A Winning Personality?

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

For a few years now, Iowa State University Professor Kevin Kimle has been asking students in his ag entrepreneurship classes to take a personality test. What he’s found so far is that compared to the average person, those ag students score pretty low when it comes to openness. He and the Field Work hosts talk about what that lack of openness might mean for trying new practices like cover crops. And after taking the personality test, Zach and Mitchell learn some awkward things about themselves.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I am Zach Johnson, and I farm in West Central Minnesota.
0:10.9	And I'm Mitchell Hora.
0:12.0	I'm a farmer from Iowa, and this is your favorite podcast field work.
0:16.2	You'd love it so much because it's a podcast from farmers, four farmers.
0:21.3	In front of farmers, six feet farmers. In front of farmers.
0:22.3	Six feet away.
0:22.9	In front of farmers.
0:23.5	Six feet.
0:24.7	This show is all about what's working and what's not working in sustainable agriculture.
0:29.3	Special thanks to the Walton Family Foundation for supporting us this season.
0:33.7	That's a big deal.
0:34.7	It is.
0:35.2	So thank you to them.
0:36.4	This is the next part of our mini-series on the big
0:38.7	conservation culture down in Washington County, Iowa, where Mitchell is from. Be sure to go back
0:43.5	and check out our earlier episodes if you haven't already. We've covered a lot of ground. We've talked to
0:48.2	a lot of folks who helped to build that culture back in the day and now to some of the younger farmers that are kind of taken up the reins.
1:00.1	So today we want to really zoom out and talk about, you know, what actually makes a culture.
1:04.0	Zach, you know my favorite culture? Agriculture.
1:05.8	Ooh.
1:08.8	That was a good. I thought I came out with that one myself.
1:13.5	But no, a culture does all really boil down to the people.
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