I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. A canon sits near a corn field at a Civil War battlefield. DepositPhotos image At the close of the Civil War,…
American Agriculture History Minute: Tractor Supply Company Starts as a Mail-Order Company
…publicly traded on the over-the-counter market and reached $10 million in sales. That’s today’s American Agriculture History Minute. I’m Mark Oppold. Thanks for reading. I’ll see you next time. Sponsored…
American Agriculture History Minute: Kansas Becomes the Wheat State
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Misty Sunrise Over A Kansas Golden Wheat Field. DepositPhotos image That’s today’s American Agriculture History Minute. I’m Mark Oppold. Thanks for…
American Agriculture History Minute: Development of Agriculture in Kansas
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. DepositPhotos image Early agriculture in what is now the state of Kansas was not easy. The government sent a young frontiersman…
American Agriculture History Minute: Beginning of Allis-Chalmers
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. A restored Allis Chalmers ED-40 tractor on display at a Farming event. DepositPhotos image Edward P. Alice was an entrepreneur who,…
Food System Leaders Urge for Continued Nutrition Security Funding
…local and regional food systems into these initiatives. Mark Nicholson of the Alliance for National Nutrition Incentives emphasized the success of the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP). From September…
American Agriculture History Minute: The Ralston Purina Checkerboard Logo Beginning
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Ralston Purina Checkerboard Logo By UAwiki/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons The Ralston Purina checkerboard logo is one of the most identifiable logos in…
AgNet News Hour, Monday, 10-07-24
…initiatives. Today’s third guest is Mark Milam, Senior Editor, Fertilizers, for ICIS. He gives his perspective on the suspended port strike and how could affect the fertilizer industry if workers…
American Agriculture History Minute: Agronomist Played a Key Role in the Green Revolution
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. DepositPhotos image Norman Borlaug, in 2004. By Ben Zinner, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons He was…
American Agriculture History Minute: Learning from the Squanto Indians in Plymouth Colony
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. The relationship of Pilgrims and Native Americans. DepositPhotos image The first settlers in Plymouth Colony primarily planted barley and peas brought…
American Agriculture History Minute: The Beginning of the Grain Elevator
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. DepositPhotos image Conveyor-type grain elevators can be traced back to Buffalo, New York in the early 1840s. Buffalo enjoyed a geographic…
American Agriculture History Minute: He Taught and Began to Perfect Agricultural Practices
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. DepositPhotos image Franklin King is part of American agriculture history, not well known. Born in 1848 in Whitewater, Wisconsin, King was…
American Agriculture History Minute: What the First Europeans Saw When Landing in the New World
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, 1844 Exhibition of Painting. Magasin Pittoresque 1844. DepositPhotos image Contrary to what many…
American Agriculture History Minute: Best Remembered for Producing Louisiana’s First Granular Sugar
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. DepositPhotos image Etienne DeBorre is a little-known figure in American agriculture. Born in 1741 in a small village along the Mississippi…