The Farming Show

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The Farming Show, hosted by Dillon Honcoop and produced by Save Family Farming, gives voice to the farmers, workers, and advocates fighting for the future of agriculture in Washington State. Each episode dives into the real challenges facing local farms—regulations, lawsuits, labor, water, and misinformation—while telling the human stories behind the headlines. Bold, honest, and unapologetically pro-farmer, the show exposes what’s threatening our food system and what’s being done to defend it.

  1. 19H AGO

    WA State’s Anti-Farming Actions On National Radar

    The State of Washington’s false accusations and abusive tactics against King Ranch caught the eye of top federal officials, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and other state attacks on farming are also getting the attention of leading national authorities. Shad Sullivan, a 5-th generation Texas rancher and farming advocate with the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, or R-CALF USA, joins Dillon with an outside take on Washington State’s anti-farming actions, and how farmers and ranchers can fight back.

    22 min

  2. 6D AGO

    Activists’ Plan Would Harm Salmon in Quest to Get Rid of Columbia Dams

    In their quest to get rid of Columbia River dams, activists are suing to force a dam management plan that would create river conditions deadly to endangered salmon. Adam Ratliff, Executive Director of the Center for Sustainability and Working Rivers, joins Dillon to explain anti-dam activists’ real motives behind the latest bizarre turn in the ongoing battle over the federal dams on the Columbia River system.

    21 min

  3. JAN 26

    Former Farmworker: WA Card-Check Unionization Plan Bad For Workers, Farmers

    Some experts are warning that the new card-check collective bargaining system proposed in Washington state won’t be the good deal for workers that proponents promise. Alma Torres-Jones, a former farmworker who now operates her own family’s orchard, tells Dillon she fears that both farmers and farmworkers aren’t aware of the quickly-moving proposal, and won’t have time to consider the plan’s true impacts and likely negative consequences for workers as well as farms.

    21 min

  4. JAN 26

    Trump Administration Slams State’s Attack On Rancher

    President Trump’s Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, is coming down hard on Washington State’s Department of Ecology for its attack on an Eastern Washington rancher. And now even the EPA’s Seattle chief Emma Pokon is adding to the federal criticism of Ecology’s abusive approach. Toni Meacham, one of the attorneys helping King Ranch in the fiasco, joins Dillon with an update on the massive fines and even secret criminal investigation into the Kings, as well as insight into how she was able to get federal officials’ attention with the situation.

    22 min

  5. JAN 21

    Farming Advocates Need to Step Up to the Front Lines

    The pressures on family farming in Washington state and across the country continue to mount, but the urban public remains largely unaware of the realities farmers face. Ben Tindall, Save Family Farming’s Executive Director, joins Dillon to encourage anyone interested in preserving a future for family farming in our state to speak out in support, committing to providing more and more opportunities for everyone to get involved in farming advocacy.

    21 min

  6. JAN 19

    Farmworker Advocates: Why New WA Collective Bargaining Plans Aren’t What You Think

    A slate of proposals up for debate in Olympia would roll out a new system of unionization and collective bargaining for farmworkers in Washington state. But, farmworker advocates Enrique Gastelum, of the Worker and Farmer Labor Association, and Jesse Rojas, formerly of Pick Justice, tell Dillon the devil is in the details, with aspects of the plan that would actually harm farmworkers, not help them.

    22 min

  7. JAN 13

    WANTED: Local Businesses To Support Ag, Trades Career Fair For Whatcom Teens

    Hundreds of Whatcom County high school students will get to learn more about what their futures could look like at Whatcom Family Farmers’ upcoming career fair focusing on agriculture and the trades. But, event organizer Ellie Steensma Corbin tells Dillon the event needs more local businesses to step up and host a booth or even educational presentations to give the students a well-rounded look at potential careers here in the local community. Businesses wanting to participate in any way can get more information and connect with Ellie here.

    22 min

  8. JAN 12

    Could New Food Pyramid Help Struggling Dairy Farmers?

    The announcement of a completely revamped “food pyramid” from the Trump administration’s US Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is putting a new focus on milk and dairy. Lee Mielke, longtime dairy markets columnist and commentator, joins Dillon with details on how the new federal health advice elevates dairy foods, and what it could mean for markets and the prices dairy farmers–currently struggling with low returns–receive for their milk.

    22 min
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Ratings & Reviews

3.8
out of 5
10 Ratings

About

The Farming Show, hosted by Dillon Honcoop and produced by Save Family Farming, gives voice to the farmers, workers, and advocates fighting for the future of agriculture in Washington State. Each episode dives into the real challenges facing local farms—regulations, lawsuits, labor, water, and misinformation—while telling the human stories behind the headlines. Bold, honest, and unapologetically pro-farmer, the show exposes what’s threatening our food system and what’s being done to defend it.

Information

  • Creator
    Save Family Farming
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    66
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Save Family Farming 2025
  • Show Website
    The Farming Show

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