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The Hoosier Ag Today Podcast Network includes all your favorite Indiana agriculture podcasts, including the HAT Daily Podcast, the Purdue Crop Chat with Dan 'Corn' Quinn and 'Soybean Shaun' Casteel, the Indiana Ag Policy Podcast, and more!

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    The Hoosier Ag Today Podcast for 10/14/2026

    The Wednesday HAT Podcast presented by First Farmers Bank & Trust - proudly serving local farms, families, and agribusiness for 140 years. Visit them online at FFBT.com to learn more.

  2. 1d ago

    Connecting Soil Research to the Field

    Soil research is most valuable when it reflects the real challenges growers are seeing and helps them make better management decisions. In this episode, host Lyle Cowell is joined by Dr. Chantel Chizen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Saskatchewan, to discuss how conversations with farmers have helped shape priorities for her new research group. Chantel explores her current research into low-yielding and marginal areas of fields, prairie wetlands, soil carbon, soil health and soil variability across Saskatchewan. They also discuss how tools such as satellite and drone imagery and digital soil mapping are changing the way soils are studied, efforts to build a new provincial soil data hub and interpretation guide and why continued engagement with farmers and agronomists is essential to keeping soil research connected to the field. Looking for the latest in crop nutrition research? Visit nutrien-ekonomics.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NutrieneKonomics

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    The Hoosier Ag Today Podcast for 10/13/26

    Today on the Hoosier Ag Today Daily Podcast for Oct. 13, 2026: Indiana agriculture faces a stark reminder of its inherent risks alongside ongoing market and policy pressures. Indiana Farm Fatalities Drop, But Risks Persist: Purdue University’s latest agricultural safety report shows farm fatalities in Indiana have plummeted over the long term—down to 17 in 2025 from 54 in 1981—yet agriculture remains the state’s deadliest industry. Purdue safety specialist Ed Sheldon emphasizes the ongoing hazards during harvest season. Foreign Beef Imports Fail Consumer Expectation: The American Farm Bureau Federation reveals that plans to import 300,000 metric tons of foreign-raised beef failed to lower grocery prices—which dropped an average of just 16 cents per pound—while severely slashing payout rates for American cattle producers. Harvest Weather Ahead: Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin tracks an approaching frontal boundary bringing scattered showers and potential storms midweek, followed by cooler Canadian air and potential frost over Northern Indiana later in the week. Market Recovery Post-WASDE: John Zanker of Farmers Keeper Financial analyzes how grain and livestock markets are reacting after last Friday's USDA WASDE report, highlighting a slight recovery in corn futures despite massive projected yields and record soybean production.

  4. 2d ago

    456. World Food Championships' Mike McCloud on building Food Sport + a faster feedback loop across the value chain

    Picture a kitchen arena where 1,500 cooks from more than 40 countries have all won their way in — no open registrations, no fast track, just Golden Tickets earned at hundreds of qualifiers across the year. They cook in rounds, plate blind, and wait on the score. That's the World Food Championships, and it lands at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis October 15–18 for year two of a three-year run. It's also the event Mike McCloud founded in 2012, and the term he coined for it — Food Sport — has spent fourteen years becoming its own category. This week on Agbioscience, Mike joins us to talk about what happens when a live culinary tournament turns into something brands can test against, and what that means for agriculture on the other end of the plate. Highlights include: What "Food Sport" actually is — and how a live, multi-round tournament differs from a cooking show or a traditional culinary competition How WFC has evolved since 2012, and what has surprised Mike most across fourteen years Why you can't just sign up: inside the qualifying process, the 800+ sanctioned events, and the Golden Tickets that set the level of the field WFC as a product innovation lab — putting a brand's ingredient into the hands of hundreds of accomplished competitors, including required-ingredient final rounds like the Chef Category What a brand actually has to bring to an ingredient integration — and what "we tried it at WFC" gives a product team that a focus group or a test kitchen can't Stories of competitors using an ingredient in ways that changed how a brand thought about its own product Building a faster, more effective feedback loop between producers, manufacturers and innovators and the people who cook for a living What happens after the four days — the chef-brand relationships that outlast the event Indianapolis as home for three years, with 2026 as year two: why this market works and what the first two years have proven How a live culinary event intersects with Indiana's $70B+ agbioscience sector — production agriculture, food processing, animal health, plant science, agtech, food-is-health and bioinnovation — in ways people wouldn't expect Whether WFC can be a catalyst for moving Indiana corn, soy, pork, poultry, dairy and tomatoes downstream into value-added food and nutrition — and what that would take Mike's vision for WFC's next decade

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    The Hoosier Ag Today Podcast for 10/12/2026

    We'll hit Allen, Delaware, Dubois, Fountain, LaPorte, Montgomery, and Tippecanoe Counties with today's harvest crop tour on the Monday HAT Podcast presented by First Farmers Bank & Trust - proudly serving local farms, families, and agribusiness for 140 years. Visit them online at FFBT.com to learn more. Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin has your wild and crazy Indiana Farm Forecast- his words, not mine- coming up. And USDA report day Friday hit corn futures hard. Andy Eubank and Brian Basting have the details on today's HAT Podcast.

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    The Hoosier Ag This Week Podcast for 10/10/26

    🚨 HOOSIER AG THIS WEEK PODCAST: OCTOBER 10-11, 2026 📰 TOP NEWS One Health Institute Breaks Ground: Elanco and Purdue University partner on a landmark research facility in Indianapolis to develop livestock vaccines and biosecurity solutions by 2030. New National Soybean Checkoff CEO Has Indiana Roots: Former Indiana ag leader Courtney Nupp takes the helm as CEO of the United Soybean Board. Brazil Competition Concerns Rise: A Purdue survey shows 80% of farmers worry about Brazilian market dominance, though nearly 40% stay optimistic on U.S. soybean export growth. 4-H Tech Innovator: 13-year-old Cooper Lawhorn from Hamilton County earns national recognition in the Presidential AI Challenge for his "Pantry Pal" app. Harvest Progress: Indiana corn harvest hits 21%. Soybean yields are near average despite localized August flood damage in parts of the state. 🌤️ BEACON CREDIT UNION HARVEST WEATHER FORECAST Sun–Mon: Tropical moisture from Hurricane Isaias brings 0.25"–1.0"+ rain to Southern/Eastern IN, slowing field drying under heavy cloud cover. Thu–Fri: A slow-moving front triggers 60%–70% rain coverage (0.25"–1.0"), temporarily stalling harvest. Next Weekend: A major cold drop brings the season's first widespread frost threat to Northern IN. Late October: High temperatures and dry weather return the week of Oct 19th for an optimal harvest window. 📉 MARKET WRAP: WASDE STUNNER Corn Collapse: USDA stunned the market with a 181.2 bu/acre yield estimate (vs. 177.8 expected), pushing production to 16.034 billion bushels and expanding ending stocks. Soybeans Steady: Yield held at 53.1 bu/acre with minimal surprises. Friday Settlements: Dec Corn: $4.79 3/4 (down 20.5¢) Nov Beans: $12.92 (up 4.5¢) Dec Wheat: $6.71 (down 12.25¢) Dec Live Cattle: $227.05 (up $3.50)

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    The Hoosier Ag Today Podcast for 10/9/2026

    On the HAT Podcast Eric Pfeiffer and Greg Allen report on HAT news including the new harvest weather forecast, and is the propane industry ready with ample supplies for on-farm use this fall? HAT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin's Indiana Farm forecast continues dry but with some cloud cover in spots along with isolated rain, and the Thursday grain and oilseed markets sold off yet again. Andy Eubank has the settlements and analyst Karl Setzer provides market commentary. It's all part of the #HATPodcast, made possible by First Farmers Bank & Trust - proudly serving local farms, families, and agribusiness for 140 years. Visit them online at FFBT.com to learn more.

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    The Hoosier Ag Today Podcast for 10/8/2026

    On the HAT Podcast C.J. Miller and Andy Eubank report on HAT news including America’s soybean farmers sounding the alarm over one of their biggest competitors, and exploring the importance of knowing real costs of your on-farm inputs, not just the initial price tag. HAT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin's Indiana Farm forecast keeps the dry and sunny weather in the forecast through Saturday, and the Wednesday grain and oilseed markets again reversed, lower all around. Andy has the settlements and analyst Tom Fritz provides market commentary. It's all part of the #HATPodcast, made possible by First Farmers Bank & Trust - proudly serving local farms, families, and agribusiness for 140 years. Visit them online at FFBT.com to learn more.

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The Hoosier Ag Today Podcast Network includes all your favorite Indiana agriculture podcasts, including the HAT Daily Podcast, the Purdue Crop Chat with Dan 'Corn' Quinn and 'Soybean Shaun' Casteel, the Indiana Ag Policy Podcast, and more!

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