The Prairie Farm Podcast
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The Prairie Farm Podcast

by Nicolas Lirio & Kent Boucher

All things conservation, prairie, gardening, hunting, and farming.
From the fore-most voices of conservation and prairie to your casual backyard garden lovers, we’ve picked some of the most interesting brains around. Don’t miss it.

100 episodes
EN language
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Ep. 339 (Coffee Time) Are You As Tough As A Pioneer Woman? And Using Fire To Eliminate Brome
37:08 Mar 11, 2026
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Ep. 338 Are Small Dairy Farms Actually Viable??
1:10:47 Mar 6, 2026
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Ep. 337 (Coffee Time) Tort Immunity for Bayer and CRP Grazing Might Be Headed Our Way
50:11 Mar 4, 2026
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Ep. 336 The Rise and Fall of "Chief" Black Hawk
1:45:29 Feb 27, 2026
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Ep. 335 (Coffee Time) The New FARM BILL!!
36:22 Feb 25, 2026
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Ep. 334 Why Are Farmer Suicide Rates So High and What Can We Do About It
1:28:27 Feb 20, 2026
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Ep. 333 (Coffee Time) Are Things ACTUALLY More Expensive Than They Used To Be?
41:10 Feb 18, 2026
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Ep. 332 Which Prairie Species to Grow If You Want to Start a Prairie Farm
2:06:33 Feb 13, 2026
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Ep. 331 (Coffee Time) These Iowa Politicians Killed a Bill That Could Enhance Water Quality...
48:50 Feb 11, 2026
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Ep. 330 Where Does Your Produce ACTUALLY Come From
1:59:46 Feb 6, 2026
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Ep. 329 (Coffee Time) Looming Farm Crisis -- These Crops Are Losing The Most Money
48:31 Feb 4, 2026
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Ep. 328 This Lady Changed Midwestern Beer Culture and Now Want To Bring the Same Reform to Cancer and Nutrition in Iowa
1:48:49 Jan 30, 2026
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Ep. 327 (Coffee Time) Iowa’s Proposed Healthy Water Bill and Congress’ E15 Fuel Issues
51:21 Jan 28, 2026
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Ep. 326 How to Start Farming as a Young Farmer and the Nuts and Bolts of the Farm Crisis
1:21:50 Jan 23, 2026
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Ep. 325 (Coffee Time) Which Apps Are Good For Us and Secretary Burgum Pulls Grazing Permits
1:11:09 Jan 21, 2026
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Ep. 324 The Raw and Unfiltered Story of Inheriting a Prairie Farm Overnight
1:33:53 Jan 16, 2026
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Ep. 323 (Coffee Time) The New Prairie Strips Pilot Program
50:04 Jan 14, 2026
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Ep. 322 Getting Access To Hunting and What Is Deer Camp??
1:02:40 Jan 9, 2026
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Ep. 321 (Coffee Time) What is Going On With These Beef Prices??
29:00 Jan 7, 2026
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Ep. 320 The Extinction of Caribou on the Lower 48 and Are Mountain Lions a Threat to Humans?
2:00:29 Jan 2, 2026
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Ep. 319 (Coffee Time) The Biggest Conservation Wins and Biggest Conservation Disgraces of the Year
1:01:05 Dec 31, 2025
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Listen to the Land: Conversations about Conservation w/Doug Duren and Guests Ep. 2
1:07:37 Dec 30, 2025
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Ep. 318 How to Get Pheasants on Your Land with The Bearded Uplander and Joy of All Trades
1:05:05 Dec 26, 2025
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Ep. 317 (Coffee Time) Christmas Morning on the Farm in the 1940s, The Absurdity of Christmas Lights, and the Hazards of Antibacterial Soap
34:30 Dec 24, 2025
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Ep. 316 Gubernatorial Candidate Zach Lahn
1:39:48 Dec 19, 2025
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Ep. 315 (Coffee Time) The NFL, Bearded Uplander, and Smiley
49:18 Dec 17, 2025
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Ep. 314 What Do Prairie Strips Accomplish? And Practical Incremental Changes for Conservation On Your Farm
1:33:12 Dec 12, 2025
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Ep. 313 (Coffee Time) Stiff Goldenrod's Role in a Prairie and The Dead Zones of the World
26:41 Dec 10, 2025
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Ep. 312 What Does Leaving Your Leaves Actually Do??
1:12:08 Dec 5, 2025
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Ep. 311 Iowa' Wildlife Action Plan, Soybean Farming, Prairie Snow Fences
40:16 Dec 3, 2025
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Ep. 310 Can You Make a Food Forest in Your Own Yard?
1:29:04 Nov 28, 2025
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Ep. 309 (Coffee Time) Is Fast Fashion Actually Cheaper?
32:22 Nov 26, 2025
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Ep. 308 Hunting Pheasants with Steve Hanson and Ryan Lynton
1:10:28 Nov 21, 2025
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Ep. 307 (Coffee Time) Who's Responsibility is it to Pay for Iowa's Water Monitors
23:51 Nov 19, 2025
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Ep. 306 Gubernatorial Candidate Brad Sherman
1:23:49 Nov 14, 2025
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Ep. 305 (Coffee Time) Why Are Young People Leaving the Midwest?
48:24 Nov 12, 2025
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Ep. 304 Why to Burn Your Prairie in the Fall with Jeremy French and Pete Eyheralde
1:35:22 Nov 7, 2025
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Ep. 303 (Coffee Time) Soybean Price Update, Longleaf Pines, Shortgrass Prairie Shortage
39:59 Nov 5, 2025
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Ep. 302 Prehistoric Prairie Director's Cut Pt 3
2:36:06 Oct 31, 2025
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Ep. 301 Lab Grown Meat is Inevitable
32:37 Oct 29, 2025
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Ep. 300 Prehistoric Prairie Director's Cut (Part 2)
1:42:58 Oct 24, 2025
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Ep. 299 (Coffee Time) Self Driving Cars, Tractors, and Agriculture Accidents
44:56 Oct 22, 2025
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Ep. 298 Prehistoric Prairie Director's Cut (Part 1)
1:40:43 Oct 17, 2025
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Ep. 297 (Coffee Time) John Deere's Ethanol Tractor and Kent's Toe Fungus
45:25 Oct 15, 2025
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Ep. 296 Gubernatorial Candidate Julie Stauch
1:00:48 Oct 10, 2025
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Ep. 295 (Coffee Time) What the Government Shutdown Does to Conservation
26:22 Oct 8, 2025
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Ep. 294 Hairy Sheep, Vallet Nightmares, and a Little Announcement
1:15:31 Oct 3, 2025
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Ep. 293 (Coffee Time) The Soybean Crisis... China, Trump, and the Agriculture Midwest
48:03 Oct 1, 2025
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Ep. 292 Cows Eat Milkweed, and Are Brushy Prairies That Bad? with Chris Helzer (The Prairie Ecologist)
1:35:57 Sep 26, 2025
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Ep. 291 (Coffee Time) Is AI Using Too Much Water?
35:56 Sep 24, 2025
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