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Barn Talk

Keeping The Most Cultivated Crop In America Growing w/Andy Ross

Barn Talk

Tork and Sawyer Whisler

Business

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Welcome To Barn Talk! In today’s episode, we have Andy Ross on the show to discuss everything corn! We touch on a number of topics including: How Andy got his start in plant breeding/agriculture, why he decided to be a plant breeder, the steps it takes to get a corn hybrid to the farmer, the differences between inbred vs. hybrid, why GMO’s and much, much more. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ➱ https://bit.ly/3a7r3nR SUBSCRIBE TO THIS’LL DO FARM ➱ https://bit.ly/2X8g45c SUBSCRIBE TO BARN TALK CLIPS ➱ https://bit.ly/3BlZnqq LISTEN ON: SPOTIFY ➱ https://open.spotify.com/show/3icVr4KWq4eUDl7Oy60YMY ITUNES ➱ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/barn-talk/id1574395049 ADD US ON: INSTAGRAM ➱ https://bit.ly/3gaobdN TIKTOK ➱ https://bit.ly/3eJfftr #corn #farming #plantbreeding ------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE*** Barn Talk is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from This’ll Do Farm. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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talk about the difference between inbreds and hybrids.

0:01.9

And so if you don't think about corn a lot,

0:04.3

there's some examples that are really close to home

0:07.9

for some folks and it's the labor doodles.

0:10.0

If I had my whole pool of labs,

0:12.1

and those are going to be my male stock and my whole pool of different

0:17.2

poodles would be my female stock, I basically am always trying to come up with different

0:21.5

poodles to be a parent and different

0:23.0

labs. Yeah. Okay. And so the poodles, I'll cross poodles by poodles and try to make

0:28.4

better poodles. Yeah. And labs by labs to try to make better labs. But when I'm

0:32.1

going to go make something I'm going to give to the consumer I make my lab or doodle

0:35.4

and I cross a lab with a poodle right now that's that's a good analogy that is

0:39.7

where I give you know that's what you guys as farmers would see is the laborer.

0:44.1

See, he thought this up because he knew who he was going to be talking to.

0:47.0

He's like, I got to, I got to make this to where they can understand.

0:51.0

Well, I talked to a lot of 4-H kids, so...

0:53.0

Well played, well played.

0:58.0

All of the food we eat in much of the clothing we wear comes from plants and animals that are raised on farms.

1:04.0

Farms are different in type, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk, Garage Episode Edition.

1:24.0

What happens at the barn stays at the barn, until now.

1:27.0

We're going to let it all out for you guys today.

1:30.0

Because of our diverse subject matter, which in turn gives us a very diverse audience,

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