Episode Details

On Friday's AOA, powered by Cenex, we start the show discussing a new white paper by Mosaic that discusses why not to cut fertilizer rates with Keith Byerly, commercial sustainability lead for Mosaic North America. In Segment Two, we are joined by NCBA Executive Director of Government Affairs Kent Bacus to discuss the results of NCBA's Cattle Producer Tax Survey. Then in Segment Three, we have a conversation with Jed Norman, an LG Seeds agronomist in Iowa, about how a corn plant's root system can provide farmers a final report card on what that crop has been through. Then in Segment Four, we close the show with an update on how a Minnesota poultry company bankruptcy is affecting numerous poultry farmers across Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.