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The Prairie Farm Podcast

Nicolas Lirio & Kent Boucher
The Prairie Farm Podcast
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    Ep. 354 The Man Who Manages the Most Diverse Prairie We’ve Ever Seen

    05/01/2026 | 53 mins.
    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.

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    Ep. 353 (Coffee Time) How Trees Affect Mental Health and A New Study on Agrochemicals and Cancer

    04/29/2026 | 42 mins.
    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. 

     

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

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    Ep. 352 How to ACTUALLY Fix the Water Quality and Are Data Centers Good for Rural America

    04/24/2026 | 1h 5 mins.
    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.

     

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    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)
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    Ep. 351 (Coffee Time) The Pollinator Prairie Death Spiral and the Details on The Boundary Waters

    04/22/2026 | 47 mins.
    A new ISU study is shaking up how we think about prairies. It turns out pollinators don't just need the prairie, the prairie needs them back. Kent, Nicolas, and Riley dig into what declining pollinator populations mean for plant diversity, then shift to the Boundary Waters mining fight and what's actually at stake ecologically.

     

    Hoksey Native Seeds (for all your backyard prairie, CRP, Prairie Strip Mixes, Hunting Habitat and More)

     

    IowaCoverCrop.com (for all your cover crop and small grain needs)
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    Ep. 350 She's Read More Midwest Pioneer Journals Than Almost Anyone

    04/17/2026 | 1h 14 mins.
    Val Van Kooten, administrator at the State of Iowa Historical Society, returns for her third episode. The conversation digs into pioneer journal entries, pre-tractor farm life, an April Fool's fact-or-fiction game, the phenomenon of declinism, claim jumper clubs, and what autonomous tractors might do to Midwest culture.

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    Oh and check out our new Prairie Farm Forum!

    Iowa Cover Crop (for all your cover crop needs)

    McKay Insurance (for all your insurance and financial planning needs)

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All things conservation, prairie, gardening, permaculture, hunting, and agriculture. ”Conservation happens one mind at a time.”
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