Season Finale: Generational Perspectives on Farming

Field Work

Society & Culture, Documentary

5.0 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

For our last episode of the season, we bring you our first live show ever, recorded at Farmfest in Morgan, Minnesota. Zach and Mitchell round out the season by bringing back some pals you heard from in earlier episodes, including their dads. Nathan Johnson and Brian Hora reflect on how their challenges with farming have been different from their sons’ and how the new generation is leading the charge of experimenting with sustainable practices. Field Work friend Jodi DeJong-Hughes, a University of Minnesota soil scientist, also returns to the show. (With her usual wit, she says she’s just glad she didn’t get killed off after episode 1). She and cover crop expert Cody Nelson of Soil RX deftly answer tough audience questions about how and why to adopt sustainable practices. Finally, Zach reveals that he and Mitchell have, in fact, achieved their goal of procuring a helicopter. Be sure to listen all the way through to find out what happens to it.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Zach here, and I wanted to let you guys know that field work is brought to you in part by General Mills.
0:08.0	General Mills is partnering with farmers and suppliers to advance regenerative ag practices on a million acres of farmland by 2030. From Farm Fest 2019.
0:30.2	Hello, beautiful Morgan, Minnesota, not Morton.
0:34.9	This is the field work podcast.
0:37.4	Thanks everybody for coming.
0:39.3	Zach, thank you for coming.
0:40.6	Thanks for coming, Mitchell.
0:41.9	Yeah, thank you.
0:43.5	My name is Mitchell Hora.
0:45.1	I'm a farmer from southeast Iowa.
0:47.9	And my name is Zach Johnson.
0:49.2	I'm a farmer in west central Minnesota, just about 100 miles straight north of here.
0:53.9	This is the fieldwork
0:55.0	podcast, as we like to say, it's a show by farmers for farmers. Yeah, we're really excited to be here
1:01.2	today and have a just kind of an open-ended conversation like we'd like to have anyway on the podcast,
1:06.0	but be able to be here with all of you guys too and take your questions and just have a have a fun conversation
1:11.4	here today we've got some some of our most special guests that we've had on the podcast here with us
1:17.0	today we've got our fathers here with us guys that we brought from our farms all the way here to talk
1:25.2	with you guys today have a little conversation about sustainable ag
1:28.5	and some of the things that we've done on our own farms.
1:30.7	Yeah, we brought in the big celebrity guests here
1:32.7	for our last show of the first season of field work.
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