Welcome to Season 2 of the Field Work podcast.

I'm Mitchell Hora, a row crop farmer from Iowa.

And I'm Zach Johnson, a corn and soybean farmer in Minnesota.

This season, we're back with more ideas about how producers like us can be more sustainable in our operations.

Just like last season we'll look at the trade-offs that farmers face.

As farmers, it's hard to be on top of all the programs to write grants.

You always wonder, is it worth it? Which gets back to the red tape.

This season, we're branching out beyond row crops and also talking about animal agriculture.

There have always been livestock on the ground, in the fields and everything.

Before they were fields and before there was agriculture.

We'll be talking to some big influencers in the egg world, like the New Mexico milk made.

We got heat from consumers and activist groups really early on about sustainability,

and so it's been at the forefront of our minds.

And to more folks in the supply chain about how we work together.

I joke how I ended up working on this project because I'm from the Midwest

and I could go back and talk to farmers without

scaring them off.

We'll have some special field trips out to farms for more great conversations.

It rained and rained and rained and I'm now planting corn into five foot

tall cereal rye.

How can I do this?

Well we have no choice at this point because we have to plant corn for obligations that we have.

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