Farm To Table Talk

By Rodger Wasson

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Is it best that our food is Local and Organic or Big and Conventional? Our view is “Both, and..” We don’t come to the table with a bias, except that good farming like good food comes in all shapes and sizes. Farm to Table Talk explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed. The host, Rodger Wasson is a food and agriculture veteran. Although he was the first of his family to leave the grain and livestock farm after five generations farming in America, he’s continually worked for and with farmers though-out America and around the world. From directly managing commodity boards and councils to presently building the strategic consultancy, Idea Farming Inc., the Farm to Table Talk podcast has been created to satisfy the curiosity of today’s engaged consumers.

Episode Date
Save Our Bacon….Crates? – Rodger Wasson
May 31, 2026
Food Is A National Security Issue – U.S.A. Representative Jim Costa
May 22, 2026
Coffee Trail To Table – Andrew Salisbury
May 08, 2026
Regenenerative Georgia Generalist – Will Harris
Apr 24, 2026
Strait Restricts Harvests In Transit -Peter Friedmann
Apr 10, 2026
You Can’t Dream Big Enough – Orion Samuelson (1935 -2026)
Apr 06, 2026
Growing Wise – Natalie Bogwalker
Mar 27, 2026
Genetic Modification – Felipe Ricachenevsky
Mar 20, 2026
Southern Farm To Tables – Chef Chris Rainosek
Mar 13, 2026
Farm Bill Moves – Representative Mike Thompson
Mar 05, 2026
Homestead Preservation – Jeremy and Stacey Hill
Feb 27, 2026
Flash: Trump Tariffs Illegal – Congressman Jim Costa
Feb 21, 2026
Robotic Agriculture – Jaisimha Rao
Feb 20, 2026
USDA Invests in Rural Infrastructure- Chris Roach
Feb 13, 2026
Food 2030 – Ozan Ozaskinli
Feb 06, 2026
Speak Out For Change – US Senator Adam Schiff
Jan 29, 2026
Something Good – Carolyn Givens
Jan 23, 2026
Wasted Potential – Jocelyn Boiteau and Prabhu Pingali
Jan 16, 2026
2026 Farm Crisis? – Ray Yeung
Jan 09, 2026
Dark Matter Nutrition – Laszlow Barabasi
Jan 02, 2026
Sowing & Reaping EcoFarm – Nancy Matsumoto
Dec 25, 2025
Farmer’s Tweve Billion Dollar Bailout – Blake Hurst
Dec 18, 2025
Back At The Future – Rodger Wasson Clubhouse
Dec 12, 2025
Backyard Hobby Farm to Nationwide – Brittney Miller
Dec 04, 2025
Table to Farm Chef Family – Steve and Candice MacLean
Nov 27, 2025
It’s the Food – Scott Faber
Nov 21, 2025
Allergic, Intolerant or Diet – Dylan McDonnell
Nov 14, 2025
Farmers, Families and SNAP – Gus Schumacher
Nov 06, 2025
Real Rural Life – Jim Ennis
Oct 30, 2025
Saké’s Napa Valley – Matt Bell
Oct 24, 2025
Messed Our Nest – Art Cullen
Oct 17, 2025
Flu Flew In – Maurice Pitesky, DVM
Oct 10, 2025
Closed Loop Local Food – Leslie Person Ryan
Oct 03, 2025
Feeding a Divided Country – Gilles Stockton
Sep 26, 2025
Sacramento Farm To School at Terra Madre – Kelsey Nederveld, Alice Waters
Sep 18, 2025
MAHA Make America Healthy Again Report – Professor Jerold Mande
Sep 10, 2025
Best Farm Questions – Bill Moyers
Sep 05, 2025
Debunked By Nature – Mollie Englehart
Aug 28, 2025
More People, Worse Climate, Less Food – Richard Sexton
Aug 14, 2025
Sharing the Welsh Farm – Anna Jones
Aug 08, 2025
Wolves, Water and Wildfires – Grace Woodmansee
Aug 01, 2025
Regenerating Earth – Kelsey Timmerman
Jul 24, 2025
Stress Less Farming – Michael Kilpatrick
Jul 18, 2025
Thriving Farms – Michael Kilpatrick
Jul 18, 2025
Connection and Contribution- Blake Hurst
Jul 10, 2025
Feeding 1.4 Billion – Dr. Sat Kumar Tomer
Jul 04, 2025
DC Central Kitchen – Mike Curtin
Jun 27, 2025
Better Food Better Life – Ariane Daguin
Jun 20, 2025
Fresh Eyes to Fix Farms – John Kempf
Jun 13, 2025
Organic Beyond – Kelly Damewood
Jun 06, 2025
Food System Fights – Stuart Gillespie
May 30, 2025
MAHA’s Report – Callie Eideberg & Rodger Wasson
May 23, 2025
Listen For Voice Of Agriculture – Rodger Wasson
May 16, 2025
Farmers Should Earn More/Work Less – Ari Memar
May 09, 2025
Wasted – Minerva Ringland
May 02, 2025
Good Farming Good Health – Camilla Petersen
Apr 25, 2025
Degenerative or Regenerative Ag – Mike Lessiter
Apr 18, 2025
Plant Based Journey -Heather Donaldson
Apr 11, 2025
Sky’s The Limit – Arthur Erickson
Apr 04, 2025
Soil Is Healthcare’s Future – Nadine Clopton
Mar 28, 2025
Nutrition Security – Nate Blum
Mar 21, 2025
Backyard Farming – Kim Pezza
Mar 14, 2025
New Tech Delivers – Gary Wickham
Mar 07, 2025
Sharing Food Bridges Divides – Shari Leid
Feb 28, 2025
We Can Farm Too- Shiv Shakti
Feb 21, 2025
Tariffs Tax Food – Ron Baumgarten
Feb 15, 2025
Urban Farming – Alfred Melbourne
Feb 08, 2025
Goats For Good – Aaron Steele
Jan 31, 2025
Local for Happy Meals – Mike Maynard
Jan 27, 2025
Good Natured – Paula Whyman
Jan 17, 2025
Bridge the Divide – Gary Paul Nabhan
Jan 10, 2025
Rebuilt, Restored, Regenified – Heidi Diestel & Kristine Root
Jan 03, 2025
The Right Thing To Do – Wendell Berry
Dec 26, 2024
The Movement Begins – Stephanie Anderson
Dec 20, 2024
Sun Farms – Peter Schmitt
Dec 12, 2024
Cooperation Pays – Kim Coontz, CCCD
Dec 06, 2024
Thankful and Hopeful – Jeff Van Pevenage
Nov 28, 2024
Ukraine, Space and the World’s Food – Vera Petryk
Nov 21, 2024
Ag Will Reverse Greenhouse Gas – Marty Matlock
Nov 14, 2024
Monitoring Pesticides – Sara McGrath FDA
Nov 08, 2024
Climate Counts – Rob Jackson
Oct 30, 2024
Tariffs – Blake Hurst
Oct 24, 2024
Craft Beef – Jeff Smith
Oct 18, 2024
Baking Happiness – Ezeekiwee Anderson, Rize Up
Oct 10, 2024
Food Bill Farm Bill – Adam Warthesen
Oct 04, 2024
Indigenous Way of Being – Sara Calvosa Olson
Sep 26, 2024
The Last Roundup – Blake Hurst
Sep 19, 2024
Your Pets Are Safe- Rodger Wasson
Sep 15, 2024
Building Local Resilience – Tricia Kovacs
Sep 12, 2024
Farm To Fork Bridge Dinner – Rodger Wasson
Sep 09, 2024
Small Farms Big Table – Erica Frenay
Sep 05, 2024
Slow, Free Roam Chickens – Mike Charles
Aug 29, 2024
Know The Origin – Alexandria Fischer
Aug 22, 2024
Lab to Field to Cans and Jars – Jessica Cooperstone PhD
Aug 16, 2024
Returning To Common Ground
Aug 08, 2024
Taste, Price, Health, Convenience, Environment – Kris Solid R.D.
Aug 01, 2024
Help Wanted – Steve Hubbard
Jul 26, 2024
Chefs Link Farms to Tables – Chef Kirk Bachmann
Jul 19, 2024
Grown In Guatemala – Chrstopher Safieh
Jul 12, 2024
Controlled Environment – Jake Felser
Jul 05, 2024
Planet, Palate To Plate – Daniel Firth Griffith
Jun 27, 2024
Ultra Black Hats – Sharon Palmer, RD
Jun 21, 2024
New Farm Spirit – Stuart Woolf, Sean Venus
Jun 14, 2024
Consumer Confusion – Amy Myrdal Miller, RD
Jun 07, 2024
Farming The Farm Bill – Ricardo Salvador
May 31, 2024
More Meat More Ways – Paul Shapiro
May 24, 2024
Organic Juice Journey – Uncle Matt Mclean
May 17, 2024
Commodity Ag – Scott Brown
May 10, 2024
Old Ways Are New Ways – Brittany & Bill Sullivan
May 03, 2024
Regional Food System Creation – Zack Wyatt
Apr 26, 2024
Farm Adjacent Communities – Clayton Garrett
Apr 19, 2024
Barons, Really – Austin Frerick
Apr 16, 2024
Barons Power – Austin Frerick
Apr 11, 2024
What We’re Hungry For — Kim Shapira, MS, RD
Apr 05, 2024
Organizing the Hungry – Pastor Heber Brown III
Mar 29, 2024
Sacred, Noble, Righteous & Healing – Joel Salatin
Mar 22, 2024
Mindful Farming – Rachel Meyer
Mar 15, 2024
Meaningful Change – Bryce & Brita Lundberg
Mar 08, 2024
Holistic Essentials – Allan Savory
Feb 23, 2024
Earth’s Friends – Dr. Kendra Klein
Feb 16, 2024
Farm to Hospitals – Chef Santana Diaz
Feb 09, 2024
Regeneration Nation – Dr. Cindy Daly
Feb 02, 2024
Stepping Up, Giving Back – Jimmy Taylor
Jan 26, 2024
Putting Farmers First, Anywhere – Raffi Vartanian
Jan 19, 2024
Making Communities Better – Amira Resnick
Jan 12, 2024
Power for People – Charles R. Toca
Jan 05, 2024
Local For Locals – Tom Willey
Dec 22, 2023
Call COP – Eric Mittenthal
Dec 15, 2023
Empowering Farmers – Nelson Hawkins
Dec 08, 2023
Grain Changer – Jeff Van Pevenage
Dec 01, 2023
Farm To Freezer Fresh – Ruben Cortez & Wesley O’Brien
Nov 24, 2023
Raising Pigs Today- Cheryl Walsh
Nov 17, 2023
Dream Delicious – Alec Jaffe
Nov 10, 2023
Ag Past to Ag Future – Dino Giacomazzi
Nov 03, 2023
Farm In NYC – Jordan Settlage
Oct 26, 2023
QR Farm to Menu –
Oct 20, 2023
Environmental Progress – Sara Place
Oct 13, 2023
For Farmers – Dana DiPrima
Oct 06, 2023
We’re The Ones – Chef Mollie Englehart
Sep 29, 2023
Virgin Oil Regenerates – Matthieu Kohlmeyer
Sep 22, 2023
Humane Washing – Andrew DeCoriolis
Sep 15, 2023
Multi Farm CSA — Rachelle Gould
Sep 08, 2023
We Can Reduce Warming – Frank Mitloehner
Sep 01, 2023
Non GHG Ostrich -Alexander McCoy
Aug 25, 2023
Becoming Neutral – Marcus Lovell Smith
Aug 18, 2023
True Costs True Values – Matt Maier
Aug 11, 2023
Local Shrimp Farms – Steve Sutton
Aug 04, 2023
Sounds of Silent Spring – Elizabeth Hilborn, DVM
Jul 28, 2023
Dream, Success & Transition – John & Sukey Jamison
Jul 21, 2023
Ancient Grains, Now – Nate Blum
Jul 14, 2023
Creating Regenerative Supply Chains – Michael Dimock
Jul 08, 2023
Homestead Instead – Angela Ferraro-Fanning
Jun 30, 2023
Bio Miracles Underfoot-Pam Marrone
Jun 23, 2023
Smoke, Fire and Futures – Jaron Brandon
Jun 16, 2023
Create A World We Like – Caleb Wilkins
Jun 09, 2023
Engaging Communities – Leslie Lytle, DINA
May 26, 2023
Farm Mental Health – Caitlin Arnold Stefano
May 19, 2023
Supreme Court’s Food Decision – Dan Sumner, Gene Baur & Michael Olson
May 13, 2023
Cooks Make Good Farmers – Brett Ellis
May 05, 2023
Beyond Kids, Cows, Sows & Plows – Brent Hales, UC ANR
Apr 28, 2023
Earth & Our Inflammation – Rupa Marya, MD
Apr 21, 2023
SuppleMental Solution – Clare Hasler-Lewis
Apr 14, 2023
Hub’n Spokes – Ken Rapoport and Nick Miniter
Apr 07, 2023
Nature Can Fix It – Tim LaSalle
Mar 30, 2023
Farm Fueled Plates- Chef Aaron Allan
Mar 25, 2023
Farmers Need Helpers – Blake Hurst
Mar 17, 2023
Food Connects Us – Chef Stephanie Michalak White
Mar 10, 2023
Growing A Dream – Farmer Lee Jones
Mar 04, 2023
Giving A Damn – Will Harris
Feb 24, 2023
Peace Corps Wants You – Kerry Carmichael & Rashad Thacker
Feb 18, 2023
Goats are G.O.A.T.- Aaron Steele
Feb 10, 2023
Doctor’s Orders – Edye Kuyper
Feb 03, 2023
Bridge Ag to the Future – Jack Hanson
Jan 28, 2023
Eco Farm Eco Fish
Jan 21, 2023
Meetings of the MInds – Tara VanderDussen, Natalie Kovarik
Jan 14, 2023
Loving Land – Andy Breiter
Jan 06, 2023
Climate, Justice and Deep Roots (Continued) – Liz Carlisle
Dec 30, 2022
Plant Based Steaks – Eric Miller
Dec 23, 2022
Buffalo Stone Woman – Latrice Tatsey
Dec 16, 2022
Hi Tech Hi Touch – Julie Guthman
Dec 09, 2022
Slow Water Wins – Erica Gies
Dec 02, 2022
Resource-fullness Required – Michael Kilpatrick
Nov 26, 2022
Alexa, Got Pesticide? – Karen Morrison
Nov 18, 2022
Angus Wright, Ramon Gonzales – Steve Gliessman
Nov 11, 2022
Wendell’s Wisdom – Wendell Berry
Nov 05, 2022
Food Communicates – Wyatt Ball
Oct 28, 2022
Frontiers Below – Ben Cloud
Oct 22, 2022
Creation Curation – Chef Travis Passerotti
Oct 15, 2022
Our Resilient Alternatives – Joel Salatin & Ben Glassen
Oct 07, 2022
Hunger’s Not Right, Or Left – Chef Mulvaney, White House
Sep 30, 2022
Pigs In Space – Pete Lammers
Sep 24, 2022
Farm To Bridge – Chef Nina Curtis
Sep 20, 2022
Growing Water – Greg Pruett & Terry Paule
Sep 11, 2022
Global to Local Fertilizer – Matt Simpson
Sep 02, 2022
More Than The Dough – Drew Levich
Aug 26, 2022
Safe and Sustainable – Julie Henderson
Aug 19, 2022
Logical Bio – Adrian Ferrero
Aug 12, 2022
Farm Food Focused System – Corwin Heatwole
Aug 04, 2022
Know More Grow More – Dr.Thelma Velez
Jul 28, 2022
Eyes In The Sky – Vera Petryk
Jul 15, 2022
Farm In A Box – Jake Felser
Jul 08, 2022
Good Food For All – Asma Lateef
Jun 30, 2022
Tesla-ish Cows – Frank Mietloehner
Jun 24, 2022
Mother Earth’s Pulse – Tony Roelofs
Jun 17, 2022
Amish Ways – Adam Rick
Jun 10, 2022
Fabulous Food Celebration – Baconfest Chefs
Jun 03, 2022
Plans, Plants and Planet – Tim Crews
May 27, 2022
Mind, Body and SOIL Connection – Kate Kavanaugh
May 13, 2022
More Sheep, Better – Rick Stott
May 06, 2022
Seeds Save Us – Dylan Bruce
Apr 29, 2022
Earthwhile Endeavor – Sally Calhoun
Apr 22, 2022
Healing Grounds Heals Us – Liz Carlisle
Apr 15, 2022
Better Farming – Jonathan Lundgren
Apr 08, 2022
Powers of Regeneration – Jesse McDougal
Apr 01, 2022
Farm Days for Farm Daze – Senator Jim Patterson
Mar 25, 2022
Country Music Country Farming – Barry and Aliceson Bales
Mar 21, 2022
Local Craft Butcher Shops – Eric V Miller
Mar 12, 2022
Your Consumer Segment – Jayson Lusk
Mar 04, 2022
Make It App \’N – Peggy Meyer
Feb 25, 2022
Quacks In The Field – Farmer Jeff Siewicki
Feb 19, 2022
Bioengineered Now Disclosed – Greg Jaffe
Feb 12, 2022
Animals Need Tech Too – Paulo Loureiro, DVM
Feb 05, 2022
BUYodynamic SOS – Mark Rathbone
Jan 29, 2022
Fair Competition & Resilience in Meat Supply – Jenny Lester Moffitt, USDA UnderSecretary
Jan 21, 2022
Food Chained, Human Trafficking – Anne Ross
Jan 15, 2022
Makin\’ Bacon Cost More – Dan Sumner
Jan 08, 2022
Make A Living, Not A Killing – Wendell Berry
Jan 01, 2022
Water, Land and Power – Mark Arax
Dec 29, 2021
Fighting for Food & Seed Sovereignty – Elizabeth Hoover
Dec 18, 2021
African Farms to Tables – Donald Madukwe & Akintunde Akinwande
Dec 11, 2021
New Tech For A World Of Farms – Jennifer Fawkes
Dec 04, 2021
Humane Washing – Ben Goldsmith
Nov 27, 2021
Metaverse Farm to Metaverse Table – Troy Hooper, Clubhouse
Nov 20, 2021
COP 26 Ag Focus – Karen Ross, Secretary of CA Ag.
Nov 11, 2021
Bet The Farm – Beth Hoffman
Nov 06, 2021
Chefs\’ Manifesto – Paul Newnham
Oct 29, 2021
Meat Comes Back – Michael Dimock
Oct 23, 2021
Bucket List Dining – Chef Dneb Williams
Oct 15, 2021
Food Wise Experience Is Everything – Gigi Berardi
Oct 08, 2021
Rewilding is Healing – Daniel Firth Griffith
Oct 02, 2021
UN Food System Summit – Paul Newnham
Sep 24, 2021
Legally Resilient – Rachel Armstrong
Sep 17, 2021
Feeding Earth\’s Future – Adegbola Adesogan
Sep 11, 2021
Rescuing Mother Earth – Tim LaSalle
Sep 04, 2021
Holistic Abundance – Abbey Smith, Savory Institute
Aug 27, 2021
Take That First Step – Ben Glassen
Aug 21, 2021
Creating Links in the Food Chain – Joseph Lee
Aug 14, 2021
Social Science and Special Interests – Silvia Secchi
Aug 06, 2021
Farmers Market On Wheels – Sara Bernal
Jul 30, 2021
Hunger and Food Waste Solutions -Carol Shatuck
Jul 23, 2021
Nonpassive Farmers & Eaters – Francis Thicke & Dave Chapman
Jul 16, 2021
Pledging Head, Heart, Hands and Health – Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty
Jul 09, 2021
Louis Bromfield Now – Rich Collins, Anneliese Abbott, John Jamison & Sukey Jamison
Jul 02, 2021
Labor Supremes – Michael Droke
Jun 26, 2021
Climate: Cows or Cars? – Frank Mitloehner, UCDavis
Jun 18, 2021
Water Matters Most – Randy Record
Jun 12, 2021
Millennials Farm and Ranch – Paige Dulaney and Bryon Moes
Jun 05, 2021
Bush to Table
May 29, 2021
Farmlink Project- James Kanoff
May 21, 2021
Smart People, Bad Choices – Jack Bobo
May 14, 2021
Biodynamic Insights – Chris Daugherty
May 08, 2021
New Normal It\’s Not – Suzy Badaracco
May 01, 2021
Becoming Farmers – Mary Kimball
Apr 24, 2021
Better Life Rural – Johnathan Hladk
Apr 16, 2021
Good Vibes Farming – Francesco Arlia
Apr 11, 2021
Climate Smart Agriculture – Secretary Karen Ross
Apr 03, 2021
Food System Clubhouse – Paula Daniels
Mar 27, 2021
Give Livestock A Break – Illias Kyriazakis
Mar 20, 2021
Warm and CRISPR Climate – Andrew Porterfield
Mar 13, 2021
Omnivore\’s Dilemma, Delusion or Delight — Blake Hurst
Mar 06, 2021
Tools To End Hunger – Katie Martin
Feb 27, 2021
Linking The Food Chain- Rob Neenan
Feb 20, 2021
Changing Farm Ways – Emily Newman, Rodale Institute
Feb 13, 2021
Sustainability Is A Happy Family – JoBeth Evans and Maggie Davidson
Feb 06, 2021
Smart Label Down Under – Paul Ryan and Rob Mackenzie
Jan 30, 2021
Which Came First – Josh Balk
Jan 23, 2021
Science and Solutions – Diego Angelo
Jan 16, 2021
Healing Earth Heals Us – Rupa Marya, MD
Jan 09, 2021
Dietary Guidelines – Barbara Schneeman, DGC Chair
Jan 02, 2021
Loving Our World — Wendell Berry & Bill Moyers
Dec 25, 2020
Revitalize Rural USA – Marion Nestle
Dec 20, 2020
Farmer Protests – Deep Singh
Dec 12, 2020
Bounty, Peril & Politics – Tom Philpott
Dec 05, 2020
Working for Peanuts – Erin Sastre & Tyler Towne
Nov 28, 2020
Half Story Half Food All Good – Chef Rob Connoley
Nov 21, 2020
Poor Air Poor Nutrition Poor Us – Dr. Kristie Ebi
Nov 14, 2020
Women Farming and Leading— Kristyn Mensonides and Lynne Wheeler
Nov 07, 2020
GMO Deregulation — Greg Jaffe
Oct 30, 2020
Ag\’s New World – Kristine MacRae, Deborah Wilson
Oct 24, 2020
North American Food Strategy – Emily Broad Lieb, Harvard Law
Oct 17, 2020
Tomato\’s Endless Season – Greg Pruett
Oct 13, 2020
Care for Coffee? –Jay Ruskey
Oct 11, 2020
Bridging Food Streams – Troy Rice
Oct 03, 2020
Kiss The Ground podcast – Josh Tickell, Author, Filmmaker
Sep 26, 2020
Fix What\’s Broken – Ricardo Salvador
Sep 18, 2020
Packing Plant-demic – Ricardo Salvador
Sep 18, 2020
Small Is The New Big – Zack Smith
Sep 11, 2020
New Pivot, Ancient Grain – Claire Smith
Sep 04, 2020
Your Time Picks You – Mayor Darrel Steinberg
Aug 29, 2020
Farming Towns and Cities – Richard Fordyce USDA Administrator/Farmer
Aug 22, 2020