Balancing the Books of American Agriculture with Beth Hoffman

Can we balance the books of American Agriculture? Beth Hoffman an agricultural journalist, university professor, and Iowa farmer joins the podcast to discuss her new book, “Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America”. Our wide-ranging conversation centers around dispelling the myths about America’s farms and farmers, and the reality of the punishing economics of modern farming.

SHOW NOTES

Beth Hoffman has spent twenty years writing and producing work on food and agriculture. Her areas of expertise have grown to include the potential of agriculture in development, the financial viability of farms, and sustainability in agriculture. She has also researched and written extensively about farm transition from one generation to the next and taught at the University of San Francisco full-time for six years. Now she is a beginning farmer on a 530-acre farm in Iowa, raising grass-finished beef with her husband on his family's 150+ year old farm.

LINKS

BETHS PERSONAL LINKS

BETH’s Twitter

Whippoorwill Creek Farm

Bet The Farm

LinkedIn

IOWA ORGANIZATIONS

Women Food and Ag Network

Practical farmers of iowa

PRODUCTION NOTES

Executive Producer, Host, and Writer: Audra Mulkern

Producers: Greta Hardin and Joe Mulkern

FFP Theme Song: Written and Performed by Joe Mulkern

Episode Song: Smoke Signals

Written By: Brent Wood

Performed By: Brent Wood