Raney Rapp and Shelley E. Huguley are back for their second episode of Where We're Planted discussing rural healthcare options available to farming families. Special guest Dr. Kelsey Smith, a Stillwater, Okla., direct primary care physician, breaks down the difference between DPC and traditional insurance-based care and how people can save money.

Chris Torres and Andy Castillo are back with their second episode of Ag Tech Amplified, sharing all the cool ag tech, and even the cool ag equipment beginnings, they saw at Farm Progress Show. From the Fendt Momentum planter to an autonomous field robot that can map rocks, and back to cable plowing technology and the beautiful Minneapolis Moline tractors, get the highlights from FPS26.

Read about the equipment they talk about on our Farm Progress Show page.

Join Josh Baethge and Holly Spangler for this episode of Truth on the Ground, featuring University of Illinois Associate Professor Jonathan Coppas discussing critical issues facing today's farm economy.

"The diesel cost is tough, but putting food on the table is also getting more and more difficult for people,” he says. “And so this diesel cost is gonna just, I'm worried this is gonna like magnify through the food chain. We're gonna all see it in the grocery store aisle and at the restaurants pretty soon."

Plus: Our colleagues Ava Splear and Allison Lynch share their experience taste-testing 35+ varieties of ranch dressing at Twisted Ranch in Saint Louis.They also talk about some upcoming stories around fall fertilizer applications and rural childcare.

Links

Farm Progress Nation on YouTube

Ranch dressing, ranked

Stories by Holly Spangler

Stories by Josh Baethge