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"Ag Talk, Your Story Matters" is America's Platform for Women in Agriculture to share their thoughts, ideas and stories! This is a safe space for everyone in agriculture, no matter what their role is, to come together and have real and raw conversations with each other! We feature our AWC members, guest speakers, and current topics across the nation that affect our agriculture industry. Our goal is to include others into our discussions. We invite YOU to be a part of our conversation every week. Join us!
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Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Ag Talk with Venessa Wood, the hosts of Millennial Ag, Katharine Lotspeich, and Valene Lickley, share their journey from ag students to podcast hosts and industry voices. They discuss dairy and beef backgrounds, mental health in farming, policy’s impact, and the need for tough conversations around labor and leadership. Plus, advice for the next generation of ag leaders. Support the show Thank you for joining us at Ag Talk hosted by Ag Women Connect! America...
Send us Fan Mail Venessa Wood interviews Nevada sheep producer, Cole Estill, originally from Northern California, about his background, rodeo experience, and his family’s agricultural work, including his wife Katie’s veterinary clinic in Winnemucca. Cole explains his unique operation running nearly 3,000 sheep and about 200 Angora goats largely through contracted fire-mitigation grazing near Reno, while another band in eastern Nevada produces income mainly through lamb sales. He discuss...
Send us Fan Mail This week, Venessa Wood interviews Tanya Smith of Lubbock, Texas, marketing director at Capital Farm Credit, about her ranch upbringing in northeastern New Mexico, involvement in 4-H/FFA and livestock judging, college path through South Plains College and Texas Tech, and 27+ years with Farm Credit through mergers into Capital Farm Credit. Tonya explains Capital Farm Credit as a Texas-based agricultural lending cooperative serving 192 counties with home lending and insurance, ...
Send us Fan Mail A routine doctor's appointment changed the course of Kate Barfield's life forever. At just 25 years old, Kate was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. What followed was a challenging journey through surgery, chemotherapy, fertility preservation decisions, and recovery. But through that experience, Kate discovered a greater purpose. Today, Kate is an agricultural educator, horsewoman, nonprofit founder, wife, and cancer survivor who is helpin...
Send us Fan Mail Venessa Wood is joined by guest Ashley Cash, who discusses her work to reshape K–12 education based on her children’s learning differences (dyslexia, ADHD, processing delays, dysgraphia) and her experience with private schooling and outside testing that revealed an eye-tracking disorder; she plans Texas legislation for universal eye-tracking screening and therapy. Cash argues the system’s watered-down curriculum and social promotion undermine reading, math, communication, cri...
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