The Prairie Farm Podcast

Travis Frank, host of The Flush TV show and podcast, joins Kent, and Nicolas in Minnesota for a wide-ranging conversation on upland bird hunting and habitat. From Iowa pheasants and Kansas quail restoration to hunting dogs and conservation philosophy, this one covers a lot of ground worth covering.

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IowaCoverCrop.com (for all your cover crop, small grain, and non row crop seed needs)

Nicolas, Kent, and Riley break in the new studio with a conversation about society's spring lawn routine. They dig into No Mow May, what actually started it, what a 2023 peer review found, and which common lawn weeds genuinely help native bees.

 

hokseynativeseeds.com (for all your backyard prairie, pollinator mixes, habitat mixes, and native seed consultation)

 

MckayInsAgency.com (for all your insurance and financial planning needs)

 

BirdHunterSupply.com (for all your bird hunting supplies)

Keith Horn stopped for coffee and a donut on his way mushroom hunting. A real estate sign a block away changed the course of his life. The 50 acres he bought in 2001 turned out to be the most diverse prairie we have ever seen, hosting 665 native species across five prairie types.

Hoksey Native Seeds (for all your backyard prairie, CRP mixes, and more)

BirdHunterSupply.com (for all your bird hunting supplies and bird dog supplies needs)

Trees cut depression by a third, reduce crime, and make people spend more money. That's what the research says. Then the team brings a brand new Nature Medicine study linking Tordon herbicide to early-onset colorectal cancer, and the maps are nearly identical. 

 

hokseynativeseeds.com (for all your prairie, CRP, hunting mixes, and native seed needs)

Iowa Cover Crop (for all your grains, cover crops, forage mixes, and more)

Mckayinsagency.com (for all your financial planning and insurance needs)

Johnathon Swanson from Polk County Conservation joins Nicolas and Kent talk about Iowa's water quality crisis. They dig into tile drainage, nitrates, saturated buffers, constructed wetlands, and what's actually working on the ground. Plus data centers, farm diversification, and quail nostalgia.

 

Hokseynativeseeds.com (for all your backyard prairie, hunting habitat mixes, CRP mixes, pollinator mixes, and more)

 

Mckayinsagency.com (for all your insurance and financial advising needs)

 

BirdHunterSupply.com (for all your bird hunting needs, and for your bird dogs' supplies as well)