The Big Show

The Big Show

The top stories in Iowa farming, weather, and markets.

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July 15, 2026 28 mins
Bob and Duane are at the Capitol in Des Moines enjoying the kickoff of summer and sweet corn season in Iowa with Governor Reynolds, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Grant Menke, and our sponsors at Hy-Vee and Titan Tire!
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It's Clean Water Wednesday! Duane is in Webster City at Wildcat Distilling! We're joined by the sponsors of today's program from the Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance, America's Clean Water Alliance, the Iowa Soybean Association, The Nature Conservancy, Innovative Ag Services, Landus, and Wildcat Distilling!
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Dan Bjorklund from Landus talks about the latest on tar spot and Sky Scout. Don Roose from US Commodities is today's market analyst with the quarterly grain stocks report out from USDA. We'll hear from the Top Rail Saddle Club rodeo queens. And Mike Telford from the Iowa Farm Animal Care Coalition has tips on keeping livestock safe during this week's Excessive Heat Warnings.
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June 29, 2026 36 mins
Jamey Kohake is today's market analyst. The folks from Hy-Vee drop in as we approach a big grilling holiday! Mason Holvoet has our update on the Steffes calendar for the coming week. We visit with Stine Seed's Tom Larson. And we hear from ICGA board member Dan Keitzer!
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June 23, 2026 37 mins
It's Day 2 of the 29th annual WHO Radio Great Iowa Tractor Ride! The riders have made the trek from the Webster County Fairgrounds to Webster City. We'll catch up with them and the folks that make the event possible.
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June 22, 2026 43 mins
The 29th annual WHO Radio Great Iowa Tractor Ride has begun! We're catching up with riders, sponsors, and the young people helping make it all happen at our lunch stop in Duane's hometown of Rockwell City, IA!
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Virgil Schmidt from Iowa State Extension tells us what he's seeing in fields following storms this week packing big wind gusts. We have an impassioned discussion on the latest on Prop 12 with NPPC's Rob Brenneman. And we'll dive further in to that issues and others being tackled in Washington D.C. with Lydia Johnson at Agri-Pulse.
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June 19, 2026 32 mins
We've got Gentry Sorenson on to talk agronomy from North Central Iowa, Rob Brenneman from NPPC on Prop 12, Starlyn Purdue talking about USDA county committee nominations, and the folks at BIS Commodities diving into markets going into the holiday weekend.
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It's Clean Water Wednesday on The Big Show! Bob is in Newhall, Iowa with the Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance, Linn Co-op Oil Company, Iowa Soybean Association, and The Nature Conservancy in Iowa as the sponsors of today's program!
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With tar spot detected in three Iowa counties, Meaghan Anderson from Iowa State Extension tells us about scouting and fighting it. Brian Hoops from Midwest Market Solutions is today's market analyst. We'll dig into 45Z tax credits with Monte Shaw from the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association. And we sit down with Kirk Leeds for our monthly update from the Iowa Soybean Association!
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On the show today, we're talking with Landus' Dan Bjorklund, Jamey Kohake at Paragon Investments, State Climatologist Justin Glisan, Steffes' Mason Holvoet, and Rob Brenneman from NPPC.
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Today on The Big Show, Matt Herman tells us about the Summer Soy Series. We'll dive into commodity markets with Naomi Bloem and Karl Setzer. Travis Lautner has the info on the DMACC Land to Ladle event. And Titan Tire's Kim Boccardi tells us about the new finance agreement with John Deere!
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We're talking weather, screwworm, WASDE, Deere Days, the Silage for Beef Cattle Conference, and unveiling the route for Tractor Ride Day 3 all on today's PACKED edition of The Big Show!
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We're awarding the 210th Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award sponsored by the Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers in Decatur County! It's also a Clean Water Wednesday as Tom Collins joins us from the Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance.
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Bob is out at the Big Show Garage today joined by Dylan Defreece with Defreece Land Services! We'll also talk markets with
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We talk with Meaghan Anderson from Iowa State Extension about the recent rainfall in parts of Iowa that were starting to need it. Jamey Kohake has our rundown of markets to start the week. We talk with Mason about the upcoming sales with Steffes Auctioneers. And Duane Murley is back from his Alaska and Canada adventure with Holiday Vacations!
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We are celebrating Steve and Amy Swenka and family as today's Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award recipients in Johnson County!
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It's day two of the World Pork Expo at the Iowa State Fairgrounds and Bob Quinn is there presenting the latest Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award and talking all things pork! We'll also hear from Duane on his Holiday Vacations trip across Alaska and Western Canada. We're also talking about the first U.S. detection of New World Screwworm in 60 years.
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Bob Quinn is on-location at the Iowa State Fairgrounds today talking pork with the visitors and exhibitors at World Pork Expo today!
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Dennis Reyman joins us from Stalcup Ag in Northwest Iowa with a boots on the ground perspective. Mike Steenhoek gives an update on an amendment to the Build America 250 bill that would help ag vehicles to operate on interstates. We'll talk markets with Brian Hoops and Jerry Gulke. EPA's Lee Zeldin talks about the future of undoing federal DEF mandates.
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