Off The Husk

Off The Husk

"Off The Husk" with Zach Johnson, The Millennial Farmer; Becky Johnson, Mrs. Millennial Farmer; and Randy Nessman, The Master Pipe Layer; Join us as we explore the business of food, fiber, and fuel. Hear from farmers, ranchers, entrepreneurs and agriculture/farming professionals from across the country. What ensues is a politically incorrect podcast filled with genuinely improvised, authentic conversation, laughter and some newfound agriculture knowledge. Grab a cold beer and enjoy our moderately educational but extremely entertaining podcast "OFF THE HUSK" Millennial Farmer, Zach Johnson, is a 5th generation family farmer from West Central Minnesota. Zach actively promotes agriculture by sharing his day-to-day experience on the family farm. His vision is to build the connection between farmers and consumers. Zach's mission is to become a national voice for agriculture, provide farmer to farmer education, and facilitate a collaborative conversation between farmers and the public.

Episodes

June 28, 2022 75 mins

Helping Stubborn Farmers Work Better Togther with Andy "Caygeon" Junkin

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Zach and Randy Do America Farm Tour with special Off The Husk podcast Guest Welker Farms and Trevor Bales Hay. The mics are hot at The World Ag Expo.

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February 7, 2022 81 mins
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November 30, 2021 63 mins

- Soufflé’d (as in: "I soufflé'd my finger")
- Schontro (cilantro)
- In Luau of (in lieu of)
- Measuring a Lunear Foot (linear)
- Temporly (Temporarily)
- Vocabalary
- Ice Crisper (fridge component)

"Off The Husk" with Zach Johnson, The Millennial Farmer; Becky Johnson, Mrs. Millennial Farmer; and Randy Nessman, The Master Pipe Layer; Join us as we explore the business of food, fiber, and fuel. Hear f...

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November 29, 2021 78 mins

Tina's Back!!

"Off The Husk" with Zach Johnson, The Millennial Farmer; Becky Johnson, Mrs. Millennial Farmer; and Randy Nessman, The Master Pipe Layer; Tina Nessman The Master Randy Layer; Join us as we explore the business of food, fiber, and fuel. Hear from farmers, ranchers, entrepreneurs and agriculture/farming professionals from across the country.

What ensues is a ...

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November 10, 2021 133 mins

A post harvest session of BullShit. Randy, Zach, Becky, Tina and JP have a few too many beers covering a wide range of topics.           

100 Duck-sized Horses vs 1 Horse-sized Duck
Conspiracies and Kiwis
Fleshlights and Blackjack
Randy’s Defensive Corn Playbook

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November 1, 2021 114 mins

Fluffed VS Stuffers-They're back!! After rave reviews we have Eric and Erica Sawatzke back in the hot seat. Erica is a 6th generation Turkey Farmer and Eric is one our nations leading FFA advisors. 

What ensues is a politically incorrect podcast filled with genuinely improvised, authentic conversation, laughter and some newfound agriculture knowledge.

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September 29, 2021 93 mins

We go Off The Husk with Our Wyoming Life-The Galloway family from Gillette, Wyoming. Our Wyoming life is a social media brand that explores ranch life and invites hundreds of thousands across the globe to join them as they escape the ordinary. Over 10 years ago, Erin and Mike left their corporate jobs in radio to help on Erin's stepdads family cattle ranch. Since then they have not only taken to a whole new life but now they're rai...

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We go Off The Husk with small family farm "Freedom Farms-Travis and Chrissy Linden". Travis is a combat veteran who had dreamed of owning and running his own farm since since he was a kid growing up in Southern Illinois. The military moved Travis and his family all over USA before Travis and Chrissy landed in Texas County Missouri. 

They Currently farm under 100 acres of land and raise hair sheep for meat, and our kids raise chicke...

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August 31, 2021 69 mins

The Problem... Quantifiable soil health data and standards are lacking. This gap creates uncertainty in how to achieve soil improvements and perpetuates lack of upside for growers.  If standardized and benchmarked, soil health can provide a foundation for farm productivity, land value, crop premiums, and sustainable sourcing. We go Off The Husk with Mitchell Hora and put our butts to the soil. 

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August 23, 2021 81 mins

The Problem... Quantifiable soil health data and standards are lacking. This gap creates uncertainty in how to achieve soil improvements and perpetuates lack of upside for growers.  If standardized and benchmarked, soil health can provide a foundation for farm productivity, land value, crop premiums, and sustainable sourcing. We go Off The Husk with Mitchell Hora and put our butts to the soil. 

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August 2, 2021 117 mins

Beer Cans and Bison Skulls-Bison Ranchin’ in South Dakota with Scott Assman from Dakota Pure Bison.

 Join us as we explore the business of Bison/Buffalo Raching in South Dakota.

Premium Bison meat from our pasture to your doo! Two South Dakota ranch families coming together to provide consumers with the highest quality bison meat. Making it easy for people everywhere to ...

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 Smelling Bullshit A Mile Off-Drugs and Lambchops with Will Bignell from Thorpe Farm in Australia. Thorpe Farm is a large scale commodity producers of wool and prime lambs running approximately 12,000 sheep on 2600ha.   The business runs a 140ha overhead irrigation scheme with the primary focus on growing poppies, lamb fodder crops and cereals for dairy farmers. They have 85ha of flood irrigation growing summer pasture which allows...

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July 6, 2021 67 mins

Drugs and Lambchops with Will Bignell from Thorpe Farm in Australia.

Thorpe Farm is a large scale commodity producers of wool and prime lambs running approximately 12,000 sheep on 2600ha.  

The business runs a 140ha overhead irrigation scheme with the primary focus on growing poppies, lamb fodder crops and cereals for dairy farmers. They have 85ha of flood irrigation growing summer pasture which allows us to produce lambs for the p...

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June 30, 2021 59 mins

Bee Populations, Diet Pop, and Randy: Facts and Fictions

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We don't have a single guest here for this episode of Off the Husk. And I would like to say this was planned and we just decided to do things differently, but really it was just because really-

It's a lie.

Needed to get the podcast out and we just didn't line up a guest.

So what we're going to do is we reached out to nobody, we just generically, generally reached out to everybody on Instagram and Facebook and said, "Ask us a questi...

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May 21, 2021 59 mins

California Farmer Ryan Valk continued.... Chicken Ranching and Almond Farming

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May 12, 2021 45 mins

Bustin’ Nuts with Ryan Valk! We go Off The Husk with and discuss almond farming in California. 

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April 30, 2021 56 mins

We go Off The Husk with Trevor Bales to talk hay farming and Safari Hunting! Trevor is a 6th generation farmer, whose family began farming over 100 years ago in Buckeye, Arizona. Bales Hay grows, harvest and stores feed for wholesale and retail customers to purchase throughout the year.  

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April 23, 2021 52 mins

We go Off The Husk with Trevor Bales to talk hay farming and Safari Hunting! Trevor is a 6th generation farmer, whose family began farming over 100 years ago in Buckeye, Arizona. Bales Hay grows, harvest and stores feed for wholesale and retail customers to purchase throughout the year.  

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