Fast farm news with field-level consequences.
Growing Harvest Ag Network is a working-agriculture news service built around short updates, Agribiz segments, and direct interviews. It tracks the decisions producers actually face, from USMCA and E15 policy to insect pressure, beef exports, precision ag, and summer field conditions.
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Growing Harvest Ag Network is a fast farm-news feed for listeners who want agriculture reported as a working business. It wastes little time. The show moves through policy, weather, crops, livestock, markets, technology, extension programming, and rural events with the compressed rhythm of a regional broadcast desk. Its Agribiz episodes give the format more room, pairing headlines with interviews and reported segments from the field. Shorter Ag News updates are more direct, often opening with one issue and moving quickly into the source or agency behind it. The coverage is grounded in applied consequence. USMCA is not treated as abstract trade language; it is tied to fertilizer supply, Canada, Mexico, and producer exposure. E15 legislation is framed through fuel prices, corn demand, and congressional pressure. Beef reporting connects USDA production forecasts, steer prices, exports, and the relationship work behind selling U.S. red meat in Mexico. Crop coverage ranges from planting progress to insect pressure, with extension voices explaining what producers and gardeners should watch. Technology coverage is practical rather than futuristic. Precision agriculture, spray drones, FarmQA, Grand Farm, and artificial intelligence are discussed through adoption barriers, time savings, data responsibility, and whether a tool solves a real farm problem. The show also keeps one boot in rural community life. North Dakota Corn events, 4-H summer opportunities, museum gatherings, scholarships, and legacy farm recognition sit beside market and policy coverage. That mix gives the program a strong regional service identity. It is not polished narrative journalism, and it does not try to be. It is headline-driven, interview-heavy, and dense with names, agencies, figures, and deadlines. The value is speed plus utility. For listeners already fluent in agriculture, Growing Harvest Ag Network supplies a steady briefing on what is changing, who is saying it, and why it might matter before the next field pass, sale, meeting, or market move.
Made for: For producers, ranchers, agribusiness professionals, extension followers, and rural listeners who want concise agriculture updates tied to real decisions. It suits an audience already comfortable with crop, livestock, policy, and market language.
What sets it apart: The show combines regional farm-radio speed with a practical interview bench, moving from USDA outlooks and trade policy to insect control, precision ag, and rural events in one tight format. It stands out by translating expert and agency updates into producer-facing implications.
Sarah Heinrich is both a rancher and a broadcaster for The Ag News Leader, KFGO & the Growing Harvest Ag Network. She’s the former KX-TV, Bismarck, Ag Director and the niece of another legendary North Dakota Ag Director, Al Gustin. She leads the KFGO 790-AM team as Farm & Ranch Director. Also part of the team is Farm and Ranch Reporter Sam Halstengard.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical interviews and reported updates connect agricultural policy, technology and markets to the decisions producers make on the ground.
Growing Harvest Ag Network treats agriculture as an operating business shaped by field conditions, technology and public policy. Rusty Halverson and Sarah Heinrich move between planting updates and trade questions, then bring the same practical attention to crop inputs, cattle…
Rusty Halverson and Sarah Heinrich put precision ag, potash trade, and pancake breakfasts on your news desk.
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Trade policy, field pressure, and farm-tech history make this a practical ag-news hour.
The episode opens with the USMCA review period and treats it as a trade question with direct consequences for producers and consumers. Potash imports and year-round demand for berries and avocados give the policy piece real-world weight, so the discussion never feels far from…
A practical farm briefing on precision ag and field level decisions.
Agribiz keeps things practical. Rupak Karn of the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center walks through precision ag research, including spread-grown versus conventional ground spread for fungicide application and the timing needed to manage fusarium head blight, or scab.
Practical ag business, from field tech to a first-ever Horsepower Show.
This piece treats agribusiness as both a working business and a local gathering point. Grand Farm's open house near Wheatland, FarmQA's effort to make agronomy tools quicker and easier to use, and the Griggs County Museum's first-ever Horsepower Show in Cooperstown all point to…
A brisk ag roundup that links planting, exports, youth programming, and CFTC scrutiny.
Agribiz moves quickly through the week and reads like a practical ag briefing, stitching together dry, fit corn planting, export work, youth programming, and CFTC scrutiny.
Farm business talk with coffee-shop honesty.
Darren Hefty reports highly variable harvest results, including soybean fields that ranged from 80-bushel yields to 10 bushels by the hilltop.
Growing Harvest Ag Network’s August 23, 2026 Agribiz episode covers a USDA-inspected Staples meat plant permitted for 15 animals per day and efforts to rebuild rural processing capacity.
Darren Hefty of Ag PhD says the "million dollar rain" may have come too late for corn on North Dakota, South Dakota and western Minnesota hilltops, while soybeans still have a good shot.
July 1 starts the USMCA review clock, and Rusty Halverson keeps it close to the farm: Canadian potash, Mexican produce, and what trade uncertainty does to daily costs.
Precision ag leads the hour.
Agribiz starts at Grand Farm’s open house and the bigger role the Wheatland campus is playing in ag innovation.
Agribiz opens with a spring planting update and notes that corn is going in where soils are dry and fit.
This episode covers the Renewable Fuels Association's push for year-round E15 sales legislation amid high fuel prices and the U.S.
This episode features an interview with Breanna Rischel, the summer intern at the North Dakota Corn Utilization Council, discussing her background, internship experience, and career aspirations in agricultural marketing.
This episode features an interview with Brian Amundson of the North Dakota Beef Commission about his trip to Mexico for the U.S.
This episode presents USDA's latest agricultural outlook, focusing on reduced beef production forecasts and high steer prices, with additional updates on broiler and turkey production.
This episode reports on declining agricultural equipment sales in the U.S.
This episode of Agribusiness covers agricultural news including an ag appreciation event at Tall Towers Aviation, insights from NDSU's Karl Hoppe on weather and calves, and preparations for planting by North Star Ag.
This episode covers the grand opening of Columbia Grain's new pulse processing plant near Valley City, including details on its capacity, crops handled, and supply chain.
This episode analyzes USDA's March quarterly Hogs and Pigs report, discussing factors behind increased hog inventories and their implications for pork supply stability heading into the summer grilling season.
This episode discusses the optimal timing for early spring planting of corn and soybeans, featuring insights from a University of Minnesota Extension agronomist who emphasizes that emergence date matters more than calendar date for soybean yields.