functions as a working agriculture bulletin for listeners who follow regional agriculture closely. It is brisk, practical, and anchored in reported segments. The Market Wrap episodes focus on the immediate pressure points in grain and livestock markets. Weather is never background. Dry southern plains forecasts, delayed northern plains planting, winter wheat conditions, and vulnerable crops coming out of dormancy are treated as market-moving facts. Global events enter the show when they affect producers. Iran war headlines, ceasefire talks, crude oil swings, the Strait of Hormuz, postponed U.S.-China meetings, soybean exports, corn demand, and biofuels expectations are all framed through their effect on prices and risk. The Agweek TV editions widen the daily market lens into a fuller rural news magazine. One week may move from waterhemp resistance and fertilizer transparency to South Dakota State University's Little International and free mental health help for farm families. Another may cover Babybel expansion in Brookings, egg supply after avian influenza, fertilizer prices, and beefalo. The show is comfortable with technical agriculture. It can discuss glyphosate resistance, Group 2 and Group 14 herbicides, feedlot permits, manure nutrient records, pesticide labeling, steroidal implants, shorthorn genetics, soil tarping, and autonomous beet trucks without turning stiff. The tone stays neutral. It can warm up around family operations, student programs, livestock shows, and rural job growth, but the writing and reporting stay concrete. Segments usually begin with a clear headline, then move into the practical consequence. A plant expansion means production capacity and new employees. A farm bill provision means pesticide label authority. A weather pattern means planting risk. A cattle practice means growth rates, feed efficiency, and updated guidelines. The show is not built around personality banter. It is built around useful handoffs, field reporting, expert sound bites, and regional specificity. For producers, agribusiness workers, rural policymakers, and agriculture-minded listeners, Agweek Podcast offers a steady way to keep up with the decisions and disruptions shaping farm country.
Made for: Agweek Podcast suits producers, ranchers, agribusiness professionals, rural leaders, and agriculture watchers who want fast, practical regional reporting. It is especially useful for listeners tracking regional markets, weather, policy, inputs, livestock, and processing news.
What sets it apart: The show combines market analysis with field-reported regional agriculture stories, keeping the producer impact close to the surface. It moves from global grain-market volatility to local weeds, plants, schools, co-ops, and livestock operations without losing its practical focus.
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A brisk ag roundup where storm damage, processing, and market pressure all land at once.
Agweek TV spends its hour on pressure points in agriculture. It moves from deadly storms in North Dakota and Minnesota to a Page farmer dealing with wiped out dry beans and soybean replanting, then to a new indoor wheat cleaning facility in South Dakota and a beef segment that…
Farm policy, school programs, and field fixes share one brisk ag-news hour.
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Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
Deadly storms lead the program.
The AgWeek TV episode covers legislative progress on the 2026 farm bill, which includes a provision for uniform pesticide labeling under EPA oversight.
This episode covers South Dakota's vetoed ban on cell-cultured meat, farm finance advice, an interview with the ASGA president, and NDSU's Little I event.
This episode discusses how local weather conditions and global events like the Strait of Hormuz opening are causing volatility in grain markets, focusing on wheat and planting delays.
This episode discusses the impact of Middle East tensions, particularly the Iran-U.S.
This episode of AgWeek TV covers agricultural topics including weed management for waterhemp, legislative efforts for fertilizer industry transparency, the SDSU Little International event, and mental health resources for farmers.
This episode covers agricultural topics including a Babybel cheese plant expansion in South Dakota, egg supply challenges after avian influenza, rising fertilizer prices affecting crops, and an introduction to beefalo livestock.
This episode discusses recent grain market activity, highlighting support from weather conditions, biofuels, and trade meeting talks, with a focus on wheat performance and market trends.
This episode of AgWeek TV covers the agricultural economy, the USMCA trade agreement review, and features expert insights from the American Sugar Beet Growers Association meeting.
This episode discusses new dietary guidelines emphasizing protein and healthy fats, their impact on livestock producers, and covers related agricultural topics like sheep farming and farmworker training.
This episode of AgWeek TV covers the Trump administration's $12 billion agricultural bailout, challenges in sugar beet farming due to global price drops, and an expert discussion on potential farm financial crises.
This episode of AgWeek TV covers the impact of the government shutdown on farmers, including delayed disaster payments and suspended USDA reports, and highlights Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's meeting with farm leaders to address trade tensions affecting agriculture.