August 28: The AgriSafe Network talked with Georgia farmer Connie Baptiste as part of a series of interviews with women farmers under the theme “Celebrating Wellness and Women in Ag,” as it happens to be the International Year of the Women Farmer. You can learn more about Baptiste here. August 27: Oren Lesmeister is a farmer and a former South Dakota state legislator. His family has participated in South Dakota Farm Bureau activities for generations and the SDFU podcast, Our Way of Life, had a recent episode interviewing him. August 26: Laurie Isley, a Michigan corn and soybean farmer, participated in a panel discussion titled How Sustainable Production and Economic Vitality Can Coexist. It was put on by Agri-Pulse and the United Soybean Board. You can view a recording here. August 25: I interviewed Melissa Ploeckelman Brown, an outreach specialist with the National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield, Wisconsin, about being chosen as president-elect of the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health. You can read more here. August 24: A recent installment of Purdue University’s Commercial AgCast features an interview with Andy Campbell, co-founder and director of insights for TractorZoom in West Des Moines, Iowa. TractorZoom is an online marketplace for farm machinery, heavy trucks, and construction equipment, mostly. The interview audio is available here. August 21: Zia Lyle is a post-doc researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies how drinking water systems are impacted by climate change. She maintains that rural water systems are more susceptible than urban systems to damage from natural hazards like floods, high winds, and tornados. There’s an interview with her about that here. August 18-20: These shows were excerpted from a recent episode of the Wheat’s On Your Mind podcast, which included a discussion with Ag Historian Doug Hurt, who offered an historical perspective of ag in America. You may listen to the entire program here. August 17: The director of the Center for Commercial Agriculture at Purdue University, Michael Langemeier, analyzes performance for organic vs conventional crops. You can find out more from his video presentation. August 14: Pizza 4 Producers is a program operated by the Extension service in Skagit County, Washington, to address mental wellness in the farming community. Maddy Vanderkooy, an extension coordinator in Skagit County, describes how the program works during a webinar on Farm Stress Resources Across the USDA Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network. Her segment starts about 8:45 into the recording. August 10-13: In this series, I talked with Kelly McKenna, CEO of the nonprofit, End Chronic Disease. She embraces the Food-as-Medicine approach to addressing chronic diseases. You can find out more about her work here.